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Artibel’s fig molasses Bread & Circus low-fat guacamole Asian sodas Flax & Soy Granola

A few months ago, during a precious Sunday-evening episode of The Sopranos, the boy tried to palm them off on me.

Health-food cookies, I sniffed. Blech.

But he mmmed and yummed and I had to try them. One teensy nibble and I was forced to eat my pride. Contrary to the expectations of health-food-wary cookie consumers, Mi-Del, a division of American Natural Snacks, makes a mean treat from organic flour, sweetened with cane juice.

I first encountered the round, slightly soft ginger snaps. After months of nonstop ginger-snap binging, I tried the lemon snaps (not as good) and the chocolate snaps (in between the two).

Last weekend, I decided to branch out yet again, and tried Mi-Del’s 100 percent whole-wheat honey grahams (the least tasty of the four). And I found that apparently, I’m not the only Mi-Del fan. As I waited in line at Cambridge’s Harvest Co-op in a post-work spaced-out haze, a woman practically started drooling all over my grocery basket: " Ohmygawd. Mi-Del. Those are the best! I’ve had the ginger snaps, the lemon snaps, the chocolate snaps, and the graham crackers, " she shrieked, ticking the flavors off finger by finger.

I looked around for sympathetic eyes. I have no idea who this is, I tried to let my curious fellow shoppers know with a slight eyebrow raise. People turned back to their baskets, concentrating intensely on their soy milk and heads of lettuce.

I just nodded and half-smiled at the alarmingly excited cookie fan. Really, what could I say? She was right.