The package was delivered just as I was packing my daughter and I up for her only out-of-town hockey tournament of the year. Fourteen Taste of Nature bars for my taste test and review. The timing could not have been better.
Those of you who know eight-year-old girls’ hockey teams know that a weekend hockey tournament is 5% about the actual games, and 95% about staying in a hotel with a bunch of your best friends, swimming in the hotel pool, playing ministicks in the hotel hallways, watching movies together in each others rooms.
A weekend hockey tournament consists of early morning and late afternoon runs out to an arena for games, and an awful lot of time spent hanging in (much) less than five starthotels. It’s always a challenge to keep myself and my daughter eating healthy through these weekends, and I was just packing up some snacks for our hotel “home away from home”, but apples and trail mix only go so far. It’s so tempting over the course of the weekend to grab a muffin, a bag of chips, a chocolate bar…because it’s there, and it’s easy. Taste of Nature had challenged me to simply replace one snack per day with their healthy and delicious bars.
I threw the bars in my bag and hoped they’d satiate a few hunger pains over the weekend.
They did much more. They were a great pre-game breakfast for my daughter who normally can’t force herself to eat anything early in the morning. They were a great post-game snack to give her the energy she needed for a swim in the pool.
(Shame they had so much trouble recovering from their loss, huh?)
They were a mid-afternoon snack for me when I was stuck alone in the hotel room while she evaded hotel security visited with her teammates in their rooms.
I’ll have a full review of the how my entire family liked these Taste of Nature bars next month, but in the meantime Taste of Nature is encouraging Canadians to pledge to snack healthy in 2014. Visit the company’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tasteofnature, and promise to switch to at least one healthy snack a day. As an incentive, everyone who signs the online pledge until February 28th will be entered into a daily draw for a yoga mat and Taste of Nature bars.
This post is sponsored, but all opinions expressed are my own.
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