Bacon Chex™ Party Mix

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• What snack is made of cereal, requires no milk, and is the most addictive thing you’ll eat this week? That’s right… Bacon Chex™ Party Mix! Not that normal Chex™ party mix isn’t good and addictive, but a little bacon couldn’t hurt, right? The first step in making this delicious snack mix is making sure you have some very crispy bacon. Cooking the bacon on a rack allows the heat to circulate around the bacon and cooks it evenly and crisply. When it comes to Chex™ party mix, Chex™ cereal is obviously an important ingredient. There are a bunch of different varieties of Chex™ and guess what? You can use any of them! Seriously, go crazy. For this version I used corn Chex™ and Whole Wheat Chex™, but any Chex™ cereal under the sun will do the trick. Toss the cereal together with some pretzels and peanuts. I gave some loose guidelines for amounts in the recipe, but this isn’t a hard and fast thing. If you love pretzels, add more! Make it your own. Here’s the secret step that will send your Chex™ party mix to the next level. Instead of just tossing the Chex™ cereal mix in melted butter, drizzle a few reserved tablespoons of bacon grease over the Chex™ cereal mix as well! The bacon grease will give the whole mix a subtle bacon flavor even if your particular handful doesn’t have bacon in it. I just stirred together my melted butter and bacon grease (it doesn’t take much) and drizzled it over my mix. I recommend eating a few handfuls of it while you can. Once you put it in a bowl, it’ll be gone quickly! If by some strange chance you do have leftovers, store it in the fridge (since it has bacon in it) and it’ll keep fine for about five days.