Christmas Snacks: Nuts n’ Bolts

My mom makes this salty snack every Christmas. We call it Nuts n’ Bolts. It may look like I just threw some cereal, pretzels and peanuts in a bowl and called it good, but there’s a little more to it than that. However, it’s still simple to make and a very tasty treat. Enjoy!
Ingredients
1/2 to 1 box of Crispix cereal (350 grams)                                                  
1/2 to 1 box plain Cheerios (400 grams)                               
1/2 to 1 bag pretzels (400 grams)
1 can peanuts (300 grams)
1/2 cup margarine
2 tbsp. canola oil
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp. each onion salt, garlic salt and celery salt
Add as many Crispix, Cheerios and pretzels as you prefer. And if you like less peanuts, then add less. Mix the first four ingredients together and put into a large pan (or two pans). Melt the rest of the ingredients together and pour over the mixture. Mix well and bake for one hour at 250 degrees.
Crispix, Cheerios, pretzels and peanuts mixed together.
Crispix, Cheerios, pretzels and peanuts mixed together.
The melted liquid mixture.
The melted liquid mixture.
Bake in the oven.
Bake in the oven.
Nuts n' Bolts. Yum!
Nuts n’ Bolts. Yum!
I packed up some of the snacks in these fun winter Ziploc bags for others.
I packed up some of the snacks in these fun winter Ziploc bags for others.
Advertisement

6 thoughts on “Christmas Snacks: Nuts n’ Bolts

Add yours

  1. My mom makes a dill version with just a hint of hot spice. They are my favourite! Really I just love anything that has dill in it.

  2. One of the best Holiday snacks around! My family makes a version of this too, but we just call it Chex mix (boring, I know). I like your name for it better!

  3. My boys helped me make a batch a few weeks ago with ranch seasoning. Believe it or not, the 5 kids ate the whole batch that afternoon. Definitely a Christmas classic.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Up ↑

%d bloggers like this: