Trail mix.
You can't get trail mix without raisins. And who decided that raisins were a good thing to put in trail mix anyway? There are a lot of people who don't like them.
This morning I stood in my kitchen picking raisins out of an otherwise delightful mix of chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, cashews, and peanuts. It was tedious. Once I had the nasty raisins out, the mix was truly satisfying and delicious.
So I'm left with no choice but to buy the ingredients for my own tail mix. Separately. What a pain.
But when I'm done - oh, the triumph!
My perfect mix would include chocolate in either the chip form or the MnM form, cashews, a few peanuts, sunflower seeds, (all nuts and seeds salted, of course), maybe a few mini marshmallows - just for fun, and dried cranberries, which are completely different from raisins.
But seeing as gathering all those supplies individually and then mixing them seems like such a bother, I will continue to pick out the raisins from the pre-mixed stuff for now. Lazy wins again.
But the problem of what to do with the raisins remains. It feels wrong to throw them away, but if I pick them out and toss them back in the trail mix then I just have to pick them out again the next time. And as time goes on, the ratio of raisin to good stuff would be heavily tipped.
In a stroke of genius, I found a way to put them to use.
Toss them in the waffles along with a little cinnamon and feed it to Trent, who doesn't know that raisins are the devil's food.
you crack me up!
ReplyDeletei agree on the M&M's...they add a lovely splash or 2 of color, too.
You're hilarious. I personally don't mind raisins, but I would totally buy your mix!!
ReplyDeletelove raisins. You just have to have aunt Heidi over for those waffles! And I'll have coconut on them too! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE raisins -- feel free to send them to me any time. My question for you is -- are you a coconut or beet lover? If so, maybe we can trade. I loath both.
ReplyDeleteI am so jealous that you have a cherry tree in your back yard. I had one when I was a little girl. I spent the entire summer in that thing reading -- and eating cherries, of course.
I would totally eat your hand made mix. Can you make me a batch too? Because raisins truly are they devil's food. How do people not know this?
ReplyDeleteAh, Satan is sneaky.
See, the waffles wouldn't work for me because Tater is the one that picks the raisins out of the trail mix - he already figured out that they're the devil's food!
ReplyDeleteYou and my S-girl would be buds. She KNOWS raisins are the devil's food! ha ha
ReplyDeleteRaisins are my favorite part! I need to make my own trail mix, but by the time you buy all the stuff, you have like $7,000 invested in it!
ReplyDeleteThe waffles were a great idea!