Sears Bars
Sears Bars are the Best Choice for People Who Can Afford to Buy the Best
This site on Sears bars is here to help you find bargains on balance bars and Zone perfect bars to keep you in The Zone as outline by Dr. Barry Sears in his books.
I enjoy the products of all of the companies I've tried. I hate to say it, because I do buy his fish oil and phytochemicals product, but the bars Dr Sears sells are expensive.
Sears Bars Keep You in the Zone
That is the one thing that keeps me from buying a large supply from him. Plus, I'm not sure whether his match the taste of Balance Bars and Zone Perfect bars, because I've eaten only one that I can recall -- it was sent as a sample with my order of fish oil and Polyphenol Plus.
It was Apple Cinnamon flavor, and to me sort of dry. And that wouldn't be my first choice of flavors.
So while it was certainly ok, it didn't seem worth the expense.
I can believe that they're of higher quality than the others -- Dr Sears' Zone bars are made with Controlled Release Nutrition. That is a food technology to stabilize blood sugar. By helping you conserve calories through for hours, you burn stored body fat instead of storing incoming calories as fat.
The Zone allows you to stay fuller on fewer calories, and Zone Bars are a great way to eat when you don't have time to prepare a meal or snack.
Dr. Sears Created Bars to Help People Stay in the Zone
Most bars are 220 calories, 8g fat, 25g carbs, 16g protein, 5g fiber, 13g sugar, fortified with essential vitamins and minerals, no high fructose corn syrup, no trans fat, all goodness. Check each flavor for exact nutrition facts.
According to a published article, Dr. Sears does not endorse the ZonePerfect line of products. They are 30 30 40 (30% protein, 30% fat and 40% carbohydrates) as he recommends for the Zone, but they use flax or soy oils instead of the fish oils he uses, and says that therefore theirs will not control insulin.
One Sears Zone Nutrition bar is 55 grams, about 210 calories. Of course it contains protein, carbohydrates and fat (no trans fat but some saturated fat) in the proper proportions, and is loaded with various important vitamins and minerals. No corn syrup.
One bar is two blocks. If you've read the Zone books, you know that a block is his system keeping track of, and properly balancing, the protein, carbohydrates and fat you're eating at one time.
One box contains 14 bars and is currently priced at $35. If you go on autoship, which means that they'll ship it to you automatically every month, the price goes down to $28.76. But with shipping you're still looking at over $30. For 14 bars, that's over $2 per bar.
Of course, that's fair as far as it goes. I've seen the common types of balance protein bars and Zone perfect protein bars for sale in supermarkets for about that.
And since one bar is a complete snack, and two is a complete meal for a man (women should eat 3 blocks per meal, so they have to cut a bar in two), that's a bargain price in its own way.
Heck, if you eat at any fast food place, you pay more than $4 for a complete and nutritious meal.
Sears Bars are Easy and Convenient
So as a meal replacement bar, they are fairly priced.
The problem is when you start comparison shopping. When I find what I want at Wal-Mart, the cost is around one dollar. Same online. Sometimes less.
I am busy and running around a lot, instead of staying home and eating properly, so I eat more of these energy bars than I like to admit to.
So the cost increase would be significant.
But what if the technology to keep my hunger down works so well that I don't have to eat as many as I do? Then I'd save some money that way. And perhaps lose weight faster.
Mmm, maybe I should order a box of the Chocolate Fudge and see what I think?
Other flavors of Dr. Sears Zone Nutrition bars include --
Roasted Peanut, Lemon Yogurt, Chocolate Raspberry, Cocoa Crisp, Iced Oatmeal Raisin, Sweet & Salty Nut Crunch, and Apple Cinnamon.
Plus you can get variety packs.
Yes, I just talked myself into buying Chocolate Fudge, the flavor that appeals to me most, and I'll see whether it does control hunger better than the others, or not.
Oops -- shipping is nearly $10, making the price per bar $3. Maybe another time.
However, I do buy other Sears Zone Nutrition products. If money were not an issue, I'd certainly buy all my Sears bars from him. He was the pioneer. If I had the money, I wouldn't begrudge it to him.
Next: SmartZone Bars -- Zone diet bars from candy maker.