best snack ever

The last time we were at Costco one of the vendors passing out samples was Mrs. Mays Fruity Snapz. Basically freeze dried fruit chunks. We took a sample and tasted it and since Ada now wants to eat whatever we are eating she insisted on trying them as well. When you hear freeze dried fruit you tend to think about dried fruit chips, somewhat tasty but also sort of, well, dried out. But one bite of the Fruity Snapz will change your mind forever. Ada gobbled up her little sample and then started rotating between the 'eat', 'more', and 'please' signs as fast as she could. Well that kind of enthusiasm for any food that doesn't include chocolate will always result in immediate purchase. I thought, well, it has fruit in it so exactly how bad could it be. I was guessing they fell pretty close to the fruit leather category, but it turns out they are even better. They are just fruit! Nothing else. A parent's dream.

Ada has an acute awareness of what the Fruity Snapz box and packaging look like and whenever she sees either of them she does her crazy 'eat', 'more', and 'please' sign rotation. A sure sign of a snack that falls into the "Baby Crack" category. Ada would clean her room, vacuum the house, and wash all the windows for one package for Apple Snapz. Lucky for her we aren't that demanding. Instead we let her have one package of Snapz a day, after we pick her up from day care and after she is strapped in her car seat. She anticipates this time all day long. She always sees me trying to sneak the pack into her food bag and starts her crazy signing routine, so we tell her, "After school, we'll give you your Snapz after we pick you up from school." And that seems to make sense to her. But of course, when we pick her up from school she remembers and starts to get more and more excited the closer we get to her car seat. Every so often she will even say "Dank do (Thank you)" without being prompted after she receives her Snapz, which is a mother's dream. And to think, I only had to resort to bribing a 1.5 year old with a completely healthy baby crack snack.