damn you apricots

i am so upset!

i saw this great recipe on food network yesterday for a healthful dried fruit and nut snack.

"the perfect pick me up for the afternoon or before a work out" the tv chef (who is also a nutritionist) said. so of course i wanted it. it was pretty easy. buy a selection of your favorite dried fruits and nuts (she recommended almonds, pepitas and sunflower seeds because they are the lowest fat content compared to protein) and then you mix in a two (nuts) to one (fruit) ratio. you split it up into 1/3 cup servings in individual baggies for snack time.

so i stopped at whole foods after work, and spent $20 on the suggested nuts, dried cranberries and some dried apricots. well, whole foods, purveyor of all things yummy, you jipped me! i really do enjoy a dried apricot, but these are gross! they taste BURNED. how do you ruin a dry apricot?

the sad thing is, i ate one, it wasn't that bad, but it tasted somewhat off. so of course, i had to eat another to make sure they were all that bad. i think i ate three or four. i tried to pick lighter ones, because most were a dark brown, a color that i have never seen in a dried apricot. one after another, with one tasting worse than the last. gross! i couldn't finish the last one. but what was i thinking eating more than one after hating the taste of the first one?

now what to do? i can't make my mix with only one type of dried fruit. can i return the distasteful apricots?

yuuuuuuuuuck.



update: in the end, i somehow misplaced my 1/3 cup measure any way so it doesn't matter anyway