Monday, July 15, 2013

Simple Trail Mix




Summertime calls for a lot of snacks.  With my kids home from school there is always someone that's hungry and there's always a need for snacks to grab on your way out the door.   All of us really love this simple trail mix.  I tend to leave the chocolate chips out more often in the summertime so we don't end up with a melted mess and in the fall I like to add pumpkin and sunflower seeds.

I usually pick up all my ingredients from Target.   The Archer Farms brand has a variety of dried fruit and I like the ghirardelli chocolate chips.  I admire that they do their best to use non-GMO ingredients as long as they're available.  They're not perfect, but by far better than Hersey's, Nestle, and Mars.

Have you ever eaten a plain almond and noticed how sweet it is?  I love the way they taste with a few pieces of dried fruit.  And sometimes I like to add sea salted almonds to my trail mix instead instead.  Combined with the dried fruit and chocolate it adds that irresistible sweet/salty combination.  Almonds are a great source of fiber, vitamin E and magnesium, which far too many people are deficient in.




Simple Trail Mix
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almonds (plain or sea salted)
dried cherries
dried blueberries
pumpkin seeds
sunflower seeds
chocolate chips

Combine together in a ziploc bag.

-Amy


2 comments:

  1. both of your blogs are fantastic amy -- thanks for sharing. we love trail mix around here as well -- you may want to try costco's chocolate chips. they are so wonderful and they are fair trade as well.

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    1. Thanks! I'll check out their chocolate chips the next time I'm there.

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