The food industry is always full of tricks to get people to eat products. I am always amused by the gimmicks. There's cheese shapes and fun packaging. Then there is the convenience of things. That usually makes me sneer. Squeeze up yogurt, crush cup yogurt, uncrustables... then they add squeezable applesauce to the mix. Why is it so hard to use a spoon to eat these foods? It's just another way to trick kids into eating something healthy. You weren't going to catch me doing that, even if I did buckle and let the kid eat yogurt squeeze tubes. But anyway, I was not going to spend more money for a gimmick. That was until I tried it.
A trip to Meijer one day and we were all given a package for free. If it tasted good, I could see the benefits. The kid tends to forget to clean her silverware from her lunch bags..that makes opening any lunch bag a fear fest to me. I am scared of mold. It absolutely terrifies me. So I am starting to see it's perks. It happened to be hunting season and I saw how that would be very handy to have. Then we like to hike and such. Okay, I have to admit, the design is actually pretty handy. But a plastic sack of apple sauce? It's not going to taste good. I can guarantee you that. So I didn't brave trying the package for a while.
My daughter insisted they were good and that she wanted them for lunch. Normally she isn't much of an applesauce person. If I buy her a snack pack set of them, more often than not they go to waste. I finally realized I needed to taste this stuff to understand. I tried the plain apple and it was delicious! You know what that means! Oh yeah, show me the high fructose corn syrup and 3 types of sugar. I flip the package and get : apples. No way, it's a straight forward product? Mind. Blown. I can get behind a snack like that. And then I start paying attention to all the flavors! They really branch out! apple-cherry, apple-peach, apple-mango, plus the typical apple-berry and apple-strawberry. I tried all of them, except the mango cause I'm allergic. I think the apple-cherry is my favorite.
So now I have to always have these on hand. With so many stomach issues, I have to eat a great deal of mushy bland food. You know how they say there's always room for Jello? Obviously that person never had stomach issues. You have to live on soft foods and jello soon becomes your enemy. Having these gogosqueeze apple sauces is such a wonderful thing.
I have to admit, sometimes the gimmicks work. Just sad that plain pure fruit with no added junk is now considered a novelty.
