This review is going to be short, sweet and to the point. Why you ask? Because I didn’t actually try the bars from KIND. KIND bars are the healthier alternative to candy bars. Except they contain no gluten, no dairy, no soy, no preservatives. Just goof for you stuff. And the reason I am telling you about these bars is because of my Mother-In-Law. She says she is allergic to everything and won’t eat gluten. Pretty much all the stuff she says she can’t eat is found in everything except these bars. I gave them to her to try and she loves them. She can’t have walnuts or peanuts so I made sure the ones I gave her didn’t have anything but almonds. And guess what? She wants to order a case of them. When she finds something she can eat she orders a truckload. Score one for KIND bars!
Here is some more info:
The KIND story
KIND® was conceived in 2003 by Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur that TIME Magazine recognized in 2009 among “25 Responsibility Pioneers” and BusinessWeek named among “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.”
In 1994, Daniel first founded PeaceWorks Foods, a “not-only-for-profit”® company that fosters economic cooperation among neighbors striving to co-exist in conflict regions worldwide. PeaceWorks® launched several award-winning healthy food products and its joint ventures continue to bring people together, but Daniel was still searching for that elusive snack that was wholesome and convenient, tasty and healthy at the same time.
The KIND brand™ philosophy
In 2003, after many years of working on this passion, the team launched KIND, based on two principles: a) the power of AND, and b) holistic kindness.
The Power of AND: We pride ourselves on creating new paths that avoid false compromises. Instead of “Or” we Say “And.” We choose healthy and tasty, convenient and wholesome, economically sustainable and socially impactful. KIND Fruit and Nut bars achieve this by ensuring that we don’t sacrifice taste to achieve health, or wholesomeness to achieve portability.
Holistic Kindness: For us “being KIND,” means to “Be KIND to your body, your taste buds, and the world.”® KIND to Your Body and to your taste buds is manifested through the use of all natural wholesome ingredients you can see and pronounce® like whole nuts and real fruit. The KIND social mission is embodied in the KIND Movement, which inspires not so random KINDINGS – ie, unexpected acts of kindness. Here too, the act of KINDING someone else makes both the recipient of the kindness, and the person doing the kinding, just a little happier.
Moving Forward
In many ways, KIND is a logical next step in the evolution of PeaceWorks’ “not-only-for-profit” business model – with an economic as well as a social bottom line. PeaceWorks sets out to bring neighbors in conflict regions to work together and shatter cultural stereotypes that dehumanize people. KIND builds on his passion to bring people together, this time working to break barriers created among us all in modern society. By challenging our zone of comfort and our impersonal routines, we hope that we will discover our shared humanity with people who we don’t know and may never again see in our lives, but who we can make a little better off by surprising them with an uncommon gesture of kindness.
Buy It: We were sent a few bars from the Fruit and Nut Collection. If you are a fan of coconut I suggest the almond and coconut mix. You can buy them by the box at the KIND site!
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Disclosure: We were sent 6 KIND bars for review, no monetary compensation was exchanged. Views remain my own.
