Munchie Monday: Chex Mix Time of Year!

 Chex Mix has been a family-favorite treat at Christmas time every year. Dear One's mother made a big batch each year which we all enjoyed.  Today was the day I decided to make some.  Dear One asked for "a small batch".  What a joker!

The way we did it is not precisely like the original recipe, but Dear One is eating it out of the oven before it is done toasting so I guess it is okay!

The recipe the way I made it:

In a large roasting pan that a sweet friend gave me prior to leaving the area I placed:
3 cups Corn Chex
3 cups Rice Chex
3 cups Wheat Chex
2 cups elderly Spanish peanuts (I don't think they are actually rancid but we purchased them sometime in the summer...)
1 cup mixed nuts

In a small saucepan put

7 Tablespoons softened butter
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons Pink Himalayan salt
1 teaspoon granulated onion
1 teaspoon granulated garlic

 Melt and mix together until the salt is dissolved then pour over the cereal and stir very well.

Put the roasting pan in a 250 degree F. preheated oven (yes, 250!) and let "roast" for one hour, checking every 15 minutes.  After the first 15 minutes when next to nothing seemed to have happened I upped the time to 20 minutes before checking and stirring.  After that one I changed the time again, this time to 25 minutes!  I wanted those morsels to be nicely toasted and ready to eat.  Dear One is at the oven again!!!  He really does like Chex Mix.

Here they are, still in the oven.  Dear One has just had a third handful since I started writing this post.  I guess the altered recipe was not bad.  He does not like pretzels for some reason so we never add those.  He suggested I could have but in Cheerios.  I have done that in the past and find them tasty. I forgot about them when I was shopping...