Nutrisystem Chocolate Chocolate Chip Pudding

Pudding - now in inconvenient powder form!

One more time around the Nutrisystem block...

This week's entry is considerably less strange than a hot dog sitting on a shelf at room temperature.  There's nothing particularly remarkable about chocolate pudding in and of itself, even chocolate pudding with little chocolate chips in it.

Price: $0.25

Another item from my four-for-a-dollar haul.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense to pay a dollar for this when you can get boxes of similar stuff that will provide four servings instead of one (little chocolate chips not included, though).

Preparation Time: Less than five minutes

One look at the package and you'll see what's odd about this item.  It's a pudding mix that you have to prepare yourself.  Find a bowl, dump in the powder, add 1/2 cup of skim milk, stir vigorously for a couple of minutes (it took a while for the powder to dissolve in the milk, but any kid who grew up with Nestle Quik is going to be right at home), let set for another minute, and then enjoy.  Okay, but did anyone tell the inventors of Nutrisystem that there are individually sized pudding cups?  They're cheap and come four to a packages.  Lots of different flavors, too.  Why would anyone go to this much work to whip up a bowl of instant pudding?

Notable Nutrition: This has more protein in it (6 grams) than last week's hot dog (5 grams).

Taste: Kind of blah.  The pudding was thick but lacking in flavor.  The chips added some texture but I don't think chocolate chips were meant to be crunchy.

Verdict: If you find them on sale and love to stir chocolate powder into milk, go nuts.  Otherwise you'll be better off with the pudding cups.  4/10 stars.