Who schedules a teenage sports team sign-up for 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on a Sunday when the first game’s about six months later? The board of directors of the baseball team my brother coaches, that’s who.

While players, parents, and assistants used the team’s chain text to curse the decision, my brother tells me he never texted or uttered a single expletive. In fact, despite the turnout being so light that it needs to be done again, he swears he was not cursed but blessed to have attended signups that day — and that this feeling has nothing to do with anything related to baseball.

And everything to do with finally getting around to taste testing two meat and veggie bars from a company that goes by two less-than-offensive four-letter words: Wild Zora.

In mid-December, Georgina Taylor, a publicist at Publicity for the Good working on behalf of Wild Zora, emailed to see if I’d be interested in sampling the aforementioned bars. But before this 45-year lacto-ovo vegetarian emailed a “no thanks,” I checked out the ingredients and nutrition facts for all varieties and realized this would be really healthy eating for any omnivore.

So I emailed one to see if he’d serve as my taste tester. My brother agreed, but I must not have done a good job of describing the bars.

For once he finally got around to trying both the BBQ Beef and Mediterranean Lamb flavors, he admitted he had been putting it off because he was expecting hard-to-chew, beef-jerky-type knock offs.

“Was I ever wrong,” he said and then recounted the whole story.

He was rushed that Sunday morning and had no time for a brunch. So he decided the time was finally right to engage in what he fully expected to be a hurt-your-jaw fight as he sat at a table with a good buddy, who’s also an assistant, and waited for players to appear and fill out the needed paperwork.

Once there, my bother soon felt the need to eat something, so he unwrapped the BBQ Beef bar. His buddy felt the need to comment.

This guy may not have done any of the text-group cursing about signups, but he did some now. He said the bar looked like a piece of — in kinder, gentler, sanitized terms — something that got flattened and dried after it came out of a cow’s behind.

My brother laughed, but it wasn’t the buddy’s observation that amused him. It was his first bite.

“This is crazy good,” he said. “If I had a half dozen more, I’d eat them right now.”

I know my brother’s appetite, so I know he’s not lying. I also know he weight trains between his work day and supper, so when he says Wild Zora’s Meat & Veggie Bars are a “perfect little snack” for when he’s hungry and needs to eat a little something an hour or so before exercise, I believe that, too.

To make a believer out of you, consider how little the little something can be. The BBQ Beef bar has only 110 calories; the Mediterranean Lamb, 120.

That the little something is also a really healthy something becomes clear as soon as you read the ingredients’ list of any bar. The Mediterranean Lamb, for example, contains natural lamb, organic spinach, garlic, onion, celery, apricots, and dates, and is seasoned with sea salt, oregano, rosemary and turmeric.

My brother also mentioned that neither bar was in the least bit “tree-barky,” that both just “melted” in his mouth, and that a subtle hint of the lesser ingredients in each came through as he chewed.

So you need to chew on this. Wild Zora offers other products just as healthy. Like “backpacking meals” and “unique hot coffee cereals,” as well as other items you’d swear were not made by Zora and her family in Loveland, Colorado but in your house — if you could ever find the time: organic-air dried fruits, instant grain-free cereals, and instant soups, including three vegan offerings, two of which I taste tested.

Both the French Lentil and Roasted Pumpkin soups have a pleasant, light taste, but be aware the final serving instruction is spot on. You certainly do need to stir the soups continuously, for the vegetable bits quickly settle at the bottom of the bowl.

Which occurs, quite possibly, because both soups are low in fat. The Nutrition Facts of the French Lentil, in fact, lists that one serving of 50 calories contains 0 grams of Total Fat.

If you enjoy soup but tend not to buy store-bought varieties because they’re high in sodium, you’ll really like that one serving of either contains less than 400 milligrams. And what I’d really like you to do is what my brother did: taste test Wild Zora’s Meat & Veggie Bars.

Because I love it when people thank me for improving their snacking.