Trail Mix/ Nuts

Dried fruit is tasty, but counter-intuitive to helping you achieve dieting success. The drying process removes most of the good content and leaves mostly sugars.

I prefer plain, unsalted and unroasted, almonds. I never eat a handful at a time and just tend to pop one in my mouth when I have the desire to eat something worse.

Here's my recipe:
1/4 cup blanched whole almonds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup soy nuts
2 Tbsp dried Goji berries
2 Tbsp mini 70% cocoa chocolate chips

Mix together and portion out into 5 baggies (a little less than 1/4 cup per baggie)
~ 145 calories per bag

Watch out for the salt content though - look for unsalted nuts and seeds.

I don't tend to eat trail mix simply because there are a lot of empty calories in most of them in the form of different kinds of chocolate, dried fruits, and/or super fatty nuts like peanuts and cashews that barely have a negligible amount of protein to go along with it.

I tend to have roasted, unsalted almonds or pistachios. Typically around a 120-130 serving of them a day. But I do it because I don't have a lot of other fat in my diet on a regular basis and these provide a nice bit of fat along with more protein than most other nuts out there to counterbalance the fattiness. I don't eat nuts to try to fill me up, they don't have that effect on me, no more than any other small snack. But you have to figure, for a 120 calorie serving of almonds, it's only about 20 of them, so it's not really a lot of food there.

Trail mix is one of my trigger foods. I can have 1/4 cup; no problem. But then I want another. And another. And another.
So all I can say is STAY AWAY from the trail mix. It's evil.
(but I still love it)