Nakd Bars - Which is Your Favourite?

A few weeks ago I entered into a prize draw for a goodie bag from Nakd Wholefoods on Tanya Alekseeva's blog called better raw. It was the first time I had come across Tanya's blog and I must say she has some delicious looking recipes on there, some that I'm going to have to try! Another bonus is that Tanya holds a weekly giveaway, and looking over previous giveaways there have been some awesome prizes.

Unfortunately my prize, got lost in the post, but thanks to Kelly at betterraw.com a parcel soon arrived for me. It was full of scrummy things including my favourite nakd bars, cocoa orange and strawberry crunch. There were also the nakd fruit infused raisins which I had also tried before and loved. The total package contained 36 Nakd bars and 18 packets of Nakd raisins, aren't I the lucky one?

I can't wait to try the nakd bars I've not yet tried, I hadn't even heard of some of the flavours. The range includes the following:

• Cashew Cookie
• Ginger Bread
• Pecan Pie
• Caffe Mocha
• Cocoa Mint
• Cocoa Orange
• Cocoa Delight
• Berry Delight
• Rhubarb & Custard
• Apple Crunch
• Strawberry Crunch
• Banana Crunch
• Cocoa Crunch
• Orange Infused Raisins
• Crazy Cola Infused Raisins
• Tangy Lime Infused Raisins
• Pineapple Infused Raisins
• Cherry Infused Raisins
• Lucky Lemon Infused Raisins

The Nakd bars are perfect for a mid morning snack and I always have a couple hiding in my drawer at work, for those mornings when you need something sweet with your cuppa. There are no artificial ingredients in the products. They are gluten and wheat free, free from added sugar, low in saturated fats, vegan and have no GM ingredients. 

The first time I tried the Cocoa Orange flavour I was in heaven, since turning vegan at the start of this year I had got in to the habit of eating vegan chocolate, thinking "It's vegan, it has to be good for you". After my weight started creeping up I knew I had to do something different and the chocolate (and crisps) had to go! Whenever I fancied something chocolatey I reached for the Nakd Cocoa Orange bar and it satisfied my chocolate cravings and curbed my hunger pains to boot. As an added bonus it was healthy too, I was addicted. Now I get to try out all the other flavours. I can't wait to dive in.

What is your favourite Nakd bar flavour?

Vegan Swap Box - What I Sent

This month was my first vegan swap box which the to happy vegans organise every month. I was super excited at sending a swap box and even more excited to see what I would receive.
The person I sent to was Bindy, who told me that this was the first and last time she would be able to take part in the vegan swap box, as she was moving away from the UK at the end of the month. So I put my thinking cap on and thought the best thing to send her was snack foods, naughty but nice! Here is what I sent her:

I ordered a graze box to send and this was made up with a sachet of lightly salted popping corn, lightly toasted pistachios, seedsational (roasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds roasted with soy sauce) and lost army (a classic rice and peanut cracker mix). 

When I first went vegan I had a mentor that was set up by the vegan society and she told me that original hobnobs were vegan. I was amazed and I always have a packet at hand for those emergencies! Another good stand by is the packet of savoury snack mix.

I also included two "9bars"; original and flax as well as 3 "nakd" bars; cocoa and orange, pecan pie and cashew cookie. My favourite is the cocoa and orange version which I am going to have a go at making myself sometime soon.

To top off the naughty but nice I included a packet of little love heart sweets and ASDA free from choc and orange bar.

To balance all the naughtiness out, I added a carton of rice dream, a milk alternative that I use quite a bit in my cooking and 2 earl grey and 2 green tea with lemon tea bags. I hope Bindy enjoys the swap box, I enjoyed putting it together.