Target: The Land of Plenty... Snacks that is.

One of my favorite places to shop for snack foods is Target. This may seem a little strange but Target’s own food brand, Archer Farms, is organic and usually pretty healthy. I can actually eat about 80% of their offerings (at least at my Target). My particular Target is a smaller one but they still have a pretty large Archer Farm selection—though after looking online I have found that they don’t offer near what’s really available.

Speaking of their website, if you’re looking for nutritional information or ingredients online to make the in-store shopping experience easier than you will fail miserable. Target does not have a habit of listing any of this information on their own website. There are some forums that have ingredients and such listed but they aren’t coming from the source.

Overall though, their snack selection is off the chairn. Their corn chips for example are amazing and fried in corn oil and come in a large variety (the blue corn is my favorite). Their salsa is amazing, their fruit snacks are wonderful and they have a kickin’ orgranic nut section.  Archer Farms is one of the few companies that offer a fruit snack variety that is soy lecithin free. They are quite tasty… try the blueberry flavor. They have a large variety of breakfast cereals, which are also soy free. The ones at my local Target were all soy-free but check the label to be sure.

What I find most amazing though is that their frozen pizzas are soy free! This is the only brand outside of a Whole Foods that offers this type of wonderment. I haven’t had a chance to look at all them as, again, my Target’s selection is smaller. But the Mediterranean Tomato Arugula variety is fantastic and paired with their blackberry lemon juice… BAM. So awesome.

If you dive into their bread section however you will be greatly disappointed. All of their breads are soy-filled disaster areas. A lot of their granola bars also have soy in them and anything with chocolate is off limits. Other than that you can have a field day! Go get that wonderful soy free goodness.