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The perfect snack? Well, we sure think we are close on this one. During a visit recent visit to Whole Foods Market in Greenwich, CT, our well-intentioned shopping list was getting interuppted by a nagging chocolate craving. Even in healthy  markets, the snacking choices are generally less-than-perfect, especially in the middle of bathing suit season! Imagine our surprise to find a Chocolate cookie snack which is delicious, and fits out healthy foods bill.

Just so you know... our endorsements come from the heart... we receive nothing for them. So we will tell you exactly how it is! In this case, we thought the company said it best on their own website, Ococos.com and their mantra "celebrate Snackitude"

"We don't know about you, but everyone on our little team agrees that chocolate is an emotion. Another thing we share is a love of foods that go crunch in the night.

Now, we all reside in California, where health, fitness, natural foods, organic ingredients, peace, love and hedonism are a way of life. So of course, we're well aware that chocolate and crunchy things tend to be fattening, unhealthy, or both. Not fair, we said. This is 2006. Surely we can invent healthful, delicious food obsessions for the new millennium!

So, under the expert direction of our Foody Godmother, an impressive group of knowledgeable chefs - who by the way also love chocolate and crunchy things - worked on The Perfect Guilt-Free Hedonistic Snack. Their goal was to achieve just the right amount of "favorable attributes": dark chocolate flavor, baked crispy crunch, low calories, low fat, zero bad fat, tasty flavor variations, all-organic ingredients, sensible portions, etc etc, Ambitious? We thought so. Doable? Umm. Maybe.

It took nearly a year, but lo and behold, they finally found the grail. Voilá, we said. They're perfect. We called our new snack "O'Coco's (we still don't really know why), and the rest is hysterical..."

Sounds like we found a perfect elements snack... we will certainly be keeping them handy.  Got a better snack suggesion? Let us know in your comments below!