Estimated time:
1 hour or so (needs to cool some)

Number of servings:
at least 7 1/2 cups of snack

Ingredients: (Hit your return key to start a new line)
*3 c. Honey Nut Chex cereal

2 c. Cheerios

1 1/2 c. Bugles (or Corn Chex or other 'cereal/crunch' type item

1 c. small pretzels (you choose the shape!)

2 Tbsp. light corn syrup

2 Tbsp. honey

1 Tbsp. butter or margarine

1/2 tsp. vanilla

*1 c. peanuts (optional)

* 1 c. candy coated chocolate pieces

Directions:
Heat oven to 325 degrees F.

Set the candy coated chocolate pieces (M&M's) aside.

Mix cereals, snacks and pretzels.

Heat corn syrup, honey and butter to boiling in 1 qt. saucepan over medium heat, stirring a bit.

Remove from heat; add vanilla and stir.

Pour this syrup over the cereal mixture (in a large bowl). Stir until evenly coated.

Spread this mixture into an Un-greased pan with sides.

A rectangular 9"x13"x2" pan will need to bake for 24 minutes, and Stirred midway thru this (after 12 minutes).

A more larger/more shallow pan may be more like 20 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes.

Spread the baked mixture onto waxed paper or aluminum foil
(or be lazy like I was; stir it Again, let it cool in the pan, and break it apart in the same pan ;-)

Whatever storage container you've chosen, *shake the candy-coated pieces in w/every few 'inches' of snack mix. They'll settle to the bottom, and/or get picked off the top, no matter what you do
;-)

You should end up with at least 7 1/2 cups of Snack.

Store in an airtight container, or in little snack-sized zipper bags for distribution to 'rug rats and yard monkeys'.

Other suggestions and comments:
This mixture is not as buttery and sweet as the other snack mix; both are good.

*The precise type of dry ingredients used won't matter as much as the Syrup. Improvise/be creative with the other stuff.

For example: you might wish to try un-sweetened corn or rice Chex (or 'Crispix').

Maybe you look and find that, lo and behold, somebody Finally finished off that Cost Club-sized thing of Oat Rings/Cheerios. Just find at least 5 cups of suitable Cereal-type stuff, in any combination, and Go For It!....

I doubled the pretzels because I couldn't find Bugles, and decided It Just Doesn't Matter ;-)

Also: I have always sort of regarded the Amount of cereal to be a starting point. I tend to add more, in part 'cuz I don't like having 1/4 of a box of cereal as an instant 'leftover'. Besides; the mixture can usually coat a bit more than the recipe says...and when I add more cereal, nobody complains. ;-)

*Nuts, and use of Honey Nut Cheerios, will render this recipe less than perfect for a School snack, due to allergy concerns. For smaller groups w/members known not to be allergic, and families, it can be quite the excellent snack munchie. Campers and hikers would call this 'GORP', which stands for 'good ol' raisins and peanuts'...

which reminds me: you could add Raisins, too, if your crew likes 'em ;-)