Crunchy Styles

Add flavor and crunch to your favorite salads, casseroles, vegetables and stir-fries with these well-seasoned toasted almonds, or have them as a snack. They come in oven-roasted, honey-roasted, ranch style, bacon Cheddar, roasted garlic Caesar and Italian Parmesan flavors.

Sunkist Almond Accents, 6-ounce package, $3.49 from Vons, Pavilions, Ralphs, Gelson’s, Stater Bros. and Bristol Farms.

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Silky Soups

These tasty heat-and-serve soups get their creamy texture from silken tofu that is blended with vegetables. Eat them as soups or use them to create casseroles or rich sauces. Stock a few of the airtight, long-life containers for last-minute meals. They come in tomato, garden pea, butternut squash and corn.

Mori-Nu soups, $2.49 to $4.49 from Whole Foods Market; Trader Joe’s; Gelson’s; Mother’s Market & Kitchen in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Irvine and Laguna Woods; and Erewhon Natural Food Market, 7660 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 937-0777.

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Donna Deane