Green product Saturdays: 100-calorie cookie packs

100-calorie cookie snack packs
Barbara's Bakery Organic Mini Cookies
You want you and your family to eat foods that are good for them, but you also want convenience and good taste .... and would it be too much to ask if snacks didn't immediately add four pounds to your hips?
Well, just in time for back-to-school lunch buying, I'm here to preach the goodness of Barbara's Bakery organic mini cookies.
Like snacks from other major brands, these are sold in 100-calorie packs, making it harder to slip up and making sure you aren't loading little Sally's lunch with a little something extra.
There's no trans fats, these are low-fat and they're USDA-labeled organic. To get that lable, 95% of the ingredients must be organically grown and the remaining 5% must come from non-organic ingredients that have been approved on a national list. Only 95 percent, you ask in horror? Check the cookies made by major brands. They're likely full of horrors that can't be packed into Barbara's Bakery's non-organic 5 percent.
They're sold in multipacks at your local grocery store. (Check the organic aisle if you don't see them in the cookie or snack aisle.) Online, it's about $4.20 for five bags, but bulk discounts are available.
You can pick oatmeal, chocolate or ginger, and holy cow, may I suggest the ginger? This iis real ginger, not some faux gingersnap flavor. It's got a little delicious bite, making this a great snack for adults.
I really would run the risk of chowing down a ton of the ginger ones if they weren't in 100-calorie packages.