Tuesday, September 29, 2009

gorpedo factory

Smart people know not to go food shopping while hungry because of the impulse purchases that happen as a result. Apparently I am not a smart person.

Today I went to Walmart to buy some excellent peaches at 98¢ per pound. I saw an endcap display of trail mix that made me want some. I thought back to a year ago when we were filming "Fish Bait," which was the last time I had any trail mix. I also thought ahead to the two upcoming road trips to Virginia that my wife and I will be taking. It would be nice to have a treat for the car that was still deliciously decadent while better than the junk food available at convenience stores along the route.

The mixes were labeled Great Value, which I assume is a Walmart brand. I wanted something with lots of pineapple but the tropical mix also had coconut, which my wife can't eat. Another bag had white chocolate chips, which I reject totally. Even the real chocolate chips would be a bad choice in a hot car. The mix containing regular M&Ms gave me an idea. Why not make my own trail mix?

I wandered over to the dried fruit aisle and starting grabbing Great Value products. Raisins, banana slices and apricots were obvious choices. The only dried pineapple on the shelf was from Mariani. I took two bags of that. I tossed some apple slices, dried cherries and mixed berries into my basket. Next it was off to the snack aisle to get some mixed nuts and the only M&Ms worth their calories. I picked up a bag of peanut and a bag of regular Dark Chocolate M&Ms.

When I got home and combined all the ingredients, they filled two one-gallon Ziploc bags. Then I looked at the receipt and realized I not only had some of the best tasting trail mix of all time, I had some of the most expensive trail mix of all time.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Cassie said...

Yummm...

9/30/2009  
Anonymous SMcCuiston said...

I will buy some from you how does 5 bucks sound? lol

10/01/2009  
Blogger ames said...

btw, when you and Marc and Kim discussed this the other day i almost peed my car's driver seat.

btw, this is your lapsed stalker, catching up backwards on your blog. sorry i've been gone so long! :)

10/06/2009  
Blogger PLANET3RRY said...

I couldn't get a text to you while you were talking about this on air, but Food City has Nuts for 5.99/lb or (on sale) 4.99/lb which you can mix and match.

You might be able to shave a few bucks by getting a bulk bag of some of the nuts there and filling in the rest later.

10/07/2009  

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