We made trail mix!

So...our Whole Foods has this great "Mix Your Own Trail Mix" bar.  For $5.99/lb you can make you own blend of a couple dozen or so options that they have...dried fruit, nuts, candies etc.  We LOVE it.  Then we were at the Berkeley Bowl one day and noticed that they have pretty much everything that we usually put into our trail mix at Whole Foods...in their bulk bins...for WAY less than $5.99/lb.

So, we made our own.  And everything is organic, except the pre-packaged candy.  Ours has...

- Miniature Reeses cups

- Dried banana chips

- Dried cranberries

- Dried pineapple chunks

- Honey nut granola

- Butter toffee peanuts

- Roasted, salted almonds

- Roasted, salted sunflower seeds

- Roasted, salted soy buts

- Coconut flake

Here is all the stuff in the bags we brought it home from the store in...it cost us less than $35.00 and we got about 9# of stuff here (about $3.80/lb, rather than $5.99).

We took all the stuff and dumped it into a big bin (we started out in our biggest bowl, everything JUST fit in it but we couldn't mix it up, so we dumped it into the bin).

It made a LOT.  The trail mix in the bowls we had to pull aside because we accidentally filled two of the little containers without making sure they were dry first.  If we had dumped that trail mix back into the big container I think it would have been pretty much full.  The little containers are perfect for grabbing in the morning and taking to work to snack on throughout the day.  We actually made this a full week ago and the big container is still more than half full.