Russell Stover Chocolates — Local services in Abilene

Do NOT go here. Really. You will be taking MY candy, lol. I love this place (a little too much). It has a good variety of candy, but the back room is what I love to go to and see what they have.

In the front room, you have traditional boxed candies, bagged candies, and single pieces that can be boxed for you, as well as Caramel Apples, Fudge, Ice Cream and more. This room has many, many choices and you can literally spend hours looking around, but here's a couple of hints: When you walk in, on the right hand side is a group of small single piece wrapped candy that you can bag yourself. This is $12.99 a lb and include a large number of both milk and dark chocolate favorites. You can purchase the SAME items unwrapped for 15.99 a pound at the candy counter, and to me, 3.00 a lb more is too much to pay, I'll just unwrap mine, lol.

Further into the room on the left side they have a large amount of sugar free candy bags and boxes. They are all priced attractively, but before you grab from here, go into the back room.

Here is where the pricing really matters. This is the overstock room, where you will find things that are past their due date or what is called "Bloopers", candy that doesn't look QUITE right, but still taste's fantastic. You can get your candy at QUITE a discount here; for example, I like the Sugar Free Mint Patties, which retail even at this factory store at over 2.00 per bag; in the back room, you can usually get them much cheaper, and lately they have been only 60 cents per bag.

So, best hint? Check the back room before you buy anything. Even with the Buy 2 get 1 Free promo they run (ALLLLL the time), it can be cheaper to get the items from the back room, and they are only a little out of date but still taste great, stilled sealed,...

A trip to the Russell Stover Candy Outlet wasn't on my itinerary when I planned my trip to Kansas, but someone suggested it and I had time so why not?

Abilene is a bit of a drive from Kansas City, a little over 2 hours, but I don't think I'd drive out again unless it's on the way to another destination.

The store itself had an interesting layout. Upon walking in, there was a video playing about the history of Russell Stover, but I wouldn't consider that a tour. In fact, there is NO tour. The middle of the store included many flavors of delicious ice cream, which of course I bought a generous scoop.

Aisles of different types of Russell Stover Candies ranging from holiday classics to limited editions to the usual. The "outlet" items, some more rejected than others, were located in the back room section of the store. Those are heavily discounted and some of them were "surprise" packages sold in bulk labeled as "bloopers."

I ended up buying the individual holiday chocolates with cool flavors such red velvet, caramel, pecan, dark, and etc. for my co-workers. These were easy to store in my carry-on luggage and they made great stocking stuffers.

I enjoyed my visit here, I may stop by if it's along the way to pick up more "useful" and...

I had the SF Peanut Delights today..

My experience is 2 sided. At first I was so overcome with joy an happiness that i could have a Russell Stovers Chocolate after committing to going Keto.. so tasty. So smooth & velvety. Full flavored.

An that my fellow Man & Woman, is where the 2nd side starts.

Malitol...oh you evil evil bastard. "Gastric Distress"..?? That isnt the proper description. 1st came the bloat..Bloat that coursed back an forth from side to side of my abdomen. Bringing with it a sound that was rejected from Aliens VS Predator...the cramping. With the cramping, i can now say this- Every woman has my respect for childbirth.

2nd...the gas. Saddam Hussein could only WISH for the chemical compound that roared from my bowels. No joke----It smelled worse than a pig farm in August.

I work for a HazMat company... ever see a Vacuum truck offload oily sludge?...Yeah, i peed out my butt. I shat like a goose with the green apple splatters. I coulda blew mud thru a screen door an not clogged a hole. Oh Sweet Jesus! Its not over!!

Oh God! I dont wish this on nobody. Lord, I repent for all my sins.

But the Chocolate...