Chex Mix

If you think and rationalize like I do, Chex Mix can be almost healthy.  Nuts are good for you.  Gluten free cereal is not so bad.  And the butter is dairy, so there's that.  

I love making Chex Mix and having it in the cupboard for a snack and I've found that I don't keep potato chips around when I have it either.  This is how I like to make Chex Mix for us, but there are tons of different ways.  

This recipe will make 3-gallon zip-lock bags full.

Ingredients

• 1 box Corn Chex cereal
• 1 box Rice Chex cereal
• 1 box Honey Nut Chex cereal
• Need 3 boxes of cereal
• Walnuts
• Pecans
• Cashews
• Pretzels
• 3 sticks butter (1 stick of butter per 1 box of cereal)
• 1 1/2 Tbsp. Season salt
• 2 tsp. Garlic powder
• 2 Tsp. Onion powder
• 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
• Newspaper 

Directions

1. Heat oven to 250
2. In large roasting pan mix together cereal, pretzels, nuts.  Set aside.
3. In saucepan melt butter then stir in seasoning and Worcestershire.  
4. Pour 1/3 of butter over cereal and mix.  Continue with the rest of the butter until cereal is well coated.
5. Bake for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes.
6. Pour over newspaper to cool (this will soak up some of the butter so it does not get soggy).
7. After cooled, bag in either 1-gallon zip lock bags or smaller snack size bags to take on the go.

 Substitutions or additions

• Honey Nut Cherrios
• Bagel chips
• Rye chips
• Wheat Chex
• Cheese Nips
• Almonds
• Peanuts
• Mix nuts
• M&Ms - Only add after baked and cooled
• Craisins - Only add after baked and cooled