Packaging for energy foods or other substances

An easy-open energy food package configured to store an energy food bar, comprising:

• a tray having a surface defining an interior portion and a peripheral edge circumscribing the interior portion;
• a cover layer having a surface that is adhered to the peripheral edge of the tray and covers an entirety of the interior portion of the tray, wherein the tray and the cover layer cooperate to define a package body that defines an interior space;
• an energy food bar located within the interior space;
• a finger or thumb loop secured to the cover layer and configured to allow a user to separate the cover layer from the tray along at least a portion of the peripheral edge;
• wherein the tray comprises a protrusion initially extending in a first direction away from the interior space, and wherein, in use, the protrusion can be depressed such that it extends in a second direction into the interior space, wherein the protrusion is configured to separate the energy food bar from at least a portion of the surface of the tray that is adjacent the protrusion when the protrusion is extended in the second direction, wherein the finger or thumb loop is located at a first end of the food package and wherein the protrusion is located closer to the first end than a second end of the food package to allow the user to open the package and depress the protrusion with one hand.