Yesterday I was in a rush and didn’t have to time to eat an adequate breakfast. But I needed something to tide me over during my morning commute, so I headed into a nearby Walgreen’s and headed straight to the snack aisle.
I had a taste for a chocolate chip cookie, which always makes for a great breakfast, and the one by the Walgreen’s brand Café W looked delicious. Even though it didn’t have an expiration date and I was suspicious that it might be stale, I grabbed it anyway and headed to the checkout area.
Price of
Café W Chocolately Chunk Cookie
The 3oz cookie was on sale for 99cents.
Ingredients in
Café W Chocolately Chunk Cookie
The cookie contains flour (malted barley flour), sugar, brown sugar, margarine (liquid and partially hydrogenated soybean oil, whey, vegetable mono and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and citric acid as a preservative, colored with beta carotene), chocolate flavored confectioners coating (partially hydrogenated soybean, palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali, non fat dry milk solids, soy lecithin), eggs, baking soda, salt, vanilla, natural and artificial flavors.
Nutrition Facts for
Café W Chocolately Chunk Cookie
This chocolate chip cookie contains 430 calories and190 fat calories. It has 21g of total fat, 9g of saturated fat, and 4g of trans fat. It also contains 20mg of cholesterol, 450mg of sodium, 58g of total carbs, 2g of fiber, 35g of sugar, and 5g of protein.
It has 15% of the daily recommended value of vitamin A, 4% of calcium, and 15% of iron.
Texture of
Café W Chocolately Chunk Cookie
I knew that this cookie was supposed to have a hard texture rather a chewy one, but when I bit into it, it was as hard as a brick! It was beyond stale and unfortunately I was too far beyond the Walgreen’s to return it.
Taste of
Café W Chocolately Chunk Cookie
Even though the cookie was stale, I must say that it had a surprisingly good taste. The cookie itself wasn’t overly sweet, it had more of a home-style flavor and the chocolate chunks were made of milk chocolate so it didn’t have a bitter taste.
In the End…
Because I liked the flavor of the Café W Chocolatey Chunk Cookie, I was going to give it a second shot and try a fresher one. But once I read the ingredients, after I bought it, I saw that it contained hydrogenated oils and so many grams of trans fat, that I decided against buying it again. The flavor was good, but this cookie is just way too unhealthy for me. With all things considered, I give the Chocolatey Chunk Cookie 2.5 out of 5 stars.
