Chex Holiday Recipes Gift Pack Giveaway (Including a $25 Kroger Gift Card) (Now Closed)

Kroger and Chex Cereal have joined forces to help you whip up recipes for your holiday entertaining that are easy on your time as well as your budget!

There are  many great tasting Chex Party Mix recipes that you can make in the microwave in only 15 minutes! Try The Original Chex® Party Mix or Chex® Ginger-Honey Crunch for sure crowd pleasers.

Looking for an easy gift idea for friends, family or co-workers? Try wrapping your favorite Chex Party Mix in a colorful tin or bag and personalize it with your own recipe card, which is exactly what my son and I did. While at the store the other day we came across these cute little boxes that look like Chinese take-out for only $1.99.

I then searched through all the Chex mix recipes online, because believe it or not I had never made it before! I’ve tried several of the savory recipes but I was in the mood for something sweet and since I was feeling adventurous we came up with our own creation! It was a combo of several other recipes we found on the site. I had already had an idea of what I wanted a few days earlier so while we were at the store we grabbed a few things like: Almond bark, Planters Holiday Nut Mix, Harry & David Honey Roasted Sesame Sticks, Pretzel Sticks and I pulled out a few things from the cupboard and fridge: Dried Cherries, Honey, Brown Sugar, Butter, Semi-Sweet Chocolate.

We combined 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup brown sugar in and melted it. We poured it on a mixture of 5 cups Corn Chex, 5 cups Rice Chex, 2 Cups broken-up pretzel sticks, 1 cup dried cherries, 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 cup almonds, 1/4 cup cashews, 1/2 cup dried blueberries & 1/2 cup honey roasted sesame sticks (Some anxious little boy had spilled the rest just the day before). Here he is mixing it up! (less sticky ingredients –what do you think I’m crazy?)

We then put it in the oven on a parchment lined sheet pan for 15 minutes at 300F. Melted 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks with 1/4 cup butter on low heat. The mixture had cooled by now so next we added the chocolate and voila! We put our sheet pan in the fridge for 1 hour and let everything cool. (I tried to box it without putting it in the fridge first –that was not a smart idea).

After we pulled it out the chocolate had cooled. We then broke our mix into pieces & put it into our cute little box. Et voila!

Making your own Chex Mix this holiday season? Kroger Family of Stores will have Chex cereal on sale so you can impress your guests without stressing your wallet. For 3 weeks, from December 2nd – December 25th, Kroger will offer Chex cereal at their lowest prices of the year!

Don’t forget to visit Kroger and Chex on Facebook to“Like” their pages and keep up with recipes, news and their latest and greatest products. While you’re there, take a minute to share photos of your Chex creations.

(Now Closed)

Prize: One reader will win a “Chex Holiday Recipes” gift pack that includes two samples of Chex cereal and a $25 gift card valid at the Kroger Family of Stores

To Enter:  Please complete the required task. If the required task is not completed then none of your entries will count.  After that you have several other ways of getting extra entries.  Make sure that for each one you do you leave a separate comment. Each comment counts as one entry. Please leave your correct email addy.

Required: Check out the Chex site and tell me one recipe you’d love to try.  http://www.chex.com/Recipes/

Congrats to #261 – Susan Smith

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Giveaway is open to residents of the U.S., 18 yrs of age or older. Any posts not including the requested information will be deleted. This giveaway ends: Sunday, December 19, 2010 12am EST. Winner will be contacted immediately and announced Monday December 20, 2010. In the event the winner does not respond to email within 48 hours I will choose another random winner. I will be using random.org to do this

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