Hershey's Bliss bars truly are blissful

Hershey's Bliss Chocolate Bars. Milk With a Meltaway Center, and Dark. 99 cents per 1.3-ounce bar.

Bonnie: Hershey's has just turned its Bliss bites into bars. These are basically Bliss chocolate pieces transformed into a five-sectioned bar that could help with disciplined eating. Even people who could easily indulge in more than five Bliss sections might think twice about opening a second bar.

One of these bars is a rich and creamy dark chocolate, while the milk chocolate has a softer "meltaway" center. Both bars contain 12 grams of total fat, of which 7 to 8 grams are saturated. The milk chocolate also contains 20 calories, 35 milligrams of sodium and 2 more grams of sugar than the dark, with 2 fewer grams of fiber. That's all the more reason to select dark over milk (in addition to my taste preference).

Carolyn: Hershey's is launching its new Bliss Bars with an essay contest based on the book "The Necklace," about 13 women who buy an expensive diamond necklace together and take turns wearing it. (Visit www.hersheysbliss.com for contest details.)

What does that necklace have to do with Bliss candy? The sharing. Eating all five sections of these little bars seems almost inevitable — unless you split them with somebody. But like an expensive necklace, Bliss chocolate is rich and rare. That's why it's easy to be satisfied with only one or two 30-calorie segments.

Fruit2O Essentials Fortified Water. Strawberry Kiwi, Cherry Acai, Cranberry Raspberry, Blueberry Pomegranate, Peach Mango, and Citrus. $1.29 to $1.49 per 18-ounce bottle.

Bonnie: Fruit2O Essentials is a zero-calorie water fortified with some of the vitamins, minerals and fiber found in two servings of fruit. There is no fruit juice in these bottles, only purified water with added vitamins, electrolytes, minerals and fiber. It's also artificially sweetened and preserved. In other words, this is a cloyingly sweet, liquid vitamin pill with an aftertaste.

Much of the goodness of fruit is missing from this water. That includes micronutrients (phytochemicals), fiber and the pleasure of biting into a succulent fresh peach or juicy crisp apple. Stick to real fruit washed down with plain water.

Carolyn: It tastes as good as juice, has as few calories as diet soda, and fulfills daily recommendations for intake of fruit and water all at once: That's the claim of Fruit2O Essentials, and it seems almost too good to be true.