Microwave Chex Mix – And Little Virginia’s Letter
This stuff is evil. Bad. Horrible. I cannot be left alone in the house with it ~takes a ragged breath and hangs her head in shame~ I love this stuff! Mama and Grandmama both have their own recipes for Chex mix but today I’m bringing you Mama’s because it is the quickest, easiest, and has the least amount of mess involved. If y’all are anything like me, this time of year we could use more recipes like that!
You will need: Seasoned salt, Worcestershire sauce, Mixed nuts, margarine, and two different kinds of Chex Mix cereal (whatever cranks yer tractor).
Did you know? The original Chex mix recipe was introduced in 1955 by Chex Cereals as a means of boosting the cereal’s popularity amid the growing market of sugar sweetened kid’s cereals. It was an instant hit and variations have been party favorites ever since!
Place stick of margarine and seasoned salt in a large, microwave safe mixing bowl.
Add Worcestershire sauce.
Now close your eyes and see if you can spell that..
~giggle~
Microwave that until melted, stir it up a bit.
While it is microwaving do a little Christmas dance while singing Eddie Money at the top of your lungs just to embarass your children.
(Bonus points if they have friends over!)
Pour in nuts.
Stir them up.
Marvel at all of the varieties and see if you can count as many varieties of nuts in your family.
Add in chex mix.
Stirry stirry!
Now nuke that for 2:00 minutes.
Stir
Nuke for 2:00 minutes more
Stir.
Nuke for 2 minutes more.
EAT!
Somebody hand me the easy button, we’re done!
Microwave Chex Mix
- 1 stick margarine (1/2 cup)
- 2 tsp Seasoned Salt
- 3 T Worcestershire sauce
- 8 C assorted Chex Cereal
- 1 C mixed nuts (optional)
Place margarine, seasoned salt, and Worcestershire in a large microwave safe bowl. Heat in microwave just until melted. Add nuts, stir. Add cereal, stir. Microwave for two minutes. Stir. Microwave two minutes more. Stir. Microwave a final two minutes, stir and eat! Will be soft until it cools and then will be nice and crunchy.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
“Dear Editor–I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.’
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?”
Virginia O’Hanlon,
115 West Ninety-fifth StreetVirginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Dec 11 2009. Filed under Holiday Favorites!, Holidays, Misc.
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Christy, you are just so darn cute! Love this post!
This is how I do mine, but I use Crispix cereal instead of Chex… easier, cheaper (esp if you have a coupon) and delish.
I use a bit less Marge, toss in some lemon juice, and I use garlic powder and onion powder instead of Season All (I’ve never even tried Season All before… need to get on that.).
Sometimes I throw in a few Cheez-Its (the Duoz are really good), too.
And I agree that it’s so dangerously addicting. I’ve been known to eat it 3-meals-a-day. *BLUSH*
oh goody! We LOOOVE chex mix. Thank you for this easy breezy recipe, just in time for gift giving. You, my friend, will have some of our homemade White Choc Chex mix in your mailbox by the time you read this comment….I hope. Love u. Merry Christmas, Bama girl.
Oh NO!!!!! Two minute Chex Mix! My legs are already rubbing together when I walk! I looooooooooove Chex mix. It is my “drug of choice” around the holidays. I will be giving this recipe a try tonight. Thanks Christy!
Yes – it is addictive! But it definitely needs to age a day. I also do mine in the microwave but use 3 kinds of Chex plus add in pretzels. And I do it in my 9×13 Pyrex pan, seems to be easier to distrubute the seasonings that way. I love Costco – they actually package all 3 cereals (rice, corn and wheat) in a box. That and their big container of mixed nuts makes it easy to make multiple batches, which are needed since it is so darn addicting.
MAN I need a Costco membership!!!!
Christy I have a recipe for Chex mix as all Southern girls do BUT it not as easy as yours so off, again, to the store for Chex cereal. Love your posts and your down to earth “chats”.
Christy, I always add a good healthy dash of red pepper to the recipe. It gives it a good “bite”, but always keep two different bowls because a lot of people do not like the heat.
. Just keep the things coming.
Foustein Davenport
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LOVE Chex Mix!!! Recipe is one serving, right?
Why is it that my singing and dancing in the kitchen embarasses my children? Could it be that I use the spatula as my microphone? ~grins~
I like the microwave idea as I have always done mine in the oven and more than once I have scorched it, but never beyond eating it. It is an addictive snack for sure!
I used to keep house for a family who called it, “Whats-this-here sauce”!
Jay, that is hilarious !!!!!
OMGoodness, my family all love this stuff too. It does not last. I add pretzels and cheese puffs to ours!
I have a huge deep dish pan thats dedicated solely to making chex mix (which we fondly call ‘trash’)
Yeah, David….I found out that when I moved here to PA from Ga, that here they call it “Trash”. I have a recipe for similar type but it uses a coating of melted white choc. and becuz of the nuts too, I jokingly call it Nutty White Trash. I laugh so hard every time I give this to someone, they must think I’m nuts.
I recently had some of this mix and couldn’t figure out the sweet white coating so maybe it was the white chocolate you were speaking about. This mix had along with the Chex, pretzels and peanuts and was delicious. Could you give me the recipe you use to make yours. Thank you.
Christy – Your Blog has been a real treat for me this year. It is the ONE I read every day. (Well, at least MOST days!!!) I think you are a long lost sister! Maybe we were separated at birth! I’ve passed your “address” to so many people! Maybe I’m a groupie. Not sure!!!!
Grateful for you too,
deborah
Oh, my goodness! Christy, how you have simplified my life this Christmas. I have made 5 makins’ of Holly Jollies and 2 of Chex Mix.
All the neighbors’gifts are done!
Thank you! Come and see me sometime. I have used a truckload of fresh greenery to decorate this year! It’s been fun!
I love your blog and tell everyone about it.
Blessings,
bcp
Christy thanks for this quick and easy way to make the Chex mix. My family loves this and now I can make it lickety split! Love it!
Thanks for the easy Chex recipe. I make it quite often for my grandchildren and have been using the recipe on the box. Most of all, thanks for the Christmas story. Before I retired, I used to read it to my first graders and somewhere lost my copy.
I have a similar recipe, but instead of wheat chex (sounds too healthy) I use either Kix or Cap’ Crunch. It gives it just enough sweet to add to the savory. I tried adding raisins one year and was almost kicked out of the family.