Going nuts over almonds

Ellyn Ritterskamp

New snack I love: Emerald Dark Chocolate Cocoa Roast Almonds, 100 calorie pack. My Bloom grocery store is switching to Food Lion, so they keep having neat stuff on closeout prices.

I am not a big fan of most nuts, and especially almonds, but these don't taste almondy. They have baked in the dark cocoa somehow, and a whole pack is only 100 calories, and is very filling for a couple of hours or longer.

They have a smoked almond brand that I will love, but I'll check the sodium content first. Huh. I just did, and it does not look outrageous: 160 mg per serving, about 6% of daily recommended allowance.

This nut thing has more going for it than I knew.

Onward.