LÄRABAR Variety Pack, 16 Piece Assortment

Whenever a 1 star averages higher than 10%, I am normally skeptical. Should gave read through these first.. my first (negative) review was removed, so let me add more detail to explain my dissatisfaction with this order:The bars arrived in a black plastic bag with no labeling. The variety was exactly as expected and promised in the images. Some of the bars were excellent, but others were so beyond expiration that they were actually oily inside. I am a daily Larabar consumer and I've never ever seen this happen before, even with mildly expired bars. While it was nice to try new varieties without having to commit to a full box, I found it less convenient to have to throw half of them away from being inedible. I would probably pay a little more to make sure the bars were fresh instead of trying to save a few bucks.

Coconut Cream Pie - Super coconutty, rich and delicious, filling. 9/10Apple Pie - Fruity, Spicy, Cinnamon, Sweet and Spicy. Does remind me of Apple Pie. 7/10Key Lime Pie - Tart, Doesn't Taste like Keylime Pie, lacks the creaminess but good in a different way. 6/10Peanut Butter Chocolate - Very decadent. Tastes like dessert. Rich peanut butter taste and sinful chocolate. 10/10Cashew Cookie - Tastes like a ton of lightly sweetened cashews. If cashews are your favorite thing, you will love it, but I found it too nutty. 2/10Chocolate Coconut - I expected to like this because I love Coconut Cream Pie, but this didn't have enough coconut or enough chocolate and tasted overwhelmingly like dates, so to me it was one of my least favorite and is 2/10.Blueberry Muffin - Tastes like a moist nutty blueberry muffin with a slight vanilla finish. Very good. The bright blueberry flavor shines. 7/10Cherry Pie - Delicious. Tart cherries and a nutty finish. The cherry really shines. 9/10Banana Bread - sweet and nutty. The banana comes through but the texture of it is just not light enough and it's a little too dense. 6/10Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - Sweet and yummy. Not quite as rich or decadent as the peanut butter chocolate but nice for a treat. 7/10Carrot Cake - I love carrot cake, but to me the nuts in this take over and I don't get a lot of carrot. It's also a little too dense for it to remind me of carrot cake. 5/10Peanut Butter Cookie - Nutty and sweet. The nuts and dates provide a nice rich nutty sweet treat. 8/10Chocolate Chip Brownie - The chocolate comes right through and it has the perfect amount of nuts. If you like nuts in your brownie, you will love this. 9/10Pecan Pie - Not quite as sweet as pecan pie, and the nuts overpower this bar. 5/10Lemon Bar - Mmmmmmm. Tartness of lemon with a delicious sweetness. This bar is so much better than the key lime pie. Absolutely delicious. 10/10Peanut Butter and Jelly - A little too fruity and lacks the peanut butter flavor that the peanut butter cookie bar has. 5/10

I love these really really! I bought this box to take on a driving vacation instead of the usual candy and chips. My destination was about 15 hours away and I tend to drive it all in one day. I'm trying to eat healthier and avoid sugar (all types) and carbs (potatoes, bread, pasta, flour etc.), more toward Paleo. Anyway, since most of these are made of few ingredients and are sweetened with dates they looked like a healthy alternative to my usual junk food vacations. I was right. They are sweet and satisfied the sugar craving without the unhealthy sugar. Sweet! And gluten free! What could be better? And the taste? Well, I loved them from the first bite. All the flavors in this box. Can I hear an Amen for healthy snacks?Now the best part. I came back from vacation 2 lbs. lighter than when I left. These Larabars made it possible for me to keep away from the usual easy snack junk. And to keep away from soda I froze several bottles of water and my favorite green tea, diet Arizona Blueberry flavor for the cooler.I know several reviewers had issue with some of the flavors, especially the chocolate but I had no bad taste experiences. I expected that maybe the chocolate would be more of a carob flavor but I didn't taste any of that. However, when I went to buy more of these at the local healthy store, Sprouts, I avoided the ones with chocolate since the chocolate has processed sugar in it. Read the labels and pick your favorites, mine are carrot cake, apple pie, cherry pie, ley lime pie(?), peanut butter and jelly, cocoanut cream. Who knew dates were so good?

Old, and disgusting, soaking in Grease, and not in the package pictured... All the bars were shoved into a plastic mailer and then heated up to seal the package closed.the melted plastic even connected itself to one of the Lara bars🤢 which then makes sense why all of the bars got greasy and melted!!! Oh and to make matters worse they are clearly old and most of them expire in just four months time… I have never had this experience buying Lara bars in a store.

I liked having the ability to sample a variety of flavors before committing to purchasing a large box of one flavor. As other reviewers have stated, the variety pack came in a sketchy package. All of the bars were inside of a box for a different flavor and then saran or shrink wrapped with a sticker placed on top that said variety. That was a little strange, but I have since eaten all of the bars and did not experience any negative side effects. I guess the seller just assembled the variety pack on their own.All the flavors were fine and the ingredients are high quality.Overall, I wouldn't purchase the variety pack again because there were many flavors I learned that I hated (i.e., carrot cake tasted so bad that I couldn't even finish it. It did NOT taste like carrots. At. All.) The variety pack is great if you want to sample a bunch of flavors though!

It is advertised 16 varieties. I only received 12. I received 4 duplicates. Not as advertised. Very disappointed.