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Hey Everybody! It's National Trail Mix Day!
Trail mix is a high energy snack comprised of dried fruits and nuts designed to provide the extra boost you need while hiking the trail. Observed every year
on August 31, National Trail Mix Day honors the mix that many of us love so much. Common trail mix ingredients may include
nuts, seeds, dried
fruit, chocolate, breakfast cereals, banana chips,
pretzels, shredded coconut and marshmallows. Trail Mix Day is all about creating good trail mix and testing it out on the road.
It is said that trail mix was first invented in 1968 by two California surfers who blended peanuts and raisins together for an energy snack. However, the term trail mix was mentioned 10 years earlier in Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums.
Now...you can buy packages of trail mix at a store. Or...you can make
up your own, using the ingredients you like best.
To celebrate the National Trail Mix Day, try out the following
trail mix recipe.
Fruit,
seeds and nuts mixed together. How can you go
wrong? It’s literally “Terrific”.
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1 cup
combination diced dried fruit, such as prunes, apricots, pears and apples
1/2 cup
raisins and/or dried cherries or cranberries
1 1/2 cups
unsalted sunflower seeds
1 cup
unsalted dry-roasted peanuts (or honey-roasted peanuts, chopped walnuts or
unsalted almonds)
Mix all ingredients
together and you’re done.
Tips: When making your own trail mix, avoid messy items that
leave your hands sticky. Also avoid too many salty items. For example,
unsalted nuts is better than salted ones.
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