What should I put in homemade trail mix?

The options are endless with homemade trail mix and that makes it so fun. You can add dried fruit, raisins, coconut, nuts, seeds, or different candies. See the recipe card for lots and lots of ideas.

Where is the best place to buy dried fruit?

I have found the best prices for dried fruit from Costco, Trader Joe’s, or in the bulk bins from the health food store.

If I add chocolate to my trail mix will it melt?

Be warned, if adding chocolate, you need to plan on keeping bags of trail mix in a cooler if you are hiking on a hot day. If you are just munching on it around the house, the chocolate won’t melt too easily.

How do you store homemade trail mix?

You can use plastic baggies. Zipper-top sandwich size seem to work best – they don’t fill them totally full, but the bigger baggie lets them stick their hand in without spilling the trail mix all over like it does in a snack-size bag. Or, you can get reusable baggies like these.

9 DIY Trail Mix Everyone Will Love

Description

Here's how to make a do-it-yourself trail mix station that's such a fun thing for families to make before going on an adventure. You'll love all of my trail mix recipes and ideas too. There's no wrong way to make a trail mix.

Ingredients

Dried Fruit

We love dried pineapple, blueberries, cherries, persimmons, apricots, cranberries, and peaches. You could also include dried apples, dates, raisins and banana chips.

Nuts and Seeds

You can use just about any kind that you like/want/have. We like salted roasted almonds, honey roasted almonds, pecans, cashews, and peanuts. I also like to include sunflower seeds and hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas).

Candies/Chocolate

You can include all kinds of chocolate chips (dark, milk, white, or even peanut butter chips), M&M's of any variety, chocolate covered raisins, and even candy-coated sunflower seeds. Include what you like!

Other stuff

Shredded coconut or coconut chips and animal crackers are also great.

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Instructions

Collect up your ingredients for making trail mix. I like to get a few things from each category though if we are hiking somewhere hot, I'll leave out the chocolate category so that it doesn't melt into a mess.
Put the assorted ingredients into different bowls or into the cups of a muffin tin.
Give your kids baggies/sacks/tupperware and let them pick and choose what they would like in their trail mix.
Toss any "leftovers" from the bowls into a big bag. We call that "family trail mix" and we share it when their individual bags are gone.
Go on an adventure and enjoy when you need a snack.

Notes

Some of our favorite Trail Mix Combos

Dried cherries, honey roasted almonds, milk chocolate chips, cashews, and animal crackers.
Peanuts, salted almonds, dried cranberries, milk, semi-sweet, white, AND peanut butter chips.
Dried cherries, dried blueberries, dried apricots, cashews, pecans, dark chocolate chips, and candy-coated sunflower seeds.
Dried persimmon (Aren't they pretty? Very chewy, FYI), honey roasted and salted almonds, pumpkin seeds, peanut butter chips, and candy-coated sunflower seeds.
Dried white peaches, honey roasted almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, and candy-coated sunflower seeds.
Dried pineapple, white peaches, blueberries and cranberries, walnuts, sunflower seeds, animal crackers, chocolate-covered raisins, M&M's, and milk chocolate chips.
Dried pineapple and apricots, salted almonds, cashews, white chocolate chip, pumpkin seeds, and coconut chips (my personal favorite!).
Dried blueberries, salted almonds, pecans, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and white chocolate chips.
Honey roasted almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, M&M's, and dark chocolate chips

Prep Time: 15 min
Category: snack
Method: no bake
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1
Calories: 200

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