There’s a brand new snack for Toddlers just recently launched in the UK called Toddler Mum-Mum.

Currently they’re only available online from Amazon, but as we’re always on the lookout for healthy snacks, we thought they were worth a try. I’ve learned in my two years as a parent that just because something is ‘for babies’ or ‘for children’ doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good for babies or children – like those supposedly ‘healthy’ yoghurt covered fruit snacks? Jam packed full of sugar! Or some ‘snacks’ for children – full to the brim with salt and preservatives. So we’ve learned the hard way to check the ingredients on snacks.

While I have a handbag full of raisins that have escaped from their various boxes and packets, it’s nice to be able to bring a bit of variation into snack time, so I’m always happy to find a snack that’s both healthy and affordable.  The two don’t often go hand in hand. Enter Toddler Mum-Mum.

These baked Japonica rice cookies are a sweet and tasty snack made from organic rice, organic sugar, sea salt, natural strawberry flavouring, citric acid (which is vitamin C used as a preservative in foods), Gelatin and Thiamin (which is vitamin B1).  These biscuits are Gluten, Egg and Peanut free, and they are low in fat. They also have no artificial colours or flavours.

They are currently only available in Strawberry flavour, which isn’t a problem as they are actually very tasty.  My mum and I had to try a few packets out of the first box, just to make extra sure, you know?

For £7.12 on Amazon, you buy a box of 4 boxes, each with 8 individually wrapped packets of biscuits and each packet contains two biscuits, so you’re getting 64 biscuits in a box.  This makes each snack pack just over 22p which is massively cheaper than some other snacks we’ve tried.

Another massive bonus to these is that they make no crumbs – that means you can eat them in the car seat or pushchair or at grandmas house on her carpeted floor and not end up with crumbs everywhere.

The Toddler Mum-Mums are aimed at children over 18 months, but they are also available for babies over 6 months as Baby Mum-Mum biscuits (but we’ve not tried these yet!)

I’ve always had a bit of a sweet tooth, but since my daughter’s birth, it has been chronic and often insatiable. I have been known, especially in the early days of breastfeeding, to eat a whole chocolate bar and immediately get up for another. It’s not helpful for returning to pre-baby weight, it’s not nutritious and it’s not healthy.

So, when I realised that I have actually found something that can happily replace chocolate and actually fulfil that craving for me, and have that something be all natural, all healthy and not in pill form, I was elated.

Nakd bars are 100% fruit and nuts – I know what you’re thinking, but you wouldn’t believe that it’s fruit if it didn’t say so on the ingredients. They aren’t baked either, so all the nutritional value remains. They don’t contain any additional sugar or additives, but are low in saturated fat, suitable for vegetarians and vegans and count towards your 5-a-day. They are gluten free and dairy free too, and diabetics can have them as part of a controlled diet.

The flavours available are Berry Delight, Cashew Cookie, Cocoa Delight, Cocoa Orange, Ginger Bread, Pecan Pie and my personal favourite, Cocoa Mint.

My husband actually commented that the Cocoa Mint flavour tasted like after dinner mints, although the texture of the bars is more like a brownie than chocolate, so you don’t get that creamy melt in the mouth thing you do with chocolate. But still, at a fraction of the calories, I can live without it.

Also, health bars disguised as something nice often hit you with great flavour initially, but by the time you’ve swallowed, the taste has changed and there’s either a bitter,  fruity or carob aftertaste – these don’t have that (except the Berry Delight, of course.)

And, what really makes these a winner is that my 19 month old drags me into the kitchen, points at the cupboard and says ‘sweets’, oblivious to the fact that it’s a healthy snack.

Nakd bars are available from pretty much all major retailers, including Asda and Sainsbury’s, but for the full range, you’re best just buying Nakd Nudie Fruit Bars direct.