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Late July Organic Snacks

By Elizabeth Smith, August 14, 2012  |  Meet the Blogger  |  More Posts by Elizabeth Smith

At Whole Foods Market®, we love sharing good food and drink. Whether it’s a peak-of-the-season berry, a team member creation from our bakery, sausages made in house or a new grocery discovery, we love celebrating great flavors and products. But we don’t just want to tell you about it; we want you to enjoy it too. So, we’re doing a series of summer giveaways through mid-August. Read on to find out how to enter to win.

It might be mid-August, but it’s still time for Late July! Late July Organic Snacks is on a mission to educate people about organics through their taste buds. As a family owned and operated company, they care deeply about the integrity of their products – which all proudly wear the USDA organic seal! This means they meet USDA National Organic Standards requiring that the crops are grown without the use of persistent pesticides. Those standards also don't allow irradiation, genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) and synthetic preservatives.

If you’ve ever searched for snacks for the family that meet your standards, then you’ll understand what Late July Organic Snacks founder Nicole Bernard Dawes went through years ago when her kids were old enough to start snacking. That’s when she knew she had to take matters into her own hands and recreate classic crackers and cookies with organic ingredients and without hydrogenated oils or artificial additives.

With “family” at the forefront, Late July Organic Snacks was started to create a better, more responsible food system for her children and future generations. With help from her father, the founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, Nicole worked to create delicious snacks without compromising on the quality of ingredients — snacks that lived up to her family’s standards and likely yours too!

Learn more about Late July Organic Snacks, Nicole and her family and their passion for great snack foods in this slideshow. 

 

If you have problems viewing the slideshow, you can watch it on YouTube.

Family remains the primary focus at Late July Organic Snacks, and on any given day you can find three generations at work including Nicole’s eight-year-old and four-year-old sons. (They’re the perfect R&D team!) Impressively that strong sense of family also extends into the community. Late July Organic Snacks supports several nonprofit organizations through the sale of their products, including the Jane Goodall Institute, American Camp Association and Whole Planet Foundation.

Nicole views making food for other people’s families (like yours) an enormous responsibility. Perhaps that’s why we think your whole family will love their Mini Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches. You can sit back and enjoy organic peanut butter sandwiched between buttery-tasting organic mini crackers, without worrying about trans fats, artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors or preservatives – because there aren’t any! With values like those, their products can’t help but leave a great taste in your mouth.

What’s built up your appetite this summer? Tell us in the comments below by August 26 and we’ll pick a winner at random to receive a case of Late July Organic Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers.

The fine print: No purchase necessary. Promotion ends August 26, 2012, 11:59 PM CDT. Must be a legal resident of the US or Canada (except in Quebec, where it is void) age 18 or older to participate. Taxes on prize, if applicable, are the responsibility of the winner. Employees of Whole Foods Market, Inc., are not eligible. Void where prohibited.

 

Category: Grocery, Contests

 

296 Comments

Comments

Chris says ...
Working and enjoying summer when I can has been building my appetite this summer!
08/19/2012 11:50:36 PM CDT
Cheryl says ...
K classroom ready for 30 students. It it important to eat healthy each day and only eat healthy snacks with my students.
08/20/2012 2:19:07 AM CDT
Chandra says ...
Fresh from our garden food. We are lucky enough to have a beautiful garden with an abundance of blueberies, basil, corn, tomatoes.... Nothing beats that first fresh bite from the garden.
08/20/2012 6:12:46 AM CDT
Audrey says ...
Long days at the beach playing in the surf definitely works up our appetite for a fresh, garden grown dinner!
08/20/2012 6:14:41 AM CDT
Donna Lindsley says ...
Gardening builds up my appetite! We have a large organic garden and I love it!
08/20/2012 7:41:53 AM CDT
Deb McGee Johnson says ...
What built up my appetite this summer? Running around after my 3 year old nephew and my 1 year old niece! They are bundles of endless energy, activity and curiosity. Full of questions about everything they see, touch, smell, and hear, they've kept me on my toes both physically and intellectually. If I'm the winner of a case of Late July Organic Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, I'll enjoy sharing a healthy snack with Hudson & Quinn...just as soon as I can figure out how to get them to set still long enough to eat it : )
08/20/2012 12:23:03 PM CDT
Amy Seiger says ...
Thanks for a great giveaway !!! I love the fresh fruits and harvest of the fall!!!
08/20/2012 7:42:52 PM CDT
Ttrockwood says ...
Awesome giveaway!! Perfect timing for lunchbox snacks!
08/20/2012 10:47:08 PM CDT
CathyO says ...
Fresh Organic fruit has built up my appetite this summer. We grow our own blueberries, raspberries, and pears. In fact, I just made a wonderful blueberry pie this afternoon.
08/21/2012 12:12:32 AM CDT
sharon manter says ...
We have built up our appetite by running and splashing in the cool maine ocean. :)
08/21/2012 8:26:46 AM CDT
Tristan says ...
The thing that builds up my families appetites in the summer is the abundance of fresh produce that we grow in our raised beds. Seeing all the wonderful ways to use what we grow inspires my toddler and fills our taste buds with happy memories!
08/21/2012 8:30:55 AM CDT
ellen says ...
Keeping up with my active 4-yr-old builds my appetite! Always looking for healthy snacks for her - make most of my own but these from Late July look good!
08/21/2012 1:04:10 PM CDT
maria says ...
The thing that builds up my appetite in the summer are definitely all the fruits that are in season. I have eaten them raw, cooked with them, made great jams,,you name it!
08/21/2012 5:44:20 PM CDT
Elizabeth C. says ...
I was sent a sample of a new flavor cracker and it tasted so good that I've been buying and recommending it to people. It's a spicy flavor which not a lot of cracker brands if any would make.
08/21/2012 6:38:10 PM CDT
CB says ...
A 2 week vacation to Maine in July with my 4 boys, all age 5 and under!
08/21/2012 11:15:59 PM CDT
Sue says ...
The details on the giveaway and how to enter do not appear. Maybe they did before, but it is Aug 22... why does this article still appear?
08/22/2012 9:43:25 AM CDT
Nikki - Community Moderator says ...
@SUE - The contest details are listed at the bottom of the post entitled, "the fine print". This contest runs until August 26, 2012, 11:59 PM CDT. So you still have plenty of time to enter!
08/22/2012 9:58:04 AM CDT
steven d. says ...
Spending a lot of time hiking and camping has built up my appetite this summer.
08/22/2012 1:54:44 PM CDT
maryann says ...
All of the amazing fresh summer fruits!
08/22/2012 1:55:43 PM CDT
Kelly F. says ...
We just had our second child, so keeping up with a busy 4 year old and a newborn definitely works up an appetite. Have to make sure everyone eats healthy to keep up our energy!
08/22/2012 2:01:54 PM CDT
Paula Hurley says ...
For past 2 months have been eating only organic, vegan food! Feel terrific, no longer on cholesterol meds, have energy to spare! Healthy eating is the only way to go and Whole Foods market makes it so easy!
08/22/2012 2:03:22 PM CDT
Kristen says ...
This spring I finally put together my square-foot raised garden and have been planting and harvesting ever since.
08/22/2012 2:04:16 PM CDT
sandra says ...
Just enjoying the summer and running after my five grandkids....always built up my appetite :)
08/22/2012 2:27:14 PM CDT
elaine manza says ...
Playing golf! There's nothing like peanut butter crackers at the 9th hole turn to keep our appetite down until lunch!
08/22/2012 2:28:40 PM CDT
Julie says ...
Chasing after my 3 year old has left me starving (and down 5 lbs.)
08/22/2012 2:40:04 PM CDT

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