Trail Mix Recipe With Quaker® Life Cereal
Last Updated on October 1, 2019 by Janell
This is an easy homemade trail mix recipe for kids with M&Ms! It has just a few ingredients and you can customize it! It's a little sweet and could be made nut-free. It's not the typical Chex trail mix! And it's cheap if you stock up on cereal!
In my house, we eat a ton of cereal. We eat if for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And most nights it is a pre-bedtime snack. So whenever I am in Walmart I buy a few boxes so we never run out.
This is usually a great idea but we are moving next month and I have a few boxes of Quaker® Life Cereal and I really don't have the luggage space for cereal.
I love a good challenge. When I have too much of a product and I need to use it up, I can get very creative. Plus it is a really great way for me to save money because I need to use the items I already have in my house. It's a cheap trail mix recipe.
I have 4 boxes of Quaker® Life Cereal in my house, and I just don't think we will be eating that much cereal in a few weeks.
When we were out shopping the other day at Walmart, my kids were begging me for trail mix. At that moment I realized how I can use up some of the Quaker® Life Cereal.
We were going to make our own easy trail mix recipe with Quaker® Life Cereal. And this was going to be better than the store-bought version because we can customize it. (None of my kids eat the raisins!)
My kids loved this. It's easy to eat and it doesn't make a mess. Many people like to make a Chex trail mix recipe - but I love the texture and the sweetness of the Life Cereal.
I love that it is so easy to customize. Can you believe I have a child that doesn't like M&Ms!?! After a quick peek into the pantry I realized I had some white chocolate chips that I had leftover from a cookie recipe.
I made him a batch of the trail mix with the white chocolate chips and he was happy. All my kids said it was the best snack ever!
Feel free to double or triple the recipe if you have a bigger crowd to feed!
Trail Mix Recipe With Quaker® Life Cereal
- 2 cups Quaker® Life Cereal
- 2 cups Pretzels
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 1 cup M&M's (or white chocolate chips)
Instructions:
- Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. The M&M's usually fall to the bottom so you will need to mix it up after each serving.
- Store in an airtight container.
This is going to be a great snack for us to bring with us on the airplane when we travel. It will also be a great hiking trail mix recipe.
Have you ever used Quaker® Life Cereal in a recipe?
Here are some more of my kid-friendly recipes:
- One-Pot Tomato Basil & Pasta Dinner Recipe
- Air Fryer Churros Recipe
- McDonalds Pancake Recipe
- Easy Sloppy Joe Recipe
What an easy recipe! My kids love Life cereal, so they're bound to like this snack mix.
Yum!! Thanks for sharing, great snack idea.
My kids love trail mix and we have never made it with Life cereal. We will definitely be trying it now!
Yummy! We love stuff like this! The kids can help make it and they love everything in it--plus, super easy is always up my alley!
What a fun idea. I think I am going to make some, too!
Healthy and tasty. Sounds great to me! We love eating special snacks like this at New Year's and other holiday parties.
bookmarking this to make and take on NYE! I love this stuff!
I bet my kids would like this recipe. I just bought Life cereal too - one of our favorite cereals.
I love mixing this kind of stuff up for a quick snack. My kiddo loves it too. He loves crunchy!
I've never made chex mix my entire life. I am saving this one!
This would be great for a party. I love snacking on trail mix.
Yum looks like a lovely snack. I would serve this after school my kids are always so hungry. This would be perfect!
We eat tons of cereal at my house too. I like this Quaker mix idea for snacking!
We love to snack on cereal too! My husband has always been a fan of Life cereal, so we will have to make him some of this for our New Years celebrations!
What a great idea, I'd like to tuck into this myself I had to say. Thank you.
I love making homemade trail mixes like this. They're so easy to customize.
We love cereal! So that Life Cereal Trail Mix looks tasty especially for children. I love how it's easy to customize as well.
I bet kids really do love this. Adults too. And it is the perfect snack to take when you travel.
We are a cereal loving family too. This is perfect to satisfy our cereal cravings and get the kids to help out!
My husband was just asking if anyone made these mixes anymore. I'll have to tell him very happily, yes! 🙂
My daughter and I use to make trail mix all the time, so good and such an easy healthy treat to make for your family.
Great recipe fun! Yep - when I was a Conference Center Director, we made these kinds of exact snacks for kids and grown ups!
I LOOOOOOVE Life. I will buy it and eat it right out of the box. I don't get to buy it very often so when I do it is reserved as a special treat.
I love it when its yummy and healthy all the same time - this is wonderful.
Looks yummy! I am using Quaker products and the quality of this brand is great. I prefer healthy snacks for kids & this one is really a great snack idea for kids. Love the recipe as well. Thanks for sharing.
This would be perfect on movie night! I haven't had Life cereal in SO long.
We really enjoyed it. Im going to make another batch this weekend.
We eat a ton of Life cereal, but I've never thought about making a trail mix out of it. I'll have to try that & make sure to remember that I'll need an extra box or two next time I'm at the store.
This looks super easy and very tasty! My kids would love.
life is one of my fav cereals ever! I love the Cinn. that looks like a great trail mix!
I love Life cereal and love a good trail mox it is so good. I am not in to the chocolates in it (only because we have cut down on sugar) but I love the rest of it. This is something we would love.
You can never go wrong with snacks like these!
My grandsons would enjoy this snack...looks easy to make!
Oh that is a great idea! Would be so much cheaper too that buying the ready mixes at the store!