“Mmm, hey – these are really good cookies!” Mumbles my husband around a mouthfull of biter biscuit that he’s just swiped from my three-year-old’s box of thick, flaky,crunch, sweet and all natural toddler snacks. “They sure are!” I reply before crunching down into the satisfying texture. “My have another one peez Mommy?” Asks my daughter.

Our family is pretty discerning when it comes to snack food, and BeechNut’s (a family company) promise to keep the good stuff in and take the bad stuff out piqued my interest. Always progressive, BeechNut (the first company to offer baby food in glass jars) has a new line of snack food for toddlers ages 1 – 3. Featuring naturally healthy ingredients, their line is free of artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and is only lightly sweetened with natural cane sugar.  Parents of children with allergens, please note – these products DO contain wheat, corn and dairy products, though not necessarily all three within a single product.

Like I mentioned, our favourite is the Biter Biscuit.  These are BIG biscuits, easy to hold, and so, so satisfying to gnaw on.  I bring a box with me to church when I’m teaching Sunday School, but we also snack on them at home.

The ingredients look pretty good to me!

Ingredients: Enriched Wheat Flour, Whole Grain Wheat Flour, Evaporated Cane Juice, Palm Oil, Refiners’ Molasses, Skim Milk Powder, Sodium Bicarbonate, L-Cysteine Hydrochloride. Contains: Wheat, Milk.

Simple enough, but incredibly tasty.

The most savoury of the lot is the Mixed Veggie 7-Grain Nibbles.  Sort of like a tiny, rice cake with a lot of added nutrition, these little discs are filled with assorted grains and vegetables (very sneakily, you’d never suspect peas and beans as ingredients).  Again, very portable, incredibly healthy ingredients but I’ll admit they weren’t anyone’s favourite – it must be the family sweet tooth talking – they are completely unsweetened, but never bitter.

Ingredients: Multigrain Bits (Whole Grain Corn, Rice Flour, Whole Grain Wheat Flour, Whole Grain Oat Flour, Dehydrated Cane Juice, Salt), Sunflower Oil, Millet, Quinoa, Dried Peas, Dried Carrots, Amaranth Seeds. Contains: Wheat.

And the third snack we tried is excellent for toddlers who are still working on perfecting their pincer grips.  The Strawberry-Banana Yogurt Nibbles are fun – shaped like flowers – and provide a level of sweetness that satisfies the most ardent sweet tooth, while relying upon natural ingredients. The bag is re-sealable as well, bonus.

Ingredients: Multigrain Puffs (Rice Flour, Whole Oat Flour, Whole Wheat Flour, Brown Rice Flour, Dicalcium Phosphate), Organic Cane Juice Powder (Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Corn Starch), Modified Palm Kernel Oil, Strawberry Powder, Calcium Carbonate, Skim Milk Powder, Skim Milk Yogurt Powder (Skim Milk, Bacterial Culture), Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavour. Contains: Wheat, Milk, Soy.

So, if you’re looking for a healthy, toddler-snack alternative that ISN’T junk (many snacks include 50% sugar!) and IS tasty and convenient, keep an eye out for BeechNut in your local grocery store.

You can learn more about BeechNut and their new Let’s Grow! products online.

This product review is courtesy of BzzAgent.  As an agent I received product to review.