Fall trail mix: Add colorful leaves for extra fall-ness.
You can eat it as a snack! Eat it on a hike! Eat it while handing out pounds of sugar in bright, enticing wrappers to your neighbor’s kids on Halloween!
Ah, Halloween. For all my talk about being a creative person, I am terrible with Halloween costumes. This fact kills me.
It doesn’t help that I refuse to spend money on anything contributing to a costume. Buy something for an outfit I’m only going to wear once? At most once a year? Yeah no.
My low point was when I was around ten years old. I went as a soccer player. I just wore my soccer jersey, that’s it. Why did people reward that with candy?? We both knew my attempt was pathetic. My Halloween earnings tasted a little less sweet that year.
I can’t tell you how many times this Halloween season I’ve nearly given up and just decided to go to parties dressed as a runner. I know, it’s shameful. I’m just waiting for the year where I have a Halloween epiphany of epic proportions and I can just use that costume for the rest of my life. It has yet to happen, but I believe in Halloween miracles. Who knows what the Great Pumpkin is capable of?!
In the meantime, I’ll just eat trail mix and be in awe of every else’s impressive costume ideas.
This trail mix has pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, your favorite granola, dark chocolate, and cinnamon sugar pretzels. The cinnamon sugar pretzels give this mix a little boost of sweetness that will stop you from missing all those fun-size bars. It’s easy to make and makes the proper amount you’ll need to drown your lack of costume creativity sorrows a time or two (trust me on this one).
Whether you have the greatest costume of all time or not, I hope you have a wonderful Halloween!
Fall trail mix
Ingredients
For cinnamon sugar pretzels
- 4 cups tiny twist pretzles
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
For trail mix
- 1 cup dark chocolate chunks
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup pumpkin seeds
- 2.5 cups favorite granola
Instructions
For the pretzels
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Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat oven to 250 degrees.
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In a large bowl, coat pretzels with oil. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and pour over pretzels. Mix to coat thoroughly.
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Bake for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Let cool completely.
For the trail mix
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Combine all ingredients (including pretzels) in a large bowl. Store in airtight container for up to two weeks.
