There are three different sizes you can get. The subscription service itself is kind of expensive but more than half of the products are full sized! I was sent the Starter Box which is $33 a month + $6 shipping (the cheapest). It's roughly 16-20 servings, and for 1-2 people.
The next is Healthy Box which is $66 a month with FREE shipping! It roughly has 32-40 servings and is for 1-4 people.
The last is the Large Box which is $99 a month with FREE shipping! It roughly has 48-60 servings and is for 2-6 people.
Now with these food subscription boxes, as I did with the Goodies Taste Box, I enjoy having "taste tests" with my family, so the smallest box was able to give 4 people enough product to taste and form a valid opinion. I honestly think this is an awesome program, even though it's expensive. Let's jump into what I received.
This is my box:
I got an awesome variety of delicious treats! My box this month came with 11 goodies that I was overall very pleased with! I'm just going to get right into the items in my box.The first item I received was:
A .8 oz bag of Plentils Crunchy Lentil Chips with Light Sea Salt! These are, as stated before, a Crunchy Lentil Chip, which are a legume that is similar to a bean! But if you tasted these, you honestly would NEVER know! These chips are gluten free and also free of 8 common allergens such as wheat, soy, tree nuts, egg, peanuts, shellfish, dairy and fish! There are also no artificial ingredients no saturated fat, no cholesterol, no trans fat, and it's non-GMO! Talk about a miracle snack, huh? These chips come in 4 deliciously awesome flavors; Garlic & Parmesan, Dill & Sour Cream, Light Sea Salt, and Margherita Pizza!
These bad babies may look like corn chips, but they're SO much better! These had to be one of my favorite items in the box. I really enjoyed the taste and texture. The salt was perfect, and it wasn't over powering. I found that they were nice and light as well. They didn't have the grease that a normal chip has that can leave you feeling gross! My family seemed to really like them too!Mom: Kind of taste like a bugle, has the same texture as well. Salt is very good. (Side Note: My mom is a salt addict...)
Dad: Taste like a Muncho's chip, awesome!
Niece: They were good, not great. (Side Note: She's a very picky eater...)
You can purchase a 6 Pack of .8oz chips for $8.99 making this sample $1.50! I have seen these in my local grocery store and have been very tempted to pick them up, but can't find myself spending $3.99 on a 4 oz chip bag...
Next we have Thunderbird Energetica Bar in Sweet Lemon Rain Dance. This is an all natural energy bar that is free of soy, gluten, agave, GMO and add sugars, while also being raw, low glycemic, vegan, handmade and Shaman-Blessed. I'm honestly not quite sure what the last part means...Another cool thing though, is that this has a compostable wrapper!
Now the non-cool thing. This bar is actually pretty disgusting. I really couldn't get over the look of it...which seems to be a common trend with these energy/all natural bars. At first it's pretty good, but then once the lemony part disappears, it's very awkward and gross. The texture is very weird, and it just has too many things in it for me to like. My family all said one word:Mom: Gross
Dad: Gross
Niece: Gross
You can purchase 15 of these bars on their website for $32.00 making this sample $2.13. In which, I'd rather take the money and run!
The next item is an Alter Eco Dark Almond Organic Chocolate Bar. This Chocolate Bar is USDA Organic, Fair Trade Certified, Vegan, Soy, GMO & Gluten Free and contains no artificial ingredients. A neat thing about this bar is that every sale from this bar helps to restore the rain forest. On the inside of the packaging it tells of Acopagro Co-Op and Objective Carbon Zero which is supposedly agriculture that restores ecosystems!
The bar came with 10 big blocks that have Alter Eco etched in them. Now, I personally don't like dark chocolate, I find that it's too plain and doesn't have enough flavor. I also don't really care for organic chocolate, because I think it has the same flavor as Dark Chocolate, but this bar really wasn't that bad! I really though that the texture added from the chopped up almonds worked with this very well.Mom: Very good, love both the chocolate and the almonds! (Side Note: She's a Dark Chocolate Lover...)
Dad: Not bad for a dark chocolate bar.
Niece: Love it because I love dark chocolate! (Side Note: She HATES nuts, but I tricked her into eating it, and she loved it)
You can purchase this bar on their website for $3.99.
The next product received was a .33oz bag of Freeze Dried Crunchies in Pineapple! These 100% Real Fruit pieces are, of course, all natural with only 35 calories per serving, no sugar added and no preservatives! These are made through a unique freeze-drying process in which water is removed in a vacuum, leaving only the fruit or vegetable. Nothing else is added into it.
These things look so cool! They're exactly what the package says...they're dehydrated pineapples. Here's a funny thing, I really hate pineapples, I think the taste is gross, but I ADORE these! I love them so much, they're a little sour, but very fruity. The texture is a little weird though...I really don't think they're "Crunchies" they're kind of like "Chewies" ;)Mom: Hard as a rock...hard to chew, weird texture, but good!
Dad: Good
Niece: Sort of like it, don't really care for the texture and the sourness.
You can purchase a 12 pack of these "Munch Paks" for $20.28 on their website, making this sample $1.69 I also saw the bigger bags sold at Walmart recently :)
The next product is a Rawma Bar in Walnut Fig from Gopal's Health Foods. It's a raw, organic, sprouted, gluten free, high enzyme energy bar that contains organic walnuts, organic figs, organic dates, organic almonds, organic lemon juice and organic cardamom.
This looks very gross...as usual with these bars. I personally thought this was very weird. It was oddly textured, and tasted weird at first, but then reminded me of a fig newton, in which I love. My dad felt the same way as I did.
Mom: Was okay, but needs to have a cookie or something sweet to it. It's too plain.
Dad: I like them, but it takes a while for the fig to come out.
Niece: EW, I don't like fig! (Side Note: After she said that, she spit it out...)
You can purchase these bars on their website for $1.80 a piece.
The next item is also one of my favorites out of the box, and it is a 2 oz bag of Happy Hemp Toasted Hemp Seeds. These are put out by the Happy-Hemp company and are vegan, gluten-free and GMO- free. There's not much to say about these but the fact that they ROCK.
They are these tiny little seeds that look like little eyeballs of a bug or something, which is a very gross way of describing them. I LOVE these things! They're so delicious, and I love the way they pop when you crunch down on them. They remind me a long of sunflower seeds. They would be PERFECT on a salad!Mom: LOVE THEM!!!
Dad: They're alright, could use a little more flavor.
Niece: Good, don't like the aftertaste though.
You can purchase a 2oz bag of these on their website for $6.00
Next up is the Mango Joebar from Cocomo Joe! This is an organic, gluten free, vegan and raw coconut granola bar type thing. And I say "type thing" because it doesn't have any granola in it, but that's exactly what it's like. It contains organic coconut, walnuts, coconut nectar, mango, and chia seeds along with a few other ingredients.
This bar was terribly crumbly, but terribly awesome at the same time. I really liked it, and I really liked the taste of toasted coconut. It reminds me of my mom's coconut cream pie! I love coconut :) One thing I wasn't crazy about was the Mango...I thought it was really hard to chew and the chunks were HUGE. The walnuts were awesome in it :)Mom: Mango was too chewy, but I love the flavor.
Dad: Okay, but should come in chocolate too.
Niece: Gross, flavor and texture are gross.
You can purchase a 12 pack of these bars for $30 on their website, making this sample $2.50
The next thing in my box was a 2.2 oz bag of SouthWest Ranch (with just a little kick) Kale Krunch from Alive & Radiant foods! This, according to the package, is Nature's green supersnack! Of course, everything about this product is all natural and organic right down to the spices they use. These are a dried out piece of kale, which is a type of green.
The Kale Krunch actually looks VERY unappealing. Especially with the dryness and the spices on it, they're kind of just caked on there. In my book, I had wrote that I loved them, but the texture is weird. I still feel the same about the texture, but since having them again, my feelings on the taste has changed. They're a little weird, and the flavor is a little too strong. The texture is really what gets me though...
Mom: I like the texture, the flavor is gross though.
Dad: Weird, it could be used as like a crouton.
Niece: Too salty!
You can purchase a 2.2 oz of this product on their website for $5.99
The next product is this Just Fruit Bar from Gorge Delights in Apple Raspberry! This is an all natural fruit bar with no added sugars, wheat, dairy or nut, plus it's gluten free! It has extremely simple ingredients which are apple puree, apple concentrate, raspberry concentrate. Awesome!
Now I stupidly didn't take a picture of this product for reasons unknown. I really loved this product! I think it had AWESOME flavor, and I loved the texture.
Mom: Too sour, gross.
Dad: Awesome, Like a thick fruit roll-up! (Side Note: He ate the rest of it...)
You can purchase a 12 pack of these bars on their website for $13.92, making this sample $1.16!
Next up is this pouch of Peter Rabbit Organics 100% pure fruit snack in Banana and Apple! This is an applesauce type treat made with simple ingredients, organic apple and organic banana. Really, that's all! This has no added sugar, nothing artificial, and is USDA Organic certified!
The texture of this product is VERY smooth! It's not bumpy like applesauce itself. I absolutely LOVED this product! This was literally SO delicious, but I really couldn't taste the apple, I feel the banana overpowered it. It still was delicious and reminded me of baby food!Mom: Taste like Baby Banana Food, good!
Dad: Taste like Baby Food...
Niece: Good! Taste like baby food!
You can purchase a 10 pack of these on their website for $14.44, making this sample $1.44 I've also seen these in walmart!
Lastly, I have this 3.5 oz bag of Hail Merry Macaroons in Caramel Sea Salt! These macaroons are gluten-free, vegan, and non-GMO. These are dehydrated in low temperature!
These, according to my dad, look like chicken nuggets, but I assure you they don't taste like them. I loved these things! The texture was awesome, and the flavor was okay, the caramel was barely there, but the coconut was AWESOME! I'm a coconut lover, and was very satisfied and pleased with the amount in this.
Mom: Weird flavor, not bad bad, but okay.
Dad: First bite was weird, they grow on you though.
Niece: Doesn't like because of the coconut.
You can purchase an 8 pack of these for $40 making this sample $5.00
Overall, I really like this box, but for the moment the price may be a little dealbreaker. I don't find a lot of people that would be able to spend $99 on a box of treats, let alone $40, but I may be wrong. If and when I start making a decent amount of money, I feel that I would be more than happy to subscribe to the cheapest plan because this was awesome.
Healthy Surprise
Kale Krunch
Hail Merry Macaroons
Plentils
Dark Almond Chocolate Bar
Crunchies Pineapples
Happy Hemp Seeds
Banana Apple Puree
Rawma Bar
Joe Bar
Thunder Bird Energetica
Just Fruit Bar
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