Toats!! Simplify the dog walk!!

A brilliant farmer/baker/equestrienne in Virginia has come up with an organic snack that's healthy, delicious, and friendly to the earth.

Even better, you can share it not just with your kids and BFFs but also your horse and dog!! It's called Toats--which is what my little kiddies used to call the browned bread they ate with their scrambled eggs, but it's much more nutritious and tasty. 

Not exactly a cracker, and not exactly a cookie, it's uniquely like both of these things, created from oats and almonds and honey and flax.

I wandered into Whole Foods this afternoon in the snowstorm, and Toats's creator and her helpers were setting up a tasting display. (The photo at the right was taken in my own kitchen, not at their attractive display right near the cracker aisle.) Since tasting all the goodies is one of my favorite parts of shopping on Saturdays at WF, I tasted!

And I was captivated.

Not only are Toats crunchy and yummy and simply, satisfyingly sweet, they are wheat, egg, and dairy-free, have 0 trans fats, and are a good soure of Omega 3 and fiber.

It doesn't stop there.  The packaging is biodegradable, recyclable, chlorine-free, and 100% PCU paper. (What's that? I'll have to go to their website to find out. Ah yes...PCU is Post Consumer Use.)

They have a wee package enclosure, Toats Tidbits ("Feed Your Body, Feed Your Mind"). My package has one that talks about the history and wonders of flax ("We go way back"), although I had to dig out the magnifying glass to read it. (Clearly I need to lay off the junk and eat more things like Toats.)

Officially, Toats is available at two WF outlets in these parts. Maybe my WF will be the third.  I hope so. If not, I'll do the online thing available on their website.