Trail Mix - Quick And Easy Homemade Recipe

Looking for a delicious and healthy snack that's easy to make? Try our homemade quick easy trail mix recipe that's loaded with healthy nuts and seeds.

It's always good to have a tub of homemade trail mix on the worktop. Ready to grab in-place of sugary snacks when you're feeling hungry.

It's the perfect breakfast snack, pre or post work-out and it's great for busy teenagers to eat on the go!

We'll show you a quick and easy trail mix recipe and loads of ways to switch the ingredients and build your own trail mix.

Making Quick And Easy Homemade Trail Mix Is A Good Thing, Here’s Why! 

You Control The Ingredients - we've given you a basic trail mix recipe, but you can swap ingredients and mix and match things you like and create your very own snack mix. You can even customise it to suit any dietary requirements, for example, you can easily make this gluten free, healthier, or even add in more 'fun bits'.

Super easy - making trail mix at home couldn't be easier! Simply tip the ingredients into a bowl, mix then store in an air tight container. It takes literally minutes to make.

Convenient - we love the convenience of trail mix. It's quick and easy to grab when you feel hungry, it's easy to eat on the go, and it makes a great little breakfast snack with coffee for those days when you just can't be bothered to make anything.

Equipment Needed

• Cups (not essential, you can just tip estimated quantities, there's no rules here)

• Mixing bowl

• Air tight container for storage

Quick And Easy Trail Mix Ingredients

We only use four ingredients in our simple trail mix recipe

• 1 cup walnuts

• 1 cup seed mix - we use Whitworths 4 Seed Mix it's a mix of pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, brown and golden linseeds.

• 1 cup dark chocolate chips

• 1 cup Cheerios

We've popped lots of recipe swaps and ideas below for you!

How To Make Trail Mix

You'll really LOVE how easy homemade trail mix is to make!

Step One - add the ingredients to the mixing bowl

• Take a mixing bowl and tip in the walnuts. Feel free to break the larger pieces up into smaller ones here.

• Add in the four seed mixture.

• Next tip in the dark chocolate chips.

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• And finally, tip in the Cheerios.

Step Two - mix the ingredients together

• Once all the trail mix ingredients are in the mixing bowl, give the whole thing a good mix together, you can either do this with your fingers, or a spoon.

• After a good mix, the ingredients should look like the mixture below - you want it to be well mixed so that when you grab a handful you get a good combination of flavours.

Step Three - store the trail mixture

• Tip the snack mix into an air tight container and store away in the cupboard. It will usually keep well for around a week (although it never ever lasts that long!)

Is Trail Mix Healthy?

Trail Mix is a healthy snack choice as our quick and easy recipe is loaded with good stuff!

• Dark chocolate which is rich in antioxidants.

• Pumpkin seeds which are a good source of protein and unsaturated fatty acids.

• Sunflower seeds - a good source of vitamin E and contain various minerals - magnesium, manganese, copper and selenium.

• Linseeds - which contain antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids.

• Walnuts - which have lots of health benefits and are a good source of protein and vitamin E.

• Cheerios - which are fortified with vitamins and iron.

One thing to keep in mind though is that nuts and seeds do contain a lot of calories, so snacking with portion control in mind is a good thing here!

Build Your Own Trail Mix

When it comes to making a great trail mix, there's four key ingredients (if you want to keep things simple) and they are - nuts, seeds, cereal and fun stuff.

You can build your own trail mix by picking one or two ingredients from the lists below or adding any of your own!

Nuts - add 1-2 cups

• Walnuts
• Cashew nuts
• Peanuts
• Pecan nuts
• Brazil nuts
• Almonds
• Hazelnuts

Seeds To Put In Trail Mix - add ½ - 1 cup

• Sunflower seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Linseeds
• Chia seeds
• Sesame seeds

Cereal - add 1-3 cups

• Cheerios
• Granola
• Cornflakes
• Branflakes
• Krave
• Oatabix flakes

Fun Stuff To Add To Trail Mix - add 1 - 1 ½ cups

• Chocolate chips (dark, white or milk)
• Mini marshmallows
• Popcorn (salted, caramel or plain)
• Chocolate/Candies - M&Ms, Smarties, Chocolate buttons
• Dried fruit - raisins, sultanas, dried apricots, dried cherries, dried blueberries

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