Healthy Snacks On The Go
Summer means on the go, right? At least for us it does. And because we are on the go so much, I almost always have snacks and bottled water for the boys, especially if we are planning an entire afternoon out. Costco offers great summer snacks with health benefits in mind. After getting club sized amounts of Fruit Roll Ups Simply Fruit, and Nature Valley Trail mix bars, we’ve been using them as our on the go and go to snacks.

Fruit Roll Ups and Nature Valley
The fruit roll ups that we got are a lot more healthy than the original ones, which is encouraging for me to give to my kids. I’m definitely not a health nut, but try to make sensible choices in what works for our family and lifestyle and I think these fit in quite nicely. Simply Fruit Roll-Ups contain Vitamin C, are 90% fruit, have a full serving of fruit, are gluten free, and only 50 calories. They come in Strawberry and Wildberry flavors as well. My boys love the original fruit roll-ups, so I’m happy to report that these were a hit as well.

Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars are really delicious as well. This was my first time trying these, and they were super yummy. Rowan loves them too, and I actually had to put them in a place where he couldn’t get them all of the time because these are all he wants to eat. For a few days, he would bring me one of these bars at least 4 times throughout the day, even if he’d just had a big meal. Now they have 25% more almonds, peanuts, raisins and cranberries. They contain no artificial colors, are 140 calories, and contain 8 grams of whole grain per serving.

Costco offers these two varieties of snacks in large boxes which lasted us well over a month, and we at them almost daily. Plus, you are usually getting a better deal when you buy your snacks in bulk.

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Information, a Costco gift card, and samples of the snacks mentioned were all given to me from General Mills through MyBlogSpark as part of this campaign. They are also sponsoring the giveaway prize package. Opinions remain 100% mine.

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