Showing posts with label Graze Boxes. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Review of Graze.com Variety 8 Pack Box 3

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They send you a box every week or every other week. The snacks are fun and yummy. If you need a referral code, you can use mine JAIMIE49P. It will get your first and fifth boxes free. 

The Packaging

It's all packaged up in a nice paperboard box. The snacks are in rigid plastic containers with peel away plastic film lids. 


Key Lime Pie

This has lime raisins, mini meringues, vanilla cookie drops and green raisins. I love the mini meringues. I save them for last and put them on my tongue until they just melt away. The raisins are super yummy and the cookies are good too. Overall, I really like this snack.  


Super Forest Fruits

This has blueberries, lingonberries, soft apple pieces and cherry raisins. I think this one was new for me. I liked it. The apple pieces were nice and sweet and the rest was pretty dang good too. It was a nice mix of ingredients. 


Lemon Drizzle Flapjack

This is a rustic rolled oat flapjack with zesty lemon and yogurt drizzle. I love the flapjacks! I'm not a huge lemon fan, but the lemon isn't over-powering so it works out well. 


Garden of England

This has mini strawberries, soft apple pieces and blackcurrants. I love the mini strawberries. They are super yummy! The apple pieces were nice and sweet. The blackcurrants were good as well. Since I love the strawberries, I would have been happier if there were more of them. Overall, it was a decent mix though. 


Apple & Cinnamon Flapjack

This was a rustic rolled oat flapjack with apple and cinnamon. This is another super awesome snack. I love the flapjacks. I can't really taste the apple in it, but it's a great texture and I'm all about texture. 


Hot Cross Yum

This has orange raisins, vanilla cookie drops and cinnamon honey almonds. I like the cookies and raisins. The almonds are pretty good too, but they are pretty hard with all of that crunchy honey. It's a nice mix of ingredients. 


Tropical Sundae

This is mango, pineapple and chewy banana slices. I'm not a huge fan of banana slices, but this was a decent snack. The mango in the Tropical Daiquiri is better though. I liked the pineapple. A year or so ago, I didn't like dried pineapple, but now it has grown on me. 


Tropical Daiquiri

This had green mango, lime raisins and pineapple. I really like the mango in this one. The pineapple is yummy too. The raisins are good too. It's a nice mix of ingredients. 



Nutrition Facts

Here's the nutritional information, the ingredients and the expiration dates. 


Sunday, April 26, 2015

Review of Graze.com Variety 8 Pack Box 2

What it is and why I get it


Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They mail you yummy snacks weekly or every other week. You can get different types of boxes. They have a four pack, an 8 pack and a sharing box that has five bags with multiple servings. The 4 pack has different options like low calorie, sweet, savory and variety. The 8 pack is just the variety pack. You can rate stuff so you increase your odds of getting it, but you can't pick your snacks. You can trash stuff so you'll never get it again. I really wish there was  a way to trash a specific ingredient though. For example, I can't deal with coconut, but I can't trash coconut so I have to continually check for new snacks that include coconut. It's annoying. If I ever get coconut, I'll give the snack to hubby. If you need a referral code, use JAIMIE49P.  I forgot to take pictures of this box so I'm pulling file footage from the blog of previous boxes.

Honeycomb Flapjack

It's a rustic rolled oat flapjack with honeycomb and chocolate drizzle. Super yummy. I love love love flapjacks! 


Cinnamon Pretzel

This has poppyseed pretzels and cinnamon honey almonds. I really like the pretzels even though they aren't salty. I'm such a sucker for a pretzel! The almonds are pretty good too. I'm not a fan of plain almonds, but you toss some honey and cinnamon on there and ooh la la! 


Apple Cosmo

This has apple, lime raisins and cranberries. This is another one of those snacks that I didn't like in the beginning, but I really like it now. I'm a fan of dried apples now! The raisins and cranberries were super awesome too. 



Cherry Fudge Sundae

This has chocolate fudge, cherries, cherry raisins and almonds. This would have been a lot better without the almonds. I'm not sure that I really get why it had almonds in it, but I don't put nuts in my sundaes so I'm just weird. The fudge, cherries and cherry raisins were worth getting through some almonds though. 


Triple Berry Smoothie

This has mini strawberries, blueberries, cranberries and banana coins. I didn't like the bananas in the beginning, but they grew on me. I love love love the mini strawberries.



Cherries & Berries

This is cherries, lingonberries, cranberries and jumbo raisins. It was nice to get this snack again. It was in the Sharing Box which I thought would be awesome, but they were a bit dry and waxy in the big box. I love love love the cherries and berries in the portion controlled boxes! Woot Woot!



Super Berries

This is blueberries, cranberries, goji berries, and green raisins. I love dried fruit, but this one is just okay for me. The goji berries are dry and a bit bland, but the rest of them are really yummy. The picture shows the old name since I'm pulling file photos from previous boxes since I forgot to take pictures of this box.


Garden of England

This has mini strawberries, soft apple pieces and black currants. Now that I like dried apples, I can get into this snack. I love the mini strawberries! They are super awesome. I would love a box of just those strawberries! 






Review of Graze.com 8 Pack Variety Box 1

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They send you fun snacks every week or every other week. The snacks have crazy combinations of ingredients. Most of the packages are portion controlled and that's why I love them. They do have a Sharing Box which has five bags for a total of 20 servings, but I only got that box once. I like the portion control, so I'm sticking with the other types of boxes. You can get a four count box or an eight count box. If you get the four count boxes, you can specify if you want a Sweet Box, a Savory Box, a Low Calorie Box or a couple other things as well. If you get the eight count box, you save money. I've got an eight count coming every other week right now and I think an extra one every four weeks or something. I can't remember what I did. Oh they recently had a thing where you could buy a one time only box of just flapjacks too. I bought two of those! Can't wait until they show up. I love love love flapjacks! If you want to try them out, use my referral code JAIMIE49P for a discount. 

The Packaging

The snacks are in rigid plastic containers with peel away plastic film lids. They are bundles up into paperboard boxes and shipped off to your house. The eight pack looks a lot like the 4 pack, but it's two layers so it's twice as thick as the 4 pack. 



Tutti Frutti

This has pineapple, cherry raisins, blueberry cranberries and rains. I really like this one. I'm a sucker for dried fruit. The stuff is like candy! 



Summer Berry Flapjack

This is  rustic rolled oat flapjack with berry infused cranberries. I was glad to get this one in this box since I had just gotten it in the Sharing Box. I adore these flapjacks, but in the Sharing Box, they were just so-so. I don't understand the difference, but this was just as yummy as I remember them! 


Scandinavian Forest

This has lingonberries, blueberries, cherry raisins and soft apple pieces. Through Graze.com, I've grown to love dried apples. The first few times I had them, I wasn't a fan, but they have grown on me. This was another winner snack since it's just a bunch of dried fruit. You can't go wrong with dried fruit. 



Eleanor's Apple Crumble

This is soft apple pieces, raisins and cinnamon honey almonds. I'm not a fan of almonds, but when you cover them in cinnamon and honey, you just can't go wrong. This is another snack that I wasn't gaga over when I first started with Graze, but it's grown on me since I now like the apples. 



Cinnamon Fig Roll

This is diced figs, cinnamon flavored raisins and vanilla cookie drops. I like the vanilla cookie drops, but they were pretty soft and felt stale compared to the other cookies in other snacks. I like stale cookies though. I grew up in Massachusetts before Oreos had the resealable packaging. I actually liked them all soft and stale. I'm not sure if these cookies are supposed to have that same texture, but they do. I wasn't a huge fan of the diced figs though. If I haven't trashed this snack yet, I think I'll ive it another try. Maybe the fig pieces will grow on me. 



Billionaire's Shortbread

This has Belgian milk chocolate, almonds, cranberries and fudge. This would be uber awesome without the almonds. With the almonds, it's pretty good still, but I have to eat up all the almonds and then eat the yummy pieces. I leave the milk chocolate for last! Yum Yum.


Honey Drizzled Cashews

The name says it all. These are honey drizzled cashews. I love love love cashews. Honey drizzled over cashews makes an awesome thing into something even more awesome. These are better than the cinnamon honey almonds. They are less crunchy which is better for my teeth! 


Lightly Salted Popping Corn

This is the best microwave popcorn on the planet. They should sell this by the case. I would totally buy it. It's perfect because it's just one serving and there's no nasty chemicals in it. It's not buttery, but it's still yummy. 



Nutrition Facts

Here is the nutritional information for the snacks. It lists all of the important label information as well as the ingredients and the expiration date. 



Review of Graze.com Sharing Box

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They have awesome snack! The company is growing and continually making changes to make it an even more awesome service. One of those changes was the Sharing Box or the Big Box. The regular boxes that I was getting were in portion controlled containers, but the Sharing Box has five bags of multiple servings. It ends up less expensive per snack, but the trade offs are that you have to portion it out yourself and you get less variety in a month. The Sharing Box has has 20 portions for $25. They sent them out once a month or you can get a one time box. 

The Packaging

The box looks so cute that I was planning on saving it to use as someone's Christmas box, but hubby tossed it into the recycling before I told him about it. 


When you flip the lid up, the box opens up like you see in the pic below. My first thought was hat it seemed like an excessive amount of cardboard, but keep reading! 


They specifically designed the box so it wouldn't use any glue. Cardboard can be made from paper products and cardboard can be recycled into more cardboard, so having a bit of excess cardboard in the box in order to make it without glue seemed like a good idea to me! 


The snacks come in this bags made of some sort of paper type material. It's not plastic. It might be like a wax coated paper or something. 


Rainbow Vitality

This has pumpkin seeds, pineapple pieces, almond slivers and lingonberries. I'm not a huge fan of almond slivers or pumpkin seeds, but my initial assessment of this snack was positive because of the ratio of pineapple to pumpkin seeds. However, it would seem that all of the seeds and nuts sank to the bottom of the bag. The rest of the bag did not have this ratio and was mainly just seeds and nuts. The snack. I ended up trashing this snack after this box. In portion controlled boxes, it might be a fine snack, but in the big box with multiple servings, it just annoyed me towards the end.



Cherries and Berries

This has cherries, lingonberries, cranberries and jump raisins. This is one of my favorite snacks from the portion controlled boxes. I was concerned about getting it in the big box because I was afraid that once I opened the box, I wouldn't be able to stop myself. That was partially true. This container did not last as long as it should have, but for some reason, it also wasn't as good as the portion controlled packages. It didn't seem as sweet and it felt a little waxy.


Carrot and Orange Chews

These are hard to describe. They are soft and chewy, but not like a gummy bear. They were my favorite snack in the box. I wish they came in the portion controlled boxes. 


Summer Berry Flapjack

I was so excited for the Sharing Box because it meant being able to get a whole bag of flapjacks! I wasn't really sure what to expect, but they came individually wrapped like the picture below. There were two pieces per serving which makes this a smaller serving than the portion controlled boxes. The portion controlled flapjacks are three sections about this size in each serving. That in itself was a bit of a let down for me. The quality of the flapjack wasn't as good either. They were a bit dry in my opinion compared to the regular flapjacks. They didn't have as much flavor either. 

Lightly Toasted Pistachios 

I didn't take a picture of these, but they looked like any other pistachio with the shells on. They tasted good. I'm just not a fan of shelling pistachios. I still have part of the bag left at work because I find it so annoying to shell pistachios. I know that some people find that it adds to the experience. It's just annoying to me. 

Overall Thoughts

I was super excited to get the Share Box, but it was a bit of a let down for me. I found it really annoying that some of the bags had 3.5 servings in them. What's that all about? They may have changed that since the start of the sharing box though. I just checked the website and none of these are listed as 3.5, but I know the bags that I had did say 3.5 on them. Anyway, I could get over the serving size if the quality of the product was the same as the portion controlled boxes, but the flapjacks and the Cherries & Berries were just blah compared to the portion controlled packages. I don't understand how they could be different, but they certainly were. I also didn't really like the multi serving bags in the end. I love the portion controlled aspect of the other boxes and I'm going to stick with those. Everyone is different though. If you do go for the Sharing Box and get a flapjack that you don't like, be sure not to trash it for good until you've gotten one of the portion controlled flapjacks. They are the best thing on this planet! 

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Review of Graze.com Box 65

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They mail you healthy fun snacks weekly or every other week. They have fun names and an interesting concoction of ingredients. If you use a referral code, you get your first and fifth boxes free. My code is JAIMIE49P. They have different types of boxese these days. This is a four pack. You don't get to pick which snacks come in your boxes, but you can rate your snacks as Trash, Try, Like or Love. If you Trash it, you'll never get it again. If you Love it, you'll get it more frequently. I love the portion control and convenience of these snacks! You can get a four pack or an eight pack. They also have a big box that doesn't have the portion control like these. I'll write about that after I finish off my big box. 

The Packaging

The four pack comes in a paperboard box. Each snack is in a rigid plastic container with a peel away plastic film lid. The top image changes periodically. 


Dark Rocky Road

This has Belgian dark chocolate buttons, cranberries and pecans. I love the chocolate buttons and the cranberries are good, but I'm just not a fan of pecans. I really only like cashews and peanuts. The rest of the nut family is just ho hum for me. I realize peanuts aren't really a nut, but they are sold in the nut section so I'll call them a nut! 


Key Lime Pie

This has lime raisins, mini meringues, vanilla cookie drops and green raisins. I love this snack. The mini meringues are my favorite part. I just put them on my tongue and suck on them until they dissolve in my mouth. In the beginning, I used to chew them, but they were just okay. Once I discovered how awesome they are to just sit on my tongue, I've never chewed one since! The cookies are yummy and raisins are just awesome. It's a good mix of ingredients. 


Garden of England

This has mini strawberries, soft apple pieces and black currants. I love the mini strawberries. I could eat a whole bag of those alone. The apple pieces are yummy. I never liked dried apple until a few months ago. The black currents are good. It's a nice mix of ingredients and only 70 calories! Awesome!


Mint Choc Chip Gelato

This has dark chocolate buttons, mint flavored raisins, almonds and yogurt seeds. I like the chocolate buttons. I didn't get much mint out of the raisins. The almonds were okay, but again, I'm just not a huge nut fan. I did like the yogurt seeds. I didn't really get this snack though. It was just a crazy mish mash of stuff. 


Sunday, February 15, 2015

Review of Graze.com Box 64

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a mail order snack subscription service. They send you snacks every week or every other week or however often you have it set up. I've had one each week with an extra one every four weeks so I have one snack per day at work. During the holidays, I ended up with an extra stash of snacks since I had so many days off. I've not got both boxes on hold until I get caught up. If you use my referral code, you'll get your first and fifth boxes free. JAIMIE49P. 

The Packaging

The snacks come in individual sized rigid plastic containers with peel away plastic film lids. They are bundled up in a paperboard box. They come in boxes of four or 8. There is also a new big box that will have five bags with 4 servings per bag. Or it's four bags with 5 servings per bag. I forget which. 

Lightly Salted Popping Corn

This truly is the best popcorn on the planet. I love it! It doesn't even have butter and it's simply amazing! It's 3 WW PP points for the whole bag. It's a single serving bag though. Just don't leave it in the microwave for too long! 


Lemon Drizzle Flapjack

This is a rustic rolled oat flapjack with zesty lemon and yogurt drizzle. I love these flapjacks. They have a nice lemon flavor without being over powering. They are super amazing, but they are 7 WW PP points. That's a bit steep for a snack. 


Hot Cross Yum

This has orange raisins, vanilla cookie drops and cinnamon honey almonds. Love those almonds! The cookie pieces and the raisins are yummy too! 


Tropical Daiquiri

This has dried green mango, lime raisins and pineapple. I adore the mango in this snack. The pineapple has grown on me too and I like the raisins! This is super awesome stuff! 


Review of Graze.com Box 63

What it is and why I get it

Graze.com is a snack subscription service. They mail you snacks once a week or every other week or however you have it set up. They are super creative and super yummy! I've broadened my snacking horizons because of these boxes. I  learned that I don't hate almonds and dried mangoes are amazing. If you use my referral code, you'll get your first and fifth boxes free. JAIMIE49P.  

The Packaging

The snacks come in rigid plastic containers with peel away plastic film lids. They are packed in a paperboard box. The top image inside the box changes periodically. They are perfectly portioned snacks! 


Booster Seeds

This is golden flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. I gave this to hubby. It was 5 WW PP points and I didn't want to try more seeds for that many points. I don't get enough points in a day to waste them on something that's annoying for me to eat. I want my "cheats" to be sweet and yummy.


Cinnamon Pretzel

This has poppyseed pretzels and cinnamon honey almonds. Super yummy! I love those almonds! The pretzels are good too, but they aren't salty, so if you're expecting something like a Rold Gold, you might be disappointed. 


Apple Cosmo

This has soft apple pieces, lime raisins and cranberries. I really like this one. I didn't like the apples in the beginning, but they seem super sweet now. I'm not sure if Graze changed something or if my taste buds have changed. 


Protein Flapjack

This is a rustic rolled oat flapjack with flaxseeds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. I liked this one, but I think it also had soy bits in it and I'm trying to avoid soy, so I won't be getting this again even though it was yummy.