Things I ate and liked this week

I’ve tried a few new brands/products lately so I thought I’d share a few I enjoyed.  .  Have you found anything new lately you’ve loved? Do share in the comments below.

1. Banana Frooze Balls

I bought these Frooze balls as I wanted something sweet but still healthy-ish and I hadn’t seen the banana version before. I have to say, these were really good.  Hense why there is only a photo of an empty packet! The banana flavour was tasty and they had a really nice firm to bite texture.  The only thing about these is there’s 5 in a packet and it would be super easy to eat all 5, when a serve is really 1-2 depending on how active you are.  I ate 3 and gave the rest away.  Ingredients are Dates, cashew nuts, dried bananas (12%), raw almonds, coconut, natural flavours.

1 ball contains 58 calories, 1.2g protein, 2.7g fat, 6.5g carbs including 5.8g sugar, so you can see if you ate all 5 you’d be getting an overly energy dense snack for most people.

Would definitely buy these again and split over two serves.

 

2. Phoenix Organics Apple, Beetroot and Ginger Juice

I have been really craving fruit juice lately, and I thought I’d try a vegetable juice instead.  But actually this turned out to be more fruit juice than vege juice, so that will teach me for not reading the label properly.  Anyway, this juice was a nice change.  With apple, beetroot and a hint of ginger, it was mostly fruity tasting, with a beetroot flavour and a small kick of ginger.  I enjoyed it.  It has just as much sugar as fruit juice though, so it’s definitely not an every day drink.

 

3.  Macro organics chickpeas

Our local supermarket has just started stocking lots of Macro Organics products.  Organic products are usually more expensive, but I’m loving the fact that the legume range is similar or cheaper in price than other non organic brands. There are chickpeas, kidney beans and lentils at my local supermarket and I’m currently in love with the chickpeas.  I add some to my salads at lunch.  and I have to say the best combination I’ve had is raw grated beetroot, grated carrot, feta, parsley and chickpeas.  So delicious.  Chickpeas are high in fibre, provide carbohydrate and a plant based source of protein making them a good boost to a salad.

4.  Fragata Snacking Olives

These little snack packs of olives are fantastic.  I’ve tried the chilli and the garlic and they are both delicious.  They are pitted so they’re ready to eat and are much nicer than other pitted olives I’ve tried.  I like the fact that they don’t contain preservatives either. Nice in a salad, on home made pizza or just as is.  I made a big Greek salad with the garlic olives for a dinner I went to recently and it was a hit.