Apple Chips

Instructions: open bag and try not to finish it in one sitting. Good luck with that.

Apple Chips are baked, not fried, so there’s no oil slick at the bottom of the bag and no seventeen ingredients you can’t pronounce. Just apples, sliced thin and dried until they turn into something closer to a chip than a fruit snack.

They’re basically the introvert of the snack world. Quiet, a little crunchy, somehow everyone’s favorite once they show up.

Compare that to a nine dollar cold pressed juice that goes bad in three days. This survives a backpack and a stocking, and still tastes like something on purpose.

Toss a bag in a gift basket, or hand it to the coworker who keeps saying they’re trying to eat better. They’ll actually mean it this time, for a solid week at least.

We dare you to open one bag and not go back for more before the first is even empty. Nobody’s won that bet yet.

Gluten free and light enough to slide into any stocking without adding real weight to the mail. It’s a snack that reads like more effort than it took, which might be the whole secret to a good stocking stuffer.