Taste my nuts at 25% off this week!
Seriously, there is nothing I like more than nuts and trail mix, so much so that I founded a company with Joe (@joeugly) and a friend of ours, Ryan Simpkins, about a year ago called My Mixed Nuts. Despite the fact that I wanted to be able to create my own custom trail mixes, it was really so I could go around saying I am peddling Joe’s nuts. Joe gets a little more blue in his description (think taste my salty nuts) but I try to keep it cleaner than that. To make matters worse on that front, Ryan’s mom, Susan, actually runs the company so now Joe gets to tell people that Ryan’s mom handles his nuts. I hope you have a good picture of my eye rolling here.
Anyway, I was annoyed because the trail mixes you get in stores that are ready mixed are usually not only stale but filled with crap you just ended up picking through. No offense to those who love them but I hate those crappy little dried date things and any kind of dried pineapple or mango or coconut in my mix just ruins it for me. Brazil nuts are gross in my opinion and ruin any perfectly good trail mix. On top of that, I try to only eat raw nuts. Try finding the right mix for me in a ready made variety.
So we started this company mainly just to solve my problem. I travel a lot and trail mix is the perfect take along so I wanted to be able to have one custom tailored to my taste. It is all about me? Right? RIGHT?!
As an aside, I met Ryan Simpkins when I did The Celebrity Apprentice. He was a producer on the show and we became really good friends from that experience. I say this only to point out that something positive did come out of my time on that show. And Ryan nearly balances out the bad taste Joan Rivers would leave in anyone’s mouth. Add some yummy trail mix on top of it and bad taste completely gone.
So, here we are a year later and this week one of the nut mixes I created is on sale for 25% off. Yum! Annie Bananas is full of a lot of banana chips, raw nuts, dark chocolate and goji berries. I had created a mix previously which was really similar but didn’t have enough bananas in it for my taste. I just really love banana chips and the combo with chocolate is so good. The goji berries and raw nuts are really just there to make me feel healthier about my choice. I love a good rationalization.
Since taking off with this company, the Cooley brothers have joined the team (@runwicked @wickedbecool). Colin created a great mix for runners which you can check out called Run Wicked Trail Mix. I am hoping Brian will have a custom mix on special soon, wlthough it will be admittedly futile to try to come up with one better than Annie Bananas.
How do you think I feel about handling Joe’s nuts?
hi annie how can i get your nuts into canada? lol