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raisinably delicious gluten free trail mix

Snack it to me: Raisinibly Healthy Snack Mix

This post is part of Snack It To Me – recipes for my favorite snack mixes. The posts are: Fairy Berry Gluten-Free Trail MixSour Patched Gluten-Free Trail MixCherry Cordial Gluten-Free Snack MixMango Lassi Trail MixApricocious Gluten-Free Trail MixRaisinably Delicious Snack Mix, Happy Endings Trail Mix, My go-to prepared snacks.

Raisins are a point of contention in my family. Well, between me and my sister they are. She, so very wrongly, believes that raisins have no place in anything. Not oatmeal cookies. Not Irish soda bread.

I think she might be an alien. Or at the very least adopted. There is no way such a raisin hater can be related to me.

You see, I am on the right side of this disagreement. The side where those little boxes of raisins were never a disappointment when they showed up in my halloween bucket. And I think they make a great addition to any boring cereal – they can help keep me from feeling the need to add sugar to plain chex.

Don’t worry though. I added some chocolate in there for you non-raisin fanatics. Or for those of you who think they are equally important in life.

raisinably delicious gluten free trail mix

Raisinibly Delicious Gluten-Free Snack Mix

Author: Mary Fran Wiley
Prep time: 5 mins
Total time: 5 mins
Serves: 6
This is a loose template meant to inspire you to create your own trail mixes and to help keep you from getting that hangry feeling (being so hungry you are angry) when you are out and about without a safe restaurant in sight.
Ingredients
  • 150 grams (about a cup) raisins
  • 50 grams (about a half cup or a generous handfull) dried goji berries
  • 50 grams (about a half cup) unsweetened dried coconut flakes
  • 50 grams (about a quarter cup sunflower seeds
  • 75 grams (about a half cup) good quality dark chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Measure all ingredients in a large bowl and mix to combine. Store in a sealed container for up to a month.
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Snack it to me: Cherry Cordial Snack Mix

This post is part of Snack It To Me Week– a week full of recipes for my favorite snack mixes. The posts are: Fairy Berry Gluten-Free Trail MixSour Patched Gluten-Free Trail MixCherry Cordial Gluten-Free Snack Mix, Mango Lassi Trail Mix, Apricocious Trail Mix, Raisinably Delicious Snack Mix, Happy Endings Trail Mix, My go-to prepared snacks.

Chocolate should be a food group. And, in my professional opinion, it should be the base of the pyramid.

I mean, it is full of anti-oxidants and theobromine. It has been purported to do everything from boost your mood to decrease your appetite. Small studies have found that it is good for your heart, your skin and for diabetes prevention.

I even read that it can help make you smarter.

That is a whole heck of a lot of promises for any food to deliver on.

And to think something healthy was lurking in my love of desserts.

I am pairing it with dried cherries and coconut flakes today for a gluten-free trail mix that is a great sweet treat for the 3pm blues. Or the 10am blues. Or a last minute conference call. We can call this an all-occasion snack. But only if you don’t skip the chocolate.

cherrycordial

Snack it to me: Cherry Cordial Snack Mix

Recipe Type: Snack
Author: Mary Fran Wiley
Prep time: 5 mins
Total time: 5 mins
Serves: 4
This recipe was inspired by one of my day’s favorite treats: chocolate covered cherries. Those intensely sweet sugar-asked cherries died bright red and dipped in chocolate.
Ingredients
  • 100 grams high-quality chocolate calets (they look like slightly larger, flatter chocolate chips) or your favorite brand of semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 100 grams dried cherries
  • 50 grams unsweetened dried coconut flakes
Instructions
  1. Weigh out ingredients and stir to combine in a medium mixing bowl.
  2. Store in an air tight container at room temperature for up to one month.
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Sour Patched Gluten-Free Trail Mix

Snack it to me: Sour Patched Trail Mix

This post is part of Snack It To Me Week– a week full of recipes for my favorite snack mixes. The posts are: Fairy Berry Trail MixSour Patched Trail Mix, Cherry Cordial Snack Mix, Mango Lassi Trail Mix, Apricocious Trail Mix, Raisinably Delicious Snack Mix, Happy Endings Trail Mix, My go-to prepared snacks.

Life has been missing a little bit of its sparkle lately. Things that used to make me happy are just sort of there. My hands don’t want to knit anymore. My lips have been having a hard time remembering how to smile. My heart has started to feel a little heavier. I think I might have a case of the mean reds. 

“The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?” – Holly Golightly

Yes, Holly, I do.   And I needed some cheering up, so I thought putting sunshine in a jar might help.

Sour Patched Gluten-Free Trail Mix Today’s gluten-free trail mix is just that. Sunshine and childhood all bottled up. Dried pineapple is intensely sweet and chewy. The coconut flakes are just crunchy enough. But the real star of this mix is the glodenberry. Also called the  Cape Gooseberry or the Inca Berry, they are native to South America. They are both sweet and tart, just like some of my favorite candies – without all the chemical junk. They are supposedly full of bioflavonoids, vitamin A, betacarotene and anti-oxidants. They even contain a bit of protein. (The internets call them a superfruit. I call them candy.)

Snack it to me: Sour Patched Trail Mix

Recipe Type: Snack
Author: Mary Fran Wiley
Prep time: 5 mins
Total time: 5 mins
Serves: 4
The star of this mix is the [url href=”http://www.sunfood.com/food/incan-golden-berries.html”]goldenberry[/url]. If you can’t get your hands on those, dried sour cherries would work in their place.
Ingredients
  • 100 grams dried pineapple, roughly chopped (volume wise, this was just about a cup)
  • 100 grams dried goldenberries (volume wise, this was also about a cup)
  • 30 grams dried, unsweetened coconut flakes (this was about a quarter cup or a small handfull.
Instructions
  1. Weigh out ingredients and stir to combine.
  2. Store in an air-tight container for up to a month.
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