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You can't imagine a better spot and playground in front of your house than the kids have on Rarotonga and Aitutaki. It would be a shame not to use it for kiting – shallow warm flat water, constant wind and huge space with only very few other kiters.
Parents, teachers and sailing coaches were equally excited to get the kids kiting. We started with 2 days in Rarotonga, supported by Teanaroa Paka Worthington head of the Cook Kiteboarding Association and the local kite centre "Kitesup" at Muri Beach, at which we started with an afternoon of power kiting for 16 kids from the local sailing club.
None of the kids had ever flown a kite before, but knew a lot about the wind through their sailing experience. After some theory about the wind, how to setup the kites, conditions to check before kiting and how to release the kite in emergency. The bay soon filled up with red and grey Cabrinha kites and the parents and instructors of Kitesup never got tired of helping to re-launch the kites when they dropped into the water.
On the second day we continued with 8 kids for full water sessions and used for first time ever our travel kit of tube kites and harnesses sponsored by Cabrinha. The Cabrinha Vectors do an amazing job for teaching the kids, as they are easy to launch, even in light wind. The kites are stable and easy to fly, even with short arms the kite and bar are very easy to use. Unfortunately we had only 5 knots of wind in the morning, but with having a day off from school the kids still learned all about tube kites, how to set it up, how to use the quick release and how to do a self-rescues. The wind picked up in the afternoon and catching the breeze, it was amazing to see how fast the kids learnt to fly the kites up to body dragging. The whole bay could hear the yelling and fun being had by the kids as they were pulled by the kites through the water as they mastered body dragging. The coaches of the sailing club assisted us while teaching and will continue the work after we are gone. Almost until sunset we used the last breeze of wind to get all kids successfully body dragging, so that they are ready learn the board starts on the next windy day.
The sailing club in cooperation with Kitesup Rarotonga want to establish a Kite Kids Club and were very happy about the sponsored Ozone Ignition trainer kites and 2 Cabrinha boards the KTA was able to leave them as a start for their club equipment.
As hard as it was to leave a place like Rarotonga we had to get next stop and next round of the KTA Kite Kids in Aitutaki. Aitutaki is located in a huge lagoon together with 15 other islands (called Motu locally) one of which was Honeymoon Island. Honeymoon is a perfect playground for kiting and teaching as the beach offers a big space to fly trainer kites. The lagoon itself is protected by an outside reef, giving knee-to waist deep water with a sandy bottom to allow for safe learning conditions and fast progress. Big thanks to Tony Jesse who had already started to set up a local kids club of 14 kids who could already perfectly handle the power kites and could not wait to jump with us into the water.
Laughter and smiles on the water said more then words and on both days as further local kids joined the KTA sessions to give 21 kids fun out on Honeymoon Island both with power kites sessions and many hours on the Cabrinha Vectors in the warm water. If that was not enough there were also games, BBQ lunch and coconut drinks under the palm trees prepared by the parents to complete the experience.
We hope this will be the first of many weekends to come for the kids and we are sure it will be with the strong local support from Wet & Wild Water Tours, Quentin and Tony Jesse our local instructors and other local kiters that will help take the kid's weekends out to Honeymoon Island. Hopefully by next year we will even be able to see our first kids kite race even which would make all the hard work more than worthwhile.
We were able to help the kids club in Aitutaki also with 2 boards sponsored by Cabrinha for them. Also in addition to the perfect days of the KTA Kite Kids training, all the kids left proudly with their Kite Kids t-shirts sponsored by Maelstorm who have been supporting the project all season. The Kite Kids also joined the awards ceremony to receive their certificates along with all the other riders and winners of the Manureva KTA Cook Islands Aquafest giving them the full experience of being part of a kiteboard competition event.
As we left it was great to see how 'kite fever' had taken over and in a few weeks' time there was a schools kite making competition being planned to build and fly a kite out of recycling material. This is being organised by the local school principal Gene Bartlett as part of the kids school activities. We are expecting many updates from the Cook Islands as such is the excitement for the two new established kids clubs and we will follow the news on our site for you https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kitekidstour/153384178147419?ref=ts&fref=ts so you can see how the champions of the new generation progress and hopefully even learn their first tricks soon!
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This short essay tackles a group of big questions, important questions for those of us in the privacy services industry. That's what we call it, anyway: privacy services. Everyone knows what we're talking about, although of course there's grey (and not so grey) areas on the fringes. Whisper wasn't a grey area - just to be clear. Spinning that thing as a "private" platform was just... anyway, not directly relevant.
But actually, it is. Whisper - and the meltdown over their outing by the Guardian as sneaky, amoral, disgusting monsters hiding in the guise of "cool dudes" protecting private thoughts - sort of sums the whole issue up. What's the issue? I'd put it like this:
- There's a big chunk of demand for privacy technology & privacy services that cannot realistically be met by all-volunteer projects, and which thus falls back into traditional capitalist models of equity investment, return on capital, and overt market competition. But... lots of the standard elements of that traditional capitalist model offer an horrific fit when it comes to providing serious privacy services to broad, nonspecialised (i.e. "consumer") markets. How can we square that circle?
To the heart of it, then.
The standard way we provision tech-heavy products and services in our modern capitalist systems is via outside investment of equity capital. Whether it's angel investors, "friends and family" looking for a big score on an IPO or sale, or formal VCs (and their evil doppelgangers, the hedge funds), the model has devolved to a standard format: someone puts up "risk capital" at the early stages of the tech project, with the hope of making a huge return on investment in a couple of years (via IPO or sale, basically). Nine out of ten of these roll-the-dice investments are assumed to crash along the way, but it's go big or go home: the one grand slam that returns 10,000% initial investment for outside equity holders more than makes up for the nine who failed, and the outside investors get fabulously rich, by elected officials, commission the construction of massive yachts, and spend billions in basketball teams. Or whatever.
We know this model, in terms of members of our own team. Some of us have been there, done that, and have the scars (or bank deposit slips) to show for it. And we're not overtly criticising that model in general terms, here.
But, there's a problem: that model sucks when it comes to privacy services. Like... it really sucks. Earning the trust and respect of one's customers, in this market, takes time: it's not won by splashy advertising campaigns, or slick PR representation, or millions spent on cheesy gimmicks like free lunch (woohoo!) and massage tables at work. It comes through the grit and grime and scabs and lessons of daily existence, and it doesn't come cheap. If you're serious in this market, you will draw the ire of law enforcement. You will. That's not "might," that's "will." Sorry, but true. If you're in this market and haven't been tested by your friendly neigbourhood LEO then, well.. good luck to you. It'll come. If it doesn't come, you're doing something very, very wrong. Again - that sucks, but it's true.
Earning customer trust, community trust, and respect for a project team is hard. And slow. And personally costly, and fraught with risks that the typical useless-First-World-Problem app will never encounter. With all that, outside investors are going to be justifiably skittish about these kinds of projects, and with good reason. I mean, if your business model includes privacy seppuku as a core component, your equity holders face the risk of shutdown/reboot continuously. They're not risk-averse by nature, but when risk goes up, they expect a higher return. This is basic, Chicago-school modern economic theory. They already wanted a massive potential upside, in order to balance those 90+% failures. So now that possible return has to go up even higher.
But these privacy services projects take more time to develop than the plain-vanilla useless apps... err, I meant "web x.o brilliant startup concepts." Returns on investment upside are temporally driven: faster payout generates higher time-based returns (IRR, DCF, whatever); conversely, slower payouts hammer return metrics, so privacy services projects are facing a double-whammy.
Therefore... what? Therefore, outside equity investors are going to be pushing for any and all strategies that can:
- 1. speed up payout via shortcuts, quick-hit revenue gambits, etc.
2. lower risk of LEO harassment becoming business-impacting
3. avoid extra risk from heavy-innovation tech or operations models
Customers have a sense of this. Customers aren't dumb, and even if they can't articulate the fine-grained structural details of the whole thing, they know there's pressures afoot here that make putting their best interests in first place a difficult thing to do, for privacy services providers. Because, yeah... Whisper. Awfully tempting to stab customers in the back if the payout is high enough, especially compared to the long slog of building real credibility, real security procedures, and real businesses and teams that can sustain real growth over the long-term.
But wait, there's more.
There's also the privacy services projects that come out of nowhere and, without even the faintest hint of a business model or viable long-term plan for economic survival, toss their hat in the ring with free- or low-cost goodies. And, you know what? Customers do eat that razorblade-laced candy right up. This week we have the Platonic form of such "fantasyware" with FrootVPN. Which... yeah. Torrentfreak tells us a hundred thousand people signed up for this fantasyland "privacy service" that publishes crypto keys publicly by accident and proudly asserts that they have no fucking idea how they'll pay the bills for all that traffic in the future: Rela(kk)s, guy. Easy, guy. Don't worry. Be happy.
If those are the two options - either take VC money and face unrelenting pressure to betray your customers by selling their "privacy" out to the highest bidder, or willfully suspend disbelief and jump on board imaginary stairways to privacy heaven like froot- then we'd all be fucked. Seriously. Because Tor can't do it alone, no matter how hard they work or how good the work is they do.
There's a third option, that our team has come to call (in a classic example of our "we suck at marketing" ethos) "Bootstrapped Privacy." And here's how we have figured out how to make that work - we think it's worth sharing, because we think the model we've put together via trial and error over the past seven or eight years might be really useful for other project teams, too. (there's also buzz-friendly "crowdfunding," right? Well, um... anonabox. Q.E.D.)
We'll spare you the many circumlocutions of our own pathway to this obvious-in-hindsight approach to things, and instead present it as if we were clever and came up with it right off the bat. But, in truth, we didn't - it runs counter to everything we're taught in business school, strategic entrepreneurship, and our modern culture of tech startup success. So we came to it by process of elimination... a nicer way of acknowledging the old adage that (desperate) necessity is the true mother of invention.
We don't have vast oceans of outside VC money backing us (like hostpot shield); we don't even have moderate seas of super-cool VC money (like ello). We have no VC money, because (pace above), we think it's a terrible fit with the work we do, for VCs and for our team. We also don't have a froot-ish fantasland no-model-is-the-best-model approach to the future that requires our customers to suspend disbelief and imagine that (perhaps) the tooth fairy and Santa Claus will team up and pay our server bills forever.
Here's what we did, when we spun up the cryptostorm project in the summer of 2013: we went to a tight-knit community of intensively privacy-aware technologists. They're a tough "market" as markets go: they know tech, they know how to do their own tech quite often, and they're skeptical of just about every claim related to privacy or cryptography that one might possible make. Great! That's a wonderful starting point, because it weeds out those projects straightaway that can't make that high hurdle of gaining credibility - and revenue - from this difficult sub-market of privacy geeks.
That's what we did. We approached our market - our community - with the following proposition: we'll make something truly extraordinary... not by making magical new components, but rather by pulling together well-tested pieces into an aggregated system that does really great things. We'll do so transparently, publicly, and with an eye towards continuous improvement every step of the way. We won't launch with a spit-polished perfect, Apple-style masterpiece of UI/UX genius... but we'll also never go into production with anything but top-tier security standards. We'll invest our hearts, our souls, our spirits, and our hard-won wisdom in the project shoulder-to-shoulder with our member community. And, together, we'll build something amazing.
It worked.
For it to work, we also asked some things of our core community: give us honest feedback, first and foremost. Try not to be (too) rough about it, but in the end we're all adults and we'll shake it off if you get a little brutal with the critique. It's ok. Help us fix the problems you notice: with advice, with pointers to resources, with code edits, with ongoing criticism. Keep your standards high for us, so we keep striving for those high standards even when exhausted, demoralised, or beat-down by the obdurate nature of tech. And, finally, slide us a little money - upfront... to pay for the service we're providing, yes, but also so we can afford enough ramen noodles to keep working in the meantime. We never asked for loans, "crowdfunded equity," or any other hocus-pocus. We simply offered our core customers the opportunity to buy what we're building at what we colloquially refer to as "pre-alpha" stage: it exists, sorta, but it's rough on the edges and still evolving. It works, but it's not fully elegant. Yet.
Elegant is hard. It takes time, and money, and attention, and smart folks and smart designers and talented artistic folks and time and attention to detail. That comes, iteratively, as time goes by. We're backfilling the elegance, slowly but surely. It's not that we don't love elegant; rather; it's the cold fact that elegance costs money, to do right. No money, no elegance. Therefore: build it solid, gain community buy-in at the pre-alpha stage, prove out the fundamental technological architecture and then, as revenue grows: make it sing. Make it elegant. Make it beautiful.
It works.
It's fucking hard work. It involves close brushes with starvation. There's no oceans of VC money padding the monthly payroll: in our early months, a lull in token sales meant no food on our tables. Literally. Or no tables, post-eviction. Close to the bone, that... but it does keep us focussed on what we're doing, eh? And we're not doing it so we can sell it to Zucky as another bauble in his chain of failed tech visions. Sorry, but nope. Also no traditional IPO.
So why are we doing it, and why might other project teams pursue Boostrapped Privacy Service as a model for getting thing going? Well, as we said, it works. That's got alot going for it! Also it keeps us viciously, undeniably, intensely, profoundly independent. We answer to nobody but ourselves, and our member community. Nobody. In terms of the personality profile of folks who do well as core members of privacy tech ops teams... that's sort of a good description of the personality type, isn't it? We're not exactly the kids voted "most popular" in school. We're the outcasts, the nerds, the geeks, the freaks, the supergenius weirdos everyone didn't know how to deal with. And we're pretty happy being independent, thanks. It works for us.
That's how we did it. Nowadays we're over the hump of those super-lean early months, and our project moves forward with less of that lean-winter-months intensity of the starving predator. But... it'll always be in our bones, encoded in our company's DNA. It's who we are, quite so. And that's not a bad who to be, when it comes to hard-edged privacy services. This is a tough place to live, and to thrive... it doesn't welcome the glad-handlers, the back-slappers, the bullshiters, or the get-rich-quickers.
And we're quite ok with that.
- ~ pj (on behalf of the cryptostorm team... who had better things to do than write this blather, so it was naturally left to me)

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2016: A fire breaks out at an Oakland, California, warehouse known as the Ghost Ship, killing 36 people. The warehouse had been converted into an area for artists and included living units. While emails from 2014 reportedly described serious electrical problems in the building, investigators were unable to pinpoint the cause of the fire due to the extreme damage to the building. In June 2017, two Ghost Ship proprietors were arrested and charged with felony involuntary manslaughter in connection with the fire. [ + - ]
2008: Odetta, the singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement," dies of heart disease at age 77 in New York City. Odetta, whose full name was Odetta Holmes, helped revive American folk music in the 1950s and served as an influence for artists such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples and Janis Joplin. She seen here at a music festiaval in July 2006. [ + - ]
2001: Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [ + - ]
1993: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed during a gun battle with Colombian National Police in Medellín, Colombia. [ + - ]
1993: NASA launches the space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. With its very heavy workload, the STS-61 mission was one of the most complex in the space shuttle program's history, lasting nearly 11 days, and crew members made five spacewalks, an all-time record. [ + - ]
1990: Aaron Copland, one of the most respected American classical composers of the 20th century, dies of Alzheimer's disease and respiratory failure at age 90 in North Tarrytown, New York. Some of his best known works include the ballets "Appalachian Spring," "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo," his "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Third Symphony." He also composed for film, earning an Oscar for William Wyler's 1949 film "The Heiress" and additional nominations for his scores to "Of Mice and Men," "Our Town" and "The North Star." [ + - ]
1988: Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. Bhutto, seen here during a state visit to Washington, D.C., in 1989, would serve until 1990 and be elected again in 1993. After nine years of self-exile in Dubai and London, she returned to Pakistan in October 2007 to run again for prime minister, but was assassinated two months later. [ + - ]
1986: Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer Desi Arnaz, best known for starring as Ricky Ricardo alongside his wife Lucille Ball on the 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," dies of lung cancer at age 69 in Del Mar, California. [ + - ]
1983: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who led the Green Bay Packers to a championship in Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 season, is born in Chico, California. Rodgers, who began his NFL career backing up Brett Favre for three seasons before becoming a starter in 2008, was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLV and the 2011 NFL MVP. [ + - ]
1982: English comedian and actor Marty Feldman, best known for his roles in Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" and "Silent Movie," dies of a heart attack at age 48 in Mexico City. [ + - ]
1982: Barney Clark becomes the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, in a surgery performed at the University of Utah Medical Center. The surgery was performed by Dr. William DeVries in cooperation with the device's inventor, Dr. Robert Jarvik. Clark, a dentist from Seattle who was suffering from severe congestive heart failure, would live 112 days on the artificial heart. Of the next four implants, the longest survivor was William Schroeder, who lived 620 days. [ + - ]
1981: Singer-songwriter, dancer and actress Britney Spears, best known for hit songs such as "...Baby One More Time," "Oops!... I Did It Again," "Stronger," "Toxic" and "Womanizer," is born in McComb, Mississippi. [ + - ]
1978: Singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, whose hit songs include "I'm like a Bird," "Promiscuous" and "Say It Right," is born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. [ + - ]
1976: Fidel Castro becomes president of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. He would serve as Cuban president until failing health forced him to transfer his responsibilities to his brother, Vice President Raúl Castro, in 2006. His brother formally assumed the presidency in 2008 and Fidel Castro died on Nov. 25, 2016. [ + - ]
1973: Monica Seles, the former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, current-day Serbia. In 1990, Seles became the youngest-ever French Open champion at age 16. She went on to win seven more Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday and ranked No. 1 in the world at the end of 1991 and 1992. Her career was derailed after an on-court attack on April 30, 1993, when she was stabbed in the back, but she returned to tennis after two years, eventually winning the Australian Open in 1996 and earning a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Seles, who's seen here in 2011, played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open and officially retired in early 2008. [ + - ]
1970: The United States Environmental Protection Agency is formed after President Richard Nixon signs an executive order. [ + - ]
1968: Actress Lucy Liu, best known for her TV work in "Ally McBeal" and "Elementary" and for movies such as "Charlie's Angels," "Chicago," "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda," is born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. [ + - ]
1961: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. [ + - ]
1956: Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark the Granma yacht after it reached the shores of Cuba's Oriente province to initiate the Cuban Revolution. Since 1976, the yacht has been on permanent display in a glass enclosure at the Granma Memorial adjacent to the Museum of the Revolution in Havana. [ + - ]
1954: The U.S. Senate votes 67 to 22 to censure Sen. Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." [ + - ]
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a reactor built under the stands of Stagg Field on the University of Chicago campus. Pictured is a drawing of the reactor, which consisted of uranium and uranium oxide lumps spaced in a cubic lattice embedded in graphite. [ + - ]
1927: After more than 18 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company begins selling the Ford Model A as its new automobile. By February 1929, more than 1 million Model A's had been sold, which jumped to 2 million by the end of July 1929. [ + - ]
1909: The National Hockey Association forms with four teams: the Montreal Wanderers, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, the Cobalt Silver Kings and the Haileybury Hockey Club. The Canadian league was the direct predecessor organization to today's NHL, which was formed in 1917 as a way for most of the NHA team owners to get rid of an unwanted owner. [ + - ]
1859: Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his Oct. 16, 1859, raid on a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Brown, who had hoped to start an armed slave revolt, and his raiders were initially successful in capturing the armory, but were defeated two days later by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. [ + - ]
1859: Georges Seurat, the Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman known for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism, is born in Paris, France. Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting. [ + - ]
1823: During his State of the Union Address to the U.S. Congress, President James Monroe states that any further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression. At the same time, Monroe also established that America would remain neutral in future European conflicts. The speech set what would eventually become known as the Monroe Doctrine. [ + - ]
1814: French politician and philosopher Marquis de Sade dies at age 74 in a lunatic asylum in Charenton, Val-de-Marne, France. De Sade was famous for his libertine sexuality and is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography. He spent much of his life in various prisons and the Charenton insane asylum. The words "sadism" and "sadist" are derived from his name. [ + - ]
1804: At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Pope Pius VII crowns Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor of the French, the first French emperor in a thousand years. Napoleon then crowned his wife Joséphine as empress. [ + - ]
1697: St. Paul's Cathedral opens in London, England. [ + - ]
1547: Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire, dies of pleurisy at age 61 or 62 in Castilleja de la Cuesta, Castile, Spain. [ + - ]
The Ford Model A goes on sale, a historic atomic milestone is reached under some Chicago football bleachers, Pablo Escobar is shot dead, and Enron files for bankruptcy, all on this day.


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(1 serving - 0.5 oz.: 45 calories, <1g fat, 125mg sodium, 6g carbs, 1g fiber, 3g sugars, 4g protein = 1 Point)
What It Is: Jerky, made of soy.
What We Think of It: We love jerky, so we 're always open to try new jerky-related products -- even ones made of soy. We were more than pleasantly surprised when we sampled Tasty Eats Soy Jerky. It's sweet and yummy and it has a little kick to it, but it's definitely NOT "hot". It's perfect! Not quite as dry as regular beef or turkey jerky, this stuff is satisfying, awesome, and low in fat and calories. And, since it's not made of meat, you don't ever have to consider that your little leathery snack was once a living, breathing creature, 'cuz it wasn't. Find this stuff online, at Whole Foods, and at other natural foods stores.
Overall Score: We'd give the Hot N' Spicy flavor a 10. The Teriyaki and Ginger flavors are great, too. But the chicken-flavored ones (low-carb/unsweetened) are icky and scary. This is a great on-the-go snack!
(*Meal Bars - 45g: 190 calories, 5-6g fat, 2g fiber = 4 Points)
(*Snack Bars - 26g: 110 calories, 3-3.5g fat, 0-1g fiber = 2-3 Points)
*nutritionals vary among flavors
What They Are: A line of larger bars, called Meal Bars, and a line of smaller bars, called Snack Bars.
What We Think of 'Em: Yikes! Special K, we love you. And we REALLY love your Snack Bites, but these new bars really miss the mark. The 190-calorie meal bars aren't large enough to be an actual meal substitute. They're also way too sweet, crumbly, and with that dry low-carb flavor (even though they aren't low-carb), these bars are just not good. There's not a flavor in the bunch we like. The snack bars taste a bit better, but are basically chewy candy bars (very tiny ones!) that we feel aren't worth the 110- calorie price tag they come with. Don't get us wrong, 110 calories isn't a lot for a snack, it's just that these things are so tiny they're simply not worth it. And the fact that they're trying to pass themselves off as "healthy" disturbs us even more. We predict a VERY sad, short life for these bars.
Overall Score: 3. Special K...we still love you, but we will never EVER partake in these items again.
(10 sprays: 10 calories, 1g fat, 95-130mg sodium, 1g carbs, 0g fiber, 1g sugars, 0g protein = 0 Points)
What They Are: Little bottles of low-cal, spray-on salad dressing in three flavors -- Red Wine Mist Cabernet Vinaigrette, Balsamic Breeze Vinaigrette, and Italian Vinaigrette. 10 sprays for 10 calories. Woohoo!
What We Think of 'Em: No gimmicks here. What you see is what you get, peeps. Each generous 10-spray serving packs in tons of flavor and a lot of dressing -- for just 10 measly calories. Spray-on salad dressing is a no-brainer. Who needs all the extra glop smothering your defenseless lettuce, anyway? Wish-Bone, you ROCK, bigtime! HUGETIME. All of the flavors are great, but we like the Italian Vinaigrette the most. We hear there are new flavors on the way, and we can't wait.
Overall Score: 10. 10 sprays for 10 calories?! It's INSANE!
What It Is: Unsweetened non-dairy chocolate milk made from almonds?!
What We Think of It: We were so excited to see chocolate (or any!) milk that has just 45 calories per 8 ounces that it could taste like motor oil and we'd be excited. The good news is, it DOESN'T taste like motor oil. The bad news is, it doesn't taste good straight from the container. We added Splenda to it, which made it pretty good, but this stuff is definitely best-suited for fancy low-cal lattes and things of that nature. In fact, we made some pretty friggin' INSANE 25-calorie chocolate lattes with this stuff and now we're hooked. We can't wait to try the other flavors.
Overall Score: 9. But remember, don't drink it straight. It's definitely more of an ingredient than a beverage.
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