51.   Parents can, however, buy foods that have more nutrition, avoiding snack foods that tempt too much.

52.   People start bringing snack foods to work, invitations arrive for open houses, programs at school, parties and church-related activities.

53.   Red-hot salsa may be prized in Texas, but in the land of the bean and the cod, consumers prefer bland dips for their snack foods.

54.   Sales of Slim Jims and other meat snacks have grown briskly in recent years even as the growth of other snack foods has slowed.

55.   Snack foods and desserts often come in high- and low-fat versions, as food companies try to cover all the bases.

56.   Snack foods like these are also the subject of much research in low-calorie and low-fat foods.

57.   Snack food is everywhere.

58.   Some parents may find salvation for their overweight or nutritionally challenged children in fat-free snack foods.

59.   Snack foods such as nuts or cereals and even chips are fine, as long as they are balanced with other foods in the lunch.

60.   Store workers and Pepsi sales representatives have created two aisles stocked mostly with Pepsi soft drinks and Frito-Lay snack food.