Big G Kid Cereals and Giveaway
February 25, 2009 by Laurie
Filed under Contests, Product Reviews
Being a first time parent, I am almost always concerned about my two little guys and their health. From a very early age, I have tried to influence healthy food choices and make sure that they are getting a fairly balanced diet. If I buy something at the grocery store, I am always reading the labels, to see what they are getting in their food. We are a cereal loving family here, because it is something that is simple to make and the kids just love it. It is a perfect snack too in the afternoon after naps, and it doesn’t have to be served with milk. My two love to have their own bowl, their cup of juice, and watch one of their favorite shows.
Recently the importance of Vitamin D in the diet has been in the news, and the importance of calcium is so important in bone growth and development. Vitamin D is also important in bone growth and is now suggested to be a key factor in healthy lung function. Approximately 75% of kids today don’t even get the required amount of Calcium and Vitamin D in their diets, and that is an astounding figure! The American Academy of Pediatrics has even upped the amount of Vitamin D your child should be getting to 400IU.
The good news is, that it isn’t that hard to incorporate these nutrients in your child’s diet. Parents can easily get both vitamin D and Calcium in milk and many juices and now in fortified cereals. All General Mills Big G kid cereals including Kix, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and more.
This is great news for our family because we are huge Lucky Charms, and Cocoa Puffs fans. The boys think they have gone to heaven when I give them these cereals in their snack bowls! Additionally, 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. This is awesome, and you can feel good about giving them something they love and not worry about them getting a ton of sugar.
Cereal is one of the most nutritious breakfast options a kid can eat. Most cereals have about 100 – 130 calories per serving and provide at least 10 key nutrients. And, ready-to-eat cereal is the number one source of whole grain in American diets. If there is one food that your child would eat than at least you know that it has nutritional value.
This Giveaway Is Now Closed
As part of a healthy diet and the love of Big G cereal (especially Cocoa Puffs), DoubleBugs is giving away these totally adorable and way cool Cocoa Puffs vintage ringer Ts (child’s sz large) to 9 lucky winners.
Here’s all you gotta do!
- Leave me a comment on what your child’s favorite Big G cereal is, and yours too.
- Please leave me an email so I can contact you if you win
- Winners are chosen at random via Random.org.
- If Winner Does Not Respond Within 2 Days the prize is forfeited and donated!
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Contest Starts February 25, 2009 and Ends March 11, 2009
Good Luck!
I have four boys who would be fighting over this one! Thanks for the giveaway!
My kids favorite would be Trix and my favorite is Lucky Charms. Thanks.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch tastes pretty good. Thanks.
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My favorite is Golden Grahams. Thank you.
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Gracie and I like Cinnamon toast Crunch. Thanks!
My kid’s fave is trix =)
My child’s favorite big G cereal is Cheerios!
My children’s favorite cereal is Lucky Charms and mine is Golden Grahams.
I’m following you on twitter as crackersmacker. Thanks for the chance!
Lucky Charms
My kids favorite is Lucky Charms!
We enjoy most cereals in our house— coco puffs are one of the current favorites.
Our favorite is Honey Nut Cheerios.
Lucky Charms all the way, baby !!
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My son would love this!
Thanks for this giveaway. My oldest son loves Lucky Charms and our little guy loves Cherrios. Thanks so much.
Gotta say TRIX, because TRIX is for kids.
My kids would love this.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch…mmmmm…
We all love Cocoa Puffs! It is just so tasty! Thank you so much!
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trix wins here you know trix is for kids
My daughter is a fan of anything with Chocolate so Cocoa puffs is right up her alley, chocolate cereal and chocolate milk when she’s done. The whole fam loves Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I would actually rather eat this than a cinnamon roll. It is GREAT! Very cool t-shirt.
God we ate crap but is is a sweet tee!
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I once had a Honeycomb tshirt. This brings back good memories.
THe favorite around here is Lucky Charms.
We enjoy all the Big G cereals at our house but if we have to choose a favorite it’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Thank you for the contest.
This would be great for one of my grandchildren.
What a neat t-shirt. Brings back memories. Thanks.
Lucky Charms!
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My daughter loves Golden Grahams!!
Mine is Lucky Charms. Thanks for the giveaway!
Favourite cereal would be Lucky Charms! (I love it too)
Thanks
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My daughter’s favorite is Berry Burst Cheerios and my favorite are original Cheerios!
Definitely Lucky Charms!
My favorite is Cookie Crisp.
It’s a toss-up between Trix and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but I’m going to go with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. That’s the one cereal the entire family loves and the one the boys ask for the most.
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my 3 yr old granson just saw a coco puffs commercial last night and looked in the kitchen and cried , grammas getting him some today
cocoa puffs or lucky charms… one or the other is always here… and they always wanted the other… lol
COOKIE CRISP
My kids love love LOVE Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Thanks for the contest!
we both like cheerios!
My kids like Fruit Loops and I like Lucky Charms
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I am cuckoo for cocoa puffs
Cocoa puffs are my favorite! Always have been!!
Thanks for the chance!!
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Cocoa Puffs is my favorite
Cinnamon toast Crunch for us
Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Trix.
All the boys in the house are crazy for Cocoa Puffs, I like Total
My littleone loves lucky charms! Thank you!
Lucky Charms!
My child’s favorite big G cereal is Cheerios!
I would have to give his as a birthday present or the fights would be cuckoo.
kids like cinnimon toast crunch. I eat Cheerios.
Lucky Charms is a favorite around here!
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Lucky Charms
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Mmmm – Captain Crunch Peanut Butter is the best!
their fave is lucky charms.
We all love Lucky Charms. Thanks for the chance.
Kix for us!
Thanks
I love Lucky Charms. Alas, with a food dye allergy in the house, I don’t get to enjoy it much anymore. It’s a good thing we all love Cocoa Puffs!
Cherrios and Honey Nut Cherrios
Love Lucky Charms.
My kids fave hands down is Cookie Crisp mine would be Lucky Charms shhh don’t tell anyone I still eat them!
My fav is Cocoa Puffs and my kids too.
My son loves cookie crisp and my down fall is peanutbutter captain crunch.
my favorite is Lucky Charms
My hubby and I like Basic 4. The kids like Trix & Lucky Charms.
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No child here, but Cocoa Puffs is my favorite!! Anything that makes chocolate milk as you eat it is awesome in my book! My hubby would vote for Lucky Charms.
My son loves Lucky Charms, I love Kix (and the new Honey Kix)Thanks for the giveaway!
Coco Puffs definitley.
Our favorite general mills cereal is Lucky Charms!
Her favorite is the Chocolate Lucky Charms! She’d love this tee! Thanks
Lucky Charms
I like Golden Grahams.
Theirs would be Lucky Charms…mine would be Coookie Crunch or Golden Grahams.. but have always loved the bird.
My kids love Lucky Charms. They want to eat only the marshmallows and not the cereal. 🙂
My favorite is Lucky Charms Mmmmmm I collect all the charms first and eat them I eat the rest.
grandkids have to have Golden Grahams
We all like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
I love cocoa puffs but my hubby and kids love Lucky Charms! Thanks!
We love cocoa puffs.
I would love the chance to win, thanks.
I’d say it would have to be a toss up between Lucky Charms and Golden Grahams.
We love Honey Nut Cheerios! Thanks for the chance, justicecw@hotmail.com
My kids love Lucky Charms and I’m into Cocoa Puffs!!!
My son love Coco puffs, but I am a huge Golden Graham lover.
My son has always liked Golden Grahams the best.
Lucky Charms! Especially if you pick out all the marshmallows in the box and put them in ONE bowl!
My kids love Lucky Charms and I like Cocoa Puffs best!
lucky charms are the best!
My family’s favorite is Lucky Charms. Thanks.
We all love Lucky Charms.
Honey Nut Cheerios for the kids and regular Cheerios for me.
My children love Cheerios and Lucky Charms and I have to admit that I love them too!
My kid’s favorite has always been Lucky Charms. I’m a fan of Cheerios myself. Thanks for the giveaway.
My daughter and I love Golden Grahams, but the boys like Cocoa Puffs. Thanks for the chance to win!
i prfer cocoa puffs
My children love Trix but Cinnamon Toast Crunch has always been my favorite. Super cute tee!
Thanks!
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My kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch!
My older kids LOVE Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Adults (and baby) love Cheerios
My big kid loves Cookie Crisp and Golden Grahams. Sounds so good, that may be tonight’s dinner. 😉
Our whole family loves cheerios!!!!
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Lucky Charms are #1!
I’m following you on Twitter. (My username is @ThriftyJinxy)
I have always been a Cocoa Puffs gal!
I’m not a cereal eater, but my niece loves Kix 🙂
Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my family’s favorite.
We all love Cheerios!
It would have to be Cookie Crisp.d
We are huge Lucky Charm fans in my house. When I was a kid I would eat all the marshmallows out of the box. My siblings were never too happy when they would go to pour a bowl and no marshmallows would come out 🙂
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Cocoa Puffs is my sons favorite
Our little Bentley LOVES his Cheerios! (I’m more a Lucky Charms addict)
My fave is Cocoa Puffs, one son loves Kix, and the other loves Trix.
Cheerios are big in our house.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Trix will always be our favorite! Thanks!
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Cocoa Puffs are our favorite.
Coco Puffs are the pick here.
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‘Honey-Nut Cheerios’ rules in my household! It’s everyone’s favorite cereal (and snackfood); including mine! Thanks for the ‘great’ giveaway offering and good luck to all!
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My kids like Trix, I love Cinamin Toast Crunch. Thanks for the giveaway!
Honey-Nut Cheerios is the cereal that makes the breakfast special. Everyone will eat this so I can safely buy this without fall out from anyone. The shirt is so me.
~We love TRIX~
Its all about the Cocoa Puffs in my house – my son thinks of it as 2-for-1. He was a bowl with a built-in straw and so he gets the cereal AND chocolate milk when he is done! lol
Our favorite Big G cereal is Lucky Charms.
My kids fave Big G cereal is definitely Cocoa Puffs, they’re coo coo for them lol!
My godson loves fruitloops and when I crave something sweet I do go for cocoa puffs!!
My kids like Lucky Charms and I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Our whole family loves cheerios , but Cocoa Puffs are a yummy snack.
Cheerios and cocoa puffs 🙂
My daughter’s favorite cereal is Lucky Charms and mine is Cheerios!
Trix and Lucky Charms.
My favorite was trix and we use to feed it to our rabbits.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
We love Lucky Charms!
It’s a tie in my house!
We go through boxes & boxes of Cocca Puff & Lucky Charms each month!
I must spen over $40 a month on cereal alone!
We all love cheerios.
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I put your button on my blog.
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