Chex Mix

I've enjoyed eating Chex mix several times over the years:  Cliff's brother's wife makes it around Christmas, and my oldest granddaughter makes her mother's family recipe.  Until yesterday, though, I had never made it myself.  I knew, from looking at the recipe on the Chex boxes, that it would be easy to make,  and I liked it OK, although I have been accused of picking all the nuts out of it and leaving the cereal for others, a time or two.

My granddaughter was here Sunday and I asked her for her mother's recipe.  Here it is, in all its glory.  

Unfortunately, it doesn't tell the amount of most of the dry  ingredients to use, and I was a little scared of the amount of butter.  Also, our trash bags are scented inside, so I wouldn't want to use any of my trash bags for something I'm going to eat.

 So I began looking around the Internet and found a version that had cheesy ingredients in it.  The lady sharing the recipe also said to put as much of any single dry ingredient as I wanted:  "You can alter the amounts for any of the dry ingredients to your own personal taste - as long as the total number of cups remains between 24-28."

Well in that case, how can I lose?  You'll find that recipe HERE, although I  didn't use nearly as many Cheetos or cheese balls as this says.

I added too many nuts even for me, which I wouldn't have thought was possible, but now I know.  Also, I have a grandson living next door who isn't a fan of some kinds of nuts and he has to go to all the trouble to take them out.  I forgot to use the pretzels I had, and didn't even know where to get Pepperidge Farms Snack Sticks.  I looked at a different recipe online that said to add oyster crackers and cheese flavored goldfish, which worked great.  Oh yes, and some Cheerios.  I simply made sure I had 24 to 28 cups of the dry ingredients altogether.

I ate some for breakfast a while ago.  After all, there's breakfast cereal in it, and nuts for protein:  The perfect breakfast!  Well, except for the Cheetos...