Southern Alps’ slow fruits cereal

Baby crab packaging

I want to live in Tokyo, to be immersed in a city where quirky is cool and everything can be turned into cute cartoon characters. This awesome packaging of tiny baby crabs with a spicy topping may be a little literal, but it’s more fun that anything Birdseye have ever released.

Crumbs Foods packaging

I like the dynamic, colorful packaging from savory pastry company, Crumbs Foods. It’s all the work of London based designers, Folk Creative. Read more

Cool sandwich boxes

When I was a kid, my sandwiches came wrapped rather ingloriously in clear clingwrap, an unappetizing mess of soggy multi-grain bread, lettuce and crookedly sliced tomato. Which is probably why, for five years, I threw the damn things out every day after school into the scrappy garden that grew out the back of my Mum’s apartment. Yes, that garden was a festering mess of moldy sandwiches. If only those school yard sandwiches could have been packaged like these gems. I mightn’t have eaten them, but I would’ve at least kept the cardboard casing. Read more

Sooshi

Not a fan of sushi? Then check out Sooshi — a new sushi-style treat from New Zealand Natural ice cream. Though it may look a lot like your neighborhood rainbow roll, these sweet snacks are made purely of real fruit and ice cream. Instead of the outside ‘nori’ sheet, Sooshi sports a green apple flavored strip. Rice is replaced with vanilla or fruit ice cream, and rather than vegetables, the center’s filled with lemon, apricot, raspberry, or blackcurrant fruit puree. Though word on the street is that it’s already super sugary, those with a real sweet tooth can top it off with a squirt of chocolate ‘soy sauce’. So next time you’re out for a sushi dinner, consider skipping the California roll and heading straight to dessert.

Forest Milk

So here’s the theory: happy cows produce better milk. And from this concept comes Japanese-based dairy company, Forest Milk. Rather than locking their cows down, Forest Milk’s lot are free to roam the woods 365 days a year. The freer, happier cows then produce tastier, fattier milk. At the same, they maintain the forest by noshing on unwanted grass and weeds. The sweet packaging with its simple green trees, charming typeface, and old-school tissue paper cap make for an overall delightful creamy treat. So mOOOve over factory farming, Forest Milk is here.

New York’s Stuffed Artisan Cannolis

Having been raised a proper Italian-American girl in New York, I was taught from a young age how to spot a good cannoli: those tasty desserts made of hollowed fried dough stuffed lovingly with creamy, sweet ricotta and topped with a marvelous dash of powder sugar. Yum. These tiny Southern Italian treats are not the stuff of nouvelle cuisine. Or are they? Enter Stuffed Artisan Cannolis. Read more