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Win a $25.00 Gift Card to Kroger!

February 25, 2010 By

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the winner, commenter #13, Nikki.

The Box Tops for Education program has raised over $300 million for our kids’ schools. The simple act of clipping the Box Top printed on products like Cheerios, Hamburger Helper, and Kleenex and turning it in to your school earns the school $.10 for each Box Top, and that can really add up fast! Now it’s even easier to earn money for your school through the Bonus Box Tops offer. All you have to do is register at www.RewardYourSchool.com and select the personalized offers that you would like to receive.

Once you register, you will automatically receive 5 Bonus Box Tops just for signing up! You will also receive custom offers for bonus box tops for purchasing participating General Mills products. The offers you select will then load onto your Kroger Shopper Card to be redeemed once you purchase the items. The great part is there’s no clipping! The Bonus Box Tops will automatically go straight to your chosen school. Just remember to scan your card when purchasing the participating items.

Here are the details of the offer:

  • Get 3,4, or 5 Bonus Box Tops when you buy the corresponding amount of participating General Mills Cereals
    • Participating cereals include Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, , Cookie Crisp Sprinkles, Trix, Reese’s Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Golden Grahams, Kix, Fruity Cheerios, Dora the Explorer, Honey Kix, and all varieties of Cascadian Farm
  • Get 3, 4, or 5 Bonus Box Tops when you buy the corresponding amount of participating Yoplait Kid products
    • Participating products include Yoplait Kids Yogurt Drink, Yoplait Go-GURT, Yoplait Kids Lowfat Yogurt, and Yoplait Trix Lowfat Yogurt
  • Get 3, 4, or 5 Bonus Box Tops when you buy the corresponding amount of participating Pillsbury products
    • Participating products include 8 ct. packages of all varieties of Pillsbury Grands! Biscuits, Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls, Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls, Pillsbury Flaky Twists, and Pillsbury Sweet Rolls

WIN IT: The winner of this giveaway will receive a $25 gift card to the Kroger Family of Stores, thanks to General Mills and MyBlogSpark!  For your main entry, leave a comment on this post telling me what you know about the Box Tops for Education program. Enter by Friday, March 5th at 9:00 AM EST. Open to U.S. only.

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Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

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Trix Swirls Giveaway

September 19, 2009 By

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the two winners:

#18 3 Carnations who subscribes and follows on Twitter

#42 Julie who subscribes and follows on Twitter

Enjoy your prizes!

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My three kids go through a LOT of cereal. Besides breakfast, they sometimes have it for an after-school snack, and Kaitlyn sometimes wants a bowl of cereal before bed. I try to stick to cereals made with whole grain, but that doesn’t have to mean a boring bowl of sticks and twigs! General Mills knows that kids love fun, fruity cereal and that parents want nutrition, so their popular kids’ cereals are now made with whole grain which makes me AND my kids happy! One of those cereals is Trix, the one with the “silly rabbit” who just can’t resist the fruity flavors of raspberry red, lemony lemon, orangey orange, wildberry blue, grapity purple and watermelon. As if original Trix wasn’t yummy enough, now there’s Trix Swirls, with pieces that have two flavors swirled together!

Thanks to MyBlogSpark, we got a box of Trix Swirls to review, and between my husband and my three kids, that box lasted less than a day. We also received an amazing art set so we could experiment with swirling colors together just like in the Trix pieces! Ryan’s the artist in our family, and Kaitlyn asked him to paint her something, so he painted her a big cupcake with a cherry on top, and she loved it so much, she asked to have it taped to the wall in her room. I have two Trix Swirls prize baskets to give away, and each will include:

  • A box of Trix Swirls (this might be a coupon for a free box instead)
  • A colorful apron
  • a set of watercolor pencils
  • watercolor paints
  • brushes
  • a sketchbook
  • an art supply box

If you have kids who love to paint and create with color, this is the giveaway for you to enter!

Trix Swirls- Medium

WIN IT: To enter this giveaway, leave a comment telling me how you and your child(ren) think Trix Swirls were created (i.e. Did they run into one another? Dance around? Spin with one another too quickly? etc.), or what are your favorite things you would like to see swirled together? Open to U.S. only, enter by September 26th at 3:00 PM EST.

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  • Subscribe to the RSS feed for MomReviews, links are in the top right corner
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    • Win Trix Swirls Cereal and Art Supplies, 2 Winners! Ends 9/26 Please RT http://bit.ly/245EN7

Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

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General Mills Blog Tour- Grow up Strong with Big G Kids Cereals

February 24, 2009 By

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I’m participating in a blog tour through the Mom Bloggers Club for General Mills, to help promote their Big G line of kids’ cereals. General Mills wants us to spread the word that their 9 Big G Kids’ cereals- Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, Chocolate Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Kix, Golden Grahams, Reese’s Puffs, and yes, even the one I have steadfastly refused to purchase, Cookie Crisp – are a good source of calcium and Vitamin D, nutrients that growing kids need.

I grew up with a diabetic Mom and a diabetic brother. My Mom was absolutely against sugar cereal. She bought plain corn flakes, plain rice krispies, and plain cheerios, and that was IT.  When I started buying cereal for the boys, I had a really hard time buying anything other than those 3 types of cereal. But kids see commercials, and the bright displays at the grocery store, and soon I found myself picking up the packages to see how much damage I’d be doing to their little bodies if I bought anything sweetened. Turns out, not as much as I thought.

A recent report in a leading consumer magazine ranked kid cereals by nutritional content, and all nine General Mills Big G kid cereals included in the report were ranked in the top half. All Big G kid cereals have at least eight grams of whole grain per serving (at least 48 grams are recommended daily), and all have 12 grams or less of sugar per serving. Cereal is low calorie and provides as many as 10 important nutrients, and kids like eating it! When you consider how much sugar is in juice and other types of breakfast foods like toaster pastries, a serving of Big G cereal turns out to be a pretty nutritious choice!

cinnamonFor my personal review, General Mills sent me a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, one that I’ve only purchased a few times. I tasted it straight from the box, and WOW, is it cinnamon-y! But once it’s in a bowl and topped with milk, some of the cinnamon goes into the milk leaving crunchy little squares of cereal, and deliciously drinkable milk. Between the boys and Kaitlyn, one box was gone in 2 days. A 3/4 cup serving of Cinnamon Toast Crunch has 130 calories, 3 grams of fat, 1 gram of fiber, and 15 vitamins and minerals including calcium, iron, and vitamin D. And that’s before adding milk!

For more great information on General Mills’ Big G Kids’ Cereals, visit http://www.growupstrong.com/. There’s a link at the top of the page to print a coupon good for $1.00 off 2 General Mills cereals (only the varieties listed in the coupon though). You’ll also find nutrition info, recipes, and information about the Box Tops for Education program (I’ve been clipping Box Tops from my General Mills products since Ryan was in Kindergarten!).

And next time you’re at the grocery store and the kids are begging for Trix or Cookie Crisp or any of the Big G Kids’ Cereals, take another look at the nutritional info. You’ll be surprised at how much nutrition they provide, and just think how thrilled your kids will be to get a cereal “treat”!

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