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From time to time, I'm contacted to test and review products. I do this not to make money, or to make a name for myself, but simply because I enjoy trying new things.
Recently, I was asked if I'd be interested in Fruity Cheerios.
I said yes, and the box arrived the next day.
Now, I'm already a fan of Cheerios. Unfotunately, I'm in the minority in our family. Alex, who's at least willing to taste just about anything even if he won't continue eating it, refuses to eat Cheerios. Matt thinks they taste like sawdust. Huh.
Me, I like them. I've always liked them. Which is odd, considering the very tight reign my mom held over our breakfast-eating habits as kids. Our cereal cabinet held Cheerios, and Kix, and Wheaties and Total and Grapenuts on a regular basis. It was a treat if we got Rice Chex!
No sugar cereals, ever. (Of course, once I was out of the house, all the rules seemed to bend or break, and my little sisters were eating sugar-coated everything.)
Despite the more obvious urge to rebel, I do in fact enjoy 'good for you' cereals. I always keep an enormous box of Cheerios in the house, and have it most mornings.
We don't really feed Alex the sugary stuff, either, although with all the cereal choices out there today, it's easier to find healthy and naturally sweetened options than when I was a kid.
So, when the box came, Alex & I gave Fruity Cheerios the oh-so important snack test.
Flaked cereal rarely competes in this test. Flakes just aren't much fun for snacking.
But the Fruity Cheerios? Oh, they did just fine.
I was really impressed at how good it tastes. Seriously. My tolerance for sweetened food is in a constant state of depreciation. I worried it would be sugar-overload.
But no! This stuff is good. Fruity, genuinely fruity, from, you know...fruit juice. Not overly sweet, but enough to snag the interest of a four year old.
We snacked on a couple of handfuls that night, then had it in milk the next morning. Again, the Fruity Cheerios were good. Didn't get too soggy, the colors didn't bleed out too much, and still a really good flavor.
I liked them, sure. But more importantly, Alex liked them. Even Matt agreed they were pretty tasty, and would eat them for breakfast.
That's high praise, indeed.
Blog Party#22 is here, and this month, we're taking on the Wild, Wild West!
Turn your favorite Western dishes into appetizers, and cocktails/mocktails, and join the party.
Entries are due Thursday, 17 May; you can leave a comment here, or email your links to thehappysorceress at gmail dot com. Hope to see you there!
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Cooking
Product Review: Fruity Cheerios
From time to time, I'm contacted to test and review products. I do this not to make money, or to make a name for myself, but simply because I enjoy trying new things.
Recently, I was asked if I'd be interested in Fruity Cheerios.
I said yes, and the box arrived the next day.
Now, I'm already a fan of Cheerios. Unfotunately, I'm in the minority in our family. Alex, who's at least willing to taste just about anything even if he won't continue eating it, refuses to eat Cheerios. Matt thinks they taste like sawdust. Huh.
Me, I like them. I've always liked them. Which is odd, considering the very tight reign my mom held over our breakfast-eating habits as kids. Our cereal cabinet held Cheerios, and Kix, and Wheaties and Total and Grapenuts on a regular basis. It was a treat if we got Rice Chex!
No sugar cereals, ever. (Of course, once I was out of the house, all the rules seemed to bend or break, and my little sisters were eating sugar-coated everything.)
Despite the more obvious urge to rebel, I do in fact enjoy 'good for you' cereals. I always keep an enormous box of Cheerios in the house, and have it most mornings.
We don't really feed Alex the sugary stuff, either, although with all the cereal choices out there today, it's easier to find healthy and naturally sweetened options than when I was a kid.
So, when the box came, Alex & I gave Fruity Cheerios the oh-so important snack test.
Flaked cereal rarely competes in this test. Flakes just aren't much fun for snacking.
But the Fruity Cheerios? Oh, they did just fine.
I was really impressed at how good it tastes. Seriously. My tolerance for sweetened food is in a constant state of depreciation. I worried it would be sugar-overload.
But no! This stuff is good. Fruity, genuinely fruity, from, you know...fruit juice. Not overly sweet, but enough to snag the interest of a four year old.
We snacked on a couple of handfuls that night, then had it in milk the next morning. Again, the Fruity Cheerios were good. Didn't get too soggy, the colors didn't bleed out too much, and still a really good flavor.
I liked them, sure. But more importantly, Alex liked them. Even Matt agreed they were pretty tasty, and would eat them for breakfast.
That's high praise, indeed.
Blog Party#22 is here, and this month, we're taking on the Wild, Wild West!
Turn your favorite Western dishes into appetizers, and cocktails/mocktails, and join the party.
Entries are due Thursday, 17 May; you can leave a comment here, or email your links to thehappysorceress at gmail dot com. Hope to see you there!
Tagged with: Food and Drink + Breakfast + Cereal + Cheerios + Review
- Meet Tucker Shaw
Tucker Shaw is author of Everything I Ate A year in the life of my mouth. The book is a visual study of "everything he ate" that includes notes cataloging what he ate and with whom, all in blog-like, chronological order. (see the book review in the last...
- Hazelnut-rapberry Torte
This is how the cake looked when I waved goodbye to it. If it still resembled the picture by the time it reached it's destination, I've yet to learn. Because both my Saturday & Sunday were kind of busy, and as Tuesdays are regular dinner-with-the-in-laws...
- Cake For Mommy
I hope your Mother's day (where applicable!) was as good as mine. I was treated to breakfast in bed, wonderful gifts (CSI fingerprinting kit!), and dinner at our favorite sushi restaurant. This was followed by a slice of Dairy Queen ice cream 'cake'....
- Rained Out
Saturday, we had plans to take in our first drive-in movie of the season, Spiderman 3. We were to leave around five-thirty, wait in line for the gates to open at seven (the best way to get a good 'seat'), then set up our chairs around the car...
- We Have Cake!
It's all over. While again, not perfect, I think the small changes I made to the cake were improvements. So what am I doing today? Baking a cake. Of course. Blog Party#22 is here, and this month, we're taking on the Wild, Wild West! Turn...