Nature’s Bakery Whole Wheat Fig Bars, Original Fig, Real Fruit, Vegan, Non-GMO, Snack bar, 1 box with 12 twin packs (12 twin packs)

I literally grew-up on fig newton’s & adored them! I grew-up in home that had food laws, yes, laws, not rules!!
My younger brother & sister were each allowed a half-hour to one hour of tv. Which was a treat to each of us. We were also allowed to eat a regular (not mini, but certainly not one of those obscenely huge bars of chocolate candy) candy bar, once a week. I typically bought my brother & sister candy with my allowance, since i’d met my family when i was five. (complicated) then, upon returning to nyc, i spent everyday working all the time. (i worked a lot as a model until i realized i had brains. I never saw a penny of it, even though i worked everyday, all day long. Private cars picked me up in nyc (really nice men, typically my dad’s age (30 when i was 5) would drive me from job to job.) & i’d see many familiar faces after the 1st six months of doing this. I didn’t really like people fussing with my hair, putting make-up on me or staring at me, while i was initially photographed in their clothes or being told how to use their products. Which ended about six months after i started working. I learned to read people quickly, which is always an asset! My mom organized my 1st few jobs, then i figured out how to do it. The people 5 times my age taught me a lot & were really just terrific! Both our parent’s worked & as a family, we moved to seven different countries. Which was extraordinary as a way to learn languages, cultures, see places i’d later see in my school books. The food was incredible-wow!!)
i digressed severely, apologies! Since my younger years weren’t say, “typical”, i started associating specific foods with ‘having or being’ home. For me, fig newton’s, pb & j’s & an ice cold glass of milk or a chocolate egg cream, all meant home to me, no matter where i was. Since one shirley temple (ginger-ale on ice w/ grenadine & a fake, kinda red cherry ) was ordered for me, when the adults had cocktails, this was my only exposure to soda until coke. Again, until our family started dying, (complicated. I was 15, my bro & sis 14 & 12) none of us knew that anybody could eat chocolate or drink sodas more than once a week! As far as eating cookies for dessert, we only had them for our picnics, on the weekends we spent in the woods. Meaning that after swimming in the lake, in the ocean, coming inside to warm up from skiing or sledding-in the states or overseas, we’d always have fig newton’s, chocolate chip cookies-homemade by me mostly or these very thin raisin cookies, as our daily sweet treat. This is taking forever-sorry! Just trying to let you know how significant fig newton’s have been to my life! Sometime during my 20’s, i started running b4 university & working & making veg/apple fresh juice for myself. I adored juicing & until lately, drank fresh veggie juices everyday.
Once i started drinking fresh veggies juices, my beloved fig newton’s became too sugary for me. Please don’t misunderstand me here! Even during my snobbiest foodie times, i’d still delight in eating & making chili con casa (spelling?) w/ velvetia (fake) cheese, picante sauce & refried beans! (omg it’s divine!! Everywhere i made or brought it, always 1st yummy to disappear. Maybe cause even lactose intolerant could eat it, since it’s fake cheese. Idk!) even when i was a vegetarian-7 years – fig newton’s & felafel’s were a favorite meal when i was 12.
Healthy food has grown to really not only healthy, actually delicious too!! Tho- to actually find a cookie, i now prefer to newton’s? Yeah, these babies! Gosh they’re good! For breakfast, lunch or dinner-alone or with a meal-doesn’t matter! They’re not suddenly diabetic sweet & they’re covering, for me anyway, needs pellegrino, passion fruit & tangerine sun tea or juice-mixed with 2/3rds bubbling water on hand, when enjoying them.
The other thing i adore bout them is i’ve been battling pain for some time now. The kind that makes ya never hungry or hangry! Discovering these & keeping a few packs of them near my bed (2 cookies are wrapped together in box that holds 12 twins. For me recently, it’s been easy to go 4-5 days, not eating. I honestly don’t get or feel hungry! These fig bars are the perfect little meal sometimes for me. Crap, have i completely mucked up this review? Well….shoot!
I’m really looking forward to trying the chocolate bars & other flavors of these & they’re even kinda “healthy”! Kinda. They’re really bloody yum is truth. If you’re looking to start making a few ‘better food choices’ for you or you & your kids-try these. They still remind me of really happy places & nothing bout that hurts!!

I have eaten these newton bars for years. I stopped ordering them over the summer as the price tripled.
The price just went back down this month september 2022 so i ordered a box of raspberry newton bars.
Much to my dismay when i opened my package, the bars are no longer the full size sport bars but standard size newtons that you get in the big package at the store. The company did not even bother to change the rapper or box size to accommodate the much smaller serving. Clearly the intent is deceive the customers. Still a healthy and great tasting bar but far from worth the price. Better off getting newtons at the dollar store then spend $10 to $13 dollars for half as many.

We love these fig bars! I first found them at our local grocery store, then when the store stopped stocking them (for whatever reason!) i found them on amazon. I have a monthly subscription to a box of 12. The bars are hearty and full of fiber. They are especially handy for hikes and day trips, or as a nice change from chex mix on the plane. Of course, i will buy these again. Annnnnd again.

Taste is great. I eat as breakfast or a snack. Very filling, perfect portion. Great for on the good, and feel good about eating!

I generally think of snack bars as being for children or athletes, and i am neither. Nearing 40, i’ve started to feel my bones go porous, my muscles soft. They warn you about this, but i hadn’t anticipated how specific the feeling would be: an actual weakening of the ankles, a pain in the hip. I feel like i should have started having healthier habits earlier — when they told me to — if i wanted to avoid this physical disintegration. Now i assume it’s too late.

I thought of this when i bought these snack bars. I normally buy them for my son — at the grocery store, because i try to avoid amazon — because they’re inexplicably high-calorie: 200 calories per bar, compared to around 70 in most snack bars. He likes them. The calories seem like healthy ones, too. The cleanness of the font on the box suggests as much, the spareness of the design. It resembles the design on those products — those packaged foods — that brag on the box that only four, or five, or at most six ingredients are contained therein. I’m not saying there are only a handful of ingredients in these (actually, i just checked, and there are 13), just that they have that healthful vibe about them. This seemed important, because this time, i was buying the snack bars not for my son, but for the homeless — specifically, as donations for the blessing bags he was apparently going to be assembling at the camp we’d signed him up for, for the day before thanksgiving, when school was out but we had to work. I’d googled what to put in blessing bags, and snack bars were on the list. And i thought of these ones.

The reason i think they suit athletes is because they contain so many calories. For me, they don’t make sense, because — being as i am both gluttonous and lazy by nature — i already consume more calories than i burn. But if you’re homeless, it must be hard to get the calories you need. That’s what the website suggested, at least. So these came to mind. I bought them on amazon instead of at the grocery store because they were cheaper in the bulk box, and i needed plenty of them, and also because i hadn’t looked at the fine print in the email about camp until a few days before camp started, and i didn’t have time, at that point, to run to the store.

Soft! Sweet! Healthy! Great buy when a $1.00 a serving/package. Their other products are outstanding as well! The apple oatmeal bar is crazy good … Like a mini apple crisp.

These are a great option for anyone on the go or wanting a healthier option for a sweet treat for your kids! We love them and the kids do as well. They have great flavor, just like apple oatmeal sort of with a sweet center. The quality of ingredients are very important to us so that is a huge plus. They were fresh out of the package and not smooshed or old. Would definitely buy again, and again

A mouthful of goodness in this two bar package! I didn’t find it too sweet – the spices took care of that. I loved the sharpness of the spices in these little bars. A strong cup of black tea or coffee pairs wonderful with the cakeyness and flavors in these pumpkin spice fig bars. Hardy enough to get you through to lunch. This is not a purchase but an investment in your monday morning-return-to-work-joy! Yep, i actually said that!!!

When our local supermarket discontinued these, i was disappointed. These fig bars are so tasty and nutritious that began searching for them on line and found them here. It was worth the search! Timely delivery too.

Package was well packed and arrived fresh! Delicious raspberry-fig bar is the best!

I’ve enjoyed the few different flavors that i’ve tried. None has disappointed. But the prices of the various flavors are always going up and down, so whenever i orderi simply go for whenever
whichever flavor happens to have the best price at that time. Unless you’re rich and or very picky about an exact flavor, it might behoove you to just go with whichever flavor is at a much better price at any given moment, because they all taste fine.

Newtons

Rather than boxes of 6 bars, i received individual bars all jumbled together in a cardboard box. One of the thin boxes was actually in there, all smushed up. The bars themselves were all there, though, so no complaint. Just really weird packaging.

Box was smashed and bars were rolling around inside a perfectly intact box amazon. I planned to throw them out but my family got to them before i got a chance. I thought that they would not be safe to eat because of the open package. Turns out they were fine and we all enjoyed them, even my picky teenager. Originally i left a bad review but that was for the terrible shipping. The cookies are fantastic and being more healthy than regular fig newton’s is a big plus. Thanks to nature’s bakery and boo to amazon shipping.

Wish they were in stores too but cant find them but i love them so good and my daughter (11) does too

Enjoyed eating. Not to sweet. Great in morning with a cup of tea. Will buy again.

Kashi discontinued their strawberry bars, so i was on the hunt for a substitute. These are ok—very filling, quality ingredients—but i do not get as much strawberry flavor as i would like. Still, it they are significantly better than anything else i’ve found (e.g., nutrigrain strawberry bars or similar versions from the various large retailers).

Natural flavors & natural flavor are both listed as ingredients. Many times this means glutimates are in the product, which are similar to monosodium glutamate (msg). One member of our family gets hives everytime they had one of the bars & that person can’t eat anything with msg. Other than that, we think they taste good.

I love fig newtons but i can deal with the amount of sugar and fat
now
natures bakery makes a childhood favorite healthy

These are not the best fig bars i’ve ever eaten, but a good value.