- 9 cups of cereal (I used O-Tees, Popped Rice and Corn Flakes)
- 1 cup nuts (peanuts)
- 1 cup pretzels
- 1 cup bagel chips (I used cream crackers because I had half a packet left – basically any savoury biscuit will do)
- 6 Tablespoons butter (I used margarine)
- 2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 ½ teaspoons flavoured salt (I only use 1 teaspoon since I don’t like very salty things and I did a cheesy version at first and the next time I did a garlic and herb version)
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder (I used flakes)
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- When the butter mix is melted, pour half into your bowl, stir well and then pour the other half and finish stirring.
- Put the bowl in the microwave for one minute, take out and stir, and then do another minute and stir. Don’t do two minutes all at once – you don’t want it to burn. My microwave is 1000W so adjust accordingly.
- The smell of the Worcestershire sauce is quite strong at this point. Don’t worry, that’s normal.
- Empty your mix onto 3 cookie sheets lined with wax paper to absorb the excess oil and cool down.
- I left mine out for about 20 – 30 minutes to cool down and then packaged it all up.
- While the mix is cooling, prepare the containers.
- 5 cups of cereal (I used 6)
- 1 cup biscuits (I used Marie biscuits the first time, Tennis biscuits the next time) The one is a plain, buttery biscuit and the other has coconut in it.
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup chocolate chips (let me tell you my trick – a small bag of choc chips costs about R20 but a large 200 g Cadbury’s slab only costs about R13 – R14. Get the slab and a big butcher’s knife and have at it. I chop on the diagonal, swivel my chopping board and chop on the diagonal again. It seems to be quicker that way. Within minutes you’ve got nice chocolate chunks in your favourite chocolate instead of the boring choc chips, and you’ve saved R7)
- If you don’t like raisins or chocolate, add 2 cups of anything – dried fruit, sweet nuts, etc.
- ¼ cup butter (55 g margarine)
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- Pour half into your bowl, stir well and then pour the other half and finish stirring.
- Put the bowl in the microwave for one minute, take out and stir thoroughly.
- Now add raisins and chocolates and stir again.
- Lay out on wax papered cookie sheets for 20 – 30 minutes, package nicely and enjoy.
- Cereal
- Raisins
- Dried fruit, chopped up
Please let me know if you make it, if you try different ingredients and if your recipients LOVE it like I do 🙂
What are your quick and easy gift ideas? (not necessarily in the kitchen or handmade)