Horrendously expensive. The 30-day supply of highly processed food stuffs is $414 for the 5&1 plan. Thing is that's for 800-1,000 calories, depending on which of their processed foods you go with on any given day. Average it out at 900 calories and my normal caloric intake being around 2,600 and you're looking at over$1,000/month. For that kind of money it's definitely not for me. Particularly at the price, there's just better bars out there that are far less expensive.
Just from a quick look, it seems okay as processed food goes, just very expensive.
https://www.optavia.com/essential-cr...ran-nut-bar-bx
Box of seven 100 calorie bars for $21. Not terrible, but $3 is a lot of money for a 100 calorie snack. Only real selling point is that it's fortified with more vitamins than a normal snack bar. But then it needs to be because the intention is to eat a bunch of processed food as the entirety of your diet, most of which is fairly low nutritional quality as can be seen from the indredients.
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Soy protein isolate, brown rice syrup, inulin, peanuts, maltitol syrup, sugar, water, polydextrose, golden raisins (with sulfur dioxide to protect color), rolled oats, milk protein isolate, almonds, natural flavor, rice starch, glycerine, sunflower oil, cranberries, guar gum, soy lecithin, salt, honey, maltodextrin, peanut oil, citric acid, potato starch, steviol glycosides, xanthan gum, vegetable oil, Bacillus coagulans GBI-30 6086.
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Nothing terrible about soy protein isolate, a decent protein supplement although one could do better. Second ingredient is sugar, then inulin (Metamucil), peanuts, artificial sweetener, sugar, water, polydextrose is another from of fiber, raisins, oats, and so on. In other words it's a protein/fiber bar with a small amount of nuts and oats and dried fruit to make it more enjoyable than just a protein/fiber/sugar goop bar. In other words, it's a decidedly mediocre bar
In contrast there's my favorite bar, Kind Bars.
https://www.kindsnacks.com/nut-bars/...nd-M17111.html
Aside from the lack of added vitamins/minerals, it's mostly a better food choice. It's got fiber from almonds and the chicory root which is usually what inulin is sourced from anyway, just a less processed form of the same thing. But it's mostly cranberries and almonds rather than mostly protein powder and Metamucil. The other downside is the marginally higher sugar content (8 grams in 160 calories vs 4 grams in 100 calories for the Optiva bar). The kicker though is the Kind Bar, which is already one of the more expensive snack bars one can buy, is about 1/3rd the price of the Optavia bar. Ouch.
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