Monkey Trail Mix

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If I remember anything from high school biology, it’s that monkeys are one of are closest relatives.

We like bananas; they like bananas. We like peanuts; they probably like peanuts. We like chocolate; they’d love chocolate if anyone were weird enough to give chocolate to a monkey.

Basically, monkeys have good taste in trail mix. And we do, too. This snack is packed with just things monkeys(and people!) would like.

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I could only find Reese’s peanut butter chips so those are what I used. If you’re looking for something more natural, Sunspire makes really good peanut butter chips which you can find at some Whole Foods and natural food stores.

Monkey Trail Mix

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time: 0 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup banana chips
  • 3/4 cup salted peanuts
  • 3/4 cup raw cashews
  • 1/4 cup peanut butter chips
  • 1/4 cup chocolate chips

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Method:

  1. Combine all of the ingredients and mix together.

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It doesn’t get much easier than that.

 

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6 Responses to Monkey Trail Mix
  1. Amber K
    February 27, 2012 | 2:51 pm

    I read somewhere once that monkeys don’t actually like bananas. And then I remembered that I’d never actually seen a monkey at a zoo eating a banana. But I might have dreamed all of this…

    What I meant to say is, this looks delicious!

  2. Austin B
    February 27, 2012 | 3:22 pm

    “Prep time: 5 minutes

    Cook time: 0 minutes”

    My kind of recipe 😀 looks delicious!

  3. Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca)
    February 27, 2012 | 8:25 pm

    Mmmm, that looks like the perfect trail mix!

  4. Hannah
    February 28, 2012 | 4:17 am

    “I could only find Reese’s peanut butter chips so those are what I used.” You shut your face with that apologetic disclaimer! Some of us would be grateful to have access to any kind of peanut butter chip.

    *pouts*

    😉

  5. Jenny
    February 28, 2012 | 3:57 pm

    As I read the title to this post, the coffeeshop where I’m working started playing Beck’s “Loser,” whose first line goes: “In a time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.”

    had to share! 🙂

  6. Diana
    March 3, 2012 | 11:20 pm

    Don’t like cashews, so used almonds, also broke banana chips into smaller pieces, flavorful.