A New Snack

Food
Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs mashed with 1/2 avocado
Lunch: 4 oz deli-sliced turkey with 2 cups mini carrots
Snack: Sweet & Salty Sugarless Snack Mix (recipe below)
Dinner: 4 oz steak with Asian Seasoning from Thai Kitchen and 4 macadamia nuts
Water
2.5 liters
Workout
Skill practice: L-sit hold
*Using 2 boxes, lock out your arms and left your feet into an "L" shape.  If you can't make an "L" shape, just get your knees to your chest.  Try 3 times, and hold each time as long as you can.
Then
5 rounds for time:
100 single-unders + 5 attempts at double-unders (I managed to do 3 double-unders!  Not in a row, but that's the first time I've ever been able to do even 1 double-under)
20 burpees--worst movement in the history of working out ever
15 knees-to-elbows

As you guys can probably tell, I really like to have small snacks between my main meals.  That way I don't get crazy hungry, and then go ahead and eat crazy meals.  As you can also probably tell, nuts are the easiest snack for me to have.  They have a lot of really good fats, but you really have to go easy on nuts because they can really add on the pounds.  Today I was reaching for some nuts when I thought, "Hold up, is there something else I can eat?  Because I've been eating a ton of nuts lately."

I remembered a recipe I had found on Paleo Parents that looked delicious.  The main recipe was for a Frozen Custard made of butternut squash (which I am just DYING to try), but the topping for the custard was the Sweet & Slightly Salty Sugarless Snack Mix.  I was intrigued.  I made it, and I was surprised by how much I liked it.

Ingredients

• 1/2 C coconut chips (unsweetened)
• 1/2 C almond slivers
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg

Combine coconut chips and almonds in a pan, stirring often, until the fragrance of the nuts and coconut come out and a light brown color develops.  Toss in a bowl with remaining ingredients.

To be honest, I was worried about the amount of cinnamon that was in this mix.  I was pouring it in, and I kept thinking, "How much cinnamon is in this thing?!"  I think I was freaked out because of Glozell's Cinnamon Challenge.  I mixed everything in anyways, and let me tell you, this mix smells AMAZING!  If the smell was any indicator of how good the mix was, I was in for a treat.  Let the record show, it was really good.  The more I ate it, the more I liked it.

Now I know what you all are thinking.  "Ashley, the mix has nuts in it.  Duh!"  Yes, I realize that there are nuts in the mix.  But at least I'm not just eating straight nuts, right?  That's better, right?  Right?