The weaning journey for each of my four children started with breastmilk mixed with a little Organix baby rice. I found it to be the perfect way to introduce my babies to solid food. By mixing it with the milk they loved so much, it tasted familiar and had a lovely, creamy consistency. Later on, I would use it to thicken ‘runny’ fruit purees like pear or butternut squash and they all loved it. Check my little Crevette (now almost 8 years old!) just about to have his first spoonful of Organix baby rice:
I always stuck with Organix for my children’s ready-made treats because they are made with organic ingredients and I have always trusted their ‘No Junk’ promise. They also happen to be delicious and available in my local shops. All my children have grown up with the ‘carrot crisps,’ the rice cakes, the soft oaty bars and the raisins by Organix. They are still the snacks I buy in bulk when going away or having a day out. They are the treats they choose to put in party bags. Crevette, who is almost 8, still packs them for school occasionally.
Imagine my excitement when a few weeks ago, I was invited to Organix HQ, alongside a select bunch of bloggers. What a privilege! On the way over, I was excited about the secrecy around the meeting. What would it be about? New snacks for my toddler? An exciting new range of flavours maybe? I was also a tad anxious. When you have such a high opinion of a company, you can be bitterly disappointed when you realise they are not as good as you had anticipated. I shouldn’t have worried: Organix were as good as I had imagined. Better still! As soon as I arrived in the vast open-plan working kitchen, I was offered a drink and a moreish organic chocolate cookie. What a perfect way to start a meeting!
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I then met Anna Rosier, Managing Director of Organix, and Emily Day, food developer for the children’s healthy snack brand. Let me introduce these two wonderful women before I move on to the amazing snack they unveiled on the day.
Anna is one of those rare people I could listen to for hours. I have a short attention span and tend to drift off within minutes of a speech starting, but Anna grabbed my attention as soon as she opened her mouth, and I was hanging on to every word she said. Before joining Organix 12 years ago, she was part of the corporate world. She was not overly fussed over organic living. She had worked for companies like Coca Cola and Gillette and something clicked when she met Lizzie Vann, who founded Organix in 1992.
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Lizzie was a bit of a hippie and campaigner. She wanted food businesses to change things. If they were not going to do it, she would do it herself. Anna caught her passionate bug and has been determined for over a decade to improve the food industry with healthier foods, transparent labelling and wider choice of high-quality, nutritionally rich organic products.
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Anna is down-to-earth and passionate about the Organix No Junk Promise. She is far from smug and incredibly modest about the huge difference she is making through her position at Organix. More than that, she is keen for competitors to improve their own ethos and production methods, so that greater choices become available to parents. She is not scared of competitors; she wants them to follow in her footsteps and create snacks that are better and healthier for children, so that parents have a wider scope for choice.
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Emily has been developing food for Organix for the past 9 years. She researches, develops and tastes healthy new recipes for children. She is determined to encourage children to grow up with a love of good food so that when they grow up, they are more likely to make healthier choices for themselves.
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The food at Organix is created by Emily following a few simple principles:
- Innovation
- Flavours children will love
- No Junk Promise, the stamp of reassurance created by Organic
- Organic ingredients for the lowest levels of pesticides possible
- Nothing unnecessary – no additives, no preservatives, no extra ingredients that bulk up the food
New Organix treats generally take 18 months to 2 years to be developed. First of all, ideas are considered, then organic raw materials are sourced. After that comes rigorous testing of the food and its shelf-life as well as a range a food safety assessments. The No Junk Promise defines how they make decisions at Organix. A lot of self-policing defines everything they do. They set themselves standards, and although those standards can be crippling, they are rigorous and worthy of their No Junk Promise. Organix are not just about selling a range of food or being a brand. They campaign and operate like a case study for food businesses. They are living proof to other, bigger businesses that you can make food that is good, organic and healthy and still make money. As parents, we are bombarded by all sorts of information that can be confusing. Most parents expect the food industry to make the changes for them. All they want at Organix is for parents to make the right choices. They are not after keeping it all to themselves. With a bit of trial and error, anyone could recreate Organix snacks at home, since they share their recipes on the back of their packets. How brilliant is that?
There are two sides to the challenge we as parents have. We want what is healthiest for our little ones, but our children want fun snacks. Organix have just launched a new range of snacks with attitude that solve that conundrum: Punk’d, the snack food with attitude!
Filipa, Al, Grace and I were the first people to have a try and we immediately found these snacks for older children pretty appealing visually, with their catchy name and bright boxes with pop art influences.
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The soft baked bars, packed full of fruit and made with clean ingredients did not disappoint. They have punchier flavours than the soft oaty Goodies bars aimed at younger children, and are definitely ideal for older palates, including mummy’s!
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The delicious oaty bars come in two flavours: Cocoa & Orange Crash or Strawberry & Vanilla Smash. They retail at £2 for 6 bars and at the moment, you can order them via Ocado. I have just ordered them in bulk for our holidays.
Which flavour would you try first?
I would love to try first strawberry and vanilla Smash
I like the sound of cocoa and orange
What a fab day, and exciting thing to be a part of my dear! New bars look great 🙂
Thanks honey! They’re really yummy, and it was so inspiring listening to Anna and finding out a bit more about Organix. They truly are a business with a difference. Love them even more now!
Strawberry and vanilla smash.
Yum!
the strawberry and vanilla bars sound yummy!
They are scrummy!
the cocoa and orange sounds delicious
I’m not normally a fan of cocoa and orange together, but it works incredibly well in the Punk’d bars!
The Cocoa & Orange Crash, sounds lovely.
It really is I’ve just ordered 6 boxes for our trip to France!
Strawberry and Vanilla Smash!! 😀
cocoa and orange thankyou
The cocoa and orange crash, how cool! x
strawberry and vanilla smash
The Cocoa and Orange Crash
Cocoa and Orange Crash
The strawberry and vanilla sounds lovely, I think that would be the first to try 🙂
Strawberry and Vanilla
Strawberry andVanilla Smash.
they all look yummy
I know!
i;d love to try the strawberry and vanilla one x
strawberry and vanilla! 🙂
Strawberry and Vanilla sounds a lovely combination so i would love to try these first.
strawberry and vanilla sounds yummy!
I would ty the Cocoa and Orange first
would love to try the cocoa and orange
I would try the strawberry and vanilla smash first x
the strawberry and vanilla sound yummy!!
The cocoa and orange sounds nice 🙂
The strawberry and vanilla ones, yum
Strawberry and vanilla smash
Cocoa and Orange Crash sounds like my kind of thing. Anything that tastes chocolately is my kind of thing!
Strawberry and vanilla smash x
Cocoa & Orange crash
Cocoa and orange sounds yummy!
The Strawberry and vanilla sounds so yummy
strawberry and vanilla x
I’d try the strawberry and vanilla. The packaging is so cool!
they both sound lovely, but I think I would go for strawberry and vanilla smash
the cocoa and orange crash
Strawberry and vanilla smash would be the first one I would like to try, sounds delicious!
The strawberry and vanilla smash! 🙂
Strawberry and vanilla sound perfect
I think it would be Cocoa and Orange Crash for me (like a slightly healthier Terry’s Chocolate Orange!)
Strawberry always goes down well here, so Strawberry & Vanilla Smash
the cocoa and orange please!
Strawberry and vanilla smash. Vanilla is such an underrated flavour
Cocoa and orange! Yum!
strawberry and vanilla
I would love to try the Cocoa and Orange, thanks for the giveaway.
strawberry and vanilla!
cocoa & orange crash sounds nice :-))
probably the cocoa and orange one
Cocoa and Orange Smash sounds good x
strawberry and vanilla smash, I am a sucker for anything with vanilla n
I would try the cocoa and orange first!
I’d go for the strawberry and vanilla smash first
Cocoa and Orange crash sounds great to me!
Cocoa and orange for me
Cocoa and Orange 😀
Strawberry & Vanilla Smash sounds lovely!
Cocoa & Orange
The cocoa and orange sound fab
Strawberry and vanilla
The cocoa and orange crash
Strawberry and vanilla smash would be my first choice
Cocoa a orange yummy
COCOA
AND ORANGE
i would go with the strawberry and villa smash – yum
Cocoa & orange sounds good ?
Strawberry and vanilla smash – but they all sound delicious
The Cocoa and orange flavour sounds interesting, I would try that first.
I would try the cocoa and orange crash first
The Strawberry and Vanilla Smash bars.
strawberry and vanilla sounds yummy
The cocoa and orange crash sounds good xx
strawberry and vanilla 🙂
Cocoa and orange 🙂
I’d love to try the strawberry and vanilla they sound delicious.
The cocoa and orange!!
Strawberry and vanilla smash sound fab
cocoa and orange sounds refreshing
I like the sound of the cocoa and orange bars
Strawberry and vanilla smash
strawberry and vanillasmach – yum
I would love to try Strawberry and vanilla my daughter loves sharing so she would like to win this !
strawberry and vanilla
Ooh, the Strawberry and Vanilla Smash – these are JUST THE TICKET for introducing to my fussy, now style-conscious and wrapper-brand-conscious 6-year-old and 8-year-old boys. They would identify with the branding of the skateboarder, as they both are into skateboarding tricks and aspire to do these for themselves. As a parent, these would totally win out over the dried fruit with added sugar and other ingredients winder type snacks that they ask for.
They are cool snacks, aren’t they? We’ve already run out, although I bought them in bulk at the start of the summer holidays. I’m definitely ordering more for my little man’s lunch boxes in September.
That’s really good to know, thank you. I’ve bought things in bulk before now and regretted it when they go off something, so that’s a really good sign, thanks.
They keep for ages… if your kids don’t get their hands on them!
I would try the Cocoa and Orange Crash one first, sounds lovely .x
I would try strawberry and vanilla first
strawberry and vanilla smash would be the one for me
Strawberrry and Vanilla would be my first choice
Strawberry and Vanilla Smash sounds delicious!
The Cocoa & Orange Crash sounds amazing!
Cocoa & Orange
Strawberry and vanilla smash sounds lovely xxx
Cocoa & Orange
I would be straight into the Cocoa and Orange
Strawberry & Vanilla smash sounds delicious!
Cocoa & Orange Crash sound delicious!!
Sounds delicious!
cocoa and orange sounds nice
I would try strawberry and vanilla first
definitly cocoa and orange x
The strawberry and vanilla smash x
would love to try the cocoa and orange
I would try the strawberry and vanilla ones first seeing as it’s summer and strawberries are a summer fruit!
strawberry and vanilla sounds good to me
YUM Cocoa and orange sounds YUMMY…and the kids would love it too!
Strawberry and vanilla
Ooooh it’d definitely be the cocoa and orange here!
Cocoa and orange sounds good!
Cocoa and orange crash sounds perfect
Would have to be coco & orange
Strawberry and Vanilla sounds delicious
Grand kids would love to try the Chocolate and Orange ones
I would try the Strawberry and Vanilla
Strawberry & Vanilla Smash sound delish
Cocoa and Orange 🙂
I’d have to try the strawberry and vanilla, sounds delicious! 😀
Strawberry and vanilla – yummy
definitely strawberry and vanilla
I would try the Strawberry and Vanilla Smash, thank you.
Strawberry & Vanilla – My Little 1 Would Love It!
Sound fab! I’d try the cocoa and orange first!
Definitely the Cocoa and Orange – sounds delicious
Definitely the cocoa and orange!
strawberry and vanilla sounds lovely
strawberry & vanilla smash
Cocoa and orange chocolate orange is a big favourite of mine
strawberry & vanilla smash
I think the kids would try the Cocoa & Orange Crash first 🙂
I’d give strawberry and vanilla a go first, then quickly move on to the cocoa and orange 😉
Cocoa & Orange
Cocoa and orange crash
Strawberry and vanilla
strawberry and vanilla smash
Cocoa and orange crush 🙂
Strawberry & Vanilla Smash
COCOA AND ORANGE PLEASE xx
Hard to choose but probably the Strawberry and Vanilla smash.
Strawberry and vanilla sounds lovely would try first!
strawberry & vanilla smash
Strawberry and Vanilla smash
Cocoa and orange definitely.
The strawberry and vanilla would be my first choice
Cocoa and orange 🙂
The strawberry and vanilla smash bars sound yummy! I love Organix snacks and fruit pots for when our little one needs a healthy snack. Their breakfast cereals are so much nicer than most too
I think the chocolate orange one would have to go first!
The Strawberry & Vanilla Smash
Cocoa & orange crash
I’d love to try the cocoa and orange x
cocoa and orange sounds ace – my favourite flavour combo
Cocoa and orange
Think it would have to be the cocoa and orange 🙂
the strawberry and vanilla would be first on my list
Strawberry and vanilla sounds Delish
My daughter would love the Strawberry & Vanilla Smash Bars 🙂
strawberry and vanilla smash look amazing x x
fab prize
strawberry & vanilla smash
Strawberry and Vanilla, I love anything flavoured with vanilla.
Strawberry and Vanilla!
I’d love to try the Strawberry and vanilla x
Both sound great, but I’m in a chocolate mood – so cocoa & orange choc for me right now!
Strawberry and vanillia sounds lovely
The strawberry and vanilla smash sounds lovely xx
The Strawberry and Vanilla sounds delicious.
Strawberry and Vanilla Smash!
I would try the strawberry and vanilla smash first
ooo my little one loves strawberries so i would definitely say strawberry and vanilla smash
Cocoa and orange
Strawberry and Vanilla Smash
Strawberry and vanilla is the one i want to try for sure
I’d love the coco and Orange yum
Cocoa and orange for us 😀
The cocoa and orange sounds lush
Cocoa and Orange sound lovely
Strawberry and vanilla smash sounds great
Cocoa and orange sound yummy.
Cocoa and orange. Nm