Review with Giveaway: Good Health Natural Products Gift Basket

I am wild crazy happy for the scrumptiously delicious, naturally decadent snacks offered by the one and only Good Health Natural Products!! If you put a generous size chef salad in front of me along with a huge bowl of sinfully amazing chocolates and said I could only eat one of them, I can honestly say I would pick the salad. I care about the food that I eat, and what I put into my body, as I do for my entire family. So to learn about the products at Good Health Natural Products and have a chance to try them out firsthand was a welcome task for me to enjoy doing. I cannot express how kind and very generous the folks over at Good Health Natural Products are. They asked me what I may like to try and ended up sending me a huge box of almost every snack they offer!! It was a yum yum food fest in our home for about a week. So let me tell you about all the goodies I tried out and at the end of my review is a SUPER TERRIFIC HUGE GIVEAWAY, Yay! One of my lucky readers is going to win themselves a Good Health Natural Products Gift Basket of products, now how amazing is that!!!

First here is some background about this impressive company:


{From the Good Health Natural Products Website}

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Good Health® Natural Products

Based in Greensboro, NC, Good Health® Natural Products, Inc. is a leading innovator in the natural and organic markets producing healthy snacks such as Olive and Avocado Oil Potato Chips, Veggie Stix® and the new HUMBLES™, a baked hummus chip. The snacks are branded and sold under the Good Health® Natural Products name. Good Health® Natural Products(GHNP) also has a line of soaps, lotions and body wash sold under the South of France® brand.

Good Health® Natural Products has developed a reputation for healthy living and creativity that has always resulted in products that are beyond ordinary! The company began with Veggie Stix® pioneering the veggie snack category of consumer foods. Next came the revolutionary Good Health® Natural Products Olive Oil Potato Chips (another first of its kind) providing the consumer a delicious source of mono and polyunsaturated fats. The Olive Oil Potato Chips definitely made a name for itself as it was recognized on the “Oprah” and “Rachel Ray” Shows. Other recent kudos include GHNP’s Half Naked Popcorn listed as the healthiest popcorn snack in the latest edition of the book, “Eat This Not That,” published by the editor of Men’s Health Magazine.

Not only taking pride in being the first in bringing new and exciting products to the market, Good Health® Natural Products delights in providing the consumer with a variety of healthy snack foods that has less fat than their conventional counterparts. The Veggie Stix® along with many other Good Health® Natural Products snacks has 45% less fat than conventional potato chips. The company is constantly traveling and researching all over the world to develop new processing technologies to bring the consumer the most innovative snack that is not just tasty but good for the body as well. The world’s first Avocado Oil Potato chip is a direct result of all that hard work and research.


Good Health Natural Products is a company made up of people who are passionate about delivering great products to consumers who want to live healthier lives. This passion is embodied in the innovative products we develop and market. The passion from the employees enables Good Health® Natural Products to always produce fresh, new and extraordinary products!

Look for its products under the Good Health® Natural Products, Inc. and South of France® brand names in leading natural and conventional grocery stores nationwide and on the web at www.goodhealthnaturalproducts.com.

MY REVIEW

I received the following products to review.  Rather than be repetitive about each one, let me first say, each bag of snacks that I received was tasty, fresh, crispy, and most importantly absolutely delicious!  I personally tried each and every one of them and also shared them with my family of 5 and my parents who are staying with us!  We are still talking about them and reminiscing about how much we enjoyed them.  The flavors were so vivid and savory that they left a lasting impression on us all!!  Here is the information about all the products we were able to test out:

Avocado Potato Chips
World's First Avocado Oil Potato Chip


This is the first time that avocado oil has been used to cook potato chips, resulting in robust flavor and 30% less fat than traditionally cooked chips. Ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most nutritious fruit, avocados offer a wealth of health and beauty benefits. Utilizing avocado’s nutritious properties, avocado oil is revolutionizing the potato chip industry as a healthy alternative to conventional cooking oils. It contains a high concentration of vitamins and minerals, along with monounsaturated fats that help reduce LDL cholesterol. Good Health® Natural Products has developed proprietary technology to kettle cook potato chips with avocado oil without transferring high fat content.

MY THOUGHTS:   We received the Chilean Lime flavor.  Such a refreshing and subtle twist to a traditional kettle cooked chip!  There are tiny dashes of parsley in them too, just glorious!!  We are big on using dips with our chips.  So we paired these with a nice vegetable dip.  The chips are fresh, crisp and absolutely fabulous, some of the best chips I have ever tasted!


Olive Oil Kettle Style Potato Chips



For centuries, olive oil has been one of the mainstays of the Mediterranean diet. Today, olive oil evokes images of the old country with its simpler and slightly slower lifestyle – what we like to think of as "the good life." We have tried to capture a part of this lifestyle by using 100% olive oil to kettle cook our chips. The result of our efforts are chips with a hearty crunch and all natural taste. Kettle cooking in 100% olive oil also makes these chips a delicious source of mono and polyunsaturated fats. (These chips are quickly becoming our favorite!)

MY THOUGHTS:  We paired this with a french onion dip and the chips are just mouth watering!  Talk about an addictive potato chip, yes indeed these are just awesome as my son would say!  So flavorful, crispy, fresh and satisfying!



Apple Chips
Naturally delicious



Taste the healthiest alternative to regular potato chips; made from Washington state Red Delicious apples with no sulfites, no high-fructose corn syrup, low sodium and 30% less fat than regular chips. It’s an easy way to get kids to eat apples: both the Crispy Original Apple Chips and the Crispy Cinnamon Apple Chips. Healthy can still taste great.

MY THOUGHTS:  Who needs candy when you can get your fill of "sweet" naturally with these decadent flavored apple chips.  They are so tasty you will keep craving for more!  They are the more divine apple chips I have ever experienced.


Guilt-free Popcorn



We have two different ways to eat the healthiest popcorn you’ve ever tasted, our Organic and Half Naked.
Organic Popcorn

It’s a mouth-watering story, starting with the plumpest, most tender gourmet popcorn – carefully selected from local organic-certified farms. Then we lovingly air-pop all those premium kernels into fluffy white bursts of natural goodness. And, like all good popcorn, you will naturally find kernels at the bottom of the bag.

Half Naked Popcorn

For starters, we use only baby tender white corn, the plumpest and most tender popping corn ever raised on the farm. Then we lovingly air-pop these premium kernels into scrumptious fluffy morsels of gourmet goodness. And for the all-important final touch, performed in complete privacy, we lightly dress them in non-hydrogenated oil. And, like all good popcorn, you will naturally find kernels at the bottom of the bag.

MY  THOUGHTS:  This is the whitest, purest, freshest popcorn I have ever seen or tasted!  The slight hint of olive oil gave them just enough flavor to have my palette wanting more and more.  I love that you can eat half the bag and not feel disgusted or sick for doing so.  Indeed they are guilt-free and contain enough fiber to keep you healthy, now that is reason enough to eat them!


Polenta Chips
The Perfect Scooper



Take a tasty trip with our healthy polenta chips made from corn with zero genetic modifications. These Mediterranean area inspired flavored chips have 0 grams of trans fat, the kind linked to increased heart disease and 65% less overall fat than regular corn chips. Their scoop-like shape and unique flavors make them the perfect dippers for olive tapenade, hummus or guacamole. Take your taste buds on a vacation soon.

MY THOUGHTS:  I love, love Polenta!  So when I saw these polenta chips in the box I jumped for joy.  They are even more delicious than I could have imagined.  The rich robust polenta flavor in the chips was just perfect.  There is not one hint of grease or residue left on your fingers like there are when you eat traditional corn chips.  These are my new favorite munching snack, I love these!



I was able to try out both the Sesame Garlic HUMBLES - Baked Hummus Chips and the Olive Oil/Lemon/Feta Humbles.  

WE ARE PROUD TO CALL THEM HUMBLES!!



Some Chips talk a good game. They boldly shout about their great taste and big time crunch without so much as a word about all that salt, grease and fat!

HUMBLES are different. They are made by Good Health Natural Foods, a leader in providing high quality, great tasting snacks health conscious individuals and their families.

HUMBLES are made from hummus - which is made from the humble chickpea, one of mankinds favorite snacks for over a millennium now - so they are tasty as they are healthful.

Best of all, HUMBLES come in 3 deliciously distinctive flavors: Sesame Garlic; Olive Oil, Lemon & Feta, and Roasted Red Pepper.

So let those run-of-the-mills chips keep running on about themselves. And allow these HUMBLES to quietly and naturally let your mouth and body to decide who's best!

MY THOUGHTS:  Humbles are by far the most unique snacks of all the products that we tried out.  They are full of flavor, and are different from any snack foods I have tried on my family before.  I wasn't sure how well they were going to go over with everyone.  But to my pleasant surprise and joy everyone really loved them!  We didn't dip them in anything, we enjoyed them straight out of the bag.  They have an intrigued about them, in their distinctive flavor that keeps you wanting to eat more.  Very addictive for sure, in a good way!  I know I will have to keep these stocked in our cupboards, as I am already getting requests for more!!

GLORIES™
Sweet Potato Chips
The Good-for-you Chips that's gloriously delicious!



Welcome to the taste that was born and bred in the South. Our southern-grown sweet potatoes are harvested, sliced, lightly seasoned and kettle cooked for a chip that's naturally nutritious and 100% mouth-watering, down-home delicious. With no trans fats and low sodium these GMO free abd gluten free crunchy chips are sure to become one of your favorites!

You may not know that in addition to a full array of traditional nutrients, sweet potatoes also have high levels of root storage proteins with antioxidants that provide unique health benefits. The sweet potato has also been classified as an "anti-diabetic" food with studies that linked sweet potato consumption to stabilized blood sugar levels and lower insulin resistance. Maybe the sweet potato should be named "The Super Potato!"

So whether you're a Connecticut Yankee or Southern Belle, you're about to experience glorious snacking that puts the accent on great taste and Good Health.
ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS
GMO FREE & GLUTEN FREE
0 TRANS FAT AND LOW SODIUM

MY THOUGHTS:  Wow wee is all I can say!  It you like sweet potatoes then you are going to adore these darlings!  They are scrumptious!  Sweet, crunchy, fresh, and we dipped them in slightly heated sour cream, oh my gosh, each bite was like going to heaven!  Totally dreamy food to snack on!

Veggie Chips & Stix®



Our Veggie Stix® and Chips are made with all natural ingredients; potatoes, tomatoes and spinach, pure sea salt and non-hydrogenated oils. That means 0 grams of trans fat and the chips have 30% less overall fat than regular chips for you and your family and the Veggie Stix® and Hot Veggie Stix® , 55% less fat than regular potato chips! Try our healthier snack alternative with a sandwich or straight from the bag.

No artificial colors or flavors
No preservatives
0g trans fat
Expeller pressed oils
No hydrogenated oils

MY THOUGHTS:  These are very tasty and we found they were best when dipped in a little vegetable dip.  I wasn't sure the kids were going to like them so much, but another pleasant surprise when they were digging into the bag for more!  I think it was the subtle vegetable flavor, nice texture, and addition of dip that made the winning combination!  What a great healthy snack to feed your family and to know they are enjoying them too!

THE GIVEAWAY

(Open to USA Addresses Only)

Oh boy do I have a yummie delicious giveaway for you all! The wonderful and generous folks over at Good Health Natural Products would like to give one of my readers a chance to experience how fantastic their snacks are and have offered to let me giveaway a Gift Basket of Assorted Good Health Natural Products, now how terrific is that?!

To Enter:

First, you must be following my blog publicly on Google Friend Connect. The widget is located on the right hand side bar. Just click on the button to follow.

Visit Good Health Natural Products by CLICKING HERE and browse around their wide variety of snacks. Come back and leave me a comment on what snack you are most excited to try. That's it, you are entered!

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This giveaway begins on Tuesday, March 2, 2010  and will end on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.   I will select the winner on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 using the True Random Number Generator.  I will email the winner immediately and they will have 48 hours to repond back to me.

A very special THANK YOU to Good Health Natural Products for providing me with all the products for this review.

Disclosure: I received the products listed under My Review for the purposes of this Review. This has no bearing on my completely honest review above and was not influenced by any type of monetary compensation. The opinions and experiences I’ve shared with this product are my own and yours may differ.