I have managed to fall into that fatal trap of being a slave to the vending machine when in the office. I know, I know, I try so hard. My day usually starts well with either fruit or toast for breakfast, and then a small cup of soup for lunch.I then get to around 3pm and it just all goes down the drain, epically. I’m talking chocolate AND crisps. Not just a small bar, a full sized bar of chocolate (usually a double decker as they are my current favourite) and a bag of crisps. So when Fruit Bowl contacted me I immediately thought YES. This works for me and should help my mid afternoon snack fest be a little healthier. But they’re for kids, right?
So they look like they are made for kids with their bright packaging, adorned with cartoon fruit and the ‘school bars’. The individual packs make them perfect for your lunchbox and even easier to chuck into your handbag on the way out of the door. I love how they have used lots of different fruits in their range too including mango, raspberry, blackcurrant, strawberry and apple. I know other dried fruit style snacks I’ve seen tend to mix fruits or just stick to raisins, these add a little something extra and means I am less likely to get bored of them.
The Yoghurt Flakes look like tic tacs with the yoghurt providing a creamy coating to the sharp and zesty raspberry inside. They are really easy to pick at and I find myself opening them, eating a handful and then going back to them later in the day. From a person who is a real picker when it comes to snacking, this has really helped me reduce the amount of snacks I am eating. It means I eat one of these small bags over the day rather than the chocolate AND crisps that I had been eating before.
The school bars, despite the name are my favourite from the Fruit Bowl range. They are seriously juicy and even have cute facts on the front that I have been boring my colleagues with. They are obviously designed for a school lunch and the idea is that they educate kids but I didn’t know the Romans used strawberries as medicine, did you?
They’re not as good as eating a piece of fruit, that’s a given. But they are better than chocolate or crisps so it is all a step in the right direction. What ‘grab and go’ snacks do you use to beat the midday slump?
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