TJ's Trail Mix

No, I did not invent a new trail mix but with a little improvisation with Trader Joe's products, I created an addicting new snack great to take to school. Starting off with the basic Omega 3 Trail Mix, I also break a 100 calorie dark chocolate bar into small pieces and top it off with Roasted Plantain Chips. Yum! When I get my camera back, a scintillating picture will be here.

What inspired this mix was a number of factors: the lack of healthy foods at the student store (my only orders are Doritos and/or a Strawberry milk popsicle from Helados, a Mexican brand - which is really quite delicious), a ridculously early lunch time (and lacking self restraint to ration food throughout the day), and bringing only 1-2 fruits a day at most which doesn't fill me up. Most days I go for about 5-6 hours without any food, and I often come home feeling like there's hungry black hole in my stomach, needing to be fed. It has on multiple occasions, kept me from going to the gym after work because of exhaustion/pigging out at home.

But now, with the flavorful morsels of cranberries, pine nuts, almonds, pecans, chocolate bits and roasted plantains rolled into one, combines the needed heaviness of the nuts with the chocolate endorphins and addicting plantain chips (infinitely better than potato chips)... the sweet, sour, crunchy wholesomeness, hunger can be satiated! With much less guilt.