A couple days ago I wanted something sweet but didn’t want to eat anymore Oreos because being a beginner vegan that’s pretty much all I knew about “Vegan OKd” treats. So I went to my pantry and looked and noticed I had stacks of unopened Chex mix cereal. I guess my son and I weren’t eating it fast enough I didn’t notice it was building up in my pantry. Anyway Instantly I thought OH COOL I CAN MAKE MUDDY BUDDIES/PUPPYCHOW (however you want to call it)

The recipe I found was only in bulk which was good since I had so many boxes of Chex mix Cereal in my pantry. I had Corn and Rice chex so I decided to be spontaneous and put both into the mix. So HERE WE GO!

You are going to need a BIG BOWL for this one and I would recommend a rice scooper or wooden spatula/spoon to mix everything together. I used a wooden rice scooper. Only because as much as possible you don’t want to crush the cereal into crumbs when you mix.

Ingredients:

• 9 cups of Rice or Corn Chex mix
• 2 cups dairy free chocolate chips of your choice ( I used 4 boxes of 4oz dairy free chocolate) Side note if you are not vegan feel free to use whatever chocolate you wish.
• 2/3 cup peanut butter ( I used all natural peanut butter. But you can use any peanut butter of your choice)
• 1/4 cup coconut oil of your choice ( Room temp. )
• 4 cups powdered sugar ( Now this is optional but actually necessary. If you’ve eaten this before it keeps the mix from sticking to each other especially if you are going to store it in the fridge. Unless you like block chocolate with chex mix which actually wasn’t really bad it actually tasted really good. To be honest though I did not use 4 cups of powdered sugar I just poured some and mixed some until everything looked like it was moderately covered. )

Directions:

• Put the 9 cups of chex mix into the big bowl.
• In a separate “microwavable” bowl put the chocolate, Peanut butter, and coconut oil.
• I microwaved it for about 4 min. and stirred everything together with the wooden rice scooper. But you can do this process how ever you see fit. Or what works best for you. As long as all of those ingredients are nicely stirred together you’re good to go.
• After everything is well stirred and the mix looks smooth pour the mixture onto the Chex and very delicately fold the cereal into the mix until everything is covered with the tasty chocolate mixture. Make sure you do it delicately unless you want alot of crumbs in there. We don’t want them to turn into those nestles mini crunch snacks. We want to have the full cereal in there.
• When everything is mixed into your liking start pouring the powdered sugar into the bowl. DON’T DOUSE THE MIX just sprinkle and mix sprinkle and mix until its nicely covered to how you like it.

And that is the end to the directions. When you are all well and satisfied with what you have infront of you go ahead and put them into tupperwares save them for later put them into the fridge or just enjoy the whole thing in one sitting like I almost did. Makes good gifts and party snacks.

I hope you guys enjoyed this recipe as much as I did and I also hope to be able to share more recipes with you folks later on. Have a good week everyone and stay happy.