It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Doesn’t everyone wake up on National Trail Mix day with a smile on their faces? What, you didn’t know it was National Trail Mix day? Didn’t you mark your calendar? C’mon! August 31 is National Trail Mix Day. So hit the trail, grab your mountain bike or just take a hike today. Get out and enjoy the healthful snack of carbohydrate-fueled goodness that is trail mix.
Not headed out into the wilderness today? Well consider trail mix differently. Ditch the sweets at work (you know you keep them in your desk) and grab a nutritional trail mix for your afternoon snack instead. Headed home to be with the kids:? Natural trail mix with whole grains, nuts, berries and even chocolate is a far superior snack to candy or chips.
OK, so here are five facts you never cared to know about trail mix*
– Trail mix has been eaten by Native Americans for thousands of years.
– Trail mix is featured in Jack Kerouac’s iconic 1958 novel The Dharma Bums.
– Trail mix has been known to induce LSD-style trips in certain people.
– Captain Robert Falcon Scott used trail mix to maintain energy while trekking through the Antarctic in 1901.
– Trail mix is known as Scroggin in Australia, Studentenfutter in Denmark and Pink Buggie in Canada.
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*One of these five facts is 100% false.
Four out of five facts brought to you by SunRidge Farms, which produces more than 20 varieties of trail mix available in more than 5,500 stores across the country.
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