Kids Cuisine

Cheerios Snack Mix (in Original and Cheddar flavors) is a new addition to the ever-expanding snack aisle of your local grocery store. I received the Original flavor to sample and enlisted my family’s help in testing the new snack food. As I am always on the lookout for healthy snacks, I was anxious to try this new mix because the package boasts that it is a good source of whole grain and is baked, not fried.

The mix contains 6 different snacking pieces, including MultiGrain Cheerios, Wheat Chex, round snack crackers, bread twists, Corn Chex, and twist pretzels. The 8-ounce bag has 7 servings (2/3 cup each) with 120 calories per serving. A selling point for the snack, as stated on the front of the bag, is that it contains 65% less fat than regular potato chips. For those watching their fat intake, this is an added bonus of the product.

Not realizing that Cheerios and Chex cereals are both General Mills products, I thought the new Cheerios Snack Mix was going to be something new in the snacking world. Upon pouring a sample bowl, it looked very similar to Chex Mix. It even tastes pretty much the same as Chex Mix. My taste testers ate all of the Chex cereal out of the mix first and commented that the Cheerios “tasted like plain Cheerios and that’s not great.” Another tester stated, “The addition of Cheerios to the mix did not spruce it up at all.” I find Chex Mix too salty, so I enjoyed the addition of the plain-tasting Cheerios. Being that Cheerios are the finger food of almost every toddler, Cheerios Snack Mix should be a welcome variation to playgroup snack time.

Aside from the addition of Cheerios, Cheerios Snack Mix is basically Chex Mix. No real new snack excitement here. Our family is a fan of Chex Mix, so all in all we liked the Cheerios Snack Mix. If I was picking a snack though, I would purchase Traditional Chex Mix. I now have a bowl of Cheerios left to eat.