Natural Sins - all natural crispy snack food

Yearning for a healthy, tasty and flavorful snack, healthier than that potato chip, consider Natural Sins (www.naturalsinsonline.com). Just two ingredients the fruit/vegetable and raw cane sugar: all products from Costa Rica.  Natural Sins tagged the product the Un Potato Chip because they are extremely crispy.  The packaging leaves no doubt what is inside the re-sealable bag, though more than likely you will eat all of the fruit or vegetable chips all at once. 

Fruits and vegetable sliced paper thin, so thin you can almost see through it, blended with raw cane sugar baked low and slow for an all natural crispy snack that is Natural Sins. This Non-GMO, kosher, gluten-free, vegan treat won me over after attaining samples at the Fancy Food Show.  Four selections are available:  Beet, Coconut, Mango and Pineapple, each 100 calories (with the exception of the coconut – 168).  The one ounce bag is addictive as all get out.  I practically inhaled the pineapple, leaving a little for the snapshots for this story. There are other dried fruits on the market, but nothing like this.  

Natural Sins are “a full-sensory snacking sensation that crunches like a chip without a crumb of regret.” Find a store near you www.naturalsinsonline.com/en/find-a-store/

 

Gourmet Popsations - classic caramel, chocolate drizzles and classic Cheddar

I haven’t met a caramel corn that I didn’t like but there are few that I loved now enter Popsations. Local entrepreneur Robin Garrision had a vision and made it a reality with her Timonium based Popsations gourmet popcorn manufacturing plant.  She sent me samples of her classic buttery crunchy caramel and her new chocolate drizzle caramel corn: dark rich chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate.  She shared, off the record, the chocolate manufacturer that she uses, and trust me when I say it is one of the leading artisan chocolate manufacturers in the world.

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For the mushroom lover

Through a Facebook connection I was sent a sample of Snack N Shrooms, a dried, seasoned mushroom chip for mushroom lovers. From the mushroom capital, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania these little umami packed mushroom chips come in three flavors: garlic, original and spicy.

Learn where you can purchase these delicious little snacks: For the mushroom lover

Cheetos absolution

Many a rant has come and gone over the six years of blogging about food. I have opened myself up to criticism, taken long introspective looks at my fixation with food and admitted to liking the non-food passing as food, Cheetos. I’ve tried the baked kind, the better for you kind – you know what I’m talking about but I always come back to the original, like a moth to a flame.

Read the full rant: Cheetos absolution