Clean Pantry Snacks

Product reviews by Lisa VanWilliams

Here are three USDA organic companies providing healthy snack options all made in the USA. What a great way to start the New Year by stocking up your pantry with better choices for yourself and your family. If you set yourself up to only have healthy choices to pick from, that's all you have to choose from unless you go out of your way! These are great for on-the-go healthy living and you can take them anywhere.

Honey Stingers - Steamboat, Colorado

Ralph and Luella Gamber have been making nutritious and great tasting honey-based foods since 1954. Their product line now consists of energy bars, protein bars, energy gels, organic waffles, organic chews, kids specific snacks, and their own brand of Organic Wildflower Honey. They sell these at Whole Foods, REI, Sports Authority, and Trailblazer just to name a few.

We really enjoyed the waffles, my daughter finished her half before we got back to the car.

You can find out more about the company and view the products here:
http://www.honeystinger.com/

You can find your closest retailer here:
http://www.honeystinger.com/dealerlocator

PROBAR - Salt Lake City, Utah

Jeff Coleman gave up his cheesesteaks when he met a PROBAR back in early the 2000's, and he fell in love. He loved them so much, he bought the company. and he now runs it with his family. PROBAR is the leading provider of vegan, organic, and non-GMO food products that are delicious, convenient, healthy, and plant-based.  They have five different lines called:

• bite (anytime bar) -on-the-go-bites
• Meal (whole food meal replacement) raw ingredients of fruits, nuts, & seeds
• BOLT (energy chews) workouts to races, packed with electrolytes, B vitamins, complex carbs
• FUEL (super food bar) organic fruit blend of cashews and oats
• BASE (20g of protein) build strength and keeps you going strong

The bars come in a variety of flavors depending which variety you go with. You can find these at Target, Whole Foods, REI, and the Vitamin Shoppe to name a few. You can find out more about the company,where to get them locally, or order bars here:
http://theprobar.com/#1

Go Raw (junk-free food) - San Jose, California

Rob Freeland started making his first flax seed crackers back in 2002 in San Diego. They now have a full line of certified organic live foods. Raw foods are loaded with enzymes that help the body to properly digest and assimilate food for optimal nutritional value. They offer:

• Sprouted Bars - Banana Bread Flax Bar, Raisin Crunch Bar, Live Pumpkin Bar, Real Live Apricot Bar
• Sprouted Flax Seed - Sunflower Seed Flax Snack, Super Simple Flax Snack, Pizza Flax Snack, Spicy Fiesta Snack Flax
• Sprouted Cookies - Sweet Crunch Cookie, Ginger Snap Cookie, Chocolate Cookies, Lemon Pie Cookie, Spiced Chai Cookie, Carrot Cake Cookie
• Sprouted Bites - Sweet Spirulina Bites, Pumpkin Seed Bites
• Sprouted Granola - Raisin Crunch Granola, Super Simple Granola, Coco Crunch Granola, Apple Cinnamon Granola
• Sprouted Seeds - Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds, Sprouted Sunflower Seeds, Spicy Seed Mix, Simple Seed Mix, Sprouted Watermelon Seeds
• Chocolate - Super Raw Chocolate, Orange Raw Chocolate, Mint Raw Chocolate
• Coconut Crisps - Chocolate Coconut Crisps, Tangy Lime, Salt & Vinegar Coconut Crisps
• Salad Snax - Rowdy Ranch Salad Snax, Thousand Island Salad Snax, Raspberry Vinaigrette Salad Snax

You can find out more about the company and order products here:

http://www.goraw.com/