While searching the "healthy" aisle at Jewel the other night for a "no sugar added" marinara sauce for our meatza, we came across "The Original Breakfast Cookie". Frankly, I didn't realize that there were multiple breakfast cookies to choose from nowadays. I mean, I know there are pop-tarts and other sugary frankenfoods, but to try to sell me on eating cookies for breakfast, now that is something new.

The uninformed masses patroling such an aisle are unlikely to be able to realize how poor of a food choice this breakfast cookie truly is. Afterall, the packaging is plastered with statements such as:

• All Natural
• 0 Trans Fats
• Baked Fresh with Whole Grains for life on the go!

How is one to argue with such information!?

I decided to take it one step further and visit the website of The Original Breakfast Cookie. Here is what the manufacturer has to say about their Breakfast Cookie:

The Original Breakfast Cookie is something you can feel good about eating. Baked fresh with heart-healthy whole grains and sweetened with fruit puree, our cookies combine the flavors we all love with a heartiness that satisfies for hours. Packed with protein, antioxidants, fiber and complex carbohydrates, it is a healthy and delicious way to start your day. Every Breakfast Cookie is handcrafted in our own bakery using the finest ingredients available. You can taste the exceptional quality in each bite. Taste one, or better yet, taste them all!

A few of the customer reviews were right there in plain site as well and I thought you should know what Carissa Hayes has to say about The Original Breakfast Cookie:

I would recommend any of Erin Baker's cookies to everyone. They not only taste great, but are healthy too. I feel much better allowing my children to eat these cookies than any other product that is out.

UN.BE.LIEVABLE.

OK, so I'm being a little dramatic. Ignorance like this is completely believable in this day and age. Carissa obviously trusts anything her government or big business has to say about nutrition. Hook, line, and sinker!

Finally, let's take a look at the nutrition label of such a nutritional goldmine:

Whole Grain Oats, Unbleached Wheat Flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Prune Puree, Evaporated Cane Juice, Water, Chocolate Chunks (sugar, chocolate liquor, anhydrous dextrose, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), Brown Rice Syrup, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder, Chicory Extract, Molasses, Baking Soda, Vanilla Extract, Sea Salt, Soy Lecithin, Dried Egg Whites, Aluminum-Free Baking Powder, Cinnamon.

There you have it. A convenient, healthy, delicious cookie for breakfast. What else could anyone want? *HUGE EYE ROLL*