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Best Snack Box Subscriptions for 2024 [CNET]

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Article updated on September 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM PDT

From exotic equatorial delights to your favorite vintage candy to a meat medley, these themed snack boxes will keep your tastebuds pumped up month after month.

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David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. David earned his BA from Northeastern and has toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or tinkering with a toaster. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.

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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

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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.

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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.

What’s the cheapest snack box subscription?

Universal Yums has snack box subscriptions that start at $16 per month. That makes it the most affordable snack subscription of the options we evaluated. 

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What types of snack box subscriptions are there?

There are loads of snack-delivery operations in 2024, many with a niche or a specialty, curating mailings of munchies in a specific category. There are even healthy snack boxes that offer vegan snacks and keto snacks made with nutritious ingredients (like dried fruit, jerky and nut butter) for health-conscious snackers or people with dietary restrictions.

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Do snack subscriptions have a long commitment?

You can have a food box delivered through a monthly subscription option or get a one-time order for a specific tasty snack, should you prefer. It all comes down to your snack preferences, appetite and budget.

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