A new service popped up early this new year - Graze.com, portioned snacks sent straight to your desk.

In the name of research, I have signed up so that I can give you a full and honest review of the service.

The deal is you pick things you like from the graze offering (dried and fresh fruits, nuts and seeds etc) and they send you a selection of 3 varied size portions in the post, they arrive, very nicely packaged in a simple cardboard and recyclable plastic box, as often as you like. You pay per box - about £2.99.

All very straightforward and a real boon for the really time poor (I have my hand up here) - grazing is the way to keep your blood sugars even through the day and having dried fruits handy is always going to be better than reaching for the office biscuit tin…

So what about the most important factor - how good is the food?

Well, I’ve had 3 boxes now and I have to admit the dried fruit can be a little on the dried side, and the nuts a slightly too frequent offering, that may be just bad ordering on my part. however, the fresh fruit is always tasty and it is nice to have a bit of exotic variety to my veg box apple and pear staples.

So although you can probably get slightly better dried fruits if you shop around for yourself, the portion control, variety and time saved are definitely appealing - I’ve had three boxes and haven’t cancelled yet…