August Love With Food

Love With Food sends you 8+ gourmet food samples every month for $12 a month.  For every box purchased, they also donate a meal to a child in need.  You also earn points for reviewing the products you receive, which you can redeem for full size foods.

This month's box's theme was Backyard BBQ.

Harvest Snaps Snapea Crisps: ($.78)  These really just taste like crunchy bits of nothing with a light green pea after taste.  The flavor itself isn't bad, it's just not something that I like with the texture.

Good Boy Organics BOPS: ($.93)  These had a really funky aftertaste.  They sort of taste like someone pressed instant potatoes into chip form.

Aunt Sally's Creamy Praline: ($2.33)  SO tasty.  This tastes just like good, homemade pecan pralines.  

El Pinto Medium Salsa: ($.99)  J actually ate this.  He said it's good salsa, but certainly not hot enough to qualify as "Medium."  

Sahale Snacks Crunchers: ($.98)  These are sliced almonds, sesame seeds and cranberries, all coated in honey.  They suggest using it as a topper, so I'll sprinkle them on the next bowl of oatmeal I have.

Save the Earth Mints: ($1)  I got the Thirst mints in June's Popsugar box.  I prefer those to these, but that's just because I like wintergreen.  These are good, potent little mints too.

Rip van Wafels Caramel Filled Amsterdam Wafel: ($1.25)   I actually ate this for breakfast with my coffee yesterday.  It was good, but not something I'd want regularly.

Dizzy Dust: ($1.10)  It smells like a slightly spicier version of Lawry's Seasoned Salt.  J's going to use it the next time he grills.

The total value of this month's box was $9.36.  I'm cancelling my Love With Food subscription, for now, so that I can try out something new for a while.  Now I just need to decide which one I'll go for next.

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July Love With Food Review

I adore Love with Food.  The box itself is smaller than most of my other subscriptions, but almost everything they send is brand new to me.  No matter what they wind up sending, I feel like $12 is a decent price to get to diversify my pantry.

This month's theme is "Fun on the Boardwalk."

Lord Nut Levington Rebel Mary Peanuts: ($.50) These peanuts are spicy bloody mary flavored.  I'm not crazy for peanuts, so I haven't yet worked up the nerve to try these yet.

Vermont Smoke and Cure RealSticks: ($.62) J sampled this and commented that it doesn't taste any different than a SlimJim, except BBQ flavor.  These have less fat and salt than most meat sticks, though.

Twangerz Snack Toppings: (~$.41)  I remember in middle school, Lucas salts were all the rage.  I also remember some guys snorting it in the back of one of the science labs.  Anyway, these are the same as Lucas.  I put some of the pickle salt on popcorn and devoured it.

Uncle Henry's Pretzels: ($.38)   These suckers are crunchy.  I mean can't-hear-a-damn-thing-while-you're-eating-one crunchy.  I feel like most store-bought pretzels don't taste like much beyond the salt that's on them - but these actually taste amazing.

Nature's Bakery Fig Bar: ($3.50) Yum.  The cookie part is super soft and tasty and there is actually a decent amount of filling in this. 

Kukuruza Popcorn: ($2.70) Himalayan Salted Caramel deliciousness.  I'm a popcorn fiend and this is quite possibly the best caramel corn I have had.

Necco Candy Wafers and Angel Mint Salt Water Taffy: ($.70)  For some reason, I forget that I like salt water taffy, then I get some and go crazy for it for a while, then forget about it again. 

Again, the value is around $9, which is a bit less than what you pay per month.  Love with Food also donates meals to those in need for each box you buy, so I call it even.

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June Love With Food Review

I received my first Love With Food box!  I actually had no idea this box was coming since I only just got my tracking information today but didn't actually track it before going to my mailbox.

For $10 a month, Love with Food sends you a box of gourmet food.  For every box they sell, they also donate a meal to someone in need.  This month, they donated to foodbanks in Oklahoma.

I was a little surprised at the size of the box (it's about the size of a hardback book) but it was packed full of goodies.  This month had the theme Summer Bash.

 Seaweed Love Roasted Seaweed: ($1.33) If you like seaweed, you'll like these but if you don't, you won't. I don't dislike them, but I couldn't eat the entire package in one sitting.

Turbana Plantain Chips: ($.79) These are 100% natural and supposed to be similar to banana chips.  Their website has a TON of interesting sounding flavors, so if I wind up liking these Sweet ones, I'll have to investigate some others.

Smooze! fruit ice:  ($.66) The best part of summer is snocones, slushies and popsicles - so I think these are awesome.  I got the coconut mango flavor but I'm going to pick up a box of the coconut pineapple next time I'm at Sprouts.  These are the perfect way to cool off on a hot Texas summer day.

Soy Joy Soy and Fruit Bar: ($1.19) At this point, if you've ever gotten ANY subscription box, you've probably gotten at least one Soyjoy.  They're not my favorite but it will probably get eaten.  This is the mango coconut flavor, and there were also coupons for buy 3, get one free and $1 off a 5-pack included.

Organic Flavrz Drink Mix: ($1.12)  This Citrus Hibiscus Immunity drink mix is supposed to make your water extra tasty plus build up your immune system naturally.  I'll probably try this over the weekend when I'm surrounded by people in town for the ROT rally.

Surf Sweets Fruity Bears: ($.32) Um, I'm in love.  No, seriously.  These aren't as chewy as your typical gummy bears but they are soft and juicy and delicious.  They're also gluten free and vegan.  And delicious.  Did I say that already?

Do More Bars: ($1.69) This is basically a rice krispie treat, all grown up.  This pineapple coconut ceral bar is gluten free, too.

Pur gum: ($1.42)  This gum is aspartame free, gluten free and vegan.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that while it tastes really good, the flavor lasts approximately 5 minutes.  And that's it.

GoOrganic Hard Candy: At first I thought the purple one was grape, but it's actually blood orange.  I tried the apple one and it was really tasty, but they're very hard hard-candies, so don't try to crunch them very early on.

Naked Wines $50 credit: Either I'm doing it wrong, or you have to order 12 bottles of wine at a minimum.  I'll probably pass this along to someone who's about to have a big party, because I have no need for that much.  If it were vodka on the other hand...

The grand total comes to a bit less than $9.  (I'm not including the Naked Wines gift card since, from what I can tell, you'd have to spend a lot to redeem it.) That's less than the cost of the box, but that doesn't take into consideration the cost of shipping - plus you're also providing a meal to someone in need.  Plus, similar to Birchbox, you can earn points for reviewing the items you received in your Love with Food box.

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