Little Quacker Rice Biscuits : Review & Giveaway

I’m all about the healthy option when it comes to my kids’ snacks.  I find the parental smugness cancels out the guilt for my other frequent parenting faux pas.

Low and behold, I received these to test out on the culinarily discerning Feral Threesome:

Test #1: Indoor Play Centre

Combatting muffins and pretty but overpriced cupcakes on display, and convincing the Twin Tornado that these are just as yummy and desirable, despite the lack of fluffy icing and choc chips.

Outcome: Success!  Mostly because they come in individual packages, which every toddler knows makes any snack a cool treat and not remotely healthy, right?

Test #2: School snack…wait for it…on Canteen day

Satisfying Miss6 and diverting her attention from the ice creams come morning tea time.

Outcome: Success!  This was a particularly big ask, as the peer pressure issue comes in to play.  Miss6 always wants what her friends are having.  Either they weren’t having ice creams on such a cold winter’s day, or she really did love these more.  She also loves that the bird on the pack looks like “Mummy’s Twitter birdy” so I’m guessing that makes it cool for a pre-tween growing up in the age of Social Media.

Test #3: Adult male

Nosy #1Hubby was determined not to miss out on a blogging trial, and so he ignored my stern warnings that these were strictly for the kids and helped himself in the time it took me to bid on a coffee machine on Ebay.

Outcome: Partial success.  He found the original flavoured biscuits too plain.  He did like the strawberry though.  I had to hide the box so he wouldn’t finish the rest.  Also, so I could try them. And feed them to The Feral Threesome in lieu of lunch, since Mummy got a bit distracted by Twitter and Facebook and blogging that day. Ahem.

Test #4: Cake craving Mama

Me. Afternoon munchies. Desperate for cake.

Outcome: Well they’re not cake.  So obviously I was a little disappointed.  But then I thought about all the sugar and calories in cake and congratulated myself for being so much healthier by having these instead.  Followed promptly by squirting Ice Magic chocolate on the original crackers and poured a glass of wine.

In conclusion

The family definitely preferred the strawberry, but I have to say that the addition of Ice Magic chocolate topping to the original made it quite the enticing after-dinner snack.

They're organic, gluten free, egg and nut free, and free of artificial colours.  So you can totally be a smug parent when handing this packaged snack out.

I find that the healthier of the packaged kiddy snacks can be pricey.  I’m usually looking at around 50c or more per serve.  If I can get my healthier kiddy snacks for less than that, I’m happy.

Little Quackers are available at Woolworths and Coles for $3.75 (RRP) per box.  With 12x 2packs per box, that works out at just over 30c per snack for each member of The Feral Threesome. Bonus!

Now I’m feeding them the healthiest possible pre-packaged snack food and adding to my wine savings.  Am I not the world’s greatest Mother?

Rhetorical question. Don’t answer that. I may cry.

The giveaway

Thanks to Little Quacker and Wordstorm PR, I have a set of these delicious kiddy treats to give away.

To win:

• Follow the blog
• Comment below with your favourite healthy-ish snack treat for your kids – the thing that you know is fairly healthy, but they think is a treat above and beyond the carrot sticks and apple slices.

In our house, it’s something like this, or yoghurt covered raisins, or home made frozen yoghurt popsicles.

Entries close midnight (WST) Sunday 24^th June

Winner announced on the blog and Facebook Monday 25^th June.

The fine print…

• Entry is open to Australian residents only
• One entry per person
• Winner has seven (7) days to respond with their details before I console myself with wine, consider purchasing a voodoo doll, and conduct a re-draw.

Now I'm off to the bottle shop to get me a cask of cheap wine with my weekly grocery snack budget savings.

Peace Out.