Fritos Snack Mix

 We went camping over Labor Day weekend with the extended family. It was so fun to see Steve and family from Montana, and Justin's and Jessica's families and Mom and Dad. We should definitely do it again!  We all brought food to share but now we all have new food restrictions. :-( Justin and Ashlee recently found out their family all are allergic to gluten. Adria has been complaining for months that her stomach hurts and we finally did an allergy test for her and discovered she is allergic to milk. So she had gone milk free for the past few months and that seems to help. So we all had to bring gluten and dairy free foods. (BUMMER!) I found this recipe from cookiesandcups and decided to modify it so we could take it as a treat. I didn't use M &Ms because they probably aren't dairy free and I don't like them anyway. Another thing I learned on this trip - Licorice isn't gluten free! Who'd of thought? So the next recipe quest is homemade gluten free licorice... We will see. 

Everyone LOVED this snack mix and they all said I needed to share the recipe. So here it is to the best of my ability to remember what I did.  

• 1 (10.5 oz) bag of Fritos - I used the bigger bag (19oz) and used a little more than half the bag
• 3-4 cups Rice Chex Cereal- Original recipe says 2 cups, but I left other stuff out so I added extra here. 
• 2 cups of candy corn -Original recipe said to use nuts too, but we left those out.
• 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup non-dairy (vegan) butter
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup

Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large roasting pan Fritos, and Chex.  Set aside.

In a small saucepan melt sugar, vegan butter and corn syrup over medium heat.  Let mixture come to a boil and then boil for 4 minutes without stirring.

Remove from heat and pour over Frito mixture, stirring to coat evenly. Bake for 8 minutes.  Remove to stir and bake for an additional 8 minutes. Stir in the candy corns and pour onto 

wax paper lined counter and let cool completely breaking large clumps.

I didn't get a picture because we ate it too fast and I didn't think about pictures. That just proves how delicious it was!