Snack Subscription Clash: Graze Vs. Naturebox
After a pleasant, long Green Week, let’s talk about snacks. Sure, you can order snacks from anywhere and have them delivered to your door, but two services make the process of regularly delivering healthy and delicious meals so easy it’s almost magical: Graze and Naturebox. Let’s compare the two.
Applicants
Snack subscription services have a number of benefits. They can save you money, help you control your snacks by forcing you to limit yourself to stock every month (as long as you don’t run to the store and just buy more), and in the case of our rivals this week, offer you healthier alternatives to what is on the shelves of your regular grocery stores. Of course, they also offer some interesting food not found elsewhere.
If you’re not familiar with our two contenders this week, Graze and Naturebox, here are the basics:
- Graze : Graze offers boxes filled with eight snacks each starting at $ 12 per box (you can downsize to four snack boxes for $ 7 ). These flat boxes are packed with treats such as their herb basket, vegetable garden snack mix. England “a mixture of dried fruits and their” tortillas “, which most of us recognize as muesli snacks mixed with fruits, nuts, chocolate and other ingredients. You pay by the box, not by month, which gives you the freedom to get one box per month delivered to your home or office, or multiple boxes each month depending on how quickly you swallow the snacks inside.
- Naturebox : Naturebox offers boxes of five or ten snacks each for $ 20 or $ 33 per box, respectively. Naturebox boxes are full of a huge selection of snacks like guacamole chunks or asiago and cheddar cheese chips, their plain smoky barbecue or honey barbecue nut mixes, their spicy sriracha popcorn (and other popcorn mixes), and a whole world of baked treats. sweet and savory (such as biscuit chunks, tea biscuits and cake-like snacks called “denominations”), muesli and snacks, and even crackers and sauces. Again, here you pay by the box, not monthly, and you can order snacks to your home or office wherever you want.
These aren’t the only two subscription-to-door snacks available on a subscription basis, but they are two of the most popular and offer the widest selection of snacks at the best prices. If you want healthier snacks as well as chips and candy, then consider these two options.
In many ways, Naturebox and Graze are more similar than different. They both offer referral programs for their clients (please don’t spam comments with your referral codes), they both offer flexible options to pause and restart your mailbox subscription if you need to change addresses or just pause for a while. bye. They both offer snacks that you probably won’t find at the grocery store, and you get a decent selection and modest size of snacks to choose from. However, if you had to choose between the two, there are a few things you should know.
Naturebox gives you more for your money, but Graze offers simple portable snacks
Your money goes for quite a while when it comes to the snacks you get, but no one could look at these two services and not immediately see that Naturebox offers a lot more food for the money you spend – which is good because it is the more expensive of the two.
Graze boxes are smaller, and while it sounds tempting to get eight snacks instead of five for less money, the Graze snack portion sizes are substantially smaller (although they’ve increased them relatively recently), so you should expect to eat one of your four or eight. snacks in the Graze box, probably at the same time you open it (or pretty quickly after that). Now, serving sizes can be good or bad, depending on your point of view. You spend less money here, so less food doesn’t matter much. Plus, the Graze algorithm is, in my experience, pretty good at picking what you want, in part because they don’t really have a huge selection of snacks, and what they have is generally good. However, when I used Graze, I found myself polishing my box after a few working days and wish I had more – which made me think about ordering another box, which is obviously the gist.
Naturebox, on the other hand, has resealable snack bags that are full of the snacks you sent in and you can eat as much as you like. Sure, you can polish a whole bag of dark cocoa names at once, and we won’t judge you for that, but after that you will probably feel pretty bad – these bags are not that small and your Naturebox is designed for quite a long time. service – perhaps a few weeks. When I used this service (and full disclosure, we still subscribe to Naturebox in my family), I found that one box of five snacks lasts for a month, and sometimes I had snacks left by the time my next box arrived. … Another time I watched something on Netflix, and well, here’s where those snacks went.
Grays Algorithm is good, but Naturebox has more choices
In many ways, Graze and Naturebox give you some control over the contents of your box. You can browse their options by category (nuts and snacks, popcorn, low sodium, vegan, etc. – Naturebox categories are more suitable for people interested in choosing by ingredient, and Graze is more for people interested in choosing by taste or type). Both companies promise to use simple ingredients that are free of unwanted substances, artificial sweeteners and additives. The big difference here is not so much in food as in how much you control it and how much you get.
Graze uses a special algorithm called Darwin to automatically fill your box with snacks that the company thinks you will love. They run this algorithm based on your rating of the snacks on their website that you would like to try (or alternatively say you never want to eat) and your ratings of the snacks you received in your Graze box. However, Graze has no guarantee that you will get what you need in particular. On the other hand, you will definitely not get what you don’t like, and since most of the Graze catalog is good stuff, it is unlikely that you will get something that you rate as ready to try, but you will not really like it. …
Naturebox, on the other hand, gives you more control, which is ironic considering that Naturebox has a much larger selection of snacks than Graze, and they come in large portions. You can relax and let Naturebox choose the snacks you get based on what you’ve picked in the past, your ratings of the available snacks on the site (or the snacks you’ve tried), or you can try and select each snack in your box at based on what Naturebox has in its catalog this month.
Personally, I find Naturebox’s suggestions a bit ambiguous, and I prefer to make a ritual of sitting down every month and choosing snacks for the next month. It may or may not work for you and your family, but it’s fun for us. We flip through the Naturebox catalog and decide whether to stick with what we liked last month or try something new. Likewise, Naturebox is promoting new snack options (both good and bad as stocks can fluctuate – one month they have your favorite, then next month it will disappear and then next month it will be back) with their Snack premium class that look tempting but cost more.
Everyone eats delicious and customer service is impeccable
I’ll be in front here and say that I’m not the pickiest food. If the appetizer tastes good, I’ll eat it, and the Graze and Naturebox appetizers are delicious. You won’t be disappointed either. Of course, your taste may differ, so you should definitely check the snacks that are in the Naturebox catalog and the snacks that Graze has to offer to see which options you find the most delicious. Both companies offer discounts for new members, and both companies make cancellation easier.
The only thing I’m going to say here is Naturebox, where I have a couple of snacks in one box that felt like it should have been somewhere behind the shelf and just didn’t taste fresh at all. However, this was an isolated incident and the next month’s box was great. With Graze, I have never had the experience that food was substandard or a little outdated – I just wished there was more of it every time I ate.
In terms of customer service, both companies are responsive to inquiries and inquiries, are eager to please if any issues arise, and are willing to use the power of discounts and extra snacks to make their customers happy. Both companies have an active and active social media presence, so if you can’t reach someone through their regular customer service channels, you can always ping them on Twitter and Facebook and expect a response from someone. In general, I have never had a problem with any of the companies that they could not solve or explain to my satisfaction.
Verdict: Naturebox wins a prize, but Graze is great for snack lovers
After all, if your goal with a subscription snacks service is to replace your regular trip down shitty chip and candy aisles at your grocery store, Naturebox will be the service that comes closest. With it, you’ll have a better chance of actually ditching the chips, chitos, and Chex mixes and moving on to healthier, milder (and smaller portions) meals that still taste good and come in packs big enough for you to enjoy. pleasure to enjoy And still something left for later. Oh, and did we mention that you can find Naturebox snacks in some targeted locations if you need a quick fix?
But this is by no means to discredit Graze. If you’re a lonely snack, you just want to enjoy something while you work (which, frankly, was Grace’s entire ideal – something to eat while you work, but not a bag of chips or something crappy from the office vending machine), or don’t really want to buy a bag of snacks to leave to roll around, and would rather prefer the smaller portions and approach to snacks that Graze has to offer, you can’t go wrong with them.
Either way, the food is great, the customer service is great and you will probably love either option. Just make sure you choose based on what you snack on. Personally, I like to eat a serving of sriracha cashews or pieces of guacamole, seal the bag and then put them back in the cabinet for later, so Naturebox is the best option for me. If you’d rather open your desk drawer, grab Protein Flapjack or a pack of Brooklyn Bites and finish them off right now, Graze might be the best for you.