Anyone have a Toddler approved trail mix recipe?!

[sunnydays]

Yep...it's sad, but true! I won't buy 80% of the cereals on the shelf for this exact reason. I always look at the breakdown of nutrients and how many grams of sugar there are per serving. I try to stick to 5g or under for the little ones and my older son has always had a limit of no more than 10g...he would scan the shelves and find one that was acceptable but still looked appealing to him. My kids have never even tasted most of the cereals out there...I don't even think of cereal as a meal, but more like a snack. I serve dry cereals (or with milk or yogurt) quite often for snacks, but never as a meal.

I was reading an article in the newspaper this past summer that said any cereal that has sugar (or equivalent) listed twice in the first three ingredients is junk ..... I looked at the labels after that .... There's a lot if junk out there

[monkeymama]

my dck love trail mix! they always ask if we can have it for snack...i mix up cheerios, raisins, other dried fruit ie. apricots, blueberries, cranberries, pretzels and depending on my age group that day usually a small nut as well ie. almonds.

[Momof4]

I give the children cheerios about once a week only with fruit or sausage or something for breakfast. I don't buy any other cereal because I don't eat it. But it ends up getting stale and going in the garbage before the box is empty every time. I buy Kashi crackers and my dckids love them but I'm careful about feeding them the types of crackers that are full of preservatives. I do however cave and buy the goldfish and penguin crackers for them and give them those once a week at afternoon snack. I claim to run a partially organic, mostly home cooking daycare so I can't cheat in too many areas or I would feel like a baaaaaad girl!