I’m trying to eat three smaller meals now and then a couple snacks throughout the day, but what snacks do you eat? It’s obviously super easy to grab a bag o’chips but clearly that doesn’t fit in with my self-imposed “healthy lifestyle.” So I went a-searchin online to find some kind of healthy snack that’s easy to tote to work but also good and easy to eat at my desk. That’s where I came up with their trail mix recipe. I mixed together a few trail mix recipes that I saw online and made one that fits my style.

It only involves three different kinds of fruits and nuts, but obviously add and take away as you please. I used chickpeas, almonds and raisins. I started off by pre-heating the oven to 400 degrees and rinsing and drying a can of chickpeas. Then I tossed the chickpeas in olive oil, salt, and pepper and threw it in the oven for 35-40 min. About half way through I tossed the chickpeas on the cookie sheet so that they could get toasty and delish everywhere. Here’s what they look like post-toasting:

Then I moved onto the almonds.  I turned down the oven to 375 and poured about a cup of almonds onto a baking sheet. I tossed them in olive oil and chili powder just to get in a little spicy flavor and threw those in the oven for about 10 minutes. Here’s what those DELICIOUS fools looked like:

After, I just let these delicious almonds and chickpeas cool to room temp and then poured them into an airtight container with some raisins. This lasts in the fridge for about four days, if you don’t eat all of it first!!!