How do you like your oatmeal? Topped with sliced bananas or berries maybe? How about oatmeal for just $1.00? At Jamba Juice this week, use this $1.00 Oatmeal Coupon you see below, and put something good in your system. Offer good from Monday December 7th until Friday December 11th. Check out our Jamba Juice Test Kitchen visit post from over the Summer.
Between 2-5pm today at select Jamba Juice locations, stop in early for a free Flatbread. And in the meantime, check out our Jamba Juice Test Kitchen write-up for an inside look at what’s new at Jamba.
It’s definitely Summer out there! You thirsty? You thrifty? Well you’ve got today and tomorrow to satisfy both. Just print out the below coupon and enjoy a free smoothie (on me of course 
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Jamba Juice had many other writers taste their new items. Here is a list of those involved and links to their reviews if they’ve posted them:
Ken Kuhl – Fast Food News
www.foodfacts.info/blog/
http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/2009/06/jamba-juice-announces-new-food-menu.html
Jessica Simmons – Epic Portions
www.epicportions.com
Taylor Corner – Food Beast
www.foodbeast.com
Leng Touch – Fat Cat Who Created a Vegetarian
www.lengslog.wordpress.com
Abby Abanes – Pleasure Palate
www.pleasurepalate.com
Stephanie Stiavetti – Wasabimon!
www.wasabimon.com
Wandering Chopsticks
www.wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com
Carol Green – Uncovering Food
www.uncoveringfood.com
http://www.uncoveringfood.com/2009/06/blended-bliss-adds-bite-jamba-expands.html
Mari Suzuki – Secrets of a Kitchen Wizard
www.kitchenwizard.wordpress.com
http://kitchenwizard.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/food-is-coming-to-jamba-town/
Denise Lee – Denise Does Dessert
www.denisedoesdessert.wordpress.com
http://denisedoesdessert.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/jamba/
Jamba Juice Headquarters
Disclosure: Some of you may know this about me some of you may not but I have been openly anti-Jamba Juice with regards to their “healthy” image. Yes they have food items that can be good for you and yes of course they are better than other fast food restaurants (as a matter of fact Zagat just rated them #1 Healthy option in the Quick Refreshment category in their 2009 Fast Food Survey) but I feel that they somewhat mislead the uninformed…and by uninformed I mean the typical American trying to be “healthy”. They tout their offerings as good for you but some of them clearly are not, a 30oz Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie has 900 calories and 166 g sugar! That’s more sugar in two pints of some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. In fact a whopping 75% of their “power smoothies” contain over 100 grams of sugar. Now you and I both realize that these particular items aren’t healthy but what would normally be considered a shake between meals has now magically become a smoothie as an after workout replenishment or a meal replacement. I will stop with the rant now but I did want to give you an idea as to how I viewed Jamba prior to this event.
Jamba Juice Patio
I could have broken this up into several posts but seeing as to how they will be releasing the new menu additions on Monday I figured I’d slap it all into one. That being said you may be in for the long haul here. Now buckle up because I’m going to take you for a ride (literally) of my trip through the test kitchens of the international headquarters of Jamba Juice located in Emeryville, CA (sounds cooler that way but really it’s just a 55 minute drive up the interstate from me).
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Next week, Jamba Juice will be rolling out some food items in a business-changing venture for company known for their juices and smoothies.
“For many years Jamba Juice has been popularized as the nation’s leading smoothie chain,” James White, president of Jamba Inc., said in a news release. “And although we have introduced baked goods, snacks and most recently oatmeal to the menu, we felt that Jamba Juice was ready for a dramatic transformation.”
Among the new food offerings will be a selection of sandwiches, wraps, flatbreads and salads. These new items are expected next week at select Jamba Juice locations in California and eventually be available nationwide. Looks like your daily drink stop might be turning into your morning grub spot too. Stay tuned to GrubGrade to check out an inside look at the Jamba Juice headquarters and test kitchen. Don’t worry, Bear Silber is getting the skinny.
Until then, check out a sneak peak via TC from FoodBeast on Twitter. Looks good!
Could this dude be any nicer? GrubGrade’s newest writer has offered to take my place at the Jamba Juice event today. Pizza Party’s own Bear Silber is on his way to represent GrubGrade. Thanks Bear!
Jamba Juice HQ Update: via FoodBeast on Twitter…Can you spot Bear?
thx: FoodBeast
I was hoping to have a nice post for you GrubGrade readers in the coming days about my trip to the Jamba Juice headquarters in Emeryville, California.
The nice people at Jamba Juice were having me out for an event to take place today. Something new on the horizon at Jamba. Even though sadly I will not be attending the event, I will still post about the news soon. When you get pulled over for a headlight that is dark 25 feet from the airport exit, things have a way of piling up from then on. Such as the insane security lines at BWI airport this morning. Last time I checked, it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas. Anyways, yeah, I missed my flight! A direct 6-hour flight from Baltimore, MD to San Francisco, CA would’ve managed to get me to the Bay Area an hour before the event. I’m out of luck now. Any transfer or change at all would’ve cost me big time and I’d arrive after the festivities were over. It wasn’t meant to be this time…
Take a look at the lines at BWI this morning.
The Head of the Snake. Moving at a snails pace.
The Neck of the Snake.
The Shoulders of the Snake.
Does it ever end?
Around another corner.
Happy campers everywhere!
The Tail of the Snake. It's back there somewhere...
