Things I swear I will never do again:
- Tell myself on Saturday that “starting MONDAY I will only eat vegetables and drink water until I reach my goal weight”. Which usually plays out like this: Monday morning 10:30 am, me in the corner stuffing my mouth with Cheeze-Its, swearing that I was about to die if I didn’t have sustenance, yelling at the dog for making me so weak.
- Wear false eyelashes in public. Not because they don’t look great on OTHER people, but because I have false eyelash-lexia and in a matter of hours I have a half on-half off flapper, like Brittany Spears circa 2007, back in her British speaking, paparazzi dating days.
- Buy holiday candy 3 months in advance, “just to be prepared”. What happens is I spend 4 times as much money replacing the provisional candy and then tell myself more “Monday-morning-cleanse” lies.
- Tell my husband I will not roll my eyes at him ever again. That’s just a flat-out lie.
- Buy my kids ice cream and then blame my husband “when it all goes missing”. What? Like you’ve never done that.
So in an effort to make up for the fact that I may or may not have eaten the last of my kid’s Chubby Hubby, I made this snack mix. It’s all the innards of the flavor without the ice cream getting in the way.
Straight to the vein.
Let’s applaud the players:
Chop up these beauties…
Mix it all together in a giant bowl.
Then give the mix a chocolate shower…
Make sure it all gets coated evenly and then let rest on a wax paper lined counter.
Now, if you’re feeling crazy, grab some sea salt.
I like this flaked kind, but use whatever you have.
And sprinkle a little bit all over the top.
Also, in case you were wondering, dipping plain Rolo candies into sea salt and then eating them by the paw-ful is a mighty delicious snack. FYI.
And that’s it.
Chubby Hubby Snack Mix.
You need some.
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Chubby Hubby Snack Mix
Description
makes approx 8 cups
Ingredients
- 4 cups pretzel sticks
- 2 cups Rolo candies (I used the mini, unwrapped Rolo)
- 2 cups chopped mini peanut butter cups
- 3 cups Crispy Rice cereal
- 8 oz semi-sweet chocolate
- 2 tsp peanut butter
- *optional 1 tbsp flaked sea salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine pretzels, Rolos, peanut butter cups and cereal.
- Melt your chocolate in the microwave or double boiler. Stir peanut butter into melted chocolate until combined.
- Pour chocolate over pretzel mixture and stir to coat evenly.
- Spread mixture on a wax paper lined counter and sprinkle with sea salt, if desired.
- Let chocolate set and enjoy!
Notes
store in an airtight container for up to a week
RICE cereal – grain
PEANUT BUTTER cups – protein
PRETZELS – carb
MILK chocolate – dairy
Have a salad with it and I say you’ve got yourself a healthy, well-balanced meal!
I like the way you think!
I like that theory….I am also a firm believer of
HOMEMADE = HEALTHY!! 🙂
I just died a little. And, I hear you on the fake eyelashes. Ha!
Chubby couple sounds better.. I can’t let him eat this by himself. Not because I’m nice, but because I won’t resist!
Yea, I tried to do that whole eat nothing but fruit and veggies and sadly it didn’t last very long. I just couldn’t keep away from the good stuff:-) And by good stuff I mean things like peanut butter cups and rolos…this snack mix is truly amazing! I’m sure I will have to blame someone else when it disappears from my house!
oh this is pure evil! there goes my veggie intake for the day 😉
My son has even caught onto the blame husband/dad for food disappearing, universal rule!
This snack mix is over the top. Can’t believe you put peanut butter cups with rolo’s!
Isn’t it a husband’s job to take the blame for food disappearances?
I could eat a whole bowl of that stuff! Got to pin this one!
Best Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor out there! And I completely agree with the false eyelashes. I wish I was someone who could pull them off…but, I’m just not.
Too, too bad….in such a good way!