Review: Youbars
Youbars seemed like a great idea to me – you design your own snack bars on their web site and the company makes a box to your exact specification and ships them to you. You choose a base ingredient (some kind of nut butter) and then pick a bunch of mix-ins (nuts, dried fruit, berries, etc), protein, grains, sweeteners, infusions, and the like to add to your bar. I created a bar with almond butter, walnuts, almonds, and dried cranberries for my first order and it came out really bad. It was just like a soft lump of almond butter that wasn’t even really solid at room temperature. I ended up having to freeze them to keep them in bar form. They wound up costing about $3 per bar for a box of 12, so I was not pleased.
Luckily, Youbars has a satisfaction guaranteed policy stating that they’ll ship you a new order if you aren’t satisfied with your bars, so I took them up on it. The customer service was excellent and they sent me a code for a free second order right away, as promised. My second order was a bit more successful, but still far from tasty and ultimately not worth re-ordering.
Of course, I tried these before discovering Larabars and now I’m hooked on those.
