Ride Home Recipes: Homemade Banana Nut Chex Mix

Another recipe before the end of summer, and your kids will LOVE it (Roy & Vivian can’t stop once they start)!

Ingredients

2 cups Banana Nut Cheerios® cereal
1 cup Cinnamon Chex® cereal
1 cup fat-free small pretzel twists
1/2 cup walnut halves
1 egg white
1 tablespoon orange juice or water
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 cups popped 90%+ fat-free microwave popcorn (any flavor)
1 cup crispy apple chips, broken into pieces (from smaller / 2.5-oz bag)

Instructions

Heat oven to 300°F. Spray large roasting pan with cooking spray, or grease with shortening. In large bowl, mix cereals, pretzels and walnuts; set aside.

In medium bowl, beat egg white, orange juice, sugar and cinnamon with wire whisk until well blended. Pour over cereal mixture, stirring until evenly coated. Stir in popcorn. Spread in pan.

Bake 25 to 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until light brown and crisp. Remove from oven; stir in apple chips. Cool completely, about 10 minutes.  Enjoy!

No walnuts? Use your favorite nut or nut combo.

(adapted from our friends at Cheerios®)

Cheerios & blueberries … a simple life

My son Roy is busy dissecting his blueberries from his Cheerios breakfast … that means he’s almost finished.  ACK, hold on.

OK, just rescued a few soggy Cheerios from his hair, delicately placed there by him.  The boy is a genius.

Big weekend in store, hope you can join me:

• I’m broadcasting from Tinley Park this afternoon 3-7pm, getting ready for the Brad Paisley / Dierks Bentley / Jimmy Wayne show … stop by for your chance at cool prizes!
• Tonight, all the line dancing you can handle @ Sundance Saloon in Waukegan (300 Lakehurst Rd, just east of the Tri-State) with the FNPP between 9-11pm
• Tomorrow night, win Toby Keith tickets at our Coors Light Beer N Bags finals in Chicago … between 8-11pm, I’ll be at Edison Park Inn (just off Northwest Highway on Olmstead, opposite the Metra station)

Make it a great day, we’ll chat after 3pm.