Mail Box Tuesday/ GIVEAWAY/CLOSED: General Mills Cereal- Now Better for You!

I LOVE getting FREE stuff in the mail- it's like hitting a lottery when you open the envelope/box isn't it?

Well, this past week General Mills provided me with a gift pack of 4 free cereals through MyBlogSpark, to showcase, and introduce me to, their new commitment to reduce sugar in their cereals.

General Mills wants to help your family come together at the breakfast table every morning in a more healthy way, so they have further reduced the amount of sugar in cereals, that are advertised to kids under 12, to single digit grams of sugar per serving. These cereals include Trix, Apple-Cinammon Cheerios, Lucky Charms (regular and chocolate), FrankenBerry, BooBerry, Cocoa Puffs, Reese Puffs, Cookie Crisp, and Frosted Cheerios. The company has already been reducing sugar in cereals while increasing key nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin D, and providing whole grain.
 
Did you know that ready-to-eat cereal eaters consume less fat, less cholesterol and more fiber than non-cereal eaters? Cereals also deliver important vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients, making cereal a top source of key nutrients in children´s diets.

Other cereal benefits:

• Ready-to-eat cereals, including pre-sweetened cereals, account for only 5% of sugar in children´s diets.
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• Ready-to-eat cereal is the No. 1 source of whole grains in a child´s diet today.
• More frequent cereal eaters tend to have healthier body weights and lower Body Mass Index measures.

(Sorta makes you rethink YOUR breakfast choices, doesn't it!)

A 1998 study showed that children who eat breakfast tend to perform better at school. Compared to children who skip breakfast, children who eat breakfast score higher on tests, are less likely to miss class or be tardy, have fewer reported discipline problems, and make fewer trips to the office.

For more information about kids and cereals, please visit Cereal Health and Wellness.

We are fans of Honey Nut Cheerios and Chex in our house, and one of the reasons my daughter hasn't been allowed any of the 'kids' cereals, is because of the sugar content, so I was curious as to how the reduced sugar cereals would taste! I can happily report that the reduced sugar has only made them taste BETTER- I always thought they were too sweet, and now you have more apple flavor to them!

Right now, if you visit here you will find a $1 off coupon for one of four General Mills cereals.
And as we're floating in cereal, I am going to give two of my followers, one each of the coupons I received, for a free box of cereal! That's right you win, you get free cereal!

In order to win, you have to help spread the word!

Entries:

Open to anyone in US

1. Blog About this Giveaway (3 entries)
2. Tweet daily about this contest and General Mills Commitment (2 entries per day)
3. If you are ALREADY a follower, note so (2 entries)
4. If you are ALREADY a subscriber, note so (2 entries)
5. If you are already a follower on Twitter, leave me your Twitter name you follow me under
    (2 entries)
6. If you ALREADY follow on RSS reader, note so (2 entries)
7. Want to be a new subscriber or follower? Sign up! (1 entry for EACH)
8. Want to follow on RSS reader? Leave me the title of the Cookbook I am currently giving away
     (1 entry)

See, easy easy easy! So get typing and entering!


Contest ends January 6th at midnight. Winners will be picked on January 7th via random.org, and emailed. TWO days to let me know your address, or new winner(s) WILL be picked! Coupon will be sent as soon as address info is received!

Coupons and information, including graphics, were supplied to me, FREE of charge, by MyBlogspark and General Mills, in the hopes that I would spread the word about their new program. I did not receive any other compensation, nor was I told how to review the cereal!