Healthy Snacking with Trail Mix

Do you enjoy fruits and nuts? We all prefer to have our fruit as fresh as possible, preferably from our own garden, or personally selected and purchased at the market. But thanks to the smarts of several producers such as Frito-Lay, Healthy Snack and King Nut, you may enjoy fruit processed and combined with cereal and other ingredients in a tasty Trail Mix.

According to Wikipedia Trail Mix ingredients are: Nuts such as cashews or almonds (among my favourite); legumes such as peanuts (only scientists remember that this is not a classic nut) or baked soybeans; dried fruits such as cranberries (very good for urinary tract by the way), raisins, apricots, apples, or candied orange peel; chocolate; breakfast cereal; seeds such as pumpkin or sunflower seeds (both are great for prostate); granola; chips; shredded coconut; and some pretzel and ginger thrown in for good measure.

I enjoy several nut mixes. My wife and I used to repackage and sell nuts to friends and contacts. For some reason we never sold the classic trail mix but we had several other mixes such as Student Mix, Raisin Nut Mix, Cranberry Jubilee, and California Mix.

When you have nuts, cereal, grains, and honey around the house you can throw together a variety of mixes on your own. The name suggests that it is ideal for hiking as a ready source of energy.

But I love to eat Trail Mix bars, whether I’m hiking or not.  Truth be told I enjoy anything with nuts, seeds, and raisins.  If you want to keep me happy just keep any family trip supplied with Nature Valley Granola bars and do make sure some are Trail Mix.