Starbucks has a new line of packaged snacks. I noticed them right away when I walked into Starbucks this morning (my nose always gravitates right towards the food). Among them are packages of cookies from Dr. Lucy’s; sugar, chocolate chip, and cinnamon thins.

I chose the cinnamon thins to try after dutifully checking the points value of them before shoving them in my mouth.

The cookies are 1 Weight Watcher point each! How awesome is that? (but check points values for yourself to be sure).

The taste? They rock! The cinnamon thins are super yummy. They taste like snickerdoodle cookies – crunchy, sweet, and cinnamony (is that a word?)

Plus they don’t have any milk, eggs, peanuts or tree nuts and are certified gluten free so they are safe to eat for people with peanut allergies; people who need to avoid gluten; and are vegan friendly.

Besides being tasty (my number 1 criteria for food), I like that they don’t have trans fat, msg or preservatives and that they are a great “points friendly” treat.

My only problem is going to be finding the willpower to just eat 1 or 2 of the cookies at a time and not pig out and eat the whole bag of 4. But even if I do eat the whole bag today, it’s still only 4 points which is a lot better than the points it would cost me if I ate one of the red velvet cupcakes or cinnamon scones sitting prettily inside the Starbucks bakery case.

The only thing I don’t like about the cookies is the “nutrition facts” because the package has 1.3 servings. Seriously? I think that’s stupid. A lot of people are going to look at the package and assume that the nutrition info is for the whole package since it only contains 4 cookies. Most people are not going to eat 1 serving and then save the other .3 of the remaining serving for later on. That’s kind of misleading.

But, overall I think the cookies are great.

UPDATE ON 1/20/10 – tried the DrLucy sugar cookies at Starbucks today (also 1 Weight Watcher point each). They’re good; crunchy with a sweet taste and are very similar to the cinnamon thins I tried the other day – the only difference to me is that the sugar cookies don’t have the cinnamon taste to them. If you don’t like cinnamon these would be good cookies to try but since I’m a cinnamon lover I’ll stick with the cinnamon thins. Next up is giving the DrLucy’s chocolate chip cookies a try. That’s the third variety Starbucks is offering.

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