Organic, Organic, and more Organic

This weekend I was on my way to the local farmers market in Madison Wisconsin. Milwaukee to Madison it’s a good hour and a half drive. What better to bring as a snack than some Trail Mix!!! Being pregnant I eat all the time and there was no way that I could have made the trip without eating something. So I brought along a bag of Organic Trail Mix from Stolor Organics. Needless to say I polished off the entire bag on the way there, it was so good. The mix included organic raisins (treated with organic canola oil or organic sunflower oil), organic hulled sunflower seeds, organic shelled pumpkin seeds, organic almonds, and organic cashews. What more could a pregnant woman ask for right???? This snack not only filled my stomach but it also gave me the boost of energy I needed to walk around the capital square the rest of the afternoon. So the next time you go on that long car ride to the market don’t forget to bring along your favorite treat!!! Thanks Stolor Organics.

Mix it Up!

Flanigan Farms boasts healthy trail mixes, nuts and fruits with a variety sure to please everyone. When picking a couple items from their website it was hard! I ended up getting raw almonds and the “nuts & fruit” trail mix. The raw almonds are large and taste really fresh. I love raw nuts because you have them in their purest form without oils and salts ruining them. I used half in my overnight oats recipe and the other half will be a work treat one day this week. Raw almonds are great in recipes or just on their own. Plus all the latest studies suggest that eating a handful of almonds a day helps cut down on belly fat—woo hoo! They have more nuts and trail mixes on their website. Here is the description of my trail mix:


This Gourmet Trail Mix includes:
California Almonds, Raisins,
Dates (dusted with oat flour to separate),
Cashews, Sunflower Seeds,
Pepitas (pumpkin seeds), and
Dried Organic Fuyu Persimmons (when available)

A really cool feature about their website is that whatever item you pick they give you recipes to make using that product. The nuts & fruit mix had recipes for hot cereal, cookies, quick bread and something I have never heard of but sounds delicious—nutty rice.

Argires

I have yet to meet a person who does not enjoy fresh trail mixes, heart healthy nuts, scrumptious seeds, cheesy or caramel-y popcorn… That is why you have got to shoot yourself across cyberspace to Anton-Argires nuts. They have tons to choose from—all types of nuts, dried fruit and gourmet popcorn made to order! In shell nuts year round in a variety of forms from raw to roasted to flavored, they have it all. I ripped right into the popcorn and sampled first a cheese kernel. It was soooo cheesy, soft and fresh tasting. I just had to try the caramel—sweet, crunchy and fresh. It brought me back to being a kid and getting the “mix” so what did I do? Mixed the two right up! It was hard to stop eating it to be honest—it was the best popcorn I have had in years. This morning for a snack I had some brazil nuts and they were so fresh you would swear they were just grown! If you are looking for quality, great customer service (the president of the company is super nice) and ways to better your health at the same—here you go now you can bookmark this site!

What's your flavor?

When it comes to nuts, seeds, trail mixes -- I am a GeorgeHowe HUGE fan! That is why it was a magical moment when I opened my mail yesterday. Waiting for me was 6 pounds of various nuts and trail mixes that had arrived at my door, quickly and with fantastic customer service. The selection on the George Howe Coffee Candy Nuts website is ginormous! They have roasted nuts, flavored nuts, raw nuts, salted, unsalted, toasted, mixed, imported, USA products, in shells, out of shells, seeds, trail mixes, dried fruits not to mention the selection of candies and coffees. So lets get to the good stuff-- here is what I got:


1 pound raw almonds
1 pound raw cashews (these were enormous)
1 pound raw walnuts
1 pound raw pecans
1 pound trail mix (raisins, peanuts, walnuts, almonds, papaya, pineapple)

1 pound cranberry nut mix (peanuts, raisins, cranberries, almonds, honey sesame sticks, sesame seeds and various seasonings

I can not say enough about the quality of what I got. The nuts were huge, whole and fresh. The trail mixes are perfectly mixed and also very fresh. AND something unexpected about this website is the prices, very very reasonable. Check it out for yourself and get your own bag!

Navitas Naturals Trail Mix and Gogi Berries

Check this out, these pictures will do some of the talking themselves:

Trail Mix

OMG! This trail mix is like nothing I have EVER had before. Usually, I grab a handful of trailmix and shovel it down my throat as quickly as possible and the components are familiar. THIS was a totally different story. The only familiar thing I saw was the raw cashews and those are always great. But the berries were astonishing to me. I tried each one seperatly before eating it all together. The three berry mixture was gogi berries, mulberries and goldenberries.Then they mixed in the raw cashews and cocoa nibs to make this refined trail mix. The nibs are very rich and will quell any chocolate craving you might have, the cashews fill you up and the berries keep it nice and sweet. It was a great mixture-- very unexpected. The gogi berries turned out to be my favorite berry in the mix, although it was hard to pick, so lucky for me I have this as well:

Gogi Berries

Please visit the Navitas Naturals website to learn more about their unique products and offerings. My absolute favorite part of their website is that they go into detail about the health benefits of each ingredient that they use in their products. Click here to visit that part of the site.