KITCHEN MISADVENTURE SERIES – MAKING MY OWN TRAIL MIX

Yesterday, while I was at my mom’s house, I had a skype conversation with my sister and she commented that near where she lives there’s this store that sells all kinds of nuts and she was (at the time I was talking to her) munching on them as she thinks they are quite cheap there. I asked her if they do not cause an attack of her gout and she counters that almonds do not have as much uric acid as other forms of nuts. Hmmnnn...that got me interested and so today when I went out to the local pharmacy to buy some snacks, I saw some almonds but balked at the price tag of PhP87.00 for an 80 gram pack...WTH!@#$ And so I decided to buy some more ingredients for my snacks – like Kelloggs cornflakes, some raisins, a small pack of M&Ms, and cornick. True they cost a whole lot more than when I had stuck with just the almonds but then again when the total cost of PhP239.00 was consumed by myself for 7 days as my mid-afternoon snack – that translates to roughly PhP34.00 per snack – which is not bad at all!!!