Comments on: Of chocolate and Cheerios

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:51:55 +0000

I too have carried forward that childhood obsession with Count Chocula, but like you, I felt guilty eating them now, assuming they were bad for me.

Like you said, when I saw Chocolate Cheerios, and the “healthy” promo on the box, I thought these would be the guilt-free solution to that Count Chocula craving…that is, until I looked at each box closely, and studied their nutrition information side by side. Amazing!!! You should do this!!!

These cereals are virtually identical!!!! The top four or so ingredients are the same, in the same order. The firber, protein, total carb count, and virtually every nutrient catagory is the exact same. I think there is like 2g more sugar in Count Chocula, but again, the total Carbohydrate total is the same.

So….I bought the Count Chocula!!

YUM!!!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:11:36 +0000

my favorite cereal as a child was cookie crisp. One shopping trip my mother said I could get them only if they were more nutritous than her ‘boring mom cereal’. Well, low and behold, the second ingrediant on her cereal was sugar and cookie crisp (at the time) was not. Sugar was somewhere like fourth. So I won and I got cookie crisps and I was so very happy.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:14:54 +0000

I’ve tried these and liked them, but my favorite is Smores cereal. Truthfully, I am not a cereal-eater, but I like these two as well as Reese’s puffs.

By: Sheila (Bookjourney)

Sheila (Bookjourney) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:35:02 +0000

I wasnt impressed either. I ate a handful out of the box and thought they tasted like burnt cheerios. HOWEVER…. my husband (who purchases things like smores pop tarts) is on his second box.

By: Tanja

Tanja — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:30:46 +0000

Lucky Charms! We tried the Chocolate Cheerios, too, and our kids’ response wasn’t enough to encourage me to buy them again. However, if you want chocolately goodness and healthfulness, just get regular Cheerios and sprinkle Nesquik on them. One of my brothers came up with that when we were kids (probably the same one that puts ketchup on noodles when he has no spaghetti sauce!)… we liked it then and my kids love it now.

By: Veggiemomof2

Veggiemomof2 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:49:18 +0000

I love making homemade Chex mix around Christmas. And I LOVE snickerdoodles. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw the Snickerdoodle Chex Mix recipe this year. Well, it had 2 types of chex & popcorn in it, kinda boring. So I experimented w/adding other ingredients. Chocolate Cheerios is one of the things I added that really worked well. I haven’t tried eating them as a bowl of cereal though.

By: Need A Nap2

Need A Nap2 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:32 +0000

My weakness as an adult – Cracklin’ Oat Bran is WONDERFUL! The Quaker Oats Ohs come to a close second and are cheap (about $2.18 at Wal-Mart). I do like apple cinnamon and honey nut Cheerios but not the original, and I had high hopes for the chocolate ones.

As a kid, Cocoa Pebbles, Fruit Loops, and Frosted Flakes were probably my favorite. My husband loved Cocoa Puffs. My kids liked the new mini Chocolate Shredded Wheat.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:21:05 +0000

We didn’t have many cereal choices when I was a kid.- mostly oatmeal,
no instant or flavored. But Mom let us put butter and brown sugar on it. Not too bad. But have you seen??? They have little boxes of Valentine hearts in chocolate. They have them at Target and hopped right into my cart. Love, Mom

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:48:53 +0000

I LOVE healthy cereals!

My favorite that might not be soo healthy is Cracklin’ Oat Bran.

By: wade

wade — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:13:47 +0000

I always liked it when Gram Kocher would buy us Frankenberry. Mom would never buy that particular brand of junk when i was at home.