Fancy Snacks

Snacking across the board will take a turn toward the fancy this year, and snacks, as they start to usurp the usual three-meals-a-day routine, are anything but ordinary. Snacking has become an occasion of its very own — think charcuterie or cheese boards for one, one-ounce portions of Cypress Grove cheeses paired with demi-baguettes as desk snacks and more mini meals.

More takes on snacking nod to the comforting treats of your second grade lunchbox, with better ingredients. Portable snack packages will feature bites like prosciutto and aged mozzarella, and artisanal versions of classic snacks like cheese or peanut butter cracker sandwiches. Ones to try are Creminelli Fine Meats’s artisan charcuterie snack packs, and the Cypress Grove artisanal fresh goat cheeses.

Ingredient-conscious snack and treat makers are creating new packaged snacks that take us back to our treat-loving childhoods but with higher quality ingredients, some of which are updated to accommodate special diets, like the Gluten-free Quinn “Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels.”

Upgraded retro treats will star on 2019’s shelves — candy-coated Project 7 “Organic Chewies” burst with intense fruit flavor and are gluten free; Smashmallow’s marshmallow and puffed rice treats are gluten free and made with organic sugar; Little Secrets “Crispy Wafers” are long crunchy rectangles dipped in fair trade chocolate.

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