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BOOOO!! RAARGH!! GuUrG!! Prepare yourself for a truly terrifying, blood-curdling, frighteningly...FESTIVE treat!! :DHaha...OK, try as we might, there's NO way we can play something this cute, pretty and comprehensively Christmassy as in any way spooky, scary and Halloween appropriate (we tried!  -- for anyone reading this on the blog? We launched these on Halloween! IDEAL day of the year for 'em, huh?)Thing is, we've been looking forward to this new, limited edition Battle Oats Candy Cane B

Let the Minty Madness begin! Taking a (brief) break from pumpkins, gingerbread men and assorted spices, it's time to introduce you to a few of the, well, totally 'mint' new bars and snacks we have in the Mix for you, fresh (minty fresh, in fact!!) for the forthcoming festive season!This in mind, let us introduce you to the new *Limited Edition* Candy Cane BSN Protein Crisp bar!As the bar's tag-line goes, 'make every day feel like a cheat day'...and what's MORE of a 'cheat day' than Christma

Capping off a pretty unbelievable week of seasonal specials hitting the Mix (Nuts 'n More, Swolesome, Quest - like this!! - BSN, Mountain Joe's...SO many new goodies!) we've got perhaps the last of the more traditional 'Fall' fare to introduce you too (OK...maybe i'm lying. There are a least a couple more Pumpkin-y things on the horizon but brief respite for now, at least!!) before we 'sleigh-ride' headlong into more full-on festive treats (minty or otherwise!) in the week ahead!What do we

The Weekly Roundup - October Week 4 (22/10/18 - 28/10/18) at The Protein Pick and Mix! Halloween is upon us, folks!! Minimal horror - schlock or otherwise! - in this one (save for perhaps the length of the video and the number of calories Ant consumes!), but a HELL of a lot of new seasonal goodies, that's for sure!! Kicking off with the unbelievably delicious 'no trick, all treat' Limited Edition White Choc Mountain Joe's Rocky Road we segue through Swolesome Foods' halloween/seasonal special la

The team were recently going over all the latest slang words that seem to have exploded after tv shows such as Love Island, one being… ‘dank’!Pick & Mix bossman (Ant.ProteinPickandMix on Instagram) was sure it was an insult, according to the Oxford English dictionary it does mean “Unpleasantly damp and cold”, but as the ever reliable Urban Dictionary says, it’s also “an expression frequently used by stoners and hippies for something of high quality”.Who knows?! It’s all pretty confusing, but hey

...seasonal just got SPREADABLE, folks!!! Yep, new Nuts 'n more Limited Edition Fall flavours are in the Mix NOW!!Joining the dangerously addictive Nuts 'n More Protein PB line-up for the season we have... Banana Nut and Apple Crisp (the first time Nuts 'n More have tackled these fruity flavours! Or fruity flavours in general, come to that!) and, the returning King, Spiced Pumpkin Pie (nay- Pumpkin Spice)Having tried all 3 of these Limited Batch butters (we had to tear right into

Most people expect candy and chocolate when they knock on the door at Halloween, so on the rare occasion someone appeared at our house when I was a kid... they were in for a… TRICK!See, my mum was never a big fan of Halloween (to be fair it was still very much an American thing at the time), on top of that, she’s always been pretty health conscious… which worked out well for us in the long term I guess.Anyhoo, I recall one Halloween some trick or treaters knocked on the door (rarely happened bec

Ho, ho, HELL YEAH! You've probably spotted we LOVE our seasonal specials and awesome, limited edition oddities here at the Mix but we NEVER expected to delve into Santa's sack and pull out a one-off 'Khristmassy' (Carb) Killa!What we're looking at here, folks, is a sweet, spiced Grenade GINGERBREAD Carb Killa Bar stack, fresh out of its glorious, glossy, red, snow-tipped wrapper!!This low sugar, high protein bar is 'fully loaded' with the holy grail of hearty, winter spices - ginger (obv!!)