Everyone say it with me...CHEX MIX IS DA BOMB!!!
Now that I have my 90's flashback out of the way I can get on with my life and continue this post like the sane and level headed mother I pretend to be. There is just something about Chex Mix that jumps us all back to our childhood. No matter when that childhood was, everyone has memories involving Chex Mix.
Chex cereal has been around since 1937 and they started printing Chex Party Mix recipes on the boxes in 1952. That means no one under the age of 60 can claim to remember a time before Chex Mix existed. Heavy stuff indeed.
Well, like many mothers of small children, I introduced my kids to this nutritious cereal as an alternative to the "sugary junk in the colorful boxes" that most kids swarm to. It was love at first bite for them. Seeing as Costco had Chex on coupon I started looking for Chex Mix recipes. The best source for this is obvious...Chex.com. I also looked at Parents.com (a website I use with great regularity for fun ideas) where I found this recipe.
For the purpose of simplicity I bought pre-packaged Chex Mix, but you can make your own from the recipe found here. There are literally only three ingredients to this recipe. It is so easy to make my 4-year old and 2-year old actually did most of the work.
After dumping the Chex Mix in a large mixing bowl (this 16 qt beauty came from Cash and Carry) I had my sons each dump in a bag of candy corn...
...followed by one bag each of Autumn colored Plain and Peanut M&M's.
I then gave each of them a turn stirring the mix.
This mix is very versatile, as far as where to serve it. Parties are the obvious choice, but I have dressed up baggies of this mix and sold it at Bake Sales and tomorrow I am placing bowls of this mix as a center piece to a married couple night at our church. The possibilities are numerous!
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