Happy Trails To You!

My family loves trail mix.  If I buy it, it is usually gone in a day or two.  I have always thought that trail mix is a little pricey (I have been known to be a little frugal :), so I decided to make some myself and do a cost comaprison between store bought trail mix and make your own.  I went to Target today to buy all of the ingredients to make the trail mix.  We like the basic mix with peanuts, M&Ms, raisins, and peanut butter chips.  The Target brand trail mix with these ingredients is $6.99 for 2.25 pounds.  The price breakdown for the individual ingredients are listed below, and I did not have any coupons for any of the items.

M&Ms................................$2.99
Reeses Pieces.......................$2.99 (they did not have peanut butter chips)
Peanuts.................................$2.49
Raisins...................................$2.14

Total:                                     $10.63

After mixing all of the ingredients together in a plastic zip top bag, I weighed it on my handy dandy digital food scale that I could not live without.  It weighed in at 3.5 pounds.  The price comes out to be about $3.03 per pound.  The premixed trail mix came out to be $3.11 per pound.  The difference was actually a lot less than I thought it would be.  However, the advantages to making your own are that you can add what you want, and with trail mix, the sky is the limit!  Also, it seemed a little fresher than the premixed. 

The bottom line is that the difference, price and otherwise, between the two mixes is very minimal.

Elizabeth gives her seal of approval!

Happy Trails!