The company’s newest organic chocolate bar is a full-bodied 37% milk chocolate that enrobes crisp, caramelized peanuts. There’s a touch of sea salt for that wonderful sweet-and-salty flavor.

For portion control, the 3.5-ounce chocolate bar is scored into squares. If you’re calorie counting, just break off two or three a day.

• To help you go nuts over its new addition, Green & Black’s is offering a $1 off downloadable coupon at GreenAndBlacks.com, that can be used at select retailers, including Target.

• Find more of our favorite chocolate bars in our Gourmet Chocolate section.

Go nuts for caramelized peanuts and sea
salt enrobed in 37% cacao milk chocolate.
Photo courtesy Green & Black’s.

Try Bare Fruit. The crispy and crunchy apple chips and chewy pears hit the spot. And every serving counts toward the “5 to 9 a day” of fruits and vegetable servings recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (In fact, dried fruit is the CDC’s fruit of the month for January.)

Even if your idea of a good time is not sinking your teeth into an apple or a pear, you may enjoy the fruit in its chip form. There are three options for apple chips: sweet Fuji apple chips, plain or with cinnamon, and tart Granny Smith apple chips. In addition to the pear slices, there are sweet but higher-calorie mango strips and dried cherries.

Bare Fruit products are gluten free and have no added sugar. Kids love ’em too. They’re certified USDA organic and kosher.

• Read the full review of Bare Fruit and revisit your 2010 snacking strategy.
• Find more of our favorite low-calorie, healthy snacks.

Sweet, low-calorie apple chips are as satisfying
as sugary snacks. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

Wasa crispbread, at 20 calories a slice, is
another way to cut bread calories. Photo by
Melody Lan | THE NIBBLE.

• We switched to Pepperidge Farm thin-sliced bread, for half the calories of a regular slice.
• We couldn’t give up our beloved bagels, so we switched to bagel chips—fresh bagels cut into wafer-thin slices by the seller. We keep them in the freezer and thaw or toast our daily allocation.
• If your local bagel store or deli counter doesn’t sell bagel chips, tell them to get with the [diet] program!

Both options give you all of the flavor and satisfaction of the bread with a big savings of calories and carbs.

See six additional ideas in our Diet Bread Tricks article.