Graze Box Review

I haven't posted a Graze review in a while, but I've loved all of my boxes so far.  This one that I'm reviewing now is my fifth.  I have no excuse for not reviewing the others other than that I was lazy about it!

I subscribe to the nibblebox option and it costs me $5 per shipment.  You can choose to have them sent as often as every week, or once a month.  Right now I'm receiving monthly shipments.  Each box contains healthier options for snacking, and the nibblebox opens up a wider variety of foods (90 total) you could get.  The other option is the lightbox, which has 50 foods that are all between 50-150 calories.

My first snack was the Korai Chutney, which I was actually talking about with a friend that I had referred to Graze.  She said it was her favorite thus far, but I only just liked it.  It was definitely tasty, but I've had other snacks that I liked better.  It consisted of spiced tomato chutney and baked curry bites.  The chutney itself was spicy/sweet, but a little bit too sweet for my tastes.  The curry bites were much better than the chutney, in my opinion (they were nice and crunchy and had a good dose of flavor).

Next was the Honeycomb Crunch, made up of milk chocolate coated honeycomb, almonds, and raisins. I was interested in trying this mostly because of the chocolate element, and it turned out to be okay.  I'm not the biggest fan of almonds; I'll eat them but I prefer them to be coated with something.  This mixture had an equal ratio of all of the parts, so even though I wouldn't have eaten plain almonds on my own, it all tasted good when eaten together.

My favorite snack in this shipment was the Fruit and Seed Flapjack, a rustic rolled oat flapjack with mixed seeds and dried fruits.  I tried the Honeycomb Flapjack in my first box and I absolutely loved it.  This variety was much less sweet but still very delicious.  The flapjacks are basically soft granola bars, and they're lightly sweetened.  I liked the tartness of the fruit in this one.

My last snack was simply called Florentine.  It was a mixture of dark chocolate buttons, pumpkin seeds, and cranberries.  I think Graze wanted to send me as many chocolate snacks as they could before they became unavailable again (all three of these are only available in the fall), and I'm not complaining.  Much like the Honeycomb Crunch, I found this to be a great mixture when eaten all together.  It was hard for me not to just eat the dark chocolate buttons by themselves, but they definitely were even better when paired with the crunch of the seeds and the tart, chewy cranberries.

Bottom Line: I love food and these Graze snacks are delicious and I don't feel guilty eating them.  I like to take them with me to work for when I get hungry in between breakfast and lunch, since they're easily portable and have good nutrition (as opposed to a bag of chips, which might satisfy cravings but it won't help you feel satiated).  I highly recommend Graze, and I have four invite codes available for anyone who is interested!  You'll get your first box for free, too.

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Graze Box #2 Review

I raved about my first graze box to everyone I knew, and the second box was just as exciting!  I've only tried a few food subscriptions, but this one is by far the best.

If you haven't heard of graze, be sure to check out my first review, which I'll link to at the end of the entry.  This service is so affordable and offers you plenty of payment options, but my favorite part is that the snacks are all so yummy-looking!  I was pretty pleased with this assortment; I disliked one of the snacks but it was a personal preference thing as opposed to it tasting bad.

 

 

• Super Fiery Seeds - roasted chili pumpkin and sunflower seeds
  I originally had these rated as "like" on my profile, but after trying them I realized that I didn't love them as much as I thought I would.  I wish that they had more seasoning on them and that they were much spicier.  They were definitely a good option for a salty snack, though; they're much better than reaching for potato chips.
• Pomodoro Rustichella - cheese croutons, tomato, basil, and oregano almonds and mini tomato breadsticks
  I don't love almonds, but I still was excited to try this snack because I love cheesy-flavored things.  The mini tomato breadsticks sounded wonderful, too.  I ended up changing this snack to just "try" on my profile.  I liked it, but I didn't love it so much that I wanted to receive it very often (at least for now -- I'd rather try the other snacks first).
• Toffee Apple - sticky toffee sauce with granny smith apple slices
  This snack was so yummy!  I love toffee, caramel, butterscotch -- all of that.  This was absolutely delicious and my favorite snack of the box.  The apple slices were soft but not too soft, and the toffee sauce was nice and sweet.  I changed this to a "love" rating after sampling it.
• Love Mix - apricots, goji berries, and cherries
  I had never tried goji berries before so I wanted to give this one a shot.  I found that I don't like them at all after sampling this snack.  I wanted to like it because it sounds like a great fruit mixture, but overall they just weren't my favorite combination of fruits.  This was definitely a high quality snack, so I think anyone who likes these fruits would love it!

Bottom Line: My second box from graze was still a lot of fun to get, and I can't wait to get my third.  I still have it set to deliver twice a month because I think once a month would be too much time in between shipments for me.  I highly recommend this service!

Previous graze reviews: Box 1

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First Graze Box Review

I finally got around to trying Graze and I am so glad that I did!  I love absolutely everything about this box and I can't wait to tell you all about it!

Graze is a food subscription service that is based out of the UK.  They only recently started shipping the US, and I'm really glad that they did.  This box costs $5 per shipment (shipping included), and you can have it set to be sent once every week, every other week, or once a month.  All of their snacks are geared toward being more on the healthy spectrum, but they're far from the typical flavorless health food.  For those of you who are now thinking, "not all health food is flavorless!," I'm just saying that because I'd rather grab something bad for me than something with real nutritional value (haha).

What I think is really great about Graze is that you can rate all of their snacks, even before your first box arrives.  I had a lot of fun seeing photos of the snacks, and I could practically feel my pupils enlarging while reading their descriptions.  There were a few that I marked as "do not send," but not many.  You can choose one of four ratings: "trash," "try," "like," and "love."  Trash means you'll never receive that snack, try means you're happy to try it at least once, like is send occasionally, and love is send often.  You can change these ratings at any time, too.

So what was in my box?  A whole lot of yummy, that's what.

• Honeycomb Flapjack - rustic rolled oat flapjack with honeycomb and milk chocolate
  I loved these!  When I saw them on the site I thought that they would be a hard bar, kind of crunchy, which isn't my favorite.  To my delight and surprise they were incredibly soft and incredibly delicious.  The flavor was sweet and amazing and I just wish I could have them forever!
• Korean Chilli Rice Crackers - spicy chilli rice crackers
  OMG, hands-down my favorite snack in the box!  I can't even tell you how much I loved these.  Actually, I can.  I devoured them so quickly that they were long gone before I remembered that I needed to take a picture of them.  So, sorry folks, I have no up-close photos of them other than the one above.  I was really hoping that I would get to try these, so Graze picked perfectly for me when they decided to put them in my first box!  They tasted spicy/sweet to me, which is a fab combo.
• Eleanor's Apple Crumble - raisins, cinnamon and honey almonds and apple
  This snack was just okay, wasn't amazing but also wasn't terrible.  Like with the flapjacks, I expected the apple pieces to be dried and hard, but they were still pretty soft (which was good).  They had a similar texture to the raisins, so the cinnamon and honey almonds added a needed crunch.  I must say that the almonds were delicious, and I don't even like almonds otherwise.
• The British Barbecue - rosemary crostini, mini basil breadsticks, fiery seeds, smoked almonds
  Based on the description, I thought I was going to love this snack, but it ended up being my least favorite of the box.  I actually changed its rating to "trash" after trying it out.  It wasn't that it tasted bad, the flavors were all there and did taste good, it just wasn't what I'm looking for in a snack.  It reminded me too much of bridge mix, and I'd rather try something more exotic like the Korean Chilli Rice Crackers.

Bottom Line: For $5 a box, you really can't beat the value of Graze.  I am so impressed with these snacks and I can't wait to get my next box!  Currently I have it set to ship biweekly, but I may change it to once a month just because I spend more on subscription boxes than I should at the moment.  But if it comes down to having to cancel a subscription, it certainly won't be this one!

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View more photos of (most) of my snacks after the "read more!"