Skippy Squeeze Stix

Published on: March 22, 2003

by Ira Rosenstein, Co-Producer "Shopping Smart" with Phil Lempert

A truly delicious new treat, a winner, is Skippy Squeeze Stix (Creamy Peanut & Chocolate Snack). Peanut butter and chocolate are two all-time favorites, and Skippy marries them beautifully in this tasty confection. It gets the two tastes balanced exactly right, so you have the best of both worlds at once. The ingredients are Skippy Peanut Butter Spread, semi-sweet chocolate, sugar, milk chocolate and vanilla.

There are 6 tubes per package. Each is 9/10th's of an ounce (25 grams). You tear off the end and give a squeeze, and the food eases out with a pasty consistency. It looks more chocolatey than peanuty, but don't worry, the nutty taste will be there. I squeezed the snack right into my mouth, but I'm sure it would go well on crackers or bread.

This is not to say Squeeze Stix is a nutritional powerhouse. Each tube will offer 4 grams of protein without cholesterol, and that's a plus, but also that's about it for nutritional benefit. There are 140 calories per tube, but 90% of it is from fat, too high. Also, 25% of the fat is saturated. 10% would be more like it. But let's not put on a long face. Squeeze Stix is a fun food, for now and then, and a very good one indeed.

One last note. In my article on Luna bars (which I like), I complained that they're over-marketed as a food for women, when there's nothing feminine about them at all. Here the marketing push - based on the packaging - is toward kids and "young dudes", the skateboard/snowboard crowd. Well, I'm 55 and I've never been on a skateboard, and I dug it. You might want to ignore their niche-marketing nonsense as well.