It’s Back to School time, and we’re excited to announce 2 lucky winners will snag a Free $25 Save-A-Lot Gift Card! Just leave a comment on this blog post to enter, telling us what you’d buy!
Are you familiar with Save-A-Lot Stores? Save-A-Lot stores feature Great Food, Great Prices, and Great People! I recently went shopping at Save-A-Lot in Independence, MO in search of super easy Back-to-School Snack Ideas! Check out what I found, and Find a Save-A-Lot Near You!
After shopping in the store, I came up with a delicious homemade snack mix recipe that has a “secret” ingredient that will quickly become everyone’s favorite ingredient in this snack mix… Caramel Mini Rice Cakes! These are seriously delicious and addictive. My 6 year old wanted to eat those first and kept wanting more. 🙂 This is the yummiest snack mix I’ve ever had… the Caramel Rice cakes are a MUST-HAVE in this snack mix recipe!
Plus, Save-A-Lot has lots of great ready made Snack Mixes that are perfect for Back-to-School and after school snacks, like Pistachio Chewy Bites and Chex Mix too! Here you can see some ready-made snack mixes we bought, and ingredients we used in our Super Easy Rice Cake Snack Mix:
Ingredients for Super Easy Rice Cake Snack Mix:
J. Higgs Caramel Rice Snacks (Save-A-Lot brand)
J. Higgs Honey Roasted Peanuts (Save-A-Lot brand)
Tipton-Grove California Style Raisins (Save-A-Lot brand) or Dried Cranberries (or both!)
J. Higgs Mini Pretzels (Save-A-Lot brand)
Kiggins Honey Nut Rollin’ Oats (Save-A-Lot brand)
The amount of each ingredient you use is ultimately personal preference and also depends on the size of batch you need. I made a small batch, with around 1/4 – 1/2 cup of each ingredient (with some extra Caramel Rice Snacks, since those were our favorite. 🙂
Notice that we used lots of Save-A-Lot brand ingredients in this snack mix and it was delicious! I recommend buying EXTRA of the Caramel Rice Cakes. 🙂
Save-A-Lot also has other great after school snack ideas! We found these Whole-Wheat Ritz crackers and Cheddar string cheese, and these scrumptious little pudding cups.
Be sure to Enter the Save-A-Lot #PacknSnap Sweepstakes! You could win $100 Save-A-Lot Gift Card or an iPad mini 2! To enter, just instagram or tweet a picture of your back-to-school lunch using the hashtag #PackNSnap! Contest runs until Sept 7th.
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And even better, 2 lucky Coupons and Freebies Mom readers will win a $25 Save-A-Lot gift card right here on our website! To enter, just leave a comment on this blog post telling us what you’d buy with the free gift card! Click here to Find a Save-A-Lot Near You! Giveaway ends 9/17/16 at 11:59 pm Central time. You must be a United States resident and 18 years or older to win. Comments submitted may be displayed on other websites owned by the sponsoring brand.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Save-A-Lot. The opinions and text are all mine.
I wish I had one of these stores near me! I would love a $25 gift card.
I absolutely love our local #Save-A-LotRichmondKy
It is locally owned and they have Super Employees!!
I appreciate their low price meat Dept. And it is fresh and quality meat.
I would buy some family pals of meat if I #Winthegiveaway.. Thanks for this opportunity
#couponsandfreebiesmom
I would buy pretzels and cheese for lunches. Thanks for the chance! 🙂
I would buy meat and stuff for lunch.
I would definitely buy lunch items for my daughter going back to school. things like drinks and fruit.
My son would definitely love this mix!
I love making my own snack mixes by combining a variety of easy to grab ideas and this one sounds tasty. My kids actually enjoy rice cakes even more than I do!
I would buy a 5 for $20!!! Love Save-A-Lot!!!
Stephanie, yes, we also added dried cranberries/dried cherry mix to some of the snack mix (some had just raisins and some had both). It was delicious too!
Thanks for sharing this delicious snack mix and this great giveaway. I’m all for free moolah!
I never thought to put rice cakes in a snack mix like this!! What a great after school snack idea!
Yum! That looks so good! I love snack mixes. I will definitely be making some of this.
I would love to try those pistachio chewy bites. I like to keep healthy snacks on hand when I’m working. – Yolonda
I would buy canned fruit and veggies.
$25 is not bad! I wish I could win these.
You made me want to try these rice cakes thanks to the recipe you provided. What a nice low cal fall snack. Count me in!
That snack mix looks good. We love to snack around here. Thanks for the idea.
That snack mix looks great. I love making snack mixes. They’re great for kids lunches too.
Oh I miss shopping at Save-A-Lot. I grew up in a really big family in Florida and we used to get a lot of our groceries at Save-A-Lot.
I tend to forget about save – a lot because it’s on the end of town I don’t get to as much, but used to go there all the time when I lived in a different city.