Chill Out With A Good-For-You Snack, Fruit Chillers

When I was a kid, we had a corner grocery store (Mr. Unger’s). He had a freezer with those freeze pops in colors mother nature never created, sold in single tubes, like candy. These were a special treat, but my mother didn’t allow my sister and I to eat them very often because they were full of sugar and chemicals.

Fruit Chillers are essentially, the same delight as those freeze pops, but they have a major difference: They are made with with 1lb. of real fruit, so kids can get the sweet treat they love, and moms can feel better about them, too. And at just $2.89 per carton for eight servings, they’re great for frugal-minded people, too.

Fruit Chillers Freeze and Eat Tubes come Strawberry Snow Storm and Grape Berry Blizzard. Photographer Bobby Marro took this photo of me and lifestyle & entertaining expert Jeanne Benedict (from celebrations.com), posing with a Grape Berry Blizzard!

Although these are marketed for mothers to give to their children, when I attended a “chill out” event for the product, the first thing that came to mind was how much adult women would love these. For starters, they’re small enough to satisfy a craving for something cold and sweet without being too filling. At just 55 calories a stick, with no fat and 11 g of sugar, they are not too fattening either. They have a sweet taste, but it is more sorbet than sugar-sweet or chemical-y. You also get 25% of your daily value of Vitamin C from just one tube. There are no artificial flavors, no corn syrup, and they’re gluten free. The first three ingredients are water and: pear puree, pear juice, and white grape juice.