Last week we featured Lucky Charms and Trix.. this week we are featuring Cinnamon Toast Crunch (one of my favorites!) and Honey Nut Cheerios.. in case you missed last weeks giveaway here is the scoop and your chance to win:
Last year we celebrated with giveaways and this year Mom Fuse will be giving away a Retro Prize Pack each week for a few weeks while we feature some fun facts about our favorite cereals! General Mills was kind enough to provide us with a box of each of the five cereals and a $10 Target Gift Card for the promotion.
While supplies last, Target stores nationwide will carry five limited-edition General Mills Big G cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs and cartoons from the 50s, 60s and 80s. This year, the packaging was chosen based on a national survey conducted by General Mills, which asked consumers to pick their favorite Retro package designs. The top packages chosen include Cheerios® (1956), Trix® (1968), Honey Nut Cheerios® (1984), Cinnamon Toast Crunch® (1984) and Lucky Charms® (1989).
1984- Honey Nut Cheerios & Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Pop Culture:
- #1 Song: “When Doves Cry” – Prince
- The Cosby Show debuts on NBC. The sitcom is widely considered the most popular show of the 1980
- Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America
- Mary Lou Retton wins two gold, two silver and two bronze Olympic medals
Politics/News:
- The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage
- Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon’s 61% victory in 1972.
- Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia
Popular Fads/Products etc:
- The Apple Macintosh is introduced
- The Band Aid single is released
- Stonewashed jeans are introduced
The package promotion on each of the cereal boxes features Retro cartoons. For more “Retro” fun, you can go to www.grocerysavvy.com and view some cartoons from the past, while enjoying a fun morning with family and friends over breakfast.
The Giveaway
This giveaway has ended.
Winners:
This week 2 winners will be chosen and each will receive 1 package of each of the five limited edition boxes of General Mills Big G cereals and a $10 Target Gift Card
To Enter:
Visit Grocery Savvy, view some of the classics and leave a comment below telling us why you want to win.
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I want to win because it would be great to see these packs of my favorite cereals again. They would bring back beautiful memories. garrettsambo@aol.com
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Thanks for the giveaway…as a kid, early Saturday mornings were always Cartoons & Cheerios time; some weekends it still is !
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I would love to win because I love General Mills Big G cereals!
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Trix is one of my favs. I want to win this because it brings back old memories
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I want to win because I remember these from when I was a kid.
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It reminds me of being a kid, and times were good then.
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I want to win because I remember eating lucky charms sometimes as a kid. It was the only sugar cereal my mom would occasionally buy and I love cheerios and honey nut cheerios!
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I want to win because I love all these cereals, and I love shopping at Target.
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I would like to win to show my kids what my cereal boxes looked like
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I am reliving the Lucky Charms leprechaun telling me that they are magically delicious!
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch looks so cute! I remember that box. I’d love to win because the entire family agrees on General Mills cereals.
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I would love to win because these are some of my favorite cereals!
I would love to win because these are all great cereals!!
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I’d love to win because I have two small boys who love these cereals!
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We love General Mills cereal and retro packs bring back all the sweet childhood memories.
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I’d like to win to get 5 boxes of cereal… should feed my teen aged kid for a few days!
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I want to win because we eat cereal almost every day. I would love a gift card to Target.
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My husband eats cereal every day, and this and the gift card would help us save – the retro packaging is neat too!
I want to win because we go through a lot of cereal in our house and with the rising cost of groceries I can use any help I can get to keep my budget in line.
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I want to win because I like saving on groceries, a lot! Getting free cereal and a gift card would be very welcome here.
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Love the cereals esp. Honey Nut Cheerios, plus the limited edition packaging is like a blast from the past .. . and of course the the gift card will be helpful too! Thanks 🙂
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I want to win because it is so fun to see these boxes and some remind me of when I was younger.
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Our go-to cereal is Honey Nut Cheerios. It is always well received by everyone in the family … and I can’t say that about any other cereal. I would love to win the retro boxes. Wonder how many will be familiar
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It would be fun to see the retro boxes as well as eat the tasty cereal inside the box.
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I’d love to win…I’ve always loved GM cereals. I loved the “Honey of an “O” commercials for Honey Nut Cheerios!
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I’d love to win because my kids (and hubby) eat so much cereal and all these GM cereals are their favorites, especially the Lucky Charms & Trix.
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The Dennis the Menace cartoons are cute. I’d like to win because my kids love cereal!
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I want to win so I can say that I won something… That it might be a selection of my favorite cereals only sweetens the deal.
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I love Honey Nut Cheerios and my kids enjoy Lucky Charms.
I want to win since I love General Mills cereals, i.e., honey nut cheerios and trix!
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I would love to win beccause we LOVE cereal in our house! And some of there are our favorites!!
I would like to win because my 3 boys and I love all the cereals and I wouldn’t have to fight over whos fave I’m buying this week.
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My kids go through cereal like you wouldn’t believe. I would like to win to give my wallet a break!!
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