Working in an office, it’s easy to slip into bad snacking habits where any time of day becomes snack time. Or worse, the whole day turns into one long snack fest. Wait a minute, a snack fest actually sounds pretty good!
More seriously though, so long as most of them are healthy snacks, eating little and often isn’t a bad thing – or so I tell myself. If you work in an office too (or anywhere where it’s easy to snack away) then keeping your desk drawer stocked with tasty-but-healthy snacks is pretty vital to making this work, especially when you don’t have time to create any healthy homemade treats for the week. My most recent discovery couldn’t be better suited to desktime snacking: freeze dried blueberries!
I seriously love finding a new way of preparing a food I already adore and freeze drying is fantastic for three (at least!) reasons: it keeps the full nutritional value of the berries, it preserves the fruit naturally without additives, and thirdly, it transforms the blueberries into crunchy, flavourful little treats. These delightful Little Wild Blueberries snack packs are produced by Nova Scotia Organics who wanted to come up with a treat that really felt like a treat, but nourished you at the same time. I’d say they more than succeeded! It goes without saying that they are vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free since they are made with just one ingredient – blueberries.
Nova Scotia Organics are a pretty easy to love company too – everything they produce is created with health in mind and completely organics. These are principles they’ve stuck to for over twenty years!
Back to the blueberries: as well as being a perfect snack on their own, they’re ideal as a smoothie bowl topping, in porridge, or mixed in with a trail mix. I made this vibrant smoothie bowl using Nova Scotia Organics’ Berry Smoothie Mix – a nourishing mix of teff grain protein, chia seed protein, Vitamin C, and fiber. I’ve never tried a powdered smoothie mix before and, though I won’t be giving up the real thing any time soon, it’s great to have in the cupboard as a back-up option. I’m also thinking of taking it along with me on my up-coming camping trip as an easy-to-make, healthy breakfast.
Nova Scotia Organics kindly sent me some products to try – all thoughts and opinions my own, naturally!
