Last year I discovered that I really like trailmix. I also discovered that trailmix can be rather expensive, the brand I liked costing $5 for a pound.
Being the DIYer that I am, I decided to try to beat the price by making my own.
The first step was to find out what the trail mix was made up of. This was not very hard at all, because the ingredients were advertised right on the front of the package.
From this list, I then made my own list, discarding ingredients that I was not fond of. (For me that meant raisins.)
The final mixture tends to look something like this:
1 can of peanuts (about a pound)
1 can of cashews (about a pound)
1 bag of chocolate chips (milk chocolate) (about a pound)
1 bag of white chocolate chips (about a pound)
(occasionally) 1 bag of peanut butter chips (about a pound)
1 bag of dried cranberries (almost of pound)
Mix together, in a bowl, then distribute into containers for storage. (The peanut and cashew cans work well for a medium size storage container.)
Other things to add:
I usually add a small bag of almonds or other nuts.
If you like raisins, they would work great in here too... sorry, just kidding. No one likes raisins.
My final cost is roughly $15 for 5 pounds of trail mix. If I am good, I can make 5 pounds last for about a month. Sometimes it’s hard though, because it does get pretty addictive.