We are soooo UNHAPPY with the new recipe of the “TLC Original 7 Grain Snack Crackers”.

They are so BAD!! They taste like burnt cardboard. They were our families favorite cracker and ate them everyday. Now I have to return the 3 boxes I have to the store and find a replacement. These are not edible.

Please change the recipe back.

PLEASE!!

Another voice of discontent for the recent “recipe” change for the TLC original cracker.
These crackers were an absolute favorite and it was always fun to share how wonderful they were with those who had never tried them.

NO MORE!

Like others, at first I thought that I got a bad box of crackers that had been burned at the factory and I was ready to call the product line … after sampling a few other boxes it became apparent there was a change in the recipe.

We always had 2-3 boxes of these in the cupboard and 1 in the drawer at the office.

Not anymore … on the hunt for a replacement.

Any chance the old recipe will be brought back??

I want to add my voice to the chorus denouncing the recent change in this once-delicious cracker to the new “Now With Tastier Crunch!” version. The texture and flavor are both awful in comparison and I will not be buying these anymore unless Kashi decides to change them back. This is a huge disappointment as these used to be a staple snack food in my home.

I signed up here so I could add a comment, which i have never done in life. Please bring back the original “original 7 grain snack cracker”. This was a staple for my lunch and now my life sucks without these in my life due to the fact that the new tastier crunch recipe tastes like baked terds. Do you guys read reviews here? I really loved the original! Please!? For Christmas? Just change things back and the universe will be right.

The Original 7 Grain used to be my favorite crackers. I would go through a box a week. But the new tastier crunch crackers are horrible-too hard, salty, and they don’t even taste close to the old ones. I am so disappointed with Kashi for changing them!

I always buy (now bought!) 7 grain. First box of “new tastier crunch” and they’re awful! They just taste burnt! Back to Triscuits!

I loved the original 7 Grain. The ‘tastier crunch’ has sent me back to Wheat Thins!

Tastier crunch is burnt. More crispy than crunchy. I like the crumbly wholesomeness of the old crackers. But, either way, this is still my favorite cracker, next to Triscuit Thin Crisps! Also… any plans on making a low sodium version? Thanks!

PS — If you don’t plan to return to “the” formula, can you just report that on this page so we can just go away in peace? Is anybody at Kellogg following this board? thank you.

It’s not clear to me that you are listening to your consumers. HELLO!! Your new TLC Crackers are horrible! Please bring back the original recipe to all of us who are addicted to them!! They were the best crackers ever; these are the worst. I’m grudgingly (and hopefully temporarily) back on Wheat Thins and Triscuits :-(

Bad move to change the original recipe/taste/process. Please reconsider!! How can those poor 7 grains survive the “burning”. There is no way these “new” crackers are nutrious.

Like other posters,I thought that I had gotten a stale box of your usually wonderful crackers. However, what I got are the new and improved version of TLC. I think they are disgusting. Any chance the old and no need to improve variety will come back?

How can you change the original 7 grain cracker which is truly a daily delight and obsession of mine with its subtle nutty flavor to the current piece of little cardboard tasting cracker with a horrible after taste? I’m so sad. I will not be buying the new “Original” until it returns to the original original.

Will not be buying another box of the Original 7 grain until you bring back the ORIGINAL recipe. If you are going to change the cracker, you have to change it for the better…

Hello. Please go back to the original flavor. I just purchased a second box, thinking my first must just have been stale. Now I realize it’s the new recipe. The old crackers tasted good. I’m suprised this new taste got through any testing, to be honest. Please give us the old crackers back! Thank you… Julia

I along with the majority of the others who commented below am more than disappointed with the change you have made to the TLC crackers. At the same time a purchased a box of the 7 Grain I also bought the Fire Roasted. I have not opened them yet, but am not looking forward to doing so. Go back to the old recipe it had more flavor and plenty of crunch. They now are too hard and taste stale. I will not be purchasing the crackers again until I see that the recipe has been returned to the original!

Not happy with the Now with Tasier CRUNCH! original 7 Grain crackers. They are not tastier in my opinion.

My respect for Kashi has dropped significantly. So foolish to alienate the loyal buyers of a product.

Dear Kashi,

I don’t understand why you would change a product that has clearly been so successful for you. These have been my favorite crackers for a long time and I’ve been excited that they are now so widely available. However, I will no longer be buying them. The new recipe is really terrible. I think the person or group responsible for the decision to make the change to the recipe should be fired. I expect that you will see a drastic decline in your revenue associated with this product. Please bring back the original recipe.

When I returned home today anxious to rip into my new box of Kashi 7 Grain crackers, I was bitterly disappointed! What?!?! Did I accidentally grab a box of wheat thins as I CRUNCHED into a cardboard tasting cracker… Hmm, I see…“Now with Tastier Crunch!” advertises the box. This new recipe is gross!! I just couldn’t resist investigating if I was the only one who thinks this and I was led here. Well, I have never before posted a review online, but this seemed important enough. I know there are bigger problems in the world than a cracker, but I do want Kashi to know, that I for one will no longer be buying THIS “tastier” cracker. Please consider bringing back the old, beloved recipe!

I agree, new recipie is terrible! I loved the old one, please bring the old crackers back!

Add me to the “what the heck” folks — loved the old formula. New one sucks. Stale and tasteless. Yuck.

I don’t know what you guys were smoking thinking this “tastier crunch” cracker was a good idea. Burned, oversalted, and tasteless. Loved the old crackers, but I am no longer a customer since the new ones came out.

Please bring back the Original 7 Grain Cracker for the 42% who love them!

THE NEW “TASTIER CRUNCH” IS DISGUSTING. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BRING THE OLD ONES BACK.

Very disappointed.They were tasteless. I’m sure the flavored crackers are much better than the plan crackers. I would never buy the plain crackers.

I am VERY disappointed with your “new tastier recipe” for these crackers! The old recipe was so satisfying and hearty—I would go out of my way to buy those unique crackers… but they have been ruined. Why did you feel the need? If I had wanted Wheat Thins, I would’ve bought them (although I do appreciate that you want to satisfy the niche for people who want an all-natural alternative)… Couldn’t you have instead just introduced a new line of cracker called “7 Grain Crisps” rather than changing the much-loved original recipe? Now I will have to go in search of a new cracker – because the new recipe doesn’t make the cut…

I am so disappointed in the new recipe for the Kashi TLC Original 7-grain crackers. I almost NEVER post about a product, but this time I have to. I LOVED these crackers the way they were before you went and changed them. They were my absolute FAVORITE and now they are HORRIBLE. I can’t believe you went and changed this product. OK maybe other people like them; but, please, put the old recipe back on the market. Call these new ones some other name if people like them. But PLEASE put the old recipe crackers back on the market.

You have DESTROYED the Original 7 Grain Crackers. These used to be my favorite snack in the world. I’d by 2 boxes every shopping trip. Now they taste disgusting and are TOTALLY RUINED! Now they just taste burnt and gross. Put them back the way they were before. Please, please, please listen to your customers!!! So disappointed with the new formula, I’ll never buy them again.

I am seriously disappointed in the “now with tastier crunch” version of the good old used-to-be-my-favorite-crackers. Seriously, YUCK! I’m with some of these other commentors – I won’t by them until you go back. This “new” recipe is inedible.

Don’t mess with a good thing, Kashi! These “Tastier Crunch” TLC crackers are terrible!

I won’t be buying these again until they return to the old recipe.

I want the old crackers back! Please. They just don’t have the flavor they used to. Thanks.

I have been a big consummer of TLC Original 7 Grain crackers. Every time I shop for groceries I buy at least two boxes. My friend and I always take them along for snacks on road trips. These crackers were wonderfully flavorful. When I offered them to my then 3 year old granddaughter she said “Mmmm, Nana, these are good!!” However the recently purchased boxes advertize “now with tastier crunch”. Unfortunately that is not the case. These new crackers may be crunchier but that is because they are overbaked. Upon chewing no flavor bursts forth because the pieces are too dry to mix well with saliva. Please, please, please return the Original 7 Grain Snack crackers to the original Original. As they say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

Regarding your 7-grain…T-L-C? yea, TOTALLY LOATHSOME CRACKERS!no way are they the ‘original’ crackers for those were delicious, what the heck did you guys do to what WAS a perfect cracker? KASHI! One would have thought that by now, you guys would have realized what a devoted group of snackers we are. Did you think we wouldn’t notice how NASTY these things are now?! They are much worse than ANYTHING I have ever purchased at ‘Big Lots’ imported from some unpronounceable foreign country. A coupon? Hell no, send back the entire purchase price OR better yet — send me a box of the ORIGINAL, original 7grain! then fire the creep that let this happen! Can you spell, QUALITY CONTROL??? N-A-S-T-Y!

I had planned to purchase more Kashi products tomorrow…. Thanks to all who posted re the new ‘quality’ of the original 7 grain crackers! It WAS one of our favorites, but I haven’t bought any in a while, and I won’t be. Thanks for saving me the trouble of returning these to the store, which I’ve done recently with other products which have been ‘improved’, of course in an effort to reduce costs for the mfgr. I sent some of your products to Soldiers I support in Iraq and Afghanistan recently, and they asked WHAT had happened to the product quality! They had requested your products as a healthy ‘taste of home’…. WHAT HAPPENED??? They trashed them! That money came out of MY pocket. Wake up, Kashi, and listen to your customers!

What have you done to original 7 grain snack crackers? Tastier Crunch, indeed! What was my favorite cracker I can now only liken to an over-baked dog biscuit. Yuk!

I have been a loyal purchaser of these crackers for years…but the new formulation is HORRIBLE! Have purchased all remaining local inventory. Please bring the original formula back! Don’t make me go back to Ritz Crackers!!!! I mean seriously, did you guys do any consumer research??

I am so sad about the “new” TLC original. They were my absolute favorite snack and now they are thin, dry and just plain dull. They almost taste burnt? I realize they may be healthier (I haven’t studied up yet) but they were so good the way they were; whatever they have in nutrition they seriously lost in taste. Kashi please dont take the sawdust road to health! Im such a fan and want to stay that way!

unfortunately still contain dairy

Can I just say how excited I was to receive and an unexpected box of crackers in the mail. It was like Christmas. I ran out that day and picked up some hummus to accompany them and they were just fabulous, crispy and salty and delicious. Definitely didn’t take like whole grain or anything healthy for that matter. My whole family enjoyed them and we have been buying them ever since.

I made an account on Kashi.com just to give my opinion on the new “crunchier” crackers. I absolutely LOVED the older version…The texture was much, much better—just much more satisfying. They were a tad softer on the outside, but you got the crunch from the different grains…it made me feel much more at home. But when I tried the new crunchier version, I was SO disappointed. They feel much thinner, and they lost that awesome feel and texture (and even flavor) that i loved so much. Please please please change the formula back to the old one…i’m sure MOST people miss the older version now!!

BY THE WAY….I believe that the 57 per cent they have listed as the percentage of members who “Loved” the crackers is WAY OFF BASE and is including the members who rated them BEFORE they RUINED them. If they took into account the ACTUAL number of members who HATED the NEW formula, it would more likely be that only 2 per cent even LIKED them. I can’t imagine that ANYONE with functioning taste buds would LOVE these “NASTY LITTLE CRACKERS” (a more appropriate name for them than Tasty Little Crackers).

I already posted several comments, but came back to see what others had written since then. One thing I noticed in reading through ALL of the comments is that the ONLY time that someone from Kashi responded to a comment was when it was a positive one. It’s interesting that no one at Kashi (or Kellogg?) has had the COURTESY to respond AT ALL to any of the almost TOTALLY NEGATIVE responses about these DISGUSTING crackers. It makes you wonder if they’re even reading them OR if any of them GIVE a RAT’S ASS about how their customers feel.

I have gone from store to store looking for the original 7 grain crackers I only have three boxes left. Bring back the ORIGINAL 7 GRAIN CRACKERS PLEASE!!!

“Now with Tastier Crunch” more like “Now with NO crunch.” It is almost chewy in texture now. I loved these crackers and now they taste stale. BRING BACK THE OLD ORIGINAL 7 GRAIN CRACKERS!

I don’t like the new original cracker either. It tastes burnt and saltier. I am looking for an alternative cracker now. This was a staple in my house but will no longer be unless they go back to the way it was. I will keep an eye on it hoping it changes back but until then I am trying and using other brands of crackers.

These used to be my go to cracker snack … no more, this was not an improvement! The crackers now taste bland, no texture nor as satisfying as the original recipe. Please change back or offer as a separate option!

I’m with the others. Our whole family has had the same experience with the new TLC’s. They do taste burnt and are just not as tasty. We hit the jackpot over the weekend at an out of town Trader Joes and nabbed a couple of original TLC Crackers. Please just go back to what you had before. No explanation necessary.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Used to love it, now I hate it. It tastes burned. Please change it back so it can remain a staple in my house. I will NEVER buy them again the way they are.