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Want a cheap, healthy snack. Pick up the organic peeled carrots snack pack (Costco item number 22457) in your warehouse's refrigerated section. This is a fairly new item, although warehouses have stocked the big 3 pound bag for quite a while. These cost $5.79 at my local warehouse. Eating one pack will get you 60 calories, zero of those are from fat!

This item contains 24 individually packaged and sealed 2.25 ounce servings of organic cut and peeled baby carrots. These are packaged by Grimmway Farms and are organic. They are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizer.

Baby carrots were invented by a carrot farmer in the late 1980's. He noted that much of his crop was too ugly to sell in grocery stores, and came up with an automated process to cut and peel these ugly disfigured carrots into the tasty looking baby carrots we have today.

Occasionally you might get a bag of slimy carrots. The slime occurs when the bag was not properly refrigerated. This might occur when a truck is being unloaded and the carrots are left on the loading dock for too long, for instance. In my experience, it happens more often in the hot summer months.