Making a keto-friendly bar with a reasonable shelf life that can be mass produced, appeal to the masses, while being affordable enough that people will buy it and still turn a profit for the makers is no small feat. It has presented difficulties to anyone who has attempted. That is why there aren’t many around, and why the ones that do exist have flaws that prevent them from being perfect. The Suzie GoodFats Bars are no exception.

Suzie GoodFats Bars: What I Like

1. Not Cloyingly Sweet. Many commercial bars are overly sweetened, whether it’s with real sugar or with keto-friendly sweeteners. For someone like me who has gotten used to using less sweeteners in my food, commercially sweetened foods often are way to sweet for my taste. This is not the case with Suzie GoodFats Bars.

2. Flavour Variety. For many companies, it’s just too expensive to offer a wide variety of flavours, but Suzie seems to have gotten around this somehow as the company offers 4 different flavours in their basic bars (peanut butter chocolatey, mint chocolate chip, rich chocolatey almond, and coconut chocolate chip - *my fave). They also have peanut butter and jam and chocolate cookie dough in their plant-based varieties.

3. Relatively affordable. I was able to get 12-bar boxes of the 4 basic varieties on sale for $21.98 at Superstore, but it’s not too hard to find them for not much more expensive that that online. Well.ca has these boxes for $26.69. It’s more expensive than making things from scratch, but you expect some mark-up for the convenience. Single bars run more expensive, around $2.99/bar so if you pick one up on the go, expect to pay a premium.

Suzie GoodFats Bars: What I Don’t Like

1. A Couple of Questionable Ingredients. While the bar is low sugar, and relatively low net carbs (if you are one who cancels out fibre carbs), it has a number of ingredients I tend to avoid, like palm oil and rice flour, even cane sugar, which is in all the bars that have chocolate chips.

2. Dry texture. For something that is supposed to be all about the fats, the texture of these bars is a little dry for my liking. The main bar base is a little chalky, making me feel like I need to work more moisture into my mouth so I can more smoothly chew and swallow them. They definitely need to be consumed with a coffee, tea or some other liquid.

3. More Carbs Than I Prefer. If balanced out with other fats, these could work okay for those following a keto diet, but the whole point of a keto-friendly bar is that you shouldn't have to do that. I would want it to be balanced on its own, especially for the price I'm paying, but maybe that's just me.

Overall Thoughts

While these bars are definitely no substitute for my own keto creations, as a store-bought convenience food, they are still better than most other options out there in terms of value and carb ratio. They're great for helping people get off sugar, and introducing a combination of healthy fats and fibre into snacks that satiate your appetite. I might keep a box of these in any cupboard for those times when I might not have enough time to make my own keto-friendly foods to take with me when I’m on the go. My favourite flavour of the four I tried was coconut chocolate chip. That being said, I wouldn’t rely on them as a meal replacement since they are higher in carbs than I would like. But paired with other foods that are lower in carbs, like nuts, cheese, boiled eggs, etc, they can help you have a bit of variety to quick meals/snacks that you have to eat on the go.