I would guess that these were one of the first attempts at the nutrition bar. This box is from about 1976-7 and has some really groovy graphics on the side panels and check out the bacon as part of the complete breakfast on the front. The three flavors of the boxes I have are Peanut Butter & Granola, Peanut Butter Crunch and Chocolate Crunch.
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These were my absolute favorite! I could never figure out why they stopped making them. I especially liked the peanutbutter flavor. I can't figure out why they're only making the breakfast drinks. The breakfast bar market is huge! It just doesn't seem very smart. Especially when they had such a loyal following that we are still talking about them after all these years! They really need to put these back on the market.
This is hilarious. I never would've thought that there was anyone else out there that looked for Carnation Breakfast Bars other than my Mom and myself! I ate them growing up in the 80's and early 90's(I think). I see a lot of comments about them being dry and crunchy. But I remember them being moist(but not to moist). They were great! They are still the only thing that I want to eat for breakfast. I have not found anything that I enjoy eating for breakfast since they stopped making them. Instead I turn to chocolate bars. I ask Nestle is this better for me than one of their breakfast bars? I think not. Seeing how many people crave them it makes me wonder-did they contain some kind of addictive ingredient that Nestle doesn't want us to know about and that's why they took them off the market? Sure does make you think when they won't reproduce them doesn't it? Good luck to all of my fellow breakfast bar lovers. If we don't ever get any again here on earth, maybe we will find some in heaven!
My entire family loved these bars. We always had them in the house and took them on every trip. My father was in the military and when we were stationed in England all my British friends loved to eat them at our house. I just got back in contact with one of my British friends and she asked me if they still had the breakfast bars in the states. That is love of a product! She had not had one since we left England 25 years ago and she was still remembering how good they were.
Wow. I'm not alone. I've craved my Carnation Bars for so long! Amazing there are others out there. We should form a support group.
I LOVED these bars! I can still remember what they taste like. There is absolutely nothing out there that comes close. If Carnation doesn't want to make them anymore another company should, because they would makes lots of $$$$.
Here's a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39790505937 (only 63 members - sheesh!!)
If Nestle is going for nutrition, then the breakfast bar fits right in. It was packed with protein and vitamins and carbohydrates. I brought loads of them on my backpacking trips in the 80's.
I quite like the powdered drink mix, but it' apples and oranges comparing it to the bars.
Yes! I too loved and miss the Carnation Breakfast Bars. I used to eat these after school and I too could have eaten a whole box at once! I remember the package - the very same picture with the '70s people eating the bars, especially the little girl with her lunch box. What I liked most about them is what I can best describe as the "medicine-y" taste they had. Sort of like vitamins. Slim Fast bars have that kind of taste too but they're still not as good as THE Breakfast Bars. I too so wish Carnation would bring them back but I'd probably get fat off them so maybe it's for the best. LOL
These bars are awesome..I would eat them everyday for breakfast before school! How can we get them back into production? Whoever said the Pria bar is the "new" breakfast bar is mistaken...nothing can replace the carnation chocolate chip bar!! Nestle, if you read these comments, please bring these back!
I agree with the above, quaker chewy dips are great and so close the the carnation bars!!!!
no no nooo... chewy is just so wrong!
*sigh* I also lived on these throughout high school and college. Nothing beat the texture and flavor...kind of dry and crumbly, not too sweet, just a bit salty. Still makes my mouth water. I wrote the company when they first disappeared from the shelves and was told they had done market research that showed consumers wanted chewy bars. Blech!!!!! Haven't eaten any sort of bar since.
....and I the same as everyone else wants those absolutely delicious chocolate chip carnation breakfast bars back. nothing is even comparable. come on carnation-everything 80's is back in style, get with the program. what in tarnation is carnation thinking? gimmeee a bar now!
BRING THEM BACKKKKK!!!!
If I remember correctly, they became chewy-ish and rice based, rather than the predominantly oat-based original recipe. I took quit eating them when it changed, and have never stopped craving them.
I'm pretty sure if they brought them back, all of us former kids, now well into our 30's and 40's with kids of our own, would not only buy them daily, but introduce them to our kids, their friends, etc with a fervor that would make Malcolm Gladwell proud.
I feel the same as everyone else on here!!! I grew up on these bars. They are SOOOO good. I can not eat the other breakfast bars that are out there as I have Crohn's Disease and my diet is limited. But these bars were the BEST and I would LOVE to have them back!!! SOON. PLEASE
Bring them back! Bring them back! My kids deserve to have this great experience. Chewy this and that, blah! They had the best flavor, the best texture, and were such a great compliment to a tall glass of milk. Maybe we should hit up the diary farmers of America... Maybe THEY could persuade Nestle. :-)
This is insane. Like all of you, I thought I was the only one who spent the last 2 decades thinking about these things. Maybe one day they will return.
I too keep looking for the yellow box hoping Carnation breakfast bars will return in their origial form.As a kid I went through Chemo and they were the only thing I wanted to eat on bad days. Mom kept boxes on a shelf just for bad days.After treatment was over they were still part of my favorite foods.When the chewy type came out I did not like them.I do not like the other bars out there.Please bring them back!
Throughout the 80s my mom would buy a box or two a week of them. Since they were discontinued, I have bought maybe 10 boxes of 'food bars' total. Petition signed.
How funny that there are sooo many people who remembered these bars? I also loved them as a kid. My favorite was chocolate chip flavor. There is no other breakfast bar that has the same taste. I wish they would bring them back!! It doesnt sound like they will.
I am so amazed that other people feel the same way I do about the Carnation Breakfast Bars. I love them especially the Chocolate Chip ones. I have signed the petition.
I just wish sooooooooo much that they would bring them back !
I'm another person who really really really wants them to bring back the Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars (the chocolate-peanut butter was my favorite). Anyway, I just signed the petition and I also posted it on my Facebook page, so hopefully others will sign it too.
I absolutely loved and miss the Carnation Breakfast Bars. I was excited to find all these comments and see others who felt like me. Carnation, please bring these bars back, even if they do not agree with your marketing plan. We love them with a glass of milk. You would make so many people happy if you would sell this product again. I am 49 and I want my family to experience these bars.
Sitting down in front of the 36 inch T.V. counsel, in my pajamas, eating a carnation peanut butter crunch bar. This was the best times. I hope that one day Carnation brings back the breakfast bar in it's original recipe.
Has anyone heard anything from Nestle regarding reintroducing these bars? I have wondered about these for years and was so happy to see I'm not alone but sad to not find any encouraging info. I wrote to Nestle and will provide an update should they reply. Is the petition still available and/or has it been submitted to Nestle?
I signed the petition - #3312 - - keep 'em coming - - surely at some point carnation will bring back. Those bars are by far the best and I too wish all the time I could buy a box! Perfect for breakfast.
Chocolate chip bars got me through high school and college - when I could afford them (they were somewhat pricey,if you remember).
Also, I would imagine it would very difficult to recreate these bars at home - even if you had a complete ingredient list. The correct production process used would require cooking techniques that are only available at commercial plants. Also, the emulsifiers - what holds everything together,and provided that great dry,crumbly texture - would be difficult to duplicate at home.
Also, I recall from reading the ingredients years ago that the coating was not chocolate,but rather a chocolate substitute made from (among other things), carnuba. (If you recall, the coating on these bars didn't melt onto your hands like chocolate would have - which is why a chocolate-like substitute was used.Lessmessfor the consumer).
And yes,one of the distinctive ingredients was indeed malt.
And a pox on the houses of all the food science/marketing people that determined the public wanted "chewy" bars exclusively back in the early 1990's.
LOL... a pox on'em indeed!
Not every sweet thing should be chewy!!!
Some cookies are heaven when they're crisp, others almost powdery... and I do think we can make them at home, using old fashioned binders, and tempering the chocolate.
I thought I was the only one who still craves the Peanut Butter crunch breakfast bar. The Quaker Chewy Dips Peanut Butter is the closest thing today, but the bars must be kept no cooler than room temp, otherwise they are just crunchy granola bars.
I grew up on these bars and I always talk about them to my wife. They were the best thing going. I wish they would make them again!!
wait, wait... waiiit... are you saying that if we refrigerate those "chewy" bars they'll turn crunchy??
oooh I wish! lol (er.. heading to the store to see if there's ANY hope here...)
wait, wait... waiiit... are you saying that if we refrigerate those "chewy" bars they'll turn crunchy??
oooh I wish! lol (er.. heading to the store to see if there's ANY hope here...)
I,too, am so glad to find my "band of brothers"...those who LOVE Carnation Breakfast Bars. I've thought about them ever since I bought what I thought was my beloved bar and found a FAKE. I ate one of those bars every day for breakfast with a piece of toast and milk. PLEASE Nestle, bring them back. I've signed the petition.
I'll be the first in 2010 to comment here. I signed the petition.
My family would sometimes put them in the fridge. amazing.
seriously, i would eat 2 boxes right now without pausing for air.
i guess i'll try the powerbar pria. sigh.
http://www.petitiononline.com/cb01/petition.html
Petition to bring them back!! :)
I'm #3490! I want them back. I would love to be able to share with my daughter, what I enjoyed sooo much when i was a kid.
To Mr. Goodsell: Thank you so much for posting the box pictures! I remember this box, though my favorite flavor had the chocolate chips. Would you be so kind as to post the back of the box, with the ingredient list? (Assuming there's no legal reason you can't, of course.)
I, too, have signed the petition. It's wonderful to know my sister and I are not alone in our decades-long cravings!
I'm #3572!!! I want them back!! Chocolate Crunch & Chocolate Chip, nothing on the market even close! I absolutely loved these things. I have searched all over to try to find something similar, but no luck. I will buy all of them I can afford to if they ever come back!!!!! PLEASE Nestle, bring them back!!!
I did really think I was alone in this craving too!! Now I am beginning to wonder about the addictive qualities of these things. Why is it that so many people, twenty years later are still so addicted? And why wouldn't Nestle respond to the public outcry?
Still craving CBB's- and signed the petition (up over 3500 now).
2010 is here and ITS TIME TO BRING BACK MY BREAKFAST BARS ...NOTHING HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO THAT UNFORGETABLE , GREAT TASTE, I STILL THINK ABOUT THEM AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. IF NESTLE PUT THESE OUT AGAIN , I WOULD BUY ALL THE BOXES ON THE SHELF...MY MOM USED TO BUY THEM FOR ME WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID IN THE 80'S AND I STILL REMEMBER THEM AND STILL LOOK FOR THEM IN STORE. THE FLAVOR I LIKE WASNT THE PEANUT BUTTER OR CHOC. CHIP THOUGH , I FORGOT WHICH IT WAS ..I THINK THE "ORIGINAL" ONES.
I suppose this post is years old, but I like everyone else, am having a Carnation Breakfast Bar jones and I googled it and found your blog. Then, I saw your sad post about your dog. I am sorry. I saw it because our daughter is named, Maizie Jane - spelled the same way.
I thought I was the only one that is missing these bars. I still remember back in the days of wanting to eat a whole box of the choc crunch bars after school.
Oh I miss them, there is nothing out there now that compares to them. We need them back.
I can't believe people have been posting here for over three years and yet Nestle still can't get the message. Bring back those awesomely crunchy, slightly salty, dry crumbly chocolate chip bars. They were the best after-school snack ever. I have tried an endless variety of bars looking for that same combination of texture and flavor but nothing comes close.
Try "Zone Perfect" bars as a close approximate. The consistency is very close. Available at Target and other stores.
I miss them too...and have been looking for them for 20 years now (since the early 70's - oh wait, that's 40 years!) What is wrong with Carnation? They have a gold mine and are ignoring it. I can still taste them - I would have one for breakfast every morning without fail. I was addicted. I would STILL be addicted if they hadn't discontinued them. I am still hoping they will bring them back...*sigh* Signed the petition and have called the company and even written to no avail...
My husband and I have talked about these Breakfast Bars; all the time. We were wishing, they would bring them back; or, even; never discontinued them. I ate; them, alot; before I would go to school. My husband; said, he liked them, as well.
PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!!!
Nanette and Brad Smith (Longmont, Colorado)
PLEASE bring these bars back!! I can remember eating these almost every morning before school...I am now 28, and I have craved these "irreplaceable" breakfast bars for YEARS now!!! I always check the shelves EVERY TIME I go to the grocery store or Wal-Mart...PLEASE PLEASE bring these back!! Look at all of the people that want these back!! There are literally thousands!!! Look at the petition some have signed. Really think about this, you could really make some money off of us!! :)
The original ones were the absolute best! So good in fact that they were the cause of the only physical altercation I have ever been in during my 40 years on earth.
I was 12 years old in 1983, and I had an older brother who was 13. We were allowed one box per week of these, and I got home from school on a Tuesday afternoon and ate the whole damn box before I could stop myself. My brother was so shocked and angry when he found out, he put a serious beat down on me.
Painful? Yeah.
Worth it? Oh yeah!!
Chalk me up as yet another person who wondered if he was the only one to REALLY miss the breakfast bars. Like the rest of you, every once in a while I think "man, I sure wish I could have a breakfast bar right now", and I've never seen anything that is nearly as good.
Keep hope alive!
Any updates? I would by a box for $25.
The petition link worked for me.
There is a new facebook page campaign - search for "Bring Back Original Carnation Breakfast Bars" on facebook.
So did anything ever come about with the petition? Does it still exist? If it does can someone please post a link here? I'd love to sign it! Thank you!
I was just at the store the other day looking at all the breakfast bars on the shelf...wishing they still made my favorite bar. Nothing will ever compare to them. I really can't believe they quit making them. I wish they would bring them back!!
There isn't much I wouldn't do right now to have a box of these!! My sister and I were just talking about them and I had to google. I didn't know they were actually nutritional though? I assumed they weren't and that was why there were phased out. I still look every time i'm at the store for something that compares. Nothing ever will.
I agree...someone with some clout please contact Carnation...those were a tasty memory of my youth.
I am laughing right now. I'M NOT ALONE!!!!! Till yesterday, I still look in the Cereal section of the grocery store for these! Today is a sad day for me, it confirmed that they are no longer in production! PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!!!!!
Just signed the petition. I was #3980. Keep it going.
My whole entire family & friends want them back too, please bring them back!
I am disappointed that these bars are not made any more. They were the best. I have tried various bars and I have not found one that I like. I would lov to see them come back.
Hey, maybe if a smart competing company of breakfast bars would make them, then we all could make them rich!!! I mean if Nestle is so stupid as to absolutely stop making them...hmmmmm
I LOVED THESE!!! Bring them back, please, please, plase!!!
Dear Carnation/ Nestle .... anyone. Pleeeeaaase bring these back. I miss and love these breakfast bars!
One year bump.
Okay, people... To the person who said the PowerBar Pria is practically the same thing as the Carnation Breakfast Bar: you obviously work for Nestle. They are NOTHING like the Carnation Breakfast Bar. Isn't if funny that when you write to the company and request that they put Breakfast Bars back on the market that they respond and try to tell you that the Pria is almost the same thing? WRONG. No bar will ever even remotely compare to the incredible awesomeness that was the Carnation Breakfast Bar. R.I.P. Breakfast Bars. I will always miss you. :'(
I'd like to know why they're so convinced that we all MUST like "chewy" gummy stickiness... there are times for that, like in, um, maybe caramels or something... but do you want gummy french fries? sticky lettuce? gooey pie-crust? No. And I don't want rubbery breakfast bars either!
your fingers open the edge of the box. you quietly slip one of the yellow foil wrapped treasures out and sneak off to some dark corner far away from parents and siblings radar. you tear the serrated edge of the wrapper to expose the succulant chocolate coating and quickly devour the thing like a fiend, never for a minute thinking - believing that the water heads at carnation would ever discontinue such a brilliant product. chimps.
it's been over thirty years and i still say they should have made 'em bigger.
LOL -- wonderfully poetic description --and so right!
As I recall it, their ingredients list showed they contained 25% of each of our daily requirements for most of the major nutrients... I remember that long list of 25's... and none of the other brands came close, more like 2 to 10%.
Why would the chimps at Nestle fixate on chewy instead of delicious and healthy??? (Carnation was only water-headed enough to get swallowed by that giant)
Oh, I thought I was the only one who remembered these delicious bars. I remember riding on the school bus with one each morning for breakfast. Please bring them back, Carnation!
so i can see for the last i dont know 5 years now alot of people have been requesting that you bring back the instant breakfast bar that i grew up with made by carnation...you obviously arent listening to the consumers ....therefore if your not gonna bring the product back that everyone loves and that the kids these days would love just as much....then release the recipe...the original recipe for all 3 bars...or better idea BRING THEM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! even if its just a trial....you still have instant breakfast drink still on the shelves and the bars were better than the instant breakfast drink....you dont need to add milk to eat the bars!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The original Carnation Breakfast Bars offered wonderful nutrition, too... MUCH better than anything available now: it listed 25% RDA for each of the major nutrients!
What A Great Group To Be A Part Of, Hope We Prevail!
I was able to sign the petition the other day and it was up to the 4,000's! Keep those signatures going. Tell your friends and coworkers!
I miss these bars as well and often think of them...sigh...
I, too, loved the powdery goodness that was the Carnation Breakfast Bar. Someone mentioned earlier that the bars had a chemical taste, but in a good way. I always imagined that the flavor was from zinc (not that I have any idea what zinc tastes like). Whatever it was, it had me hooked. I would love to see the actual ingredients list from a box to try to re-create the original version.
First food I bought with with my own money circa 1985. Great with a jumbo glass of milk and 20/20 on Thursdays or SNL on Sat. I'd kill the whole box.
I just can't believe how many of you loved the Carnation Breakfast Bars like I did. I actually loved the cinnamon ones best and had them every day. I was looking at the breakfast bars at the grocery store yesterday and wondering if anything was even similar but nothing. So has anyone found anything that is even close?
We seem to have gone by a whole year without a comment...has everyone just given up?
This is great! I signed the petition, shared it on Twitter, then emailed Nestle and included the link to the petition, which is on its way to the 5,000 mark!
*fingers crossed*
I have been looking for YEARS now, too!
Well now I know why I can't find these. I grew up eating Carnation Breakfast Bars and I am sad to hear they are gone for good.
How sad that so many people are missing the same item and nooone listens. I too have searched for anything that comes close to my favorite carnation instant breakfast bar. I would think someone could replicate this recipe and make a fortune!
I just signed the petition #4864 someone at carnation should take notice and realize there is still a market for the best breakfast bars ever made!!!specosi
I just signed the petition #4864 now seriously someone at carnation should realize that there is still a huge market for the product, even if they just sold them to us petitioners. Please I beg you to bring back my breakfast bars!!!!
Miss these bars soooo much. I signed the petition.
Someone mentioned it was a "southern thing". I'm from Iowa and I ate chocolate crunch breakfast bars almost every morning. I'd usually eat two with a glass of juice. If my mom wasn't watching, then I'd have probably eaten the whole box!
Perhaps we should pick a date, and have everyone send an email(multiple emails if you choose) to nestle on that date.
that date is June 1, 2011.
It is so amazing to see these types of blogs ongoing for as long as they have been. I too have been longing for the nutty salty goodness of these bars, I remember in the 70's a cold glass of milk and one of these after school and all was well with the world. Last night I tried the common clone recipe found in various places on the web and it is ver close, however I could not find the spanish peanuts so I opted for dry roasted. Make sure you use the almond bark type of melting chocolate for the recipe and find the spanish peanuts as it does make a difference. The Texture is dead on, the crunch is exact, however make sure after your toast the rolled oats that you run them through a food processor to granulate them a bit more. When you mic all the ingredients make sure that your items are cold as if not, the mini chocolate chips will melt into the mixture. My first batch was close but still lacked that sandy salty sweet goodness, so I will again opt for the spanish peanuts and probably add some addtional salt. But these are REALLY close. Alot of work but well worth it, considering CARNATION ( Nestle) probably has not plans to bring these back
A littel taste of history in all its sandy, crunchy, sweet goodness!
Cheers
Try the 'Special K Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Meal Bar.' In my humble opinion, they are VERY CLOSE to what I remember the Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars tasting like! :)
I still think about these bars all of time. My brother and I used to fight over the boxes until finally he got a job and started buying his own and hiding them on me. What a fantastic treat it would be to bite into one of these again. Man, Carnation is really not that smart for taking these away.
I completely agree with those who say Breakfast Bars were and are still (if they still made them!) the best quick breakfast/snack food ever. The new stuff out there is terrible.
I have requested they start making them again twice now. To no avail, but I keep hoping!
Wow, just amazing how many people think about these bars. While I grew up in the 70"s, I never ate these bars until the late 80's and continued as they were discontinued a few years later. They were a good wholesome bar with enough sweetness to be tasty yet not too much to be cloying. The petition is over 5,000 people as of 10/11.
http://www.petitiononline.com/cb01/petition-sign.html
I MISS my breakfast bar breakfast :( I would have one every morning before school, sometimes 2 lol. The patition is at 5501 signatures.
I have had a hankering for these lately, and like many of you, enjoyed these as a kid. It's too bad they are gone. At least we have the memories.
I've been looking for these bars for a long time for my son and daughter , they're both in thier thirties now. I've enjoyed reading all these comments and wish that carnation would go retro and bring them back even as a trail and I'm sure the nation would show them they would be a big hit all over again.
Wow...it's been almost 3 years since the last comment?? I miss these wonderful breakfast bars just as all of you do. I was a child of the 80's and grew up on these. I was a chocolate chip lover while my big sister loved the peanut butter. Great memories!! Wish I could share these with my young daughter now.
Well, I see that these postings are still going on over several years, and I still haven't seen a Carnation Breakfast Bar. Everyone's right about the substitutes: They're a far cry from the original. Down right disgusting in comparison. I signed the petition too. The only thing left to do now is pray, I guess. I hate Nestle.
Wow... I'm not alone! Carnation Chocolate Chip (NOT PB choc chip - those were OK but not as good as plain ol' chocolate chip) were the best thing ever.
I wonder if the reason they won't put them back on the market is that they had a "secret" ingredient like the one in the original Coke recipe? That would certainly explain the adoration I feel for these bars, after not having had one in at least fifteen years.
Honestly, every time I walk down the cereal aisle at the store, I glance up at the "instant breakfast" section just to see whether, by some miracle, Carnation Breakfast Bars have come into the world once again. If I ever do actually see them, I will probably cry.
Has anyone looked into buying the recipe from Nestlé and marketing the bars to us? If funding is an issue, there's always kickstarter. I'd donate to a project like that!
-Edly
In used to eat these all the time growing up and have been looking for them for over 20 yrs and have tried many other products but the just are not the same. Please bring them back.
Maybe they were TOO GOOD? Perhaps these ate into all the profits of the Expensive "Health" bars on the market and someone paid off Carnation to drop the recipe so they people would stop turning to the better tasting and cheaper Carnation bars. Politics.. ya never know?
I lived off these as a kid! Would give anything for one right now!!!
Haha, my brother and i actually had to hide these from each other growing up. Anyway kellogg's special k chocolate peanut butter protein meal bars are the closest i've found.
Change.org now has a petition which may be considered for action if they obtain at least 150 signatures by 5.14.2013; they need at least 50 more to reach that goal. sign here:
https://www.change.org/petitions/nestle-carnation-make-carnation-breakfast-bars-again-or-boycott-chocolatier-nestle
I look for these bars everywhere..even thought they may still have them in Europe.or somewhere that would ship them.. i loved them growing up and have fond teenage memories of snacking on these with my boyfriend after school. I hope they make them again soon. I am not getting any younger!
Carnation Slender Bars were so delicious and they helped me maintain the weight I wanted.
Carnation! I'm begging you. Bring them back!
Sigh... 2014 and still no sign of bringing these back.
I know it's been 5 years since the last comment on this topic, but I have not forgotten my delicious Chocolate Chip Carnation Breakfast Bars. BRING THEM BACK PLEASE!!!!!
I wish I could buy these again. Why oh why did they stop making them?
Still missing these in 2014. Nothing else comes close.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. I don't recall the taste, so much as the texture. I liked that they were sortof....pebbly? It's been many years, I'm sure my memory is failing me, but I recall eating them in tiny bites (partly to prolong the deliciousness), but partly because I *could*.
I, too, scan the shelves when I see the other Carnation products, knowing it's in vain, but still with an air of optimism.
*sigh*
It's 2015 and people are still craving the ORIGINAL Carnation Breakfast Bars. Yet the manufacturer WILL NOT listen. There is something wrong with this picture. There's too much corporate analysis that decides what people will or won't buy. What ever happened to common sense?
If Nestle was smart, 2015 would be the PERFECT year to reintroduce "throwback breakfast bars" that take you "back to the 80's." Hell, partner with Universal Studios and co-brand them with the Back to the Future franchise to eat like it's 1985. THAT'S your market research right there!
Common sense dictates that if you make it, people will buy it. If they think that the market has moved on from old sluggish sales, it's only because we have no choice. Of course, we have to buy what they are presenting since we cannot buy what we want.
What we can do is vote with our pocketbooks. DON'T BUY the not-so-good bars. I don't think I've ever consumed a box of "chewy" crap. Back in the day, I consumed BB's like they were going out of style. Since they've been gone, there's just never been anything appealing in the 'bar department' so no manufacturer is getting my patronage. Not that they care about one person. But imagine if we all suddenly quit buying bars (particularly anything by Nestle or Carnation) the same way they suddenly stopped manufacturing bars. They'd do some "corporate market research" real quick to find out what the consumer wants.
They need to bring back the Carnation Breakfast Bar at least for a limited time. The only bar I ever buy is the Tiger Milk bars. The rest of the bars I don't bother buying.
Wow, I am so grateful to find this blog, my mom use to eat these all the time, and I followed her lead and ate them too, it reminds me of her SO much, she has since passed away and I just know they have these in Heaven!! :-) Big smile. Man, I miss them, I have thought about them for years too and try to recall the taste... lol that stinks bad that they stopped making them. It's so strange to hear how other people have experienced the same thing. It's like childhood memories are tied to certain foods. I miss you mom and I miss Breakfast bars!!! XO
I must have left a comment on these bars years ago but it's worth stating it again. I don't know why nothing like this still exists, and it's a shame that the parent company is even still around and could make them if they want. I will repeat, THERE IS NOTHING CLOSE OUT THERE QUITE LIKE A CARNATION INSTANT BREAKFAST BAR! I don't know what it is exactly - the crunchiness, the subtle saltiness, the taste of the thin chocolate coating - the crap out there doesn't do a true granola bar justice. PLEASE bring these back in my lifetime!
I feel as though I have found long-lost family...a group of people who miss the chocolately-goodness of the original Carnation instant breakfast bar. As a kid in the eighties, these were all that I would eat for breakfast before school. I loved them with a devotion not unlike that I have for my husband and children! I am so sad right now...all of these years that we have all been missing these bars and no response from Carnation. :(
2017, and still no sign of their return. Is there no hope?!?!?!
I had the carnatiCa breakfast bars in school just like everyone. I so miss them over the years, the other chewy bars in the stores I don't like. Nestle please bring back the 1975 original Carnation breakfast bars back to market.
For the love of Pete ( whoever that is) bring them back!!!
I have been craving these for decades as well. Recently I tried the Zone Perfect chocolate peanut butter bar and the taste is pretty close.
Well this thread has been silent for a long time.
I too still miss the CIBB (original flavor) and would love to see them back on store shelves. Odds of that ever happening though approach zero.
I have found the Clif Builders Protein Bar in chocolate peanut butter to be a fairly close representation of the old CIBB. The texture is a bit softer in the cliff bar but the flavor profile is remarkably close. Of course I'm trying to remember what something I last ate 30-years ago tasted like, but I do believe what I'm tasting is close.
Anyway, if desperate for that old-timey CIBB, try the Clif instead.
I wish! It looks like they decided to dump a fortune in future profitsright down the garbage studiously!
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I wish! At this point I'm looking for the runner up;a power bar that tastes and feels similar enough to Carnation Breakfast Bars to make it so worthwhile!
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Karenjgal7
Please how do we write the company to get them back.... I miss them and want some now also.....
I agree! Not the chewy ones but the original that I remember from probably late 80’s to early 90’s The original had a texture that is hard to describe but I practically lived on these. Then they switched and made them chewy. Not even close!
Dr.Larry Larsen of Simi Valley created the breakfast at Carnation*
It’s 2024 now and still missing the Original Carnation Breakfast Bars. We would always have them during camping trips and stocked in our pantry. They’re never coming back, but I did purchase Kroger (that’s a grocery store brand in the Pacific NW that has a chocolate peanut granola bar that in my opinion is a bit similar and satisfies me. It’s yummy & if you can believe this even more tasty than what I remember CBB tasted like. But, hey I would buy cases if CBB ever came back, but alas I will settle for what I’ve found and be happy.🥰
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