Homemade Gardetto's Snack Mix Recipe (Copycat Recipe) (2024)

FAQs

What is in the Gardetto's snack mix? ›

The original blend of crunchy breadsticks, salted pretzels and roasted rye chips, seasoned with Gardetto's secret family recipe. Made to bring people together, our Original Recipe is perfect for sharing with family and friends.

As you can see from the scientific study above, the best Gardetto's are the little brown discs, officially known as "rye chips" but called by various regional nicknames.

In 1932 the Gardetto family bakery made a snack mix out of breadstick trimmings. Throw in some snack bits and blend of special seasoning, and you've got the boldly flavored snack mix we know today. There's more than just the original recipe. Try all the great snack mixes in the Gardetto's lineup.

This product contains a high percentage of the Institute of Medicine's recommended adequate intake for sodium of 1500 mg a day (IOM 2005). This value is much lower than what the FDA requires be listed on food labels -- 2400 mg. Americans average 3,400 mg of sodium a day.

Our signature mix of crunchy breadsticks, salted pretzels and doubled roasted rye chips, with spicy Italian seasoning. Made for sharing, Gardetto's is the perfect party snack to satisfy hungry guests.

They are both enjoyable mixes, it just depends on the person. Even though I much preferred the initial flavor of the Gardettos, I didn't like how quickly that flavor tapered off compared to the Chex Mix. The Chex is a little more consistent, whereas the Gardettos don't waste any time.

Discontinued varieties include Sour Cream and Onion and Ranch flavored mixes, both of which replaced the rye toast crackers with spiral cut cracker bits.

Gardetto's removed the sesame seed bread sticks from their snack bag and replaced it with an inferior plain bread stick. Let the company know you wish to have them go back to the original recipe before 2013 when they changed it.

You know those dark brown little chips in Gardettos? They're just little spiced pieces of dried rye bread. We made a couple tweaks like using Gardetto's toast pieces in the recipe instead of toasting our own bread.

It was packaged in 10 lb. bulk and sold to local bars and restaurants out of the family station wagon. One year later, John, Sr., added pretzels, rye chips and Chex cereal to the mix and “Gardetto's Deluxe Snak-Ens” was born.

Are Chex Mix and Gardettos the same? ›

(In fact, the garlic rye chips were originally a part of a snack mix from the brand Gardetto's, a Chex Mix competitor now owned by the same company before becoming a stand-alone “special request” product in 2006.)

In 1932, many years before the Gardetto name was synonymous with the snack mix that boasts an “irresistible big, bold taste” and graces store shelves throughout the country, it was the name of a bakery in Milwaukee. In 1938, owners Baptiste and Diane Gardetto moved their Italian bakery to Bay View.

Contains 2% or less of: Yeast, Monosodium Glutamate, Maltodextrin, Dried Worcestershire Sauce (vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, salt, caramel color, garlic powder, sugar, spice, tamarind, natural flavor), Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Fumaric Acid, Spice, Sodium Diacetate, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Caramel ...

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), RYE FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL.

Gardetto's is a brand of snack mix owned by General Mills, which also owns the similar Chex Mix.

This product contains 1 ingredient that is not vegan and 9 ingredients that may not be vegan.