Mix My Granola

If you read this blog even once a month, you know what a granola fanatic I am. From making it to rating it, there've been many an ode to the stuff. So, when I found Mix My Granola a few weeks back, I knew it'd be turning up on the blog whether I liked it or not.  MMG is one of those ideas to which you say <why didn't I think of that!?>.  The concept is simple: customized granola.  MMG puts ingredient selection in the hands of the consumer - allowing everyone to get exactly what they want.  I remember so many batches of granola I've encountered with coconut - YUCK ... for me. But YUM for others.  I always want more dried fruit and not as many nuts.  I like tons of cinnamon... flax seeds... MMG told me I could have it all.



Visit the website and you can start mixing your own.  Start with a base - cinnamon, organic, low-fat, French vanilla or muesli.  I naturally selected cinnamon.  You can then select the other ingredients, divided into categories: fruits, nuts and seeds, extras and enhancers.  The sky's the limit and there's no adding too much.  You can add doubles of ingredients if you want, all fruits, all nuts.. whatever your granola heart desires. And there's a pretty great variety of everything from which to choose.  Have you heard of chia seeds? What about adding some gotu kola powder?  It's an anti-inflammatory that helps circulation!  But things don't have to get too health.  The extras section is filled with gummy bears, chocolate bits and - my favorite - sesame sticks.

So after you've selected your ingredients, all you do is plug in your shipping address and pay (my granola came out to about $13 for roughly 15 oz). A few days later, a tube of granola arrives to your door! The customized nutrition facts are right there on the back with your ingredient list.



The only extra ingredient they add is love.  Awww how sweet. And in the end my granola was pretty tasty! It didn't have that baked together, crispy crunchy quality that comes when you bake all of the ingredients at once but I did love the fact that everything was in there because I wanted it to be!