Baked Lays Scoop Corn Chips : A Great Low Fat Snack

We were in Marc’s a week ago, and I decided that I was going to start back up making my all natural, home made salsa at home since I like it so much more than the jarred stuff anyways, and can pretty much make it for the same price as the high quality jarred stuff, or less at home anyways.  I wanted to find a more healthful, low fat corn chip to go with it though.  After looking at some gourmet brands that claimed to be made with “whole corn” or “whole grain”, I opted instead for the Baked Lays brand of Scoops corn chips because they had less calories, less fat and more fiber than the other brands I was looking at.

That’s what you always want to look for by the way, when you’re comparison shopping for snack or meal foods at the grocery store, you always want to check out the fiber content, the serving size, the fat grams, and the calories per serving.  Make sure they don’t pull any of the tiny serving size trickery either, because you could then unknowingly be buying a food that has a lot more fat or calories without even knowing it, which defeats the purpose of comparing labels anyways.

The Baked Scoops have 2 grams of fiber for 14 chips, 110 calories, and almost zero fat, so they are a good snack food, as long as you don’t venture too far outside that 14 count for the chips, which is easy when you’re loading up each chip with healthful salsa, like I happen to do.  They have a good flavor too, they do taste a bit “healthier” and drier than their fried counterparts, but they have a nice little salty kick to them that satisfies that craving for salty snacks we all get.

I make my own salsa to go with them which consists of a large can of diced tomatoes, salsa dried herb blend, lots of fresh cilantro, chopped garlic, a small onion, and some lime juice.  I might sprinkle in a teaspoon of sugar to sweeten it up a bit too.  I put all that in my mini Cuisinart food processor and voila, you’ve got a great, high antioxidant, low calories snack to munch on that makes it feel like you’re indulging in a Mexican feast.