Ocean Spray Craisins Dried Cranberries, Original, 48 Ounce

If you love cranberry sauce but would like it more often than “the holidays”, this is for you. Like raisins, they can be kept for a quick sweet snack. They taste like cranberry sauce in raisin form.

Over the past few years I have tried all kinds of dried cranberries and none of the others measure up to the Ocean Spray genuine craisins. Craisins are sweet and moist and are just right in a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. I add the craisins, about an once of same, into my bown of uncooked rolled and steelcut oats, sometimes with a tablespoon of apple cinnamon Bob’s red Mill multi- grain hot Cereal. The ratio of rolled oats to steel cut oats is about three parts rolled to one part steel cut and a sprinkling of the apple cinnamon hot cereal. A scant pinch of salt and my ounce or handful of craisins really make my breakfast both nourishing and satisfying.. Ok, for a pretty full portion, great for me at age 72, I give my cat her treat while my cup of water is heating in the microwave for my coffee in the moring. I try to have my cereal ready to heat by the time the coffee water is ready. The actual measurements of my ceral are one quarter cup of rolled oats, one eightth of a cup of steelcut oats and about 1 scant tablespoon of apple cinnamon hot cereal mixed with the quarters cup of water, that scant pinch of salt and my ounce or so of craising. It is actually one of my handsful and I wear a medium latexx glove or a size seven in clothe gloves. I do not have large hands —- can barely span one octave on the piano. This mixture of oats, craisins , salt and water gets heated in the microwave for two to two and a half minutes. Now, BE CAREFUL if you decide to make this cereal. Use an oversized microwave safe bowl and heat ir with one minute intervals —- two followed by a 30 second interval if the creal doesn’t look "dry" enough. I don’t like my owats soupy! I also don’t use any milk on this mixture once cooked. It only gets about a tablespoon to two tablespoons of plain white or light brown sugar added to it to make it yummmy! Instead, I add about two tablespoons of no sugar-added hot cocoa mix to my coffee. It makes the instant coffee whic keeps me feeling that I am special with my quicky mocha latte!

This bag of craisins is also big enough — with a sliding closure which works quite well —- to keep the fruit fresh and soft. It is also sweet enough tha I need less sugar in my cereal most of the time. I also like to throw a handful or so into my bread machine at the proper time to mak Craising Bread, sometimes tiwh nuts and sometimes not. It doesn’t seem to matter if I make white , wheat or even rye, everyone seems to like it when I thrown in some craisins to make it a really lucious loat to slice into toast sixed pieces to make any breakfast special. I have even been known to serve a slice of microwave heated or oven baked craisins toat with malted butter, or melted chocolate for that matter.

I will be ordering this item again from Amazon.com. I really like that it is one package now. It once was such that I could only order two and that meant that I felt I had to have creaisins every meal of every day, somehow to use them up. Since I like craisins just plain as well as in foods, that was not a difficult task. I hope this review helps someone. I happen to really like craisisnsand this package is ideal for my needs.

I purchased these for my grandfather, as he really enjoys the juice-infused berries. Then when I tried them, I decided I liked them too and purchased some for my own household. Normally I prefer unsweetened dried fruit, and yes these are very sweet, almost candy-like to be frank. But they aren’t as intense as some sugary fruit, the cranberry doing some work to counterbalance the sweetness. They are also very soft and decently juicy. Great as a snack, they also work as a cereal additive, to muesli for example.

The blueberry comes through distinctly on these, and it is a bit sweet as blueberry tends to be, but it is not unwelcome. In contrast to the cherry and the pomegranate variants, the blueberry flavor is center stage relative to the cranberry. I found it made things a bit too candy-like, but I still enjoyed them, as did other member of the household.

They didn’t last long in the household. I wish I could get more of the money, they are a bit pricey, but certainly worth trying, either for yourself or someone you know. I’ll probably be buying them again at some point in the future.

combined these with nut mix + dried pineapples to make delicious trail mix. they’re the perfect size and don’t clump up together as much as other dried fruit

Satisfied with the flavor, freshness, and texture. Have used in sweet and savory recipes with no issues. I buy these on a monthly basis- Ocean Spray is my cranraisin go-to due to consistent flavor and quality.