Name: nuts and bolts recipe
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 7 min
Yield: 31 cups
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 lb butter; 3 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce; 1 Tbsp garlic salt; 2 tsp onion salt; 2 tsp celery salt; 1 tsp season salt; 2 Tbsp sugar; 4 cups Corn Chex; 4 cups of Rice Chex; 4 cups Cheerios; 2 cups Wheat Chex; 2 cups crispex; 2 cups bugels; 2 cups of pretzel sticks; 2 cups mixed nuts; 1 cup pecans; 2 cup cashews; 1 bag gold fish (2 cups gold fish); 1 bag gold fish pretzels (2 cups ); 1 box cheese nips or cheese bites

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Nuts and bolts snack mix is a twist on a classic Chex mix recipe with the addition of cheerios, gold fish crackers, bugle chips, cheese crackers and additional nuts. This snack mix pairs perfectly with mulling spices mix for when you want to give an amazing homemade food gift.

This recipe makes a HUGE batch and is what I keep on hand to snack on all holiday season. I love to have this recipe on hand for when you need to put together a last minute food gift. Other snacks I make to have on hand are my seasoned ranch cheese crackers, thai chex mix, dill pickle chex mix for some out of the box snack options.

Ingredients you need for this nuts and bolts recipe:

butter
Worcestershire Sauce
garlic salt
onion salt
celery salt
season salt
sugar
Corn Chex
Rice Chex
Cheerios
Wheat Chex
crispex
bugels
pretzel sticks
mixed nuts
pecan pieces
cashew pieces
gold fish crackers
gold fish pretzels
cheese nips or cheez-its

Can other nuts be substituted in?

You are welcome to substitute in other nuts. This recipe does not have peanuts in it because I found that the peanuts are always the thing that is left in the bottom of the bowl in my family. So I left them out. If your family is not a fan of a certain nut, just switch it out in equal portions for a nut you do like.

Can this recipe be doubled?

This recipe does make 30 cups so it is a LARGE batch. It is able to be doubled but I don’t because I don’t have containers large enough to stir all the ingredients together. Go for it if you have the space and materials.

How do you store this recipe?

Make sure the snack mix has cooled completely before storing it. Any residual heat can create steam in the snack mix, leaving it not as crips as you would want it to be.

Store in zip top gallon bags or in metal cookie or potato chip tins. Just like the ones grandma would have at her house.

How to make nuts and bolts snack mix:

Heat oven to 250° F
Melt the butter.
Add the seasonings.
Stir together the dry ingredients.
pour the seasoned butter equally over the cereal and nuts.
Stir to coat the cereal and but mixture.
Portion out the nuts and bolts mixture onto baking sheets, about 6 cups per sheet.
Bake for 90 minutes, rotating and stirring the mixture on the pans every 30 minutes.
Cool completely.
Repeat until all the mix is baked. It took me 3 rotations of 90 minutes to bake this recipe.
Store in air tight containers.

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Yield: 31 cups