These are bad, bad, bad. So good they're bad!! It is so nice to have something to fall back on when I don't feel up to baking gluten/sugar free and a treat to help me keep from feeling deprived. Cookies are small, 1 3/4" round, 1/4" thick, approximately 3-4 bites each. Not a hard crunchy, but soft crunchy, maybe like a Chips Ahoy choc. chip cookie, not a hard snap like a ginger snap. They come in a foil bag. I wish I could find them cheaper in bulk somewhere but it might be best if I don't. :-}
For a gluten-free chocolate chip cookie, this is quite tasty! I like the flavor and the texture/consistency reminds me of Famous Amos cookies. My biggest reasons for giving 4 stars instead of 5 are cost and delivery.
Cost: While delicious, these cookies are rather expensive. I'm not sure how often I would be willing to buy them when they are about $4.78 a box.
Delivery: The boxes I received had a lot of broken cookies. There were maybe 4 or 5 whole cookies in a box of about 21 (based on the serving size of 3 and there being 7 servings per container). This was true for 2 of the 3 boxes, though I suspect the third box will be the same when I get around to opening it. And it's not that these are just broken in half - it's more like cookie crumbs in the bag, with nearly half of the cookies broken into tiny pieces, while others are in small chunks, leaving just a few whole cookies. I'm not sure it's worth buying if the cookies are going to be mostly crumbled.
I love these cookies. I am lactose intolerant, so I need all, and I mean ALL, my food to be dairy-free. These cookies taste great! They are small, chocolaty and crunchy. They are a crumbly crunchy, not a hard crunch. The tiny chocolate chips are tasty too, and taste like real chocolate chips even though they contain no butter, which I absolutely cannot have.
Three months into my strict keto diet, I never got over my desire for sweets, and was looking for ANYTHING that would curb my craving. Enter these miraculous cookies. I have a love/hate association with them, so I’ll lay out my concerns below, based purely on my keto needs:
DIETARY:
Essentially keto-friendly! All listed ingredients are foods keto dieters are allowed to have. Once you do the calculations, the carb count reduces to about 6g for three small cookies, and the sugars are definitely a concern. So, don’t go into this thinking you’ll be able to binge the whole box. But for the occasional craving, these cookies fit the bill.
PRICE:
Expensive, of course, but the high price makes it easier to avoid eating more than one or two in a sitting.
TASTE:
Crunchy chocolate - Odd at first but now I love them. Rich chocolate flavor with an almost cardamom bite in the aftertaste, but the spicy notes seem to add to the overall taste experience.
Chocolate chip - Excellent. Similar to any chocolate chip cookie you’d get in the supermarket. Very close in taste to Chips Ahoy.
Cinnamon - Ugh. This one needs some major work. I’d been addicted to the previous flavors I’d tried, so I figured I’d check out their non-chocolate option. At first, I noticed a spicy note in the flavor, and assumed the effect would be as pleasing as the chocolate cookies. But the more I chewed... yikes. I have no idea what the flavor is supposed to be, but I felt like I was eating a rubber tire in the middle of a health food store. There’s nothing particularly cinnamonny about these cookies. They’re almost herbal (which is not really the taste one is looking for in a cookie), intensifies the longer it’s in your mouth, then caps off with the most vile aftertaste that lingers until eternity. I’m trying to find a way to use them in a recipe somehow, because I’m stuck with three boxes of them and they are positively dreadful on their own.
Having said all that, I highly recommend the other two cookie flavors, and if you haven’t checked out Simple Mills’ crackers yet, please do. Their entire brand is a godsend for people dealing with specialized dietary needs, and I can’t recommend their product line enough. (Just skip the cinnamon cookies! LOL)
Wow! When my doctor put me on a ketonic diet, I thought no more chocolate cookies, but I was wrong. These cookies are free from everything I can’t eat: grains, dairy, gluten, soy and most of all ... sugar. But none of the taste is sacraficed. These are so yummy. I’m excited to try all the flavors. These will definitely be on my shopping list every month. Plus, you get lots of cookies in a box. Yum!
Feature Product
- Contains 3 - 5.5 ounce boxes of Simple Mills Crunchy Cookies, Chocolate Chip
- Made with plant powered, nutrient-dense ingredients
- Smartly sweetened with coconut sugar, a natural, unrefined sweetener
- Our simple ingredient line-up includes almond flour, coconut flour, tigernuts (a prebiotic root vegetable) and coconut oil
- Certified Gluten free, Grain free, Soy free, Corn free, Dairy and Gums/Emulsifier free, Paleo Friendly and Non GMO Project Verified
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Cookie craving? We've got you! Indulge in snack time (and feel good about it) with our Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
These cookies taste so good, simply delicious! I would describe them more as shortbread tasting than a cookie, but in any case they are delicious! Highly recommend if you are following a gluten free, grain free, diet and would like a healthy cookie. No additives to enhance th taste, just simple good ingredients.
Wonderful, scrumptious, delicious, perfect taste, need I say more?
The only "downside" is they are addicting. So very very good.
I rarely get excited over cookies but this is great!
I have celiac disease so I have to follow a strict gluten free diet. I've tried a few different brands of chocolate chip cookies and they were all kind of strange. Some were grainy, others were rock hard, but all of them were very overpriced. I really like the flavor and texture of these, plus they are a lot healthier than others. They are a bit more expensive than normal cookies, but you are paying for high quality ingredients.
My favorites... wish they wouldn't be so expensive... and wish that the chalet chips wouldn't contain any sugar... or at least coconut sugar like the cookies themselves...
These are pretty good. They have a somewhat artificial taste like all GF bakery goods. I still really enjoy then and bought them to have something in my pantry other than Enjoy Life cookies. The pecan variety is my favorite so far.
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