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Popcorn Trail Mix
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Growing up, popcorn was one of our favorite family snacks during movie nights together with my dad. We would settle in for one of our favorite movies or TV shows and my dad would fill a giant purple bowl with fresh, air popped (not microwave) popcorn and we’d all share it. My siblings and I are all grown now, but we still enjoy a big bowl of popcorn when we’re visiting Dad.
While we probably enjoyed more than an ample serving of melted butter on top of our popcorn, without the butter popcorn is actually a relatively healthy snack and is a good way to satisfy the munchies. In fact, popcorn provides three times more fiber per 1-ounce serving than other snack foods, such as pretzels or potato chips and is considered a whole grain. Instead of the traditional popcorn and butter, try this Popcorn Trail Mix for your holiday snacking needs.
Madeline and I enjoyed making this recipe for Popcorn Trail Mix together, and of course eating it for and afternoon snack! Whole grains, dried fruits, nuts and seeds are all part of a healthy snacking diet. This mixture combines sweet and salty for ultimate satisfaction.
Popcorn Trail Mix
serves 4-6
Ingredients:
1 envelope Orville Redenbacher Natural Simply Salted 50% Less Fat, popped
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
2/3 cup raw, unsalted almonds
1/3 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup diced dried apricotsDirections:
Sprinkle hot, freshly popped popcorn with cinnamon, tossing to coat evenly. In a separate bowl, combine the sunflower seeds, pepitas, almonds, cranberries, and apricots. Mix well. Toss the nut, seed, and fruit mixture with the popcorn. Divide evenly among 4-6 snack sized bowls.
If you’d like to chat more about healthy holiday snacks, join me at the #gno Twitter party on Monday, December 6 to chat about healthy holiday snacks. Click here for more details.
Before you enter the giveaway PLEASE read the rules.
Giveaway (1 winner):
Orville Redenbacher Gift
- Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn varieties (a mix of Light Butter, Cheddar, Kettle Corn, and Lime and Salt)
- Popcorn Bowl from Crate and Barrel
- Healthy Snack Recipe Mix-ins (Nuts, raisins, chocolates, dried cranberries, honey and recipes from the Orville Redenbacher’s website)
The Rules:
- Tell me what your favorite HEALTHY holiday snack is.
- Tweet the following: Check out #Orville Redenbacher’s #giveaway on @momitforward http://bit.ly/g1y4PR win healthy holiday snacks! http://bit.ly/hAM4Zl PLS RT
- You may NOT enter using multiple email addresses. Automatic disqualification.
- Additional entries must leave a separate comment.
- Contest ends December 10, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
- Contest open to US States only.
- Winner will be chosen via random.org and will have 3 days to respond before disqualified and a new winner chosen.
Extra Entries: Additional entries can be earned by doing any of the following, giving you a total of 3 entries. Leave a separate comment for each of your entries.
- Visit the Orville Redenbacher’s website and leave a comment on this post about what dish you would most like to prepare during the holidays.
- Tweet the following: Looking 4 healthy snacks? Visit the #Orville Redenbacher’s site 4 ideas on how 2 snack healthy during the holidays! http://bit.ly/dEVaGf
This giveaway is brought to you by Mom it Forward and Orville Redenbacher. I was compensated for being part of the Healthy Holiday Snacks campaign.
About the Author:
Katie’s lifelong interest in cooking good food has shown her that part of the goodness in life is enjoying delicious food with friends and family. She is: Writer. Photographer. Recipe Developer. Website Founder. Lover of all things good in life. Wife & Mom. A mix of great recipes, family memories, and yummy photography is what Katie serves up each week at GoodLife Eats™. Katie resides in Colorado with her husband and two children.
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Hello! I'm Katie Goodman, author of GoodLife Eats Etc. where I share what I find in my life. A mix of great recipes, family memories, adventures, good reads, and anything else that I love is what you will discover here.
My favorite healthy snack would have to be popcorn. Seriously.
After I had my son, that’s how i lost my baby weight…I ate popcorn instead of chips or cookies!!
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Just plain popcorn! No butter, no nuthin.
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Tweeted!!
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My favorite healthy snack is popcorn or freezedried fruit
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tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/blandrews13/status/10815104576655361
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Caramel-Nut Popcorn Crunch
Looks super yummy!
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tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/blandrews13/status/10815347280056320
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My favorite healthy snack is a handful of macadamia nuts and pecans.
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Tweet
http://twitter.com/HeartnSoulmom/status/10815877796597760
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From the Orville Redenbacher site, I would choose to make the Peanut Butter Popcorn Poppers.
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Extra entry tweet
http://twitter.com/HeartnSoulmom/status/10816693957828608
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My favorite healthy snack: A half cup of maple yogurt with a small handful of toasted walnuts stirred in. Yum! I’m also a huge popcorn fan – my soul mate (hubby) calls it my soul food…
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From Orville’s site, I would most enjoy making Caramel-Nut Popcorn Crunch as a treat to munch on during the holidays, probably while watching awkward, old family movies.
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Looks like a delicious trail mix! I love fresh popped popcorn!
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my fav holiday snacks is plain yogurt with fruit chunks and nuts.
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i tweeted (http://twitter.com/oshkoshbgosh123/status/10828099969093632)
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i tweeted the 2nd option (http://twitter.com/oshkoshbgosh123/status/10828337807106048)
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the Chewy Popcorn Bars looks perfect for everyday snacking!
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My favorite healthy snack is nuts!
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My favorite healthy snack has to be an apple with peanut butter
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I love dried cranberries.
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I would try the chewy popcorn balls.
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My favorite healthy snack this time of year is apples.
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The Berry Good Frozen Yogurt pie sounds like it would be good to try.
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I love salted mixed nuts!!
I tweeted
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Favorite healthy snack: almonds!
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Tweeted {@gknupp}
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From the Orville Redenbacher site: The Gigantic Turtle Candies look amazing!
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Favorite healthy snack: homemade granola with soy milk!
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From the Orville Redenbacher site: Naturally Simply Salted. yum!
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Corn chips and salsa are my favorite healthy snack. At least, I think its healthy.
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After visiting the Orville website, I’d like to try and make Chewy Popcorn Balls. I love cranberries!
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My favorite healthy holiday dish is the spiced granola my mom makes!!
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My favorite healthy holiday dish is winter fruit salad
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Those Orville Power crunch bars look like a great idea for an easy on-the-go snack.
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I love buttered and salted popcorn or oil popped popcorn. I also love to eat cheese or chocolate chips with the popcorn… Nuts and popcorn are primary snacks in our household.
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First of all isn’t healhy and holiday snack a oxy moron? LOL! I guess mine would have to be…..cool veggie pizza.
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You did my diet a terrible injustice by sending me to the Orville Redenbacher site to look at recipes! Couldn’t make up my mind as to what sounded the best. But did pick these, popcorn chews, the turtle candies and poppin’ popcorn brittle.
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Popcorn is one of our favorite healthy snacks. I also like to keep string cheese and fresh fruit for nibbling.
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air popped popcorn!
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Sweet potato fries is my current healthy snack.
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I was happy to tweet
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I tweeted 2nd option too. TTRigell
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The power crunch bars from the site is what I would love to try.
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I love eating homemade crackers topped with sesame seeds and poppy seeds. Delicious, and totally worth the invested time.
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The berrygood frozen yogurt pie looks AWESOME. I love pie, but I usually feel guilty if I eat a traditional crust. This recipe looks great!
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I love that you added cute green pepitas to this, great idea!
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I love baked sweet potatoes!
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The buffalo stule hot popcorn snack looks really good
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My favorite healthy holiday snack is home made cranberry granola.
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herbal tea. it’s warm and cozy and good for you too.
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Healthy snack huh? I love to eat cranberries during the holidays.
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Oooo…love the trail mix combo! My guys are trail mix nuts. I’m definitely making this for our next movie night.
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My favorite healthy snack is homemade trail mix. It has the usual nuts, sunflower seeds, & dried cranberries, as well as homemade cinnamon granola clusters, cocunut flakes & of cousre some peanut m&m’s to make it complete!
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After visiting Orville’s site, I’d have to say the chewy popcorn balls look yummy for Christmas!
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I love whipping up some fresh salsa!
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love popcorn!
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My favorite thing is Gloggi. Its a Finnish red currant drink with spices. Its yummy.
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Popcorn with freshly ground black pepper.
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Such a smart idea! I’m going to link to this on my Glamour magazine blog, Vitamin G, on Mon. Hope to send some traffic back your way (great site!), and will give you credit for the photo–hungry for popcorn trail mix right now!
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Katie replied: — December 4th, 2010 @ 3:59 PM
Thanks, Sarah – sounds great! I appreciate that.
This combination is fantastic, good idea. I look forward for your new posts.
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Popcorn with dried cranberries and a little bit of butter!
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My favorite healthy holiday snack? Is there even synch a thing? J/k!! It would have to be homemade granola.
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This is boring, but it’s what I eat one to two times a day during this time of year. Apples, sliced in big slices. Sometimes with a little peanut butter. My second favorite health snack is a handful of nuts combined with dried fruit.
I tweeted…
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what a perfect snack for anytime of year! I love a good trail mix!
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I tweeted!
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I tweeted 2nd entry!
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I would love to try those white chocolate popcorn chews! Yummy!
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the color alone on this popcorn would keep you coming back for more and more… what a healthy change of pace for a snack- love it~!
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My favorite healthy holiday snack is a mix of Cheerios, almonds, raisins or Craisins, pretzels, and sometimes for something a little sweet chocolate chips or marshmallows.
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I love popcorn and trail mix, but somehow never managed to combine the two. This looks fantastic! Healthy holiday snacks seem hard to come by, but my mom always always made us pistachio and cranberry snack bags when we were kids around the holidays. They were the perfect holiday colors
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Plain popcorn with Sriracha hot sauce! Affectionately dubbed “Sriracha-corn” Delicious and spicy
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My favorite healthy holiday snack is a mix of cherrios, goldfish crackers & raisins… lots of raisins!
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Warming up chopped apples and then sprinkling them with cinnamon and just a tad bit of sugar is a delicious and healthy holiday treat!
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I would love to try the recipe “Chewy Popcorn Bars”!
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Aww, just missed the deadline! This popcorn trail mix sounds so delicious!
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This looks absolutely delicious! Thanks for the idea.
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Congrats on being included in this Sweet Sixteen Collection. I followedd the “trail” to your trail mix! Thanks!
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