Parent Club Review: Bagel Os

The Parent Club Test Panel has been at it again...

The What:

Brand new, bite-size bagels filled with gourmet cream cheese. The delicious bites come in four flavours (herb and garlic, plain, blueberry and smoked salmon)and are kosher and completely nut-free. They're available across Canada in Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal-Mart and Giant Tiger.

The Review:

Bagel o's come in a neat little presentation. According to the paperwork, you can buy them in a sleeve of 3 or by the box of 12. We tried the plain, blueberry (plain with blueberry cream cheese) and garlic and chive (whole wheat bagel with garlic and chive cream cheese).

The product itself is slightly bigger than a timbit. On the directions it says to either microwave or toast, but if these went into the toaster they would not come out (too small) Toasting is my preference so I popped them in the oven as I do not have a toaster oven, but that wouldn't be an efficient option in the morning.

As for taste, they were fantastic. I liked the smaller sizing so if you only wanted 1 that would be fine. My daughter LOVED the blueberry ones. I had thawed them overnight in the fridge and they were very fresh and VERY tasty.

Some downfalls in my opinion were as follows.

• First off, there was no nutritional info listed on the package or paperwork, including ingredients. So my son who has a severe egg allergy did not try them because I couldn't be sure they were egg free. I did attempt to go to the website to see if any info was listed there, but the "link appears to be broken" and I could not get onto the site.
• Also, the only whole wheat option was the garlic and chive. My preference is to always chose whole wheat if I can where my children are involved and my daughter would not eat that flavour so that would be a hindrance to me purchasing them.

If I had the option of whole wheat, I would definitely chose to purchase these products as a quick option for breakfast for myself or my kids. I liked that it was not a whole bagel, although I would need to see the nutritional info before I made my mind up entirely as to how they would stack up against bagels we have bought in the past, as all the paperwork said was "starting at 70 calories"

(Parent Club Test Panelists: Mom & Dad with two children aged pre-school & toddler)