The end of May is fast approaching, which means Memorial Day weekend is almost here. From May 25 to 27, many Americans will be traveling, hosting BBQs, or just hanging out at home by the pool. Whatever your plans, here are some tasty snacks to help you celebrate the long weekend!

Snack Baskets

The springtime gift basket is overflowing with 6 pounds of goodies that will bring a smile to anyone’s face. This basket includes: pastel chocolate berry mix, cashews, macadamia nuts, mixed nuts, strawberries, apricots, bridge mix, white chocolate cashews, pistachios, and veggie chips.

The extravagant BBQ gift basket is sure to get you ready for all your Memorial Day festivities! Inside you’ll find approximately 5 pounds of all our BBQ favorites, such as Kansas City BBQ almonds, BBQ cashews, BBQ corn nuts, dragon mix, hickory beef jerky, hickory soy beans, chili cheese corn twists, and our BBQ dry rub seasoning that is perfect for cooking.

Snack Packs

Snack packs contain the same product that you can buy by the pound, but they come in smaller sizes in packs of 12. For example, you can get a snack pack box of organic trail mix, which is a box of 12 individually packaged 3.2 ounce bags. These on-the-go packs are great for road trips during the Memorial Day weekend and throughout the rest of the summer. We offer snack packs for over 500 of our products, including our milk chocolate nuts, mixed fruit, and gummi bears.

Samplers

Not sure what exactly you want? Try a bunch of different types of tasty snacks with our samplers!

Our salty sampler has individual sample sized bags of many of your favorite salty snacks. It includes jumbo cashews, super Virginia peanuts, supreme mixed nuts, toasted corn, salted pistachios, homestyle pumpkin seeds, sesame sticks, edamame, salted sunflower seeds, and fried green peas.

You can also try our snacky sampler, which includes our power mix, vanilla granola, antioxidant mix, organic cacao goji energy squares, royal mix, extreme trail mix, GORP (good old raisins and peanuts), whole wheat raspberry bars, oriental mix, sesame sticks, and raw almonds.

What are your favorite on-the-go snacks?

World Baking Day is May 19 – the perfect occasion to whip out your apron, dust off your measuring cups and try a new recipe for tasty baked goods.

Browse the World Baking Day website, choose from one of 100 different cake recipes, and stock up on all the right baking supplies at Nuts.com. Or if you’d like to ease into your career as an expert baker, start with one of our easy and delicious baking mixes.

Cake Mixes

Funnel Cake Mix

Bring the festival to your house with our classic funnel cake mix. Just add water to the mix, blend into a batter and fry cakes on the stovetop. Finish with your favorite toppings – powdered sugar, ice cream, honey, cinnamon or sprinkles.

Gluten-Free Brownie Mix

Our gluten-free brownie mix will make any chocolate lover happy. Add butter, vanilla, water and one egg and get homemade flavor in a snap.

Cookie Mixes

Coconut Macaroon Mix

Whip up a batch of gourmet coconut macaroons in just 20 minutes with this easy mix. Just add water, and you will create cookies that taste bakery fresh.

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix

Indulge in gluten-free chocolate chip cookies that taste just as good as Mom’s. Add butter, water and an egg to the mix and bake, and you’ll end up with soft, chewy, chocolatey cookies.

What’s your favorite kind of cake or cookie?

Today we’re celebrating Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Just thinking about the smell of chocolate chip cookies takes us back to our grandmother’s house. Reminisce with us as you bake up a batch of your own, from one of these five chocolate chip cookie recipes!

1. Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie

This classic chocolate chip recipe from Martha Stewart calls for all of the traditional ingredients, including semi-sweet chocolate chips. The recipe also adds dark brown sugar into the mix, which gives the cookie a richer aroma and a unique depth of flavor.

2. Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie

This Food Network recipe for gluten-free chocolate chip cookies uses tapioca flour and brown rice flour instead of regular flour. The recipe also includes xanthan gum, which adds thickness and volume to gluten-free baked goods.

3. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie

Taste of Home magazine’s oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe includes quick-cooking oats and your choice of chopped nuts. Nuts.com offers a variety of chopped nuts, such as peanuts, walnuts, and almonds.

4. White Chocolate Cranberry Cookie

This recipe comes from Trisha Yearwood’s own cookbook! It combines white chocolate chips, dried cranberries, and chopped macadamia nuts to make a rich and tangy cookie.

5. Butterscotch Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookie

This blogger’s recipe is a twist on the classic chocolate chip cookie. It adds chopped pretzels and butterscotch chips to give this cookie a little extra sweet and salty kick!

What’s your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe? Tell us in the comments!

Not only is this Sunday (May 12) Mother’s Day, it is also National Nutty Fudge Day. Talk about two great reasons to celebrate! Stock up on a few of our delicious nutty fudges that are good at any time of year.

6 Favorite Nutty Fudges

1. Chocolate Walnut Fudge

You can’t beat this classic – our soft chocolate fudge is sprinkled with hearty walnut chunks.

2. Rocky Road Fudge

Marshmallows, chocolate and walnuts – what’s not to love? Our rocky road fudge is a favorite with kids and grown ups.

3. Caramel Pecan Fudge

Caramel fanatics will love this sweet, creamy caramel-flavored fudge packed with pecan pieces.

4. Peanut Butter Explosion Fudge

Our peanut butter fudge is decadence at its finest. Your taste buds will love the blend of flavors: peanut butter, marshmallows, chocolate chips and walnuts.

5. Salted Caramel Nut Fudge

If you go crazy for sweet and salty flavors together, you will love our salted caramel nut fudge. We swirl caramel through our rich vanilla fudge and top it with salted peanuts.

6. Maple Walnut Fudge

Combine maple flavored fudge with big pieces of walnuts, and you have a winner.

What do you want to eat on National Nutty Fudge Day? Share your favorite in the comments!

Mother’s Day is coming up on May 12, and you’ve come to the right place to find the perfect present for your mom. We have something she’ll love, whether she is a chocoholic, a health nut or a versatile foodie. Secure your place as Mom’s favorite this year!

Hand-Picked Mother’s Day Gifts

1.  Movie Tin Assortment

Bring the movie theater home by giving your mom her favorite flick and this movie tin assortment with all the classic favorites – Milk Duds, chocolate-covered raisins, chocolate-covered peanuts, chocolate non pareils, Twizzler bites, Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids.

2. All-Natural Gift Basket

Show your mom a little TLC with this gift basket full of delectable all-natural treats, including antioxidant mix, heart healthy mix, raw cashews, mesquite pod walnuts, honey vanilla energy squares and organic peanut butter.

3. Sugar-Free Tin

Even if your mom is watching her sugar intake, she can still indulge in some decadent Mother’s Day gifts. Our sugar-free tin contains 3 lbs. of sugar-free treats: dark chocolate almonds and espresso beans, milk chocolate peanuts and yogurt raisins.

4. Box of Love

This big box of love is sure to be an ideal Mother’s Day gift. It includes favorites such as mixed nuts, dried apricots, pastel chocolate blueberries, honey cashews and jumbo buttercrunch.

5. Custom Tray

Make a custom tray that caters just to your mom’s tastes. Choose from 150 different nuts, sweets and dried fruits to create the perfect blend.

Browse our wide selection of Mother’s Day gifts. 

What are you getting your mom this year for Mother’s Day?

Earth Day is coming up on April 22, and we’ve got going green on the brain. Since meat and dairy products require more resources and generate more greenhouse gasses than plant-based foods, cutting back on your consumption these products – even just adopting Meatless Mondays – helps in the effort to show Mother Nature a little love.

This Earth Day, explore delicious new ways to go meatless by cooking up one of these creative vegan recipes. They’re good for your body and the planet!

1. Peanut Butter Smoothie

This smoothie is rich, creamy and filling – great for a protein-packed breakfast or a sweet after-dinner treat. Blend ice cubes, almond milk, organic peanut butter, vanilla extract and agave nectar and enjoy.

2. Spirulina Guacamole

Homemade guacamole is already full of omega-3 fatty acids, but adding spirulina to your favorite recipe gives it an extra nutritional punch. Spirulina is a kind of blue-green algae found in lakes and ponds; it is rich in iron and amino acids and may have antiviral and anticancer effects. Blend fresh avocados, onions, garlic, tomatoes, salt, lime juice, cumin and spirulina, and serve with tortilla chips.

3. Four-Grain Salad With Garlic, Lemon & Herbs

Chef Jamie Oliver is an expert at combining fresh and wholesome ingredients in new and inventive ways, and his four-grain salad is a treat for the taste buds. Mix four types of cooked grains – wild rice, red rice, oats and farro or barley – and season with fennel seeds, cumin seeds, sea salt, pepper, mint and parsley.

What are your favorite vegan recipes?

A little spicy, a little sweet, a lot of flavor. Licorice has a one-of-a-kind taste that wakes up your taste buds and has you craving more.

April 12 is National Licorice Day, and we have a long list of tasty ways to celebrate! Browse our wide selection of licorice products and check out a few of our favorites.

1. Licorice Bites

These small licorice bites have a big, bold flavor. They make a perfect on-the-go snack or after-dinner treat.

2. Strawberry Licorice Twists

Our strawberry-flavored licorice twists are a childhood favorite that your grown-up self will love as well.

3. Good & Plenty

Good & Plenty is the perfect movie theater snack: black licorice pieces coated in a pastel candy shell. Warning: you won’t want to share with your date!

4. Black Licorice Scotties

These candies are a real treat for dog lovers – black licorice pieces in the shape of Scottish terriers.

5. Mango Australian Licorice

Australia is known for its great-tasting licorice, and this mango variety is sweet, chewy and unique.

6. Licorice Allsorts

You’ll never get bored with Licorice Allsorts – a classic mix of assorted licorice candies in different colors, shapes and flavors.

7. Anisette Coffee

Finally, drinkable licorice! We roast licorice flavor into our fresh coffee beans to create an anisette coffee that is a great way to start your morning.

What are your favorite licorice treats?

It’s time to celebrate our nutty obsession with the only tree nut native to North America… the pecan! April is National Pecan Month, and we are more than happy to dig into our favorite pecan treats.

1. Roasted Pecan Halves

These fresh roasted, lightly salted Georgia pecan halves are full of crunchy flavor. Pecans are a great source of vitamin E, zinc, fiber and protein and have been shown to lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels and raise HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. Eat them plain as a high-energy snack or crumble them over oatmeal or salads.

2. Chocolate Pecans

Our chocolate pecans are the perfect blend of two of our favorite foods. Rich, creamy and crunchy all in one!

3. Praline Pecans

Mix up sugar, butter and pecans and the result is a sweet Southern praline you won’t be able to resist.

4. Organic Date Pecan Rolls
We cover our organic date rolls in organic chopped pecans to make a sweet and naturally delicious snack.

5. Butter Pecan Coffee

A cup of our butter pecan coffee is the perfect way to start your day. Its rich, roasted flavor will have you looking forward to your morning.

6. Caramel Pecan Fudge

We blend our caramel-flavored fudge with hearty pecan pieces to create a rich, creamy bite-sized dessert.

What are your favorite pecan snacks? Share in the comments!

Ooey gooey, sweet and rich and buttery, caramel is an old-fashioned favorite. With National Caramel Day coming up on April 5, we’d like to highlight some of our favorite caramel candies and other caramel treats!

1.Mini Sea Salt Caramels

These miniature sized milk chocolates have a smooth and creamy caramel center that’s mixed with a touch of sea salt to deliver a burst of sweet and salt in each bite. Use Mini Sea Salt Caramels in baking in cookies or brownies, as toppings on frozen yogurt or ice cream, or just eat them on their own!

2. Caramel Puffs

These delicious Caramel Puffs have the airy texture of cheese puffs, but they’re sweet instead of savory. They’re coated with a light layer of caramel, resulting in a crispy, crunchy snack. They are so addictive, we could eat them all day!

3. Mini Milk Chocolate Caramel Cups

They look like tiny peanut butter cups, but these Mini Milk Chocolate Caramel Cups are filled with smooth caramel and coated with decadent milk chocolate. They’re great for baking in brownies or topping cakes and frozen yogurt, and all by themselves!

4. Old-Fashioned Caramels

Unwrapping one of these chewy caramels is like stepping back into your childhood. Sink your teeth into this chewy treat and savor its buttery goodness! Caramels are great for baking, as well as enjoying on their own.

5. Caramel Corn

Caramel Coated Popcorn is a classic for good reason! Fluffy popcorn is coated in smooth caramel for a satisfyingly crunchy, chewy snack. Try Chocolate Covered Caramel Popcorn for an extra-rich treat. We also carry Sugar-Free Caramel Corn.

See our complete selection of caramel candies and other caramel goodies, such as Caramel Vanilla Coffee. Which caramel treats are your favorites?

This March marks the 40th anniversary of National Nutrition Month, giving us one more good reason to make smart eating choices. The theme for 2013 is “Eat Right, Your Way, Every Day,” and encourages us all to find healthy diet and physical activity habits that work for our lifestyle.

Here are a few healthy eating tips for National Nutrition Month from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics:

Eat Breakfast

“There’s no better way to start your morning than with a healthy breakfast.”

Wake up right with a nutritious meal that will fill you up and give you energy and focus for the day ahead. Browse some of our favorite healthy breakfast foods.

Fix Healthy Snacks

“Healthy snacks can sustain your energy levels between meals.”

Satisfy your hunger with smart snacking choices, including these ideas recommended by the Academy:

• Popcorn topped with grated parmesan cheese
• Parfait with yogurt, fruit and granola
• Celery sticks topped with peanut butter and raisins

Cook Balanced Meals

“Cook more often at home, where you are in control of what’s in your food.”

Cooking your own meals allows you to be an active participant in what you eat, plus it’s a fun way to explore new flavors and foods. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics recommends making half of your plate fruits and vegetables, varying protein choices to include seafood, nuts and beans and opting for 100 percent whole-grain breads, cereals, crackers, pasta and brown rice.

What are your personal tips for eating a healthy diet? Happy National Nutrition Month!