Nutrition Boxes

There is this new craze for subscription "boxes". The basics on them is for any particular category from running to make up to, well the latest I have seen is a shaving box for men, is that you pay normally $10-15 a month and they send you a box of goodies. So far I have tried 3 of these boxes that are runner focused.

The first one I tried was Stridebox which I liked at lot. For $10 every month they send you 6-8 nutrition items from Kind bars to GU's and hydration items like Skratch to Nuun and they also include a running gadget like a Kiltch Clip or Foot Rubz. The thing I didn't like was that twice I got charged for boxes I never received and once they ship for a particular month they won't go back and correct their mistake, they send you the next month's box when it's ready to ship. The first time I let the error go, the second time I requested a refund and canceled by subscription. After 6 months of using the service I got a few new gadgets and only ended up using 3-4 of the nutritional items and the rest ended up in a pile that I eventually took to a MRTT run in order to get rid of them before they expired.

The second one I tried was the Bulu Box. This isn't necessarily a box geared to runners, more to the gluten free crowd, which I am not. I had a free trial for it so I guess you could say I got my moneys worth from it. I think out of the 8 items I maybe used one and the rest ended up in the pile with other stuff from Stridebox.

My most recent box is the Kona Kase, I found a $5 off coupon for it so I figured I would give it a try. I was very surprised. First off it said I wouldn't receive my April box until the 15th-16th but it came on the first. Huge bonus. Next there are more items in the box that I will actually use and less that I will set aside for others to try. Below is this month's box.

As you can see there is a chocolate Stinger Waffle (yummy), a pack of Sports Beans, a GU, a Kind bar, a Nuun tablet, a Picky bar (gluten and dairy free) and a Questbar (of the protein variety). Value wise I could probably buy all these items separately for cheaper but because I will actually use most of the items in this box I am going to give my subscription another month's try. If you would like to try they, if you order thru this link you will save $5 on your first case http://curebit.com/x/Rfj4fR  

*UPDATE, after a few months with KK, this happened:
http://joulesrunning.blogspot.com/2014/05/kona-kase-update.html