Pancakes: A Review

About a month (or so...yikes!) ago, I was contacted by Anne Viljaste from General Mills to try out a new product: Fiber One light and fluffy pancake mix.

I agreed to try it in return for posting a review here.

I have to admit, I was pretty excited to be asked to do a product review. Yes, even one about pancake mixes. Let me tell ya, it doesn't take much to stir up some excitement around here.

A few weeks later, we were shipped three boxes of pancake mix.

And one Sunday morning, DH whipped up the mix for breakfast. He tried one with just the water added and the other with the buttermilk. I sneaked in a handful or two of chocolate chips for the kids' pancakes (which totally negated any nutritious benefit I'm sure) and made some of my homemade maple syrup.

I don't know if it's because we are total pancake snobs, as in, we have never ever used a mix but always make our pancakes from scratch, or maybe we are not used to eating healthy?

No one liked 'em.

The pancakes sure were light and fluffy and looked scrumptious! But once we poured the syrup on, the pancakes broke down and mushed themselves onto our plates, refusing to budge. The buttermilk variety were definitely fluffier in appearance than the ones mixed with water, but the end result was the same.

Was it my homemade syrup? I don't use corn syrup, so it's definitely on the watery side (like true maple syrup would be) and maybe that's where the problem is. Corn syrup may keep the pancakes from getting too soggy... I don't know.

So, there it is, folks. My first (and most likely last) foray into the world of product review and I have to post a thumbs down. Ah well, gives me more time to perfect my sewing endeavors, doesn't it?

more on that later...

:)