Food Sticks were my favorite snack. My dad worked at Pillsbury, and brought them home by the cases. They had chocolate, peanut butter, and carmel. I sure wish they still existed. They were the best!!

A friend and I were talking about the food sticks last night at dinner. I did a web search and found a new version at funkyfoodshop.com. I ordered some at 29.00 a box, hope they are worth it!

Thank you! I have been thinking about these snacks for a couple of years now. I thought they were Pillsbury, but I wasn't sure. Everyone I ask can't remember them. My mom used to put them in my lunch. I miss them too!

does anyone know way they do not make food sticks anymore i loved them

I really miss those wonderful pillsbury food sticks. they were great !!!!! please bring them back !!

I sure do miss the food sticks. Pillsbury needs to make them again. I love them!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone tried the ones from funkyfoodshop.com? The pillsbury ones were great when I was a kid.

I loooooved food sticks when I grew up in the '70s and have often though of them. They were sooo good. Never had a food stick I didn't like.

I loved food sticks. I could eat a whole box in obne sitting when I was a kid. The food of Astronauts. They tasted like candy, but were not candy. Why did they get rid of them? They sell them today as energy bars or energy rolls.

I remember them! I was really little and we called them "Spastics" (LOL-Really!) I have thought of them from time to time and just recently looked them up--I found them at "Old Fashioned Candy.com" They have SO MANY candies from MANY decades--check it out! I may have to order them!

Just now at a garage sale I bought a box of Pillsbury Food Sticks with the original price tag of 59¢(!), chewy chocolate mint flavor. I remember eating these and liking them as a kid, so it was so cool finding this box – completely unopened with the original sticker stamp price tag on it. But here's the thing folks, despite the fact that it was promoted as a "nutritionally balanced food," just one look at the nutrition facts on the side of the box is enough to make your heart palpitate a little (and not in the good way). It's interesting to see how they broke things down back then. The units of measurement are just a percentage referred to as "Approximate Nutritional Analysis." And in this case we’re talking 10% protein, 13% fat (partially hydrogenated - yum), and 68% carbohydrates. The first three ingredients in those food sticks we all remember so fondly are sugar, corn syrup, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (with freshness preserves - hooray!). There’s the other stuff you’d expect like cocoa powder and chocolate, water and nonfat dry milk. I don’t see mint anywhere; maybe that’s the “natural and artificial flavors.” What do you suppose could get considered natural flavor back then? The rest of the ingredients are a bunch of vitamin fillers and something called orthophosphate – I don’t know what that is. I can vaguely remember how they tasted – good but kind of vitaminey. Anyway, nothing I’m into eating these days but it’s a fun trip down memory lane and I’m going to send it to my sister to see if she remembers them. The advertising is really fun, makes me smile. They called it “The Food for Busy People.” Hmm, I’m pretty busy these days…maybe I should eat it! I wonder if the freshness has been preserved enough. Copyright is 1971 – waddya think – still edible? :-D

Chris, can you post a picture of the FoodSticks you recently bought at that garage sale?

My Uncle worked for Pillsbury in Ohio and would bring the chocolate home buy the case. I would always get in trouble for eating the entire case. I think Pillsbury should bring them back just like we are bringing back all the old cartoons in the movies. They seem to be a hit so why not!!

i remember eating something like that but i dont know the name of them. kinda bland and doughy and came in white indv. thick wrappers. wish someone, anyone could help me.

Ahhhhhhhhh...........good memories of the food sticks :) The one's advertised now don't taste ANYTHING like I recall the old ones did, but the SMELL was close enough to recall enjoying them completely

I've been thinking about these things for years now but couldn't remember what they were called. Wish Pillsbury would make them again. It's been 35+ years but I can remember exactly where they were in the grocery store and I was only 5 or 6. Funny how some things are such vivid memories!

PPPPPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....bring them back.

I love them too! Wish they were still available for my kids.

Got one in every Easter basket. Fond memories of food sticks.

My grandma always had these and Tang onhand. We could not afford these at home and they were both great treats! One thing we did have at home was Libby's Fruit Flip...a canned fruit in creamy sauce that, as a kid, I liked. Not so sure I'd flip over Fruit Flip now, though...

I cannot find them now, but I remember them to be Amazing! I really would like them to make a come back.

Aka Space Food Sticks. This was just another novelty food item coinciding with the Apollo XI moon landing. Pillsbury discontinued them in 1971 amidst a steady sales decline. Kids expected these to taste like candy. They weren't supposed to. They were supposed to simulate food the astronauts ate in their spacecraft. Despite all the successful lunar missions since 1969, demand for Space Food Sticks to come back has been marginal.

No, they most definitely weren't discontinued in 1971, or my sister and I wouldn't remember them. I'm not surprised to read about the ingredients in them—-it's surprising to see what we considered "food" at the time.

Thought they were. Soy?