Spring has sprung, and Easter is just around the corner! On Sunday, March 31, kids (and lucky grown-ups!) everywhere will be delighted to hunt for Easter eggs and enjoy a basket full of Easter candy.

You still have plenty of time to order your Easter treats. Here are a few that we think you’ll love!

Easter Baskets and Buckets

Bunny’s Bucket of Sweets is sure to make anyone smile! It’s brimming with classic goodies: pastel Jordan almonds, jelly beans, Swedish fish, gummy bears, chocolate sunflower seeds, white chocolate cherries, milk chocolate caramel, and chocolate cashews.

The festive Easter Sweets ‘n’ Treats Basket celebrates spring with a sweet rainbow of colors. Inside you’ll find Swiss petite fruits, jelly beans, chocolate sunflower seeds, mocha beans, pastel Jordan almonds, cappuccino cocoa cordials, dark chocolate peanut clusters, gummy bears, chocolate cashews, and ice cream sundae malted milk balls.

Jelly Belly 49 Flavors

Jelly Belly jelly beans are true customer favorites. Everyone has a flavor (or two, or many!) that they love best, whether it’s toasted marshmallow or juicy pear. These are some of the most realistic flavors that you’ll find in any jelly bean.This Jelly Belly 49 Flavors assortment lets you try them all!

Pastel Chocolate Covered Fruit

Kids will love the chocolate, and parents will love that they’re eating fruit — everyone wins! This pastel chocolate covered fruit comes in a palette of bright colors, including pastel chocolate strawberries and pastel creamy chocolate apricots. The Deluxe Pastel Chocolate Berry Mix has cherries, blueberries, and apricots — it’s like a chocolate covered fruit salad!

Healthy Easter Candy

Health nuts will be happy to know that there’s healthy Easter candy just for them! Our organic gummies include organic gummy bears and even vegan organic gummy bears. We carry organic hard candy, including organic lollipops, and organic jelly beans. Indulge your sweet tooth with all organic ingredients!

Speckled Robin Eggs

These Speckled Robin Eggs by Hershey are a classic Easter candy! Mini milk chocolate malt balls with a candy speckled coating have a satisfying creaminess and crunch. Absolutely delicious!

What’s your favorite kind of Easter candy?

Talk about a nutty holiday! Today is National Peanut Lovers Day, and we are taking that as a sign to enjoy some of our most delicious peanutty treats.

You can feel good about joining us in snacking. Peanuts are a great source of protein, and research shows that diets higher in monounsaturated fats from peanuts and peanut butter reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 21 percent, compared to the average American diet. Here are a few of our favorite peanut snacks!

1. Jumbo Roasted Peanuts

Our jumbo roasted peanuts will take you back to sunny days spent at the ballpark. We take fresh Virginia peanuts and roast them without salt so you can appreciate their wonderful natural flavor.

2. Buffalo Peanuts

Our buffalo peanuts are flavored with an addictive blend of sweet and spicy seasonings, perfect for a party appetizer or a snack on the go.

3. Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut butter and dark chocolate together? Yes, please! We fill our decadent, premium dark chocolate cups with creamy peanut butter for a taste that is unbelievable.

4. Blister Peanuts

Our blister peanuts are a new item at Nuts.com and already receiving rave reviews. We boil them in water, then roast them and sprinkle them with salt for a seriously crispy snack.

5. Peanut Brittle

Some things never go out of style. Our old-fashioned peanut brittle is just as good as you remember it from your childhood: sweet, crunchy and tasty.

What are your favorite peanut snacks? Browse more Nuts.com peanut products!

It’s almost time to paint the town green! St. Patrick’s Day is coming up next weekend, and now is the time to place your order for your favorite green goodies. Surprise your family with a scrumptious selection of green candy or bring in a special batch of treats to make your co-workers happy.

Here are a few of our favorite St. Paddy’s Day sweets:

Leprechaun’s Delight 
We cover sunflower seeds with a kelly green chocolate coating for a snack that is salty, sweet and green all over.

Green M&Ms
No more picking through a bag of M&Ms just to find the color you want! Now you can buy a 1 lb. bag of your favorite milk chocolate candies that are all decked out in green for the holiday.

Green Apple Gummy Bears
Our green apple gummy bears are perfectly bite-sized and just the right blend of sweet and tart.

Mint Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans
Chocolate and coffee lovers, rejoice! These tasty candies are the best of both worlds — high-quality espresso beans dipped in mint chocolate and bits of ground coffee.

Pear Fruit Slices
Our pear fruit slices are a new spin on an old favorite. Each bite has a juicy and refreshing pear flavor.

What is your favorite green candy?

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Yesterday was National Chocolate Mint Day! There’s a reason that Thin Mints are the bestselling flavor of Girl Scout cookies: people love chocolate mint. The refreshing peppermint perks up the rich, creamy chocolate and awakens the senses. Peppermint offers many health benefits, including aiding digestion and soothing the stomach, and improving respiratory function.

There are so many ways to enjoy mint chocolate! Here are five of our favorites.

1. Andes Mints

You don’t need to wait for housekeeping to put this on your hotel room pillow! They’re individually foil wrapped, so you can take them on the go, pack a treat in your child’s lunch bag, or store a few in your desk drawer at work. Each bite-sized bar features a layer of mint-green cream sandwiched between two layers of chocolate.

2. Mint Cookies Malted Milk Balls

Add mint to malted milk balls and you have yourself a crispy, minty treat. If you like Whoppers and are also a fan of mint, give these a try. For coffee lovers, Mint Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans have a similar creamy coating with a coffee kick.

3. Mint Chocolate Chip Astronaut Ice Cream

Devour this classic ice cream anytime, anyplace! No freezer is necessary, because it never melts — except in your mouth! If you’ve enjoyed astronaut ice cream before, you know that it’s freeze dried so that astronauts can eat it in space. The creamy, crunchy texture of mint chocolate chip ice cream cannot be beat.

4. Mint Lentils

Don’t let the name fool you – these are candies, not beans! Shaped like lentils, these mint chocolates have a colorful candy shell. You can even browse our candy by color and order these to match the colors of your wedding or special event.

5. Chocolate Mint Coffee

Flavored coffee lovers, rejoice! The scent of chocolatey mint coffee brewing is sure to perk you up  in the morning. The chocolate mint flavor mingles subtly with this smooth coffee to please your palate.

Browse our full selection of chocolate mint goodies!

We truly appreciate the work that our military servicemen and servicewomen do every day. Many of them are stationed overseas — on ships and submarines, on bases and in combat zones — and must spend long periods of time away from their families and friends without the comforts of home.

With the help of our generous customers, we have tried to give a little bit back to those who serve our country, sending more than 1,000 care packages to troops stationed abroad through the Nuts for Our Troops program. The program has been going strong since 2007, and we couldn’t have done it without your amazing support!

Nuts for Our Troops: 2 Easy Ways to Get Involved

1. Send treats to someone you love.

If you have a friends or family members stationed overseas, we make it simple (and super fast) to send them any of our products. Enter the recipients’ APO or FPO address at checkout when you purchase your goodies, and we’ll get them delivered in just a few days.

• Send true love (and chocolate!) this Valentine’s Day
• Send your tough guy or gal this basket o’ spicy goodies
• Make a custom trail mix that’s tailored to a special someone’s taste buds

2. Brighten the day of someone you don’t know.

If you don’t know anyone serving abroad in the military, you can still help out! Buy a Nuts.com care package and send it to someone who will greatly appreciate a taste of home. For just $30, we will send a delicious 7 lb. snack pack to one of the people listed in our database of overseas troops. The snack pack includes our:

Gummy bears
Spicy southern heat mix
Roasted sunflower seeds
Fresh roasted peanuts
Naturally sweet dried mango
Energy-packed health mix
Protein-rich power mix

Sending a care package is a wonderful way to show our troops that we’re thinking of them. You can even include a message to the recipient and include your email address so he or she can write to you personally. Here is some mail we’ve received from appreciative recipients:

“My name is Eric Athman and I am a 2nd Lieutenant in the Minnesota National Guard. I am currently stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Southern Kosovo. My platoon and I are all a part of KFOR9. We are here to provide a safe and secure environment in Kosovo as they transition into an independently governed nation. We are stationed here for roughly a year and it has been somewhat difficult being away during the holiday season. Your care package of assorted nuts really helped boost the morale of my platoon.” - 2LT Eric Athman, Kosovo 

“WOW!! What a surprise. A box filled with all kinds of goodies. This was a great idea, and beyond a thoughtful donation… NUTS for our Troops is an amazing program, thank you again for the support and dedication of the troops in Afghanistan, especially the 864th Engineer Company.” – Angela B. Averill, Sharana, Afghanistan

“I just received a package today from NutsOnline.com that someone sent me from back home. I absolutely love everything that was in the package and the guys in my division are loving it as well. Thank you for the support you give us military men and women. You guys are awesome!!” - Ray, USS San Jacinto

We care so much about this program that 10 percent of all military-related orders goes straight back into the Nuts for Our Troops program! We hope you’ll join us and send a care package of your own.

Get involved! 

We’re always honored when publications and blogs feature our nutty products, and we thought you might like to hear about the items highlighted over the past few months. The best part is that you can try these featured products for yourself!

1. Gummy Red and Black Raspberries
Featured in: Brides magazine, Winter 2013 issue

Imported from Germany, these old time candy red and black gummy raspberries are delicious! They’re crunchy on the outside and chewy, sweet, and fruity on the inside. Use them to decorate a cake or fill a colorful candy bowl.

2. Lemon Chips
Featured in: Chocolate Moosey

Carla, the author of this baking blog, describes her Lemon Snowball Cookies like this: “Think melt-in-your-mouth lemon shortbread cookies coated with powdered sugar.” YUM! Here’s how Carla used our lemon chips to add flavor and texture:

The original recipe called for crushed lemon drops, but I used the chips instead. When the cookies are fresh from the oven, they are soft and melted. When they cool, however, they become crunchy.

3. Coffee-and-Cream Espresso Beans
Featured in: Martha Stewart Weddings online

We can’t tell you how excited we are that our candy was part of the dessert table at the September wedding of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds! See the whole slideshow here. Try the coffee-and-cream espresso beans displayed at their Southern wedding, or pick your own candy colors!

4. Organic Bucket of Treats
Featured in: Greatist.com

Our Organic Bucket of Treats was one of 24 gifts featured in Greatist’s The Essential Holiday Gift Guide for Health Nuts. The editors made sure to note, “We weren’t paid or perked in any way for including these items. This is a list of gifts The Greatist Team picked out just because we like them.” Aw, shucks! Here’s what they said:

For all the favorite nuts in your life, order up a healthy bucket of organic treats. This gift includes granola, mixed nuts, trail mix, pistachios, figs, and even organic gummy bears. They even do all the wrapping for you!

5. Sixlets by Color
Featured in: Hostess with the Mostess

Our lime green sixlets filled a gorgeous candy jar on a holiday dessert table and cocoa bar. You can order your own sixlets by color! Here’s the concept behind this holiday display:

“All is Calm, All is Bright” from Silent Night inspired this serene Christmas Dessert Table & Cocoa Bar. Wanting to slow down the rush of the holiday season, Deanna of Mirabelle Creations, crafted a peaceful holiday party full of easy DIY elements like a coffee filter garland and homemade sweets including dainty flower topped sugar cookies.

6. Roasted Macadamia Nuts
Featured in: Martha Stewart Weddings, Fall 2012 issue

Our roasted macadamia nuts topped a cake in a feature on White Wedding Cakes. Here’s the mouth-wateringly good description:

Kick back and enjoy the sweet life with a spread of simple but beautiful cakes. Wendy Kromer used a petal-shaped mold to create these scalloped tiers, which are frosted in velvety buttercream laced with rum and topped with toasted macadamia nuts. Inside? Yellow cake layered with even more cream. Nearby bowls of roasted nuts are not only thematically on point; they also encourage snacking and admiring the mouthwatering confections up close.

Which Nuts.com product do you think should be featured next?

If you were entranced by C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia as a child (or as an adult!), you may remember the magical properties of Turkish delight from Edmund’s encounter with the evil White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe:

“It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating,” said the Queen presently. “What would you like best to eat?”

“Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty,” said Edmund.

The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious.

Turkish delight, also known as lokum, is a real Turkish dessert that is every bit as delicious as Edmund believed in the book. Each piece of the melt-in-your-mouth candy is covered in powdered sugar and often filled with pistachios, almonds or other nuts.

When Turkish delight rose in popularity during the 18th century, the candies were sweetened with honey or molasses and flavored with rosewater, orange or lemon, then covered in powdered sugar. These traditional flavors of Turkish delight are still available at stalls in Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar, along with flavor variations such as sour cherry, cinnamon, hazelnut, ginger and apricot.

Our Turkish delight is made by the Turkish company Hazer Baba and is available in four finger-licking flavors. Each box contains approximately 30 pieces of Turkish delight.

• Traditional Turkish Delight
• Pistachio Turkish Delight
• Almond Turkish Delight
• Mixed Nut Turkish Delight (Pistachio, Almond and Hazelnut)

Did you ever want to try Turkish delight after reading or watching The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? Now is your chance to order a box for yourself!

Chocolate that melts in your mouth. Sweet and spicy gingerbread. Refreshing peppermint. These are the flavors that make the holidays delicious! Whether you’re putting out a bowl of goodies for your family to enjoy, stuffing stockings, or buying gifts for loved ones, these 5 sweet holiday snacks are sure to satisfy.

1. Christmas Hershey Kisses

Who can resist those tempting milk chocolate kisses in silver, green, and red foil?

2. Gingerbread Men

These gingerbread cookies will make you feel like a kid again. Enjoy them with milk or a delicious hot drink!

3. Christmas Pretzels

These vanilla yogurt-covered pretzels shaped like Christmas trees will really put you in the holiday spirit! The red and green frosting on these creamy, crunchy treats makes them even more irresistible.

4. Peppermint Malted Milk Balls

These crispy malted milk balls are covered with chocolate and peppermint. Bite them in half to see their tasty layers of goodness!

5. Chocolate Peppermint Bark

Today is Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day! Chocolate almonds are one of our favorite treats. Both bittersweet (a.k.a. extra dark) chocolate and almonds have heart-healthy benefits, and chocolate has been shown to reduce stress. Almonds are also full of many nutritious vitamins and minerals: vitamin E and magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Plus, they’re high in protein, fiber, and monounsatured fat!

Here are a few of our favorite snacks that combine chocolate and almonds:

• Dark Chocolate Almond Bark: A satisfying old-time favorite!
• Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds and Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds: Premium almonds covered in fine dark chocolate.
• Supreme Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds: Whole dry roasted almonds drenched in bittersweet 72% chocolate.
• Chocolate Almond Halvah: Smooth and creamy vanilla flavored halvah rolled in dark chocolate, then smothered with toasted almonds.

If you prefer different kinds of chocolate covered nuts, we have a variety to please any palate!

As trick-or-treaters are filling their goodie bags with sweets this Halloween, diabetics and others who maintain a sugar-free diet might feel a bit left out of the fun. Well, there’s no need to worry, because we have plenty of sugar-free treats to satisfy your sweet cravings!

Sugar-Free Chocolate

We carry a wide selection of sugar-free chocolates, from sugar-free dark chocolate chips to sugar-free chocolate pretzels! For those who love chocolate-covered nuts, our favorites include sugar-free chocolate-covered macadamia nuts and milk chocolate pecan clusters. If you’re a fan of classic boardwalk-style fudge, try our Sugar-Free Old Fashion Chocolate Fudge!

Sugar-Free Hard Candy

Hard candy is a classic treat! Try sugar-free IBC root beer barrels or root beer floats. If you enjoy having a variety of candies to choose from, our sugar-free Assorted Old Fashioned Hard Candy includes flavors like cinnamon, butterscotch, and coffee. For chocolate lovers, we suggest Assorted Chocolate Hard Candy!

Sugar-Free Candy Chews

There’s something satisfying about chewy candy, isn’t there, whether it’s chocolatey, fruity, or toffee flavored? Sugar-free salt-water taffy is a chewy nostalgic treat, and so are gummy candies!

What kinds of chewy candy do you crave?