Top 4 Ingredient Snacks You Must Try For Back To School!

Top 4 Ingredient Snacks You Must Try For Back To School!

We’re making back to school easy. Exams, schedules and staying on top of work and extracurriculars can be hard. But eating well shouldn’t be. Here are our top 4 ingredient snacks that will keep your kids (and you) energized at school or work. The best part is that they hardly take any time to prep…

Fit Snack’s Top 4 Ingredient Snacks to Make at Home:

  • Red Ants on a Log (the Fit Snack way!):  
    • Ingredients: Celery sticks, natural peanut butter (or almond butter), mixed nut crumbles, and gogi berries
    • Instructions: simply spread nut butter over celery sticks, top with mixed nuts and dried gogi berries – YUM! Place in tupperware and go.
  • Greek Yogurt Breakfast Bark
    • Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups plain Greek yogurt, 3 tbs maple syrup, 1/2 cup Quaker Real Medleys SuperGrains Blueberry Pecan Granola, 1/2 cup blueberries, 3 to 4 sliced strawberries (add chia seeds if you want some extra nutrients too!)
    • Instructions: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside, mix Greek yogurt and syrup in a bowl until combined. Pour onto prepared baking sheet and spread into a thin layer. Top with Real Medleys SuperGrains Blueberry Pecan Granola, blueberries, and strawberries, place in the freezer for two hours, or overnight, until the bark is fully frozen. Slice into desired squares when ready to eat!
  • Almond Energy Balls:
    • Ingredients: 1¼ cup gluten-free rolled oats, 1¼ cup chopped pitted dates, ½ cup no-salt added unsweetened almond butter, 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
    • Instructions: Place ingredients into food processor and process until smooth.  Use spoon to scoop out and create firm energy balls that stick together. Chill…
  • Zucchini Chips: 
    • Ingredients: 1 lb (about 4 cups) thin sliced Zucchini, 1/8 tsp salt, 1 ounce of finely grated Parmesan cheese, 1 garlic clove finely grated or 1/8 tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
    • Instructions: Preheat oven to 230 degrees (F), use a knife or mandoline slicer to cut zucchini into thin slices, place cut zucchini in a bowl, add salt, Parmesan cheese, garlic and vinegar, toss to coat, bake for 1 1/2 hours.

 

In a rush? For those of you who don’t have time this week to make homemade snacks.  

Enjoy our recommended back to school go-to’s with links to order!

ALLY’s Bar

FRUIT and VEGGIE BAR:  This bar was inspired by Ally’s favorite Juice. Naturally sweet balance of apples and carrots and a spiced up with ginger. 5 – 9 servings of vegetables and 2 – 4 servings of fruit per day, is a difficult standard to meet each day! With Ally’s bar not only can you meet your nutritional requirements more easily, you can also enjoy sustainable whole food energy on the go!

Enjoy 20% off with code fitsnack at allysbar.com

 

 

Kala Fava Beans: Consider these your new go-to. With a selection of flavors like Pineapple, Sea Salt and Vinegar, Pepper and Curry, you’re never bored with what Kala has to offer. These beans are flavored just right so they taste more like chips than beans. These little beans are packed with protein and iron and are one of the tastiest superfoods out there. Featured in our Sept Fit Snack box!

Rise Buddy Pizza Rice Chips: Fit Snack delivers pizza? Only in the most efficient way possible! We love the quirky and unique products that Rise Buddy has shared with us and we want to share these yummy chips with you. These whole grain chips are made from brown rice, oven baked and gluten free. AND they come in delicious flavors like Pizza, BBQ, Sour Cream and more. Available on Amazon!

Raw BRaw Bite Coconut Bar and Ingredientsite Organic Fruit and Nut Bar: Looking for a snack that car seriously fill you up? Raw Bite has you covered. Though each bar is smaller in size, these fruit and nut bars are full of fiber and protein, and they only contain natural sugars. If you have dietary restrictions, this bar might just be the golden ticket. Every Raw Bite bar is dairy free, gluten free and corn free. For anyone who is vegan, paleo or trying to eat more organically, Raw Bite is worth checking out. Visit www.rawbite.us and use code  FITSNACK for 20% off through 09/30/2017.

Ricaroons Coconut Energy Bar: Ricaroons has somehow managed to make their protein bars taste more like a dessert than a healthy snack. Ricaroons uses three different forms of coconut: coconut oil, coconut flakes, and coconut palm nectar. Coconut digests smoothly, converting to energy with a minimal insulin effect. This means that with coconut comes consistent energy rather than a spike and crash like from most other sugars.  Each bar is nutrient-packed that provides long lasting energy and they are the perfect snack for anyone on-the-go. They even have Pumpkin Spice flavor for the fall! Visit www.rickaroons.com/buy and use code SNACKFIT for 15% off through 10/2/2017.

Getting Back Into the Work and School Routine is Easier with Fit Snack!

Getting back into the school routine is now just a bit easier with snacks that keep you energized and focused. With no artificial ingredients you and your kids can snack stress free. Follow links to our discounted snacks and get ready to hit the books!

Fit Snack is now offering office boxes to awesome offices around the nation! Visit www.fitsnack.com/office to get more information and a free sample box for qualified offices!

Sweeping the nation with healthy snacks!

Dandies: A Marshmallow Make Over

They’re Vegan and better than ever!

In 2008 Dandies Marshmallows arrived on the scene. It all started with a Dad who had wanted his son to enjoy Marshmallows around the campfire. The only issue was all Marshmallows contain this ingredient called gelatin – collagen obtained from various animal raw materials. His son being a Vegan could not eat them. This is when Ryan Howard a Food Process Engineer went to work on creating the first vegan marshmallow. Dandies Marshmallows are 100% vegan – made with no gelatin, but that’s just the beginning of this marshmallow make over.

 

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They are Gluten free, Non GMO Project Verified, free of Corn Syrup (HFCS) and of the most common allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, wheat etc.) soy aside. In other words starting with removing gelatin, these marshies are raising the bar one real ingredient at a time.

Check out this ingredients list!

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If you’re a kid at heart and you enjoy S’mores around the campfire or simply seeing your kiddos happily snack on them, then you’re going to love this.

Dandies Marshmallows has an in house chef and delicious mouth-watering recipes on their website. Enjoy your first batch of:

Dandies Classic Crispy Treats

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Click here for recipe.

Caramel Coffee Pistachio S’mores

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Click here for recipe.

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Check out Dandies and try their vegan marshmallows you’ll never want to turn back! Also, share them with your friends, vegan or not these little treats are changing the campfire game.

 

RW Garcia Nacho Typical Snack

Nachos aren’t something you’d normally find at the top of your list of ‘healthy foods’, but thanks to RW Garcia Sweet Potato Crackers we have a recipe that will feed your cravings without sabotaging your diet. RW Garcia is a family owned and family run company committed to creating quality chips. All of their products are Gluten Free, GMO free and made using sustainable methods. Good for you and good for the environment! It’s no wonder they’ve discovered a delicious healthy nachos recipe.  If you want the best results you have to buy the RW Garcia chips for these nachos! 

  • Start with RW Garcia Sweet Potato Crackers
  • 4 cheese blend – melted over the top
  • Heat up some black beans – spoon onto the nachos as desired
  • Add chopped olives
  • Add chopped tomatoes
  • Add chopped green onions
  • Garnish with jalapeño rings and cilantro
  • Artistically place sliced avocado over your nachos
  • Optional: Top it off with some greek yogurt in place of sour cream

Try this recipe out with the RW Garcia Sweet Potato Crackers in your May Fit Snack box. RW Garcia prides themselves on providing delicious products that will make you feel better about indulging your salty snack cravings.

Happy Snacking buy your Sweet Potato Crackers here!

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Get Ch-ch-ch-chia!

Get Ch-ch-ch-chia!

Last month we featured a summer staple, sunflower seeds! This month we wanted to shift our focus to a different type of seed, Chia Seeds from Get Chia! This company has a variety of chia based snacks and bars that you can count on for your Super Food boost. Check out the Get Chia store to get your fill of delicious snacks created with Certified Organic Chia Seeds.  

Here are some perks these small but mighty seeds provide:

-Healthy Heart
-Weight Loss
-Energy
-Anti-Aging Antioxidants

Fit Snack Facts:

  • Chia seeds contain SIX TIMES more calcium than milk, and more protein than soy
  • They are grown on the Salvia Hispanica plant, which is related to mint
  • “Chia” is the ancient Mayan word for “strength”

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Your May Fit Snack box includes a Strawberry Blast FruitChia Bar. You won’t find any added sugars or preservatives here, just apple puree, apple concentrate, strawberry concentrate, and chia seeds. This is a yummy way to get your daily servings of fruits in, as one bar packs two full servings of fruit and contains over 1000mg of Omega-3. If you’ve tried them in our Fit Snack box, you have likely fallen in love, you can get more of these nutritious bars at www.getchia.com.

Aside from these convenient and delicious bars, chia seeds alone have a light nutty taste making them easy to add to recipes. Be sure to add Get Chia’s other products in your next salad, green smoothie or cup of Greek yogurt!

Can you believe that 30 years ago, chia was mostly used to grow overnight animal plants?  Thank goodness companies like Get Chia have brought their A game so that we can benefit from this super-seed and get the most out of our snacks!

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