Monday, June 9, 2014

Graze Box!

Everyone loves food right? Everyone loves to snack, am I right? Well what's better than going to your mailbox to get your snacks instead of having to go to the store? I recently heard about Graze which is a website where you can choose from multiple different healthy snack foods and have them ship straight to your house. I was even more excited when I found a coupon for my first box for free! How awesome is that? I took full advantage of it and decided why not try it? 




When you go to the website you can choose to 'Get Started Now' and then enter in your information or you can choose to enter in a special promo code which is what I did to get my box for free. After you enter in your information, you then get to browse all of the different snacks and you have an option to click 'Try' on a certain snack which let's the team at Graze know that you would be interested in trying that particular one in your box or in a future box. 

You can choose between two different boxes such as A Nibble Box or a Caloriecounter Box. 

Nibble Box
You can choose between 90 different snacks all of which are healthy.

Calorie Counter Box
Each snack to choose from are between 50-150 calories if you are counting calories.


Graze is passionate about all of their packaging being 100 % recyclable so you don't feel bad about throwing your box away after. Starting with the box, it is made out of cardboard made from sustainable forests and is extremely thin but sturdy enough to keep your snacks safe throughout the shipping process. 

Each snack pack is made out of plastic but is also recyclable. It also comes with a booklet filled with all the information you  need about each one of your snacks including a detailed description and the nutrition facts for each. This booklet is also made out of sustained forests and is 100 % biodegradable. 




First, Poppy seed Pretzels and Cinnamon Honey Almonds which was my favorite snack out of all four. These are made out of all natural and healthy ingredients and are the perfect combination of salty and sweet because we all know how much I love my sweets!

Poppy seed Pretzels 
(wheat flour, palm oil, malt extract, sugar, salt, yeast & poppy seeds)
Cinnamon & Honey Almonds
(roasted almonds, sugar, honey & cinnamon)

Nutrition Facts for 1 snack pack:
Calories: 130
Total Fat: 8g
Sugars: 6g 
Protein: 4g


The next snack in my box was this Raspberry and Coconut Muffin which I thought sounded odd because it was nothing like a muffin it was more like a trail mix, but it was good none the less. With long thick strips of real coconut and the Amaretti drops were something different but so tasty!

Raspberry and Coconut Muffin
Amaretti drops
(sugar, sweet apricot kernel, bitter apricot kernel, free range egg white, sweet almond)
Raspberry infused cranberries
(cranberries, sugar, natural flavor, citric acid, sunflower oil, elderberry juice concentrate)
Almond slices
(blanched almonds)
Coconut flakes
(coconut flakes)

Nutrition Facts for 1 snack pack:
Calories: 140 
Total Fat: 8g
Sugars: 11g
Protein: 3g


The third snack I got in my box was called Mai Tai. These unfortunately were not my favorite out of the box because I am more of a sweet or salty snack person not much a spicy which these weren't necessarily spicy but the sauce had a kick to it. My dad loved them which was good, but I guess there was going to be one snack out of all that I wouldn't have liked as much. 

 'Mai Tai'
Baked Soy Bites
(rice, sugar, palm oil, modified tapioca starch, soy sauce, salt, caramel, paprika extract, liquorice powder, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate)
Sweet Chili Sauce
(sugar, water, spirit vinegar, red chili puree, cornflour, white wine vinegar, garlic puree, salt, dried garlic, ginger puree, dried red peppers)

Nutrition Facts for 1 snack pack
Calories: 80 
Total Fat: 1g
Sugars: 11g
Protein: less than 1g


The last and final snack I got in my box were these Fruit and Seed Flapjacks which were basically miniature fruit and nut bars. These were really good and would be a nice breakfast option if you were running late and needed a quick meal. I wouldn't eat all three bars in one sitting because these could be quite filling. You can visibly see the fruit and seeds throughout which proves how natural and healthy these are packed full of healthy ingredients. 

Fruit and Seed Flapjack
(rolled oats, non hydrogenated margarine, golden syrup, demerara sugar, apricots, dates, sunflower seeds, sultanas, raisins, currants, pumpkin seeds)

Nutrition Facts for 1 snack pack
Calories: 230
Total Fat: 11g
Sugars: 19g
Protein: 3g




Overall I am very pleased with my Graze box and I hope that some of you try it out! Graze also caters to everyone and has a tab if you have dietary preferences and sections off the snacks based on each preference. For example, with or without gluten, with nuts or without, with milk or without, spicy foods and ones that requires a microwave. What I also really like about Graze is that you are able to subscribe and get your boxes on a regular basis depending on which box you choose. One being every two weeks and the other once a week. But you are also able to just go and purchase one single box with no subscription if you want to test the box out which is what I did, but I will be purchasing another box again for sure. If you think about how expensive some of the healthy snacks can be at these health food stores or just for the price of each of the ingredients to make one snack equals the price of one box, $6! 

Make sure to check them out at www.graze.com 

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