So, hailing from the land of Weight Watchers many moons ago, I am a big proponent of the office snack drawer. I’m a major snacker. When I’m bored, I snack. And I tend to also get legitimately hungry between meals. I’ve never been a big fan of vending machines (although, there are always times when a craving strikes…) and there isn’t on in this office anyway, but I have been known to bring nothing but high-carb, high-sugar, high-fat snacks to work.

No longer! At lunch today I hopped over to the Vitamin Cottage near my office –– a local health food store here in Colorado. I wandered the store for a good 45 minutes and came up with some good stuff.

First and foremost, Bare Fruit 100% Organic Bake-Dried Fuji Apple Chips are awesome! They are something between crunchy and chewy with awesome apple flavor and –– best of all! –– they have only 29 calories and NO FAT per serving! This is just what I need for the mid-afternoon slump boredom munchies. Guilt-free goodness.

I got some Soy Crisps in sea salt flavor. They’re… OK. They taste a lot like the Quaker rice snacks I used to nosh all the time on WW, but these have something of a strange aftertaste. HOWEVER! I got them to fulfil my chips-with-sandwich addiction, and I think they would probably be rockin’ with salsa (assuming they don’t disintegrate in the liquid…), which I intend to investigate ASAP.

I also got some Santa Cruz Apple Apricot Sauce for those times when I’m dying for something sweet come 3 o’clock. (It happens!) I haven’t tried these yet, but I like apple sauce; I like apricots. Where’s the bad? Also, these come in individual servings, so they’re easy to stash in the desk drawer.

Finally, I couldn’t resist the Good Health Natural Foods Peanut Butter Filled Pretzles. I am such a sucker for these, man. At least they come in a small bag and are all-natural. Hey, it could be worse! I could’ve picked up a bag of Have’a Chips! Mmm… Remind me of the shake shack in Laguna Beach, which, alas, is now a Ruby’s diner. 😦

OK! Back to work! Better break out those apple chips…