David Watsky
The most important seasoning in your kitchen is the spice of life: variety. Meal-delivery services make it easy enough to jazz up your dinners or breakfasts, if you can stomach the high costs, rigid portioning and often short expiration dates. If you’re looking for an edible subscription with a bit more flexibility and whimsy, snack boxes offer tastes from around the world — or tastes from the rose-tinted nostalgia of your childhood — in kits of every size, snack type and style.
Whether you want to use it to reward the kids once they finish their homework or need some pick-me-ups to get you through those marathon video meetings, these are the best snack subscription boxes you can buy. We’ve taste-tested a lineup of the most popular options to unwrap the best snack subscriptions available in 2024 so that we can ensure your snacks are never bland or boring again.
Whether you prefer spicy, crunchy, sweet or salty — or all of ’em at once — these are the best snack subscriptions to gift someone or yourself in 2024.
Best snack box subscriptions for 2024
The Japanese have snacking down to an art. Bokksu knows this better than anyone, collecting some of the best Japanese snacks and sending them in a one-time curated or recurring monthly snack box. And I have to say, I’m a little obsessed with these. The best part about the Bokksu box is that almost none of these Japanese snacks remind you much of snacks we already have in the US, but are (mostly) freakin’ delicious. This raises the question: “What the heck are we doing wrong here, people?!”
Best snacks:Â Seaweed tempura, green tea and lemon cakes. Japanese candy — including yuzu gummies and matcha or strawberry Kit-Kats.
Tokyo Treat is another service that collects snacks, cookies and candy from Japan, which after several rounds of testing I declare the snack capital of the world. Tokyo Treat has some overlap with Bokksu but treats are slightly more geared toward kids with classic salty or strawberry-flavored snacks and fewer laced with “adult flavors” such as nori (seaweed), coffee or green tea.
Best snacks: Sakusaku Panda strawberry cookies, Yaokin Soba-Meshi rice noodle snacks.
Not to be outdone, MunchPak features some of the best international snacks from around the world, including countries like Brazil, France, Canada, Greece and Japan, earning it a spot on our list of the best snack subscription boxes. While Bokksu is serving up 100% snack class, MunchPak has a few more, let’s call them, guilty pleasure snacks in its subscription box. If you’re a sucker for goodies like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Sour Patch anything but also consider yourself worldly, this is probably a good snack box for you.Â
I noticed in my MuchPak that there was a higher percentage of sweets — 15 sweets to just five savory snacks — just in case that helps you decide. For someone with a hankering for global sweet treats, it doesn’t get much better than this.Â
Best snacks:Â Biscolata mood cookies, Kingsbury Flamin’ Hot Claws and Fini sour candy straws.
If you’re into salty cured meats, jerkies and charcuterie, Carnivore Club is the way to go. This subscription box will include any number of salamis, meat jerkies, biltong, smoked sausages and more. Carnivore Club also has a full market of charcuterie and a slew of special boxes perfect for a one-time send.
Best snacks: Sweet and smoky venison sticks, bison jerky, Righteous Felon Voodoo chile beef jerky.
Healthy snacks? It’s a thing, and Fit Snack has the idea down to a science. For interesting protein bars, lean beef jerky, nutritious shakes and other snackables without the sugar and salt, Fit Snack is the best pick for healthy snacking. Fit Snack can be bought as a subscription or a one-time send to yourself or someone on your gift list. Boxes start at $18 (on Amazon, at least) and include snacks from popular health food brands like Rind, Peeled and Solely.Â
Best snacks: Chops beef jerky, Beanitos black bean chips and Bear Naked granola.
This food subscription box is sort of somewhere in between Bokksu and MunchPak. It also happens to be CNET editor Bridget Carey’s top snack box pick. With Universal Yums, you’ll get tasty snacks from around the world (like MunchPak) but of a slightly higher pedigree (like Bokksu), from sweet snacks to savory snack picks. Think good salted French chocolate, purple yam shortbread and Turkish-spiced Bagarati cracker chips.Â
Universal Yums is also one of the most budget-friendly with snack subscriptions containing five to seven snacks starting at $16 per month.
Best snacks:Â Black truffle potato chips, handmade baklava and garlic plantain chips.
You get one guess as to what this snack gift box and monthly snack subscription box does best. But we’re not talking boring old Milky Ways and Skittles here: Candy Club sends its own candies and they change monthly for subscribers with a sweet tooth. A healthy mix of fruity, sour and chocolate treats with the occasional cake bites, caramel or taffy thrown in the monthly box. You can order a one-time or monthly snack box with six candy cups in either 6- or 13-ounce sizes.
Best snacks:Â Sour strawberry belts, chocolate toffee peanuts and cookie dough bites.
SnackNation is built around the idea that employees with access to good snacks are happier employees and I can’t say I disagree. SnackNation doesn’t have the most interesting selection of snack box delivery companies on this list, but its packages consistently include tons of familiar fan-favorite snacks. If you’re the big boss person, small business owner or HR rep trying to make the most people happy with one single snack delivery, a subscription to SnackNation is a good bet. Oh, and it also delivers coffee and fresh fruit, which I guess is technically a healthy snack.
Best snacks:Â Hu chocolate bars, Country Archer jerky and Bear Naked granola bites.
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