Healthy Trail Mix – A Beautiful Mess

This healthy trail mix recipe is filled with nutritious ingredients like almonds, peanuts, pecans, sunflower seeds, raisins, dried fruit and dark chocolate. The best part is this recipe is easy to customize to your preferences. You’ll love creating your own healthy trail mix!

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Ingredients

Raw Nuts – I used raw cashews, macadamia nuts, walnuts and almonds.
Raw Seeds – I used pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.
Dried Fruit – I used dried bananas, raisins and dried apricots.
Yogurt Covered Raisins – For a fun element (add as much fun stuff as you like!)
Dark Chocolate – I used 82% dark chocolate chips.
Cinnamon – To season the raw nuts for toasting.
Nutmeg – To season the raw nuts for toasting.
Sea Salt – To season the raw nuts for toasting.

Benefits of Trail Mix

If you have food sensitivities or any special diet in your household, you can customize this mix to your exact preferences and avoid any unwanted ingredients.
This makes a great lunch box snack or after school snack.
Trail mix makes a great family tradition to make before camping trips or hikes.
Antioxidants
Healthy Fats
Low Sodium

Instructions

Toast trail mix – You will begin by toasting any raw nuts and seeds. Season them with cinnamon, nutmeg and sea salt or just sea salt for a savory version. Toast them for 10 minutes at 350ºF. After you remove them from the oven, allow them to cool completely.

Mix Ins – Now it’s time to mix in any dried fruit, raisins and chocolate.

Storage – Store the mix in an airtight container for up to a month.

Tips for Making

Savory additions – Add pretzels, rye crackers, popcorn or pre-roasted nuts (such as peanuts) to your mix. Try adding pistachios or hazelnuts to your next trail mix.
Sweet additions – Add candy (I love M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces), chocolate covered pretzels or chocolate covered cherries. For dried fruit, try adding coconut flakes, banana chips, mangos or dried blueberries to your mix. In addition to chocolate chips, try white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips.
Cereal – It’s common to add cereals such as granola or Cheerios to a trail mix. Try our homemade granola or paleo granola recipe.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is trail mix actually healthy?

Homemade trail mix can be an unprocessed food made with healthy, nutritious ingredients. Packaged trail mixes may contain more sugar and preservatives. Trail mix is often based with nuts and is not a low-calorie food.

What else is trail mix called?

Trail mix is sometimes called gorp mix in the U.S. In Europe, it is often called scroggin or schmogle.

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Yield 10 servings

Prep 10 minutes

Cook 10 minutes

Instructions

Toast trail mix – You will begin by toasting any raw nuts and seeds. Season them with cinnamon, nutmeg and sea salt or just sea salt for a savory version. Toast them for 10 minutes at 350ºF. After you remove them from the oven, allow them to cool completely.
Mix Ins – Now it’s time to mix in any dried fruit, raisins and chocolate.
Storage – Store the mix in an airtight container for up to a month.

Notes

Savory additions – Add pretzels, rye crackers, popcorn or pre-roasted nuts (such as peanuts) to your mix. Try adding pistachios or hazelnuts to your next trail mix.
Sweet additions – Add candy (I love M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces), chocolate covered pretzels or chocolate covered cherries. For dried fruit, try adding coconut flakes, banana chips, mangos or dried blueberries to your mix. In addition to chocolate chips, try white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips.
Cereal – It’s common to add cereals such as granola or Cheerios to a trail mix. Try our homemade granola or paleo granola recipe.

Course Snack

Cuisine American

Keywords Healthy Trail Mix, Trail Mix