I think trail mix in the bulk bins at the grocery store is somewhat horrid.
The stale taste, the dried little chunks of mystery fruit, the peanut salt that makes it's way onto everything
and the price is just a little horrid too.
So we made our own. I picked up a couple ingredients while out shopping but everything else came from what was in the pantry already and somehow those ingredients aren't as stale and nasty when you buy them individually; probably because they get bought more often and therefore replaced, where as the bins of trail mix are kind of like a fruit cake that sits and ages...(although some people actually like old fruitcake which is kind of crazy to me...no offense all you old fruitcake lovers...)
Anyway, I digress...
We came home and we chopped up all manner of apricots, prunes and raisins. We dumped in unsalted roasted peanuts and sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and granola clusters. For kicks we threw in the last of the boxes of cereal that were hanging out in the depths of the pantry shelf and for color and the sheer joy of it, we threw in the mini m and ms that we meant to use to decorate a gingerbread house and never did.
The trail mix was a huge hit. I put it all in a big airtight bin and now my little snackers nibble away at bowls of it all day. They come to me begging for snacks every half an hour and in the past where I used to have to rummage and forage about lost for ideas of what to continuously feed them, now I simply point at the large airtight bin and minutes later we are all satisfied.
Yes, I would say this is the face of trail mix satisfaction.
Do you have a favorite trail mix combination for your family too?
