Don’t Mix It Up

I have decided that almost any food with the word “mix” in it is not a low calorie food.  Let’s start with “trail mix.”  This seems to be a current favorite of my husbands.  He had a big meeting at his office in January and had me buy all the snacks for them especially requesting “trail mix” since it was something “everybody” loved.  Since that meeting he has asked me to buy more trail mix, which I thought was for his office.  Nooo, that was his personal trail mix for home.  Please go hide the bag of everything yummy, peanuts, cashews, almonds, raisins and the big time sin of all sins, M&M’s.

Other mixes I can’t get near are Chex mix, cake mix, brownie mix, sweet and sour mix, bridge mix or pancake mix.  What I have decided is that the word “mix” is code for fattening although “mixed” is not always bad.

Mixed fruit is good as long as it is fresh and not canned with syrup.  Mixed fruit is bad if it is followed by any of the words pie, cobbler or muffins.  Mixed nuts are fattening, although healthy fattening if there can be such a thing.  Mixed drinks are just that, mixed.  Mixed vegetables are great.

Of the things I eat that help me drop the pounds hardly any of them are a mix.  As far as I can remember I have never eaten a salad mix.  I make my own soups, so soup mixes are not part of my intake.  Nothing sounds as unappetizing as a meat mix, so I hope no one is eating that, although a lean meatloaf is good.

In the history of food mixes are relatively new and in food, new is not all that good.  Basically the things that come straight out of the earth or animal with little to no enhancements are the best and I can’t think of any food that God made as a mix.  It takes a human to make something worse for you.