Bright Snack: Healthy Lifestyle Box Subscription Box Review – October 2016

Bright Snack delivers a box of healthy, single-serving snacks to your door every 30, 45, or 60 days. Subscriptions come in two sizes (regular and large), providing 10-21 servings of snacks per box, starting at $30/month.

Bright Snack has a few qualities that set it apart from other snack box subscriptions.

• Highly Selective – Bright Snack chooses snacks that are high in nutritional value while keeping added sugar and salt to a minimum. For example, Bright Snack only includes bars that contain less than 35% of their calories from sugar and derive their protein primarily from nuts and whey protein isolate (rather than soy protein isolate).
• Quality, Value, and Variety – Bright Snack chooses snacks that satisfy hunger – no gum, tea, or juice but real food. Additionally, they strive to find a wide assortment of flavors and items.
• Designed to Meet Specific Dietary Needs – Bright Snack works under the guidance of a Registered Dietitian to design boxes that benefit people with specific dietary needs. For example, the Diabetes Management box has snacks that meet the 7g protein/15-30g carb ratio; the Heart Health Box includes snacks high in fiber to lower cholesterol and snacks high in potassium to help control blood pressure.

Bright Snack offers the following specially designed boxes: Heart Health, Iron Source, Diabetes Management, Vegan, Low Carb/High Protein, and Healthy Lifestyle. I am reviewing a regular sized Healthy Lifestyle box – which contains many of the snacks available in different combinations in the other boxes.

Let’s take a look at the good stuff I got!

Eden Foods Pumpkin Seeds:  My family loves, loves, loves roasted pumpkin seeds, but we usually only eat them around Halloween. So great to have them available as a snack without all the hard work of carving a pumpkin and then cleaning and roasting the seeds! These pumpkin seeds were absolutely delicious and my family gobbled them up pretty much as soon as I opened the box. (The little bags are perfect for lunch snacks!)

Edazen Cruncha Ma-me:  This was a new one for me – I’ve eaten edamame but I’ve never had freeze-dried edamame. This was a nice twist on your typical crunchy/salty snacks – especially since it has a bunch of protein and fiber. Plus these snacks are gluten free and all natural. Best of all – they’re pretty tasty too. The yummy edamame flavor is enhanced by salt in the lightly seasoned bag and obviously onion & chive in the other bag. I really enjoyed both of these varieties and was happy to find a new type of snack!

Beanitos Bean Chips:  I’ve had Beanitos before and really like them. The original black bean chips are tasty, but the nacho cheese white bean variety is my favorite.  They are very reminiscent of nacho cheese corn chips, but with protein and fiber, making them not just delicious but also better for you.

Rise Protein Bars:  These bars are crazy good, considering how simple they are.  The carob chip bar is made of almonds, honey, whey protein isolate, and carob powder. That’s it. The sunflower cinnamon bar is made of sunflower butter, coconut nectar, pea protein, cinnamon, and vanilla extract (and tastes kind of like a cinnamon roll). The bars are high in protein but don’t have a weird flavor like many protein bars do. Probably because the nutrition comes from real food.

Olomomo Almonds:  I love almonds.  I love flavored almonds.  And now I love love love Olomomo almonds.  These almonds are so good.  The flavors are fresh and different and the powdering on the almonds is not messy or irritating like I’ve noticed with other kinds of flavored almonds.  The mango chipotle zinger was just the right amount of spicy-sweet, but the chai was my definite favorite. Oh, and how can you not love a company with this tagline: OLOMOMO is the monkey god of adventure – the voice in your head that says “go for it.” The best!

Nii Bars: More yummy bars made of real ingredients – although a few more than the five or less ingredients in the Rise Protein Bars above. The almond chocolate chip bar is like eating dessert. The berry cashew bar is also good – very fruity and nutty. These are very tasty nut-based bars made with good-for-you stuff.

Kind Breakfast Bars:  In my house, we are Kind bar fanatics. Like, we live on Kind products – all different kinds. But for whatever reason, we’d never tried the breakfast bars. These are the perfect mix of crunchy and chewy, filled with good stuff, and super easy to grab and go. My daughter took one of the bars to eat on the way to school one day when she woke up later than she usually does for school.  Very portable and lot more satisfying and healthy than a pastry.

I was very impressed with the snacks in the Bright Snack box. Every single item was something I want to eat again and that I feel good about eating. Plus I know that I can rely on this box to provide real snacks made with real ingredients for my family, without me worrying about whether any of the snacks isn’t good for them. I also liked the variety – some crunchy and some chewy, some salty and some sweet. Although I reviewed this box at home with my family, I could also see Bright Snack as being a great box to have delivered to the office, either to keep in my personal desk drawer for snacking or using the larger sized box to feed my colleagues. Yum!
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