Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls

* $3.89 per 13.5-ounce bag of 12 frozen mini rolls or 17.5-ounce bag of six regular rolls

Bonnie: Here's a new product that could provide huge savings for those who indulge in Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls when shopping at the mall. Not only will you save money (on the rolls - and by not going shopping), you'll also save up to 600 calories and 20 grams of fat per large roll.

One of these Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls, found in your supermarket freezer, contains 290 calories and 11 grams of fat, compared to Cinnabon's roughly 800 calories and 33 grams of fat. One Pillsbury Grands! Mini will set you back only 120 calories and 4.5 grams of fat, compared with the mall mini, with 300 calories and 14 grams of fat.

Because these are packaged loosely in bags, you bake only what you need in less than 25 minutes.

Carolyn: These Grands! aren't as ooey-gooey indulgent as Cinnabons, but then I've always thought Cinnabon was a bit over the top. Besides breaking a day's diet (rather than Cinnabon's entire week), these Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls also have a more interesting and complex texture - hard on the outside and soft inside. The bag comes with toaster-oven directions that really work, allowing a lover of sweets to splurge, nutritionally speaking, without also having to splurge on the cost of heating a full-size oven.

Sahale Snacks Glazed Nuts

* Almond PB&J With Peanuts Plus Berries; Cashews With Pomegranate Plus Vanilla; Almonds With Cranberries, Honey Plus Sea Salt

* $4.99 per 4-ounce package

Bonnie: There's nothing not to like about these new Sahale glazed-nut combinations. Each is an all-natural, lightly sweetened blend of nuts (almonds, cashews, peanuts) and dried fruit (apples, pomegranates, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries). Research suggests that including 1 ounce of nuts (including almonds, cashews and peanuts) to your daily diet can lower your risk of heart disease.

Consider one of these nutritious blends as the perfect snack or nibble to serve with cocktails during the holidays.

Carolyn: Gourmet, ethnic and healthy: Sahale hit all these food trends with its initial line of upscale trail mixes featuring such exotic and inspired combinations as black pepper, pecans and cranberries, and almonds, apple and balsamic vinegar.

Sahale's new glazed-nut line hits only two trends - gourmet and healthy - and also is a lot less aggressively flavored. Without looking at the labels, I was hard-pressed to identify anything but a cashew flavor in the Cashews With Pomegranate Plus Vanilla. And the PB&J flavor seems an odd goal for $20-a-pound food, a goal that Sahale's Almond PB&J achieves very timidly.

In this economic climate, I can't recommend these.

Bonnie Tandy Leblang is a registered dietitian and professional speaker. Carolyn Wyman is a junk-food fan and author of Better Than Homemade (Quirk). supermarketsampler.com