Sensible Sippers Organic Juice Boxes

I don't buy a lot of juice boxes, since I try to limit my kids' juice intake anyway. I also avoid individual servings since they are a waste of packaging (and usually money). That said, sometimes you do need the convenience of a juice box. Sensible Sippers are a tastier, healthier alternative to many of the other commercially available juice boxes and pouches.

Like most kids, mine quickly caught on to the old water-in-the-juice-cup trick. Now they watch me pour the juice to make sure they don't get ripped off. So: Juice boxes with the water already in? Sweet. Or, not so sweet, since R.W. Knudsen's Organic Sensible Sippers have just 7 grams of sugar per 4-oz. serving (and it's all from the fruit--no high-fructose or any other "-ose"s added). They are 50% juice and 50% water so your child could have two of them and still be within the recommended 4-ounce daily limit for juice.

I've packed these juice boxes in my 1st-grader's lunch and served them to my preschooler for snack, and neither one has been the wiser--they both liked the juice very much. To my taste, the fruit punch was a little more flavorful than the apple, but the kids didn't complain at all. And the apple did taste more like real apples than other apple juices do, just more subtle. (The other two flavors, which we haven't yet tried, are mixed berry and ... banana? Seems like a weird choice to me but I bet kids would love it.)