Break out your kale containers. Protect your secret stash. This trail mix is YOURS! Grab a bag of each of your favorite snacks. Rip open each one and dump in an extra large bowl. Prepare in a room away from the kids so they can’t hear you putting this together. The smell and sound makes them come running like a can opener will to a pet. Keep that kale container full at all times as this sweet and salty creation from heaven screams to be eaten. Often. Enjoy! And don’t forget, “I told you so!” Another original creation from Marilyn’s Treats secret stash. #chex # raisins #sweet #salty
More snacks on your list? Try this Snickers Snack Mix, Three Musketeers Snack Mix, Hot Brownie Cake, or Summer Snack Mix.
Summer Snack Mix
Ingredients
- 12 oz box Chex Cereal I used rice
- 1 1/2 cups roasted and salted whole cashews
- 1 pkg spring M&M's peanuts
- 1 pkg M&M'S plain
- 1 20 oz yogurt covered raisins
- 1 pkg pretzels
Instructions
- In a extra large bowl dump in all ingredients and mix.
- Serve with a ladle.
- This recipe can be adjusted to any size. Add or exchange ingredients as desired.
- CAUTION: This recipe is addictive so serve in individual cereal bowls.
- Add half to your kale container and HIDE!
Notes
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I am Marilyn Lesniak. Writer, Photographer and Chief Bottle Washer behind the scenes at Marilyn's Treats. Follow me to my kitchen. 
Congrats Marilyn! Your post is FEATURED at the #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty 30 ♥
Thank you so much Dee! You have made me smile this morning. I can’t believe the beginning of the month is here already! Enjoy your holiday.
They say time flies when you’re having fun ♥
Yes they do!
Man, anything with M&M’s is a winner to me!!
Thanks for linking up @LiveLifeWell!
Blessings,
Amy
Thanks Amy!! Enjoy.
This looks like a great recipe to share at work! Thanks for sharing at The Blogger’s Pit Stop! Roseann from This Autoimmune Life
It travels well anywhere you take it! I have a huge tupperware bowl with lid I use. Win, win!
Yes, please! This looks delicious. But… my kids are super sleuths they’d find it somehow.
Mine always found my Christmas present hiding place too. So I started switching gifts with my sister. She had girls and I had boys. Needless to say they were horrified! LOL. I hope you find a similar snack mix at your home to make. Enjoy!
haha…it’s like a no-bake monster cookie!
#thriftythursday linky party
You are right. It really is!! And tastes as good too. Enjoy!
This looks delicious!
Thank you Elizabeth. Enjoy!
I have printed your recipe to make this weekend, I have a couple of my sons kids that love this stuff!! Thank you for stopping by to share on #omhgff each week!
Have a great weekend!
Thank you Karren. I just love how easy it is and know everyone will like it. Enjoy!
Oh wow, yes, please. I would love to make this up for the film night over the weekend. Thanks for sharing at Creative Mondays Marilyn 🙂 Hope you can join us today.
It is so quick and you always have leftover snacks to throw together. Anything goes! Enjoy your week.
I love how pretty these look!
Thank you Veronica! Enjoy your week.
YUM! I think I pinned this recently but anyway it looks and sounds tasty! Thank you Marilyn for linking up at the #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty 29! Sharing this post x 4 ♥
I have a couple of these. Some are peanut butter, or regular, or different colored seasonal ones. But they are all good! Thanks for the shares!!
I didn’t have a Kale container, but I’m going to get one!!! This Summer Snack Mix sounds marvelous. Pinned. Thank you for sharing at Saturday Shuffle Blog Hop.
Good! You need one. I have a recipe that started the kale container joke. I will be putting it up next week. A bit backwards at the moment. Have a great week.
The colors sure look like summer! Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party. Hope your week is fantastic.
Thanks Helen. I love homemade snack mixes. Sweet and salty and colorful are my favorites. Enjoy your week,
oh my goodness sweetie look at all of these amazing comments. Congratulations and I’m making this for our grandchildren xo
Thank you Katherine. I love to just do the kitchen sink dump and go snacks. I always have a few handful left from an open bag that noone wants. When I add them all together, they have no trouble eating it! Enjoy.
Ooooh tasty! Thank you for sharing this recipe at #FridayFrivolity!
You are welcome Sarah! It is addicting.
It was great seeing you at Peace, Love, Linkup #013! The next party goes live tomorrow at 6. Hope to see you there!
You are welcome Ashleigh. I just got notified of your comment today! I need to fire my service. 2 weeks is unacceptable! LOL
Congratulations Marilyn!
Your recipe is on the Top Ten List for Full Plate Thursday this week. Thanks so much for sharing with us and have a fabulous weekend!
Miz Helen
Thank you Miz Helen. I am honored! I wish you a wonderful week.
LOL! My kale box was running low! This will fill it up nicely. And I’m really excited, I found a bag of GF pretzels at the store the other day! Yippee! Now I can have this as the recipe states without having to worry about getting glutened! And it sounds delish!
I am so glad Nikki! You will love it!
Great tip for hiding some!! Thank you for linking up to last week’s Tasty Tuesday linky. I have pinned your recipe to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board. I hope that you’ll join us again this week.
Thank you so much Ashley. Have a great week!
You crack me up!! Looks delish and luckily my kids are out (knock on wood!!) Thanks for sharing with us at Throwback Thursday!!
Mollie
Recipes are a dime a dozen. It is the confessions that make readers come back again! Thanks Mollie.
A great snack, perfect for the beach or park or anywhere I take my girls this summer! I’m so happy that you joined Sweet Inspiration and shared this great recipe!
Thank you Katrin. You are so sweet!
How pretty the colors look, I would not do good knowing this was in my cupboard, it would nag me all the time until I indulged.
Kathleen
Bloggers Pit Stop
I hear that! It is perfect for a crowd. No leftover!
Yumm…this looks delicious! I recently made something similar with Chex mix…it’s one of my favorite snacks! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe with us at Share The Wealth Sunday!
These sweet and salty snacks are so addictive. Thankfully you can make them as healthy as you like!
Hi Marilyn,
I love your Summer Snack Mix, great for snacking on the back porch! Have a great weekend and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Thank you so much for visiting and all your kind words. I will see you on Thursday.
Now here is a recipe I can handle in the summer! Who wouldn’t love this?
Heya Michele, thanks!
Hi Marilyn, thank you so much for sharing at #SimplifyWednesdays! and yet another recipe my hubby would love! I swear he’d rather you cook for him than me lol … I hand him a bowl of mixed berries and grapes with a greek yogurt dip and he rolls his eyes at me … he would much prefer your snack mix than mine lol …
I will take yours! I am too lazy to wash the fruit!
I just may have to make this for the Fourth of July using red, white and blue M & Ms. This will be a hit with my family.
I just love these snack mixes. Easy to take as a hostess addon. I made this for Amemorial Day but my husband could only find regular m&m’s.
Yum! I’m a huge fan of any type of snack/trail mix! Looks both easy and delicious! Thanks for sharing at #SmallVictories linkup!
Thanks Danita. I hope I gave you some ideas!
Sweet and salty is my favorite combo and this recipe is perfect for that! Thanks so much for sharing this with us on #shinebloghop this week, Marilyn!
Thank you Maria! I love that party.
The recipe looks delicious. But, frankly, you had me at “kale container.” #genius. Stopping by from the #ShineBlogHop!
Thanks Elizabeth. The history of the kale container is in my Menopause Pie post! Glad you found it fun!
Yum, this is my favorite kind of snack mix. I love the sweet and salty combo! We used to make something similar to this and call it “gorp”–I have no idea where that name came from.
Actually I have seen that name around! I am glad you likeit!
Sounds perfect and oh so easy! Pinned.
Thank you for the comment, and the Pin! Have a gret week.
I’m pretty sure I could eat this WHOLE bowl! 🙂
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I have no doubt Jess. It is addictive and the bowl sits nicely on your lap!
Marilyn, I love your Tweet! I’m digging though my cabinet in search of a kale container. 🙂 What do they look like!
It is the old scarred nasty tupperware nobody will look for in the fridge!
Well this looks yummy. I love that you added some chocolate to it. A world without chocolate is so sad. I found you on Celebrate Your Story. I’d love for you to link up to our link party too at Fearlessly Creative Mammas.
What!! A world without chocolate? Say it isn’t so! I will check out yur party.
Lol, every mom needs a kale container in her life!!! Great idea! Thanks for joining the Family Joy Linkup!
Thanks Rachel. This blog has made all my tricks an open book! Have a wonderful day.
When the kids were little they could here potato chip bags opening a mile away! This is my kind of snack mix and it has mindless eating written all over it but I don’t care! Thanks for joining us again this week at Celebrate Your Story.
Yeah, you need that ladle to dish out portions. But make sure you only get one bowl out of the cupboard! Have a wonderful day.
Oh yeah…sweet and salty goodness! Thanks for this delicious idea! I think I’ll keep mine in a Metamucil can! Lol!
Please, I m at an age Metamucil is a bad word. I had three procedures last Friday! LOL
Yum! Yum! YUM,
LOL, Ingrid. Have a wonderful day.
I’ve never understood why it’s called trail mix? Any ideas?
I got this from wikipedia, “Trail mix is considered an ideal snack food for hikes, because it is lightweight, easy to store, and nutritious, providing a quick energy boost from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit or granola, and sustained energy from fats in nuts.”
How did you know that I have to hide stuff like this from my kids or I will never get a taste! Definitely going to employ the “kale container” for this one. Now to keep my husband away from it!
I am a mom! We etat cold food, we eat last, and we often don’t get first helpings! I say protect our rights! LOL
Hi Marilyn, This snack mix is so colorful and I like all the ingredients! Thanks for sharing the recipe! Blessings, Janet
Thank you Janet. I love just how easy this is. Also it lets you clean out those last bits of snacks hanging around in the pantry!