A little bit sweet with dark chocolate chunks and dried cherries, and a teensy bit salty from mini gold fish crackers and salted cashews- Mom’s Fancy Sweet & Salty Trail Mix is an addictive snack mix. Five minutes is all you need to whip up a batch!

I was no stranger to feeding a gaggle of hungry kids growing up. My own parents did it. I never really got a good appreciation for it though until I was grown. Then it was my own kids. Constantly eating me out of house and home. Crying for snacks at all hours of the days and night. Oh, the snacks.

Meanwhile I’m over here trying to keep it mildly healthy, but also delicious. All the while not breaking the family’s grocery budget for the week.

Prepackaged snacks are great for so many reasons. I mean, hello! They’re almost always just flat out yummy. That doesn’t even factor in the convenience quotient. Plus you’ve got the efficiency bit, what with them being prepackaged into handy little serving sizes. Except- they don’t take the actual kids into consideration.

You’ve got mine for example, who one snack is never enough. Never filling enough. They’re still dying of hunger. Plus, you’ve always got the little bits they pick out and leave behind. It’s a wonder why they’re never full…

All of this lead to me throwing in the towel, and deciding that it was just easier for me to make some of my own snacks the kids could have.

Snacks we allllll liked, without any pesky bits to be picked out & tossed aside. That’s how we ended up with this tasty little recipe for Mom’s Fancy Sweet & Salty Trail Mix.

Other Fun Trail Mix Options:

• Cherry Chocolate Pistacio Trail Mix
• Peanut Butter Maple Snack Mix
• Caramel Apple Pie Party Mix

This trail mix recipe is surprisingly simple with only four ingredients, but it’s incredibly filling. Don’t be put off by the combination either- it’s the best blend of sweet & chewy with crunchy & salty textures. We can’t get enough, or seem to keep enough mixed up and in the pantry.

Again this plucky recipe needs only four simple ingredients. Four. For me, that’s fantastic- and a real winner.

Dark chocolate chunks, dried cherries, baby sized goldfish cheddar crackers, and cashews- those are the simple ingredients we mix together to create our Mom’s Fancy Sweet & Salty Trail Mix.

Snacks are all important in our house. For real. I don’t even thing there’s a way you can go wrong in that department either. It is what it is! Mom’s Fancy Sweet & Salty Trail Mix is the best snack to hit modern day kitchens.

Other Snack Ideas To Enjoy:

• Homemade Cheeze-Its
• Peanut Butter & Jelly Popcorn
• Alabama Fire Crackers
• Blueberry Cheesecake Snack Bites