I have had a wicked hankering for puppy chow lately. With enough powdered sugar for Woody Allen to sneeze in to boot.
And yet…I maintain my steadfast hold on eating things good for me because, well, I feel better if I do. And I look better too.
So, do you have a healthy puppy chow recipe? I assume it involves all Wheat Chex or some variant thereof. I really love honey nut chex (they’re what I have at the SO’s grandmother’s house) but can’t seem to find them at the grocery store. I’m imagining a blend of the two would work wonders.
Have you tried it with splenda/sugar blend? Was it fantastic?
Or are you all going to tell me to go buy a 5lb bag of powdered sugar and enough chocolate to kill an army and just get it over with 
Puppy… chow…??
This is obviously a definition of puppy chow I’ve never encountered before.
I can’t see how an occasional serving is going to affect your looks, except that you will be happy and all smiley, and that’s a good thing. I’ve only made it the traditional way, but not too often. Chocolate, peanut butter, Chex cereal and powdered sugar.
Oh, and we used the Muddy Buddies name in our house.
I used to make a concoction of Trader Joe’s peanut butter, flax meal, Splenda and some sort of sugar free chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s. If I had xylitol around I’d throw some of that in there too for a “cool mouth feel.”
I think you can put Splenda and xylitol in the food processor to get it powdery.
Those ingredients plus some Multi-Bran Chex might do to get that puppy chow taste in your mouth, with the extra benefit of being fibery.
Flax meal, interesting! Can you give me a ballpark of how much you’d use Zipper JJ, just so I don’t overdo it?
That’s the kinda recipe I was looking for. I’ll use everything you said sans the sugar free chocolate ;). That’s one thing I can’t get behind.
Well, this was my version of “I need something sweet and low carb” snack. It was not puppy chow, more like a lump of stuff that vaguely resembled the taste of a peanut butter square (a treat from school that was peanut butter, sugar and chocolate). I suggest it because it’s got the chocolate/peanut butter/sugar thing going on that puppy chow does.
I added the flax meal to give it more calories, and to get my flax meal in.
So it was like 3 tbs of peanut butter, 1 tbs of flax meal, 2 packets of Splenda or 1 packet + a dash of xylitol, and 1 chopped up square of SF chocolate.
Honestly if you want puppy chow and don’t want heaps of powdered sugar, I would experiment with natural peanut butter (peanuts, salt, nothing else), and a blend of Splenda plus dry skim milk, put through the food processor. Melt the PB and add Splenda/milk until it tastes sweet enough. Then use high fiber Chex.
Doesn’t puppy chow require chocolate?
Dry skim milk, like powdered milk? Silly question, but where would it be in the store - like located in an aisle with what else?
Puppy chow does require chocolate. I don’t need to skimp on the chocolate, but if I’m given too much powdered sugar the results are disastrous.
That recipe looks good. I already use natural (just peanuts + salt) peanut butter.
Powdered milk is in a box in the baking aisle. In my store it’s between the sugar and the oil.
The milk will give you more “soaking stuff up” ability, like powdered sugar would. I’m not saying you have to have it, but I think Splenda alone won’t do the trick. You could try first with Splenda alone and see how that suits ya.
Right right, the milk makes sense. I’ll try it this weekend and post about how it went! 