Do you love the trail mix that you can purchase but don't love the price you have to pay? I make my own mixing walnut pieces, almonds, raw cashews, currants, raisins, small pieces of dried pineapple and sunflower seeds. Use your imagination and add or subtract what you like or don't like with my recipe. Every week I make a batch and have about 2 Tablespoons per day. Delicious, inexpensive and healthy too. Happy snacking.
Instructions Difficulty: Easy Things You'll Need: Raisins, Sunflower seeds, M&M's, Mixing bowl, Storage container, Peanuts, Peanut butter or butterscotch chips
Step1 - Pour 4 cups of roasted, salted peanuts into a large mixing bowl. Step2 - Add 1 cup of roasted and salted sunflower seeds. Step3 - Toss in 3/4 cup of raisins. Step4 - Include 1 cup of M&M's to sweeten the deal. If you have kids, this is a wonderful treat to add to this healthy snack! Step5 - Add 1/2 cup of peanut butter or butterscotch chips to add a unique flavor. Step6 - Stir the mix thoroughly. Store in an air-tight container and voila, it' snack time!
I feel if you are eating trail mix instead of donuts, cake, cookies and stuff, you are learning to eat property. Just do not snack on it all day, grazing. Dry Roasted Peanuts Raisins Craisins Sunflower Seeds Coconut chips Banana Chips Dried Apricot Dried Pineapple Dried Mango YES: M&M's and sometimes I throw in Kashi Crunch Cereal.
This is something good to put in baggies and grab on the run for an uplifting protein/fruit mix.
Toss ingredients together in plastic bag. Shake until well coated.
Honey Graham Snack Mix
5 cups honey graham cereal 3 cups bear-shaped graham cookies 2 cups ramen noodles, crushed 3/4 cup sliced almonds 1 cup golden raisins 1/3 cup butter 1/3 cup honey 1 tsp. orange juice
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine honey graham cereal, bear-shaped graham cookies, ramen noodles, almonds and golden raisins. Mix well. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt butter and blend in honey and orange juice.
Spread mixture over the honey graham cereal mixture and toss to evenly coat. Spread mixture onto a large baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes in the preheated oven.
Perhaps I am just sensitive to something, perhaps dried fruits,nuts, seeds are just not cleaned properly, but EVERY time I buy/make trail mix, which I LOVE, and cannot often afford, I get infected teeth!
When I avoid them, my teeth/gums get healthy again. I know much of what we are getting today in groceries is from another country who don't have the sanitation standards we have, and that nuts are picked and handled by SOMEONE or SOME machine, so SOMEWHERE along the way, from tree/plant/grower/picker to distributors I'm finding some sort of contamination. I also believe it's NOT going to get better! However, if we stick more with processed fruit/nut items, cooking our dried fruits/nuts, and using ONLY baked nuts/fruits for Trail Mix, it is likely safer to eat. It is comical when health conscious folks sell Trail Mix with M & M's in them, or any OTHER candy! Sort of defeats the purpose, in my opinion, although encourages first time/occasional healthy habits with young/old alike, I suppose. LOL God gave us all the common sense to either figure it out or do our homework! : )
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