Lenny and Larrys

 

Overview

Here’s what Lenny and Larry have to say:

Lenny & Larry’s was founded by two friends with a passion for fitness, having fun and the first to truly bake with protein. Combining a fitness background with an interest in nutritional baked goods and promotional fun, we decided to create and market high protein muffins, cookies and other all natural baked goods.

After months of planning we came up with some great tasting, healthy products and ‘our guaranteed to make you smile logo.’ Guess what? Everyone loved it and away we went! We believe your snack should taste better than the package it comes in.

As executives with a hands on philosophy, the principals of Lenny & Larry’s take an active role in the research and development as well as the sales of their successful product lines. Being family men and sports enthusiasts, they have set a company objective of creating and producing healthy baked goods for both young and old.

Lenny & Larry’s mission is to continue to create and distribute healthy baked goods as well as to encourage physical fitness and a healthy diet. We appreciate everyone’s loyal support. Let’s get healthy together!

Nutritional Information

The Nutritional Information varies very slightly per flavour:

Complete Cookies

Serving Size 56.5g (half cookie)
Servings Per Cookie 2

Amount per Serving

Calories 190

Total Fat 6g

Saturated Fat 1.5g

Trans Fat 0g

Cholesterol 0mg

Sodium 220mg

Total Carbohydrate 27g

Dietary Fiber 3g

Sugars 15g

Protein 8g

So you are only supposed to eat half a cookie at a time, good luck with that! These are actually higher calories than some supermarket offerings but the crucial bit of information is that everything here is all natural ingredients and the majority of those calories are “good” calories. You do only get 8g of protein per serving but taken along with a protein shake it makes a great post workout meal…

Muscle Brownie

Serving Size 40g (Half a brownie)
Servings Per Bar 2

Amount per Serving

Calories 170

Total Fat 5g

Saturated Fat 1g

Trans Fat 0g

Cholesterol 15mg

Sodium 160mg

Total Carbohydrate 20g

Dietary Fiber 1g

Sugars 12g

Protein 10g

Slightly more protein on offer with the Muscle Brownie, although the recommended serving is only half a brownie I have to confess that I always ate the full Brownie. Don’t judge me I built the calories into my daily MACROS. A full brownie will take a rather large 340 calories out of your allowance but provide you with 20g of protein and 40g of carbs (2:1 carbs to protein, sounds like a post workout to me….). Same as with the cookie everything is all natural and the fat levels are low for any treat so the calories are not so much of an issue.

FIT Brownie

Serving Size 50g (one brownie)
Servings Per Bar 1

Amount per Serving

Calories 190

Total Fat 7g

Saturated Fat 4g

Trans Fat 0g

Cholesterol 15mg

Sodium 140mg

Total Carbohydrate 22g

Dietary Fiber 7g

Sugar 9g

Protein 13g

Finally you can eat the whole thing! The lowest calorie/highest protein per serving offering from Lenny and Larry, still keeping the 2:1(ish) carb to protein ratio making it a solid option for a post workout meal.  The fat is the highest here out of the 3 but its still kept fairly low and most importantly 0g of Trans-Fat and all natural ingredients.

Taste

We tried 10 different products so we’ll split them out:

Complete Cookie:

Double Chocolate – Delicious but very sweet, the cookies are huge so eating only half is recommended. This one is perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth.

Chocolate Macadamia – Very light, with a generous helping with white chocolate and macadamia nuts, it’s not too sweet but it’ll certainly take away your cravings.

Chocolate Chip – No surprises about what’s in here, you get a decent amount of chocolate chips and the cookie itself is a mouthful, probably the least sweet of all the cookies. Very nice with a coffee…

Peanut Butter – This is tastes amazing but it gets very sickly, it’s very sweet and tastes, unsurprisingly, like peanut butter. The cookie doesn’t have any of the texture or stickiness of peanut butter but actually quite soft, very ncie.

Oatmeal Raisin – This cookie is perfect, its just the right amount of sweetness and the texture is great, the flavour is spot on and even half a cookie will keep you full for a few hours.

FIT Brownie

Chocolate Raspberry – The FIT brownies are quite flat and a little bit harder and chewier  than most over the counter brownies but that the actual flavour is very nice, there’s the satisfying chocolateyness (that’s a word, honest!) and then you get a little bit of real raspberry which works wonderfully with it. There is a drizzle of icing on top but to be honest you bearing notice it, you could knock it off and save yourself some sugar calories.

Chocolate Decadence – Do you like Chocolate? Good because that’s all your getting. It’s just a really sweet chocolate brownie, not sickly but close to it. If you not a chocoholic then you might want to give this one a miss.

Muscle Brownie

Triple Chocolate – Chocolate brownie, chocolate chips and chocolate icing damn this one is rich. Again if you’re not suffering from an addiction to chocolate this one probably won’t be for you but you would be missing out as it is incredible. The Muscle Brownies all have quite a bite to them, almost like if you put a shop brownie in the fridge, so they are a bit more like a protein bar in texture than a traditional brownie.

Cookies & Cream – This is easily one of the best, it is as filling as a meal and as sweet as a dessert but in the best possible way. Again its quite solid but the flavour can’t be beaten. The actual cookies and cream flavour is perfect.

Peanut Butter – I can see this being a favourite of most people, it’s fairly sweet but not sickly, the peanut butter icing is perfect and the flavour never overpowers but complements the brownie very nicely.

   

Side Effects

Does immediately wanting a second one count as a side effect?

Price

Complete Cookies:

Single                    £2.49

Box of 12             £22.99

FIT Brownie

Single                    £2.29

Box of 12             £22.99

Muscle Brownies

Single                    £2.49

Box of 12             £22.99

Results

Eat Brownies Get Muscles that’s the tag line Lenny and Larry have, damn that’s a promising prospect. Lenny and Larry have made some amazing protein treats that’s never going to be disputed. The only issue anyone could ever have is the protein is a little low but I actually found to be spot on as I used this in conjunction with a protein shake and that made the perfect post workout meal. In fact all of the products make a very good post workout snack.

These aren’t made to be consumed everyday (unfortunately) you are supposed to use them as a snack and a way of “cheating” healthily. You can use these on your cheat days if you are watching your diet or cutting but if you are bulking then I recommend these as a mid-morning snack or part of your postworkout.

I think that these deserve a place in the cupboard of everyone who has been stuck on that strict diet plan and dreaming of cookies or brownies, these can easily be programmed into any diet plan.

If I had to rank them I would go:

Complete Cookie Oatmeal Raisin

Muscle Brownie Cookies and Cream

FIT Brownie Chocolate Raspberry

Muscle Brownie Peanut Butter

Complete Cookie Peanut Butter

Complete Cookie Chocolate Macadamia

Complete Cookie Chocolate Chip

Muscle Brownie Triple Chocolate

FIT Brownie Chocolate Decadence

Complete Cookie Double Chocolate

You have to treat yourselves to some of these. They can’t be praised enough. 9.5/10

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