Recipes are like a big game of “Telephone.” They’re passed around as stories, shared via email or text, scribbled on napkins or, less likely —on monogrammed recipe cards. This chex party mix recipe personifies the Telephone Game.

Passed down to my husband from his mom (from who knows where), our family’s homemade cereal mix recipe was recently communicated over the phone to me as “handfuls of this and so many shakes of that”.

My husband, JP, has been rocking homemade chex mix ever since we met. It’s his thing. Every football season, you can expect to find JP clutching a big, overflowing bowl of this savory mix planted on the couch for at least two Sundays. It’s tradition.

⇢ Another snack mix you’ll ♥️: a pretty popular recipe around here are my seasoned pretzels. If you’re from the Midwest, you might recognize the flavor!

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2 ingredient Chex mix seasoning

Cereal mix seasoning doesn’t get any easier than 2 ingredients:

• butter – ok, my MIL used margarine but I’ve slowly moved JP over to butter
• garlic salt – and I mean a lot…

I always thought it was weird because the classic chex mix recipe (see below) has worcestershire sauce and some other things in it, but trust me, you’ll love the simplicity of this and the killer flavor!

The nuts and bolts mix

• Cheerios or any round whole wheat cereal
• Chex – specifically wheat and corn
• pretzel sticks
• Spanish peanuts (the kind with the skin on them)
• Optional:
  • cheese crackers like goldfish or Cheeze-its
  • Quaker Oatmeal Squares

The process