Frito-Lay Baked Cheetos Review

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AWESOMEMOM88
Montgomery, IL

A poor substitute when you crave the cheesy crunch

practical, cost-conscious

Pros

low fat

Cons

not enough cheese flavor, styrofoam-like consistency, not salty enough, goes stale quickly, leaves a cheese mark, A little more costly and never on sale, not enough in the bag, they are messy.

JUL

2008

Baked Cheetos are about as wonderful as those fat free potato chips-(you remember, the ones linked to digestive distress because of olestra?) I realize that companies are trying to cater to our more healthful nature, and provide snack foods that aren't damaging, but you also don't particularly want to snack on them very much. In a side by side taste comparison with my kids....everyone was able to pick out the baked ones over their traditional counterpart without even tasting. Even the coloration is less intense, the crunch less satisfying. The orange fingers are actually worse, because the powdered cheese additives don't stick as well when the product is baked and therefore alot drier and grainier. The politically correct, food police seem to have even reduced the sodium-either that, or with less cheese clinging to the baked items, you lose the saltiness of the snack. The package has lesser ounces for the price than the traditional Cheetos, which is OK, because had it been the regular size package, I fear I would have been throwing away a goodly bit as uneaten. As it was, the kids said that even with a bag clip, the baked Cheetos tasted flat, stale, and lost their crunch just overnight. And don't think that you are going to take the larger package and divide it down into zip lock bags for use in the school lunches, because really nasty stuff happens from breakfast to lunch in that zip lock bag, and your formerly crunchy Cheetos are now as limp as linguini....There are some things that just shouldn't be fooled around with. I don't think that the original Cheetos would kill any of us if we kept perspective and treated it as a snack and a treat.....I am not sure about the baked ones though....kind of takes away the urge to snack (Perhaps they should market it as a diet aid-an appetitie suppressant)

Frito-Lay Baked Cheetos is not recommended by AWESOMEMOM88

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Comments about AWESOMEMOM88’s Review

In response to lilsquibb's comment from Jul 25, 2008 at 9:37AM:

I guess that somebody actually enjoys these...different strokes and all. That is why they make vanilla and chocolate and Neopolitan for those who can't decide. Have a great day.