Reduced Sodium Chex Mix

This is a modified version of Chex Mix designed to minimize the sodium level.

Some notes before beginning:

• Chex Mix has certainly evolved over the decades (as you will read on this page) so the mix-ins can be adjusted based on your likes/dislikes
• This version of Chex Mix is designed to be bold in flavor. If that is not to your liking cut the amount of Worcestershire sauce in half.
• Despite what some versions of the recipe calls for it's probably better to keep the oven at 250°F. The idea is to brown the butter based seasoning and enhance the flavor, not burn the cereal. More time at a lower temperature should achieve this result.

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The first recorded printing of a "Chex Mix" recipe was published in Life Magazine on June 16th, 1952. The ad for Chex cereal contained a recipe for "PARTY MIX" in the lower right corner. Originally this mix did not contain Corn Chex because that product line did not launch until 1959.

Corn Chex and pretzels show up in recipes starting in the 1960s. The recipe has had many versions through the decades with bagel chips being included in 19??s. The popularity of the mix grew with the expansion of the American suburbs and house parties. This led to numerous variations and copycat versions created in family kitchens across the countryside. A great number of American households have a version of this mix somewhere in their recipe collection.

Before being known as Chex, the cereal was originally known as Shredded Ralston. It was originally only in wheat form and arrived on the shelves of American stores after the founder of Purina Mills, William H. Danforth, approached a crackpot by the name Albert Webster Edgerly. This is where history takes a dark turn.

Edgerly was many things and one of those things was a prolific self help author. Over the course of his life he would eventually publish over 100 books filled with crazy theories, ideas, exercise routines, and rants on modern society. These writings included various exercises designed to increase one's "personal magnetism" which he believed, when increased sufficiently, would allow you to become telepathic. Edgerly was also extremely racist. He recommended, in writing, that all non-Caucasian males be castrated. He also believed in eugenics and that white people could use selective breeding and his literature to live 100 years consistently.

Webster Edgerly had developed a term to encompass all of his racist, insane, and unscientific ramblings called RALSTONism. Ralston is an acronym meaning Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation (not a word), Oxygen, and Nature. All things supposedly important to this path of enlightenment.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of Chex Rice cereal
• 2 cups of Chex Corn cereal
• 2 cups of Chex Wheat cereal
• 1 cup unsalted nuts
• 1 cup unsalted pretzels
• 6 tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 tsp seasoned salt
• 2 tbsp worchershire sauce
• 3/4 tsp garlic powder
• 3/4 tsp onion powder

Equipment

• Wooden spoon
• Large mixing bowl
• Large baking sheet
• Aluminum foil
• Small sauce pan

Mise en Place

1. Preheat the oven to 250°F (130°C)
2. In a large mixing bowl combine the cereal, nuts, and pretzels. Set aside.
3. Prepare a large baking sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray with cooking oil.