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NYC: There are certain aromatic flavors that are characteristic of the holiday season-just about every sweets-snacks we saw at recent tradeshows-had festive offerings-in cheerful shimmery packaging to match...making them gift ready. LAKE CHAMPLAIN Chocolates -a Vermont company that gets its 'holiday' on...in many ways...with new organic and Fair Trade holiday gifts. Pictured-bite sized richly made-dark chocolates- Peppermint Cream, Salted Caramel, Coconut Cream and Peanut Butter are organic and Fair For Life Certified...ethically sourced chocolates from Peru and the Dominican Republic and the organic cream sourced from Kimball Brook Farm in Vermont. Stocking stuffer options as well as gift box packaging...for give able treats free of preservatives, additives, high fructose corn syrup -plus non-GMO too. NICE.   positively addictive thin crispy bites of decadence... Sheila's G's Brownie Brittle's gets in the spirit with new flavors Chocolate Chip with Snowfl...

PART 2 SNACK TRENDS develop with the times-just like every other consumer industry. Similar to products written up in Part One ... new takes on the classics-so-to-speak...single serve sizes..and Made in the USA -a few dominant themes. New Fun Flavors:    California Almonds®  reps growers of this "IT" superfood-disease bustin'.. .believe it. ..one ounce of almonds (23-a handful, a shot glass, or spread lovingly over a smartphone---good measuring as a 1/4 cupful) =6g protein, 4 g fiber, the good kind of fat-monounsaturated fats 9g, vitamin e, potassium, calcium, magnesium, riboflavin, niacin, phosphorous, and iron Graham crackers from Honey Maid- Nabisco come in these adorable Teddy Grahams shapes for awhile now (since 1988)...and the new launch flavor is Birthday Cake...cute cute cute...comes with sprinkles...and same NO high fructose corn syrup- 8 grams whole grams/30 gram serving $3.19/10oz box. We know people who dip Teddy Grahams in peanut bu...