Snack Alert

I'm a snacker. I am. I graze. Particularly when I come home from work and it's that evil time in between meals: you're hungry, but it's not dinner time for hours yet. So I'm trying to reach for healthful things rather than the alternative (I'm looking at you, jalapeno queso dip!). Now, for a long time this meant an apple with peanut butter. But I am an apple elitist (only Honeycrisp, thank you!) and my apple of choice are presently unavailable.

Lately I've been reaching for my granola, which is normally reserved for topping my oatmeal. This is of course disastrous, because it makes my granola disappear twice as fast, but it is also delicious. 

I use two types of granola on my oatmeal, both from Bear Naked (Peak!). The first layer (even in my snack bowl) is oats & honey, which is peppered with blueberries and ground and whole flax seeds. I never thought that I was a flax personal, but this is quite delicious, I have to say. Anyway, the second layer is cluster-y and wonderful, with cranberries and a hint of vanilla (the original [edit: original granola, not original vanilla], apparently).

I love bear naked for many reasons. They're vegetarian-friendly, soft-baked rather than break-your-tooth-off, kosher certified, all-natural, and as they say, "bearly processed."And finally, they have a "terracycling" program for their packaging. Each bag and wrapper has been assigned a number of points. You hold on to your empty packaging and when you have assembled the correct number of points, you mail them in and receive a reusable bag (made from the packaging) or a t-shirt! Now, there are some short-comings to the plan (pay for shipping, and really, how many t-shirts do you need from one company?) but I like the fact that they're doing more than JUST using recyclable materials, when it can be so hard to know where our recycling actually goes every week.

Either way, it's so darn tasty and I can't seem to stop my little grazing paw from reaching into the fridge to grab a little morsel of tasty clusters. 

(this being said, I'm pretty sure you don't have to keep granola in the fridge. I just do.)