Kibbles and Nibbles
Did you ever have one of those moments where your child asked to make something that didn’t sound too appealing? Then you look at her recipe and determine that it’s not likely something that you’d enjoy eating either, but the look on her face and the insistence wins you over. That was the case yesterday as Abigail insisted that she be able to make a snack mix she found on one of her favorite websites. We went to the store with her shopping list, and she carefully picked the items she thought would be best in her mix. We weren’t even out of the car before she was dictating which bowl we should use, and only then did she ask if we had plastic bags for packing the snack mix into.
Dutifully, I did the one thing that she couldn’t do, and that was pop her popcorn for the mix with the hot air popper. She continued on, though, assembling all her ingredients, getting out the right measuring cups, and even improvising once or twice by adding “just a little bit more of that.” When her mix was complete, she asked me once again for the plastic bags. Puzzled, I asked why we couldn’t just leave it in the bowl for snacking on, and only then did she inform me that we were making a snack mix to take with us for the Fourth of July festivities. The snack mixes were for all the kids who would be at our family gathering. What a thoughtful girl! So we found some festive looking bags in my craft supplies and ended up with a handful of goodie bags to be shared by my generous little girl. This is her adaptation of Kibbles and Nibbles
Kibbles and Nibbles
- 3-1/2 cups plain hot-air popped popcorn
- 2 cups small pretzel sticks
- 1-1/2 cups of your favorite cereal
- 1-1/2 cups almond chocolate-coated candy pieces
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- 3/4 cup dried cranberries
Combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and toss gently with your hands to incorporate. Place one cup of mixture in each of 10 plastic goodie bags and tie with a twist-tie. Alternatively, leave the mixture in the bowl for eating with a group of friends.
