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Christmas Snack Mix – Your last-minute gift solution

December 4, 2020 by Jill 1 Comment

I have finally come to terms with the fact that I’m not that organized mom who buys Christmas gifts in September and makes a chart of where all of the holiday displays in town are. I am not. that. mom. But, I do have an awesome Christmas snack mix recipe that’s really easy to throw together at the last minute. In case you’re the last minute kind of mom. Ahem.

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  • Christmas Snack Mix Recipe (AKA Reindeer Feed)
  • Ingredients for Christmas Snack Mix:
  • To Make Tags for your Christmas Snack Mix:
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Christmas Snack Mix Recipe (AKA Reindeer Feed)

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I’m the mom who realizes that she has to make Christmas dinner five days before Christmas and panics because she can’t find a parking space at the grocery store. I’m the mom who is frantically Amazon prime-ing until the eleventh hour because all of the presents I buy fall into that “last-minute gift” category. I’m the mom who spends more time crafting plausible excuses on why the Christmas gifts will be late than I spend doing actual Christmas shopping.

I’m the mom who needs easy – enter my Christmas snack mix recipe AKA Christmas trail mix.

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If you’re anything like me, you’re looking for a last-minute gift for someone – a teacher, a neighbor, or whoever else you straight-up forgot. I may be the most disorganized person on the planet, but I have something that might bail you out and it’s cute and easy: Christmas snack mix. It’s even (mostly) nutritious.

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This Christmas snack mix/Christmas trail mix – we like to call it Reindeer Feed is a simple treat to put together and, if you’ve got the supplies on hand to make these canvas bags, even better. If you don’t, you can throw it into a mason jar or any other container you might have on hand. Ziplock baggies work, too. Christmas is full-on breathing down our necks…if you don’t have time to get fancy, don’t sweat it.

This Christmas snack mix is also an easy, fun treat for kids to make that doesn’t require using the stove. You can set the supplies out at a table and let the kids go to town without having them underfoot in your kitchen. This makes a great activity for a large group of kids, such as a scout troop or Sunday school class if you’re still looking for something along those lines.

You might also like: Free Reindeer Dust Printable

Ingredients for Christmas Snack Mix:

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1 cup rice square cereal, like Rice Chex. You can also use Corn Chex or Crispix.

3/4 cup mini marshmallows

1/2 cup dry roasted peanuts. If you want to make your Reindeer Chow nut-free, just omit the nuts and add 1/2 cup of one of the other ingredients. Easy peasy.

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup red & green M&Ms

Optional:

Canvas Bags 3″ x 4″

Cardboard

Scissors

Hole Punch

Ribbon

Fine Point Markers

Combine all ingredients into a bowl and mix well.

Reindeer Feed is the perfect last-minute gift solution|Ripped Jeans and Bifocals

I find mixing with my hands is the best.

I find mixing with my hands is the best.  

If you’re doing this as a kid’s activity, just set out all of your ingredients on a table and let them go to town.

 If you're doing this as a kid's activity, just set out all of your ingredients on a table and let them go to it.

Place reindeer feed into a small bag and attach a fun tag.


 If you're doing this as a kid's activity, just set out all of your ingredients on a table and let them go to it.

 

To Make Tags for your Christmas Snack Mix:


Cut a small piece of card board, about 1″ x 1.5″ and angle the ends to make a tag.
 
 Supplies to make Christmas snack mix - AKA Reindeer feed
 
Punch a hole into the tag and write “Reindeer Feed” on the tag with some holly berries. Add a ribbon to the tag and attach to the canvas bags of Christmas snack mix – AKA reindeer feed.
 
 

Easy peasy.
Christmas snack mix in a bag

You might also like:

Free Reindeer Dust Printable Tag


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  1. Becca says

    December 31, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    That is a really cute little gift. I did all of my shopping on December 23rd and did the majority of it at Target!

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