How To Use An Entire Box of Cereal In Under An Hour...

Seeing as GA/FLA is upon us that can only mean one thing...what is this one thing you ask? Road trippin...check!  partying on the beach with 3000 of your best friends...yup that too! Gators in Jean shorts? definitely! Dawgs win (in my best larry munson voice)? HOPIN FOR IT!! Can you tell I'm just a little bit excited??

these are all fine and dandy (and lets be honest literally some of my favorite things about being a UGA student!!) but one of the major things that we don't think about this weekend is when/where/what we are going to eat.  Having 3000 people flock to one island for 3 days means crazy long lines at all the fast food restaurants and grocery stores, so I thought that I would prepare this year by making some snackage for my crew.

The first thing that came to mind to make was puppy chow...this stuff is literally the messiest but most addictive substance on the planet! OK that's definitely a lie but its really freaking good and so easy to make!

I followed the recipe on the box

Ingredients:

• 9 cups of rice chex
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Add butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter into a large microwaveable bowl.  

 Microwave for 1 minute and stir.  Microwave for another 30 seconds, stir then mix in vanilla.

Pour over cereal and stir until completely coated.

Add cereal into 2 gallon zip lock bag.

 Then add powdered sugar and shake.

YUMMMMMYYYY!!

After the rice krispie treat debacle, I was really not looking forward to getting stuck with another box of cereal considering I don't really like cereal and never have milk unless I need it for a recipe.  So I started to consider just making more puppy chow and quickly decided that was probably not my best move. So I settled on (drum roll please......)classic homemade chex mix!

again I used the recipe on the box but made a few tweaks:

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
• 3/4 teaspoon of seasoned salt
• 1/2 teaspoon tonys creole seasoning (makes everything better!)
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 4 cups rice chex
• 1cup cheese its
• 1 cup garlic bagel chips
• 1 cup pretzels

Melt butter then stir in seasoning and Worcestershire sauce.

Combine ingredients for mix in bowl and stir.

Place in pan and pour butter and seasonings over.

Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 15.