Worst thing about cookies?  Refined sugars and flours, and possibly fats if they’re the hydrogenated kind.  Best thing about cookies from Nana’s Cookie Company? Fruit juice-sweetener and whole wheat flour.  And if you have an aversion to wheat, they have a No Gluten variety for you.  I won’t delve into the No Gluten cookies here, gluten-free is a different story.

Making cookies “healthy” and “nutritious” is a challenge- not impossible, but let’s face it, cookies are treats.  We’ve all had “multi-grain, low-fat, fewer calorie” cookies.  They’re no treat.  Cookies need to make your mouth explode with sunshiny-rainbowy-goodness, but they don’t necessarily need to pose a danger to health to achieve the cookie’s ultimate goal.

Nana has delivered on the cookieness of the Cookie without polluting our bodies more than would otherwise be by eating your average sugared disc of hardened paste.  People underestimate the health dangers of refined sugar.  People (and many vegans) underestimate the amount of animal suffering involved in refining most sugar.  Nana’s takes care of these concerns by using fruit juice as the cookie’s sweetener, and whole wheat as opposed to all-purpose.  And it works splendidly!  All the popular cookie standards are represented:  Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, oh, and my favorite, Coconut Chip.

What could be better than a Nana’s Cookie?  How about a Nana’s Cookie Bar?!  These pastry delights are marketed as children’s snacks (added vitamins and minerals), but I dare you to reserve them exclusively for your tiny brood.  When I freed Fudgy Wudgy from it’s wrapper, I immediately knew where its destiny lay:

Get yourself some Fudgy Wudgies and try this at home as soon as possible, it’s bowl-licking good.  I recommend coconut milk ice cream and any favorite toppings.

Find Nana’s Cookie Company online at Facebook (why not give them a “like?”), or on Twitter (why not give them a ‘follow’?).

Nana’s Cookie Company get “4 Goatz” because they are tasty, multi-functional, and are sweetened with fruit juice instead of refined sugar.  Nana’s are so good, it’s too bad there aren’t more flavors (vanilla bean perhaps?) to choose from.

Gratitude and thanks to Nana’s Cookies for graciously sending me some of their products to review. 

Disclaimer:  Views and opinions expressed here are those of YDV and derived from personal experience.  These opinions are not influenced in any way by the receipt of goods or services.  We will always notify you when a product has been given to us to review, test, use, or talk about.