I’m experimenting with boxes. I’ve tried two – Conscious Box and Nature Box. These boxes
are delivered to your door (free shipping) every month for a mere $19.95. I’m
willing to gamble twenty bucks in the name of research and a blog post or two,
so I signed up for both.
The Nature Box full
of 5 bags of relatively healthy snacks arrived promptly. I wasn’t aware that
you could choose which snacks you want in your box, so my first selection was
randomly chosen by the Powers That Be at Nature Box.
Our box contained Cranberry
Almond Bites, French Vanilla Almond Granola, Whole Wheat Blueberry Figgy Bars,
Baked Peppery Potato Fries, and Flax
Fortune Coins. The sales pitch claimed that these would be “full-size” bags
of snacks. And they were. If you’re a toddler. My kids are teens, so each bag
had about 2 servings (except the Flax
Fortune Coins which may last us a month).
If you do the math, that’s $4 a bag. I suppose this is about
the average price for gouchi all-natural snacks, which these definitely are.
I’m sure you can find a knock-off of every one of them at Wegmans. These snacks
contain no high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, artificial
sweeteners, artificial flavors, artificial colors, or trans fats. That’s all
good. A few of them do have their fair share of sugar, but how else will you
get kids to eat them? Sugar is the second ingredient listed on the Flax Fortune Coins but I’m the only one
brave enough to eat them. This I attribute to their unfortunate name, but more
about that later.
