[jodi]

Trail mix is something I used to buy, until I figured out how easy it was to make - and it used up all those little odds and ends that sometimes went to waste. Here's the recipe I used last night. In the time you can grab something off the shelf and throw it in a bowl, you can have a large batch of trail mix made exactly to your liking!

From the cereal cupboard: two handfuls of Cheerios

From the snack cupboard: two handfuls of stick pretzels, crushed a little to break up the pieces
a shake of dry roasted peanuts from the container
a shake of sunflower seeds
a handful of dried cranberries

From the baking cupboard: a handful each of chocolate and butterscotch chips

Toss in a Tupperware bowl, put the lid on, and shake. We ate all of this up last night, so I made a new batch this morning. My kids absolutely love it. Some other things I have used:
-any type of cereal, from Rice Chex to Kashi Mighty Bites (anything that languishes in the cupboard too long and that my kids stopped eating!)
-baking chips (white chocolate, peanut butter, etc.)
-nuts, any kind
-Goldfish crackers
-any dried fruit
-M&Ms, other small candies
Have fun with it!