Snack Boxes

We do eat grains right now, but we remember what it was like when we didn't. You are ALWAYS hungry, and sometimes it's nice to have snacks on hand. We have an automatic delivery of stretch-island fruit leathers every couple of months, and sometimes we make and freeze snacks on our own, but we also love snack boxes. We've tried 2 types of boxes, Graze and Naturebox. Aside from the fact that it feels like getting a present in the mails, they're easy munchables with great control on nutrition information.

Graze
The grazebox ships either weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly at $5/box for 4 individual snacks. We did bi-weekly so 8 portions for $10/month. It has a rating system for the things you like and a low-carb option. You can ask to be surprised or ask for your box to be high-rating heavy. You can also mark snacks as "never send me this" if it's not up your alley. We really love the british "flapjacks" bars (soft granola bars) and spiced honey nuts. Most of the snacks are tasty and there's a great variety. Of the 2, I feel like the graze box snacks as a whole run a little healthier than in naturebox.

Nature Box
The nature box sends you 5 portions of 5 snacks each month (so 25 snacks) for $20. It has dietary restrictions options (ours is soy-free) and YOU handpick the items for your box each week. This ships monthly, but you can trigger your next box early or add extra snacks to each box at $3/bag or $1 granola bars. I like to line ours up with a good mix of different types of snacks and flavors (fruit snacks, figgy bars, nuts, corn, sweet and salty)

Both boxes have their merits, but we ultimately settled for nature box, partially because of the peace of mind in a soy-free option and the ability to hand-choose our box, but mostly because the snack packs are sharing size. We do use bowls to make sure we take 1 (quarter cup)portion at time though the fruit snacks and figgy bars are individually wrapped. We used to share the graze box (though it's not really meant for sharing) and for 2 people that was okay, but having the box last longer, be re-sealable, and packing-lunch friendly are all really good things.


Nuts.com
This is an honorable mention. At the height of an unprocessed diet, this website was AWESOME. It has the cheapest price on pitted dates I've found anywhere (in store, pitted dates are ~$7/lb, on nuts.com they're ~$4/lb) DH loves dates as a favorite snack, but they're also a big part of unprocessed and even vegan diets. I also source cocoa, organic ingredients for homemade chocolate, nuts-both raw and roasted, nuts flours, and dried fruit from this store. On the unprocessed diet we tried their mushroom chips which REALLY do taste like sourdough pretzels. Nuts.com is based out of NJ and we live in PA so my orders usually arrive in 1-2 days. I have placed an order in the morning and received it the next day which is pretty awesome. The ingredients are listed when you order which is always helpful.