Friday, June 8, 2012

Food Friday–Cranberry Mix

Earlier this summer I did some experimenting with my diet and found that a lot of my difficulties with fatigue, headaches and pain seemed to be linked to corn.  When I don’t eat any corn or corn products I feel immensely better.  It was an easy diet change for the benefit.  But being as how I didn’t purchase a lot of processed foods to begin with, it wasn’t a terribly hard transition.   I do admit I miss popcorn and the occasional corn chip, but really, a small sacrifice for feeling better than I have in a long long time.

Part of the diet change is that I’ve also eliminated most grains from my snacks.  I’ve replaced them with nuts, which I already really liked.  I’ve been making several different nut mixes, and this is my favorite! 

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Cranberry Almond Mix

1 1/2 cup sliced almonds

1 cup dried cranberries

1 cup flake unsweetened coconut

1/4 cup mini Ghirardelli chocolate chips (Ghirardelli is one of the brands of chocolate chips that doesn’t have high fructose corn syrup in it)

Mix altogether and portion out into 1/4 cup servings in snack sized resealable bags

4 comments:

photochic said...

Looks good! And pretty! :)

Mandi said...

Sounds so yummy. You are making me hungry.

RebeccaC said...

We love making our own dried fruit and nut mixes. Great idea adding the coconut, I can't wait to try that.

csewy-csescrap13 said...

Sounds wonderful....thanks!!

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