I grew up on buttered toast covered in cinnamon and sugar. Actually, first it was bacon grease, reheated from a coffee can on the stove where all bacon grease was kept back then, and sugar on toast. DISGUSTING! I still love the taste of cinnamon, sugar, and dough but my tastes now run to cinnamon rolls instead of the disgusting sugar covered toasts of my past.
My kids preferred Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I’ve eaten it without milk as a snack – it’s pretty yummy – but the boys prefer it drenched in milk.
ENTER TO WIN! Winner Chosen
General Mills has provided me with 6 prize packages to share with you! Five different retro box prize packs and one grand prize, an Atari Game Console! Today is day 3! Visit every day for a chance to win additional prize packages and then we’ll choose one comment from all five days to receive the Atari prize package!
Comment below your favorite cereal box prize – either current or from your past.
Regular contest rules apply. Open to US residents only. Your information will be provided to General Mills and they will send you the prize pack directly. Contest ends 02/25/10 at 11:59 PM PST.
Disclosure: I received 5 boxes of cereal, a retro t-shirt, and $10 Target Gift Card. I am not expected to return them. Opinions are my own.
Winning Entry: DAVE
Our favorite cereal is Cookie Crisp!
I like the yoyos with the cereal name logo on it.
I’m an antique so I don’t remember what brand of cereal it was in. LOl
My favorite one was a Batman figure.
Somehow the only prize I can remember was a Bobby Sherman record made out of paper. Terrible idea. I think I tore it trying to get it off the box. My brother and every other boy was into baseball cards.
My favorite prize was glow in the dark spoon with the Sugar Smack frog on it.I had to use that spoon every time I had cereal for breakfast
My favorite cereal is honey nut cheerios!
Cheerios
My favorite prize was a Trix button that said the rabbit could also eat Trix and they weren’t just for kids!
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My favorite were those little cars that you’d pull back and they’d take off.
I remember getting ET decals and stickers in a box of cereal as a kid, and I was giddy with excitement — those were the days!
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My favorite cereal box prize was a pair of blue shoelaces I got when I was little back in the 1970′s. I was so excited to get them and replace my old shoelaces for my cool new ones.
I loved the California raisins figurines. Thanks for the chance.
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Lucky keychain from a box of lucky charms.
Mine was this stretchy rubber thing that was all sticky. You throw it at the wall and it “walks” back down. I lost behind the fridge at my great aunts. To this day that thing is probably still back there. lol
My favorite cereal prize was a spy-decoder ring.
I like the retro one with the smiley faced toast and the crayon type print. Thanks.
My favorite cereal toy used to be little cars.
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They didnt have prizes in cereal in my day
And I guess I just don’t eat cereal that has prizes these days .
Thanks for the giveaway!
I loved the spoon that changed colors when it got cold!
IDK why, I knew the milk was cold, I didn’t need the spoon to change colors to prove it! haha Oh to be a kid again…
Thanks!!
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I think I subscibed but I’m not sure.
I did a plumbing job for a family recently and the 5 year old son was eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It brought back memories and told him I was going to buy me a box and eat some myself, and I did. I love cinnamon.
Wow it was so long ago I don’t remember too well but I vaguely remember temporary tattoos and decals and plastic rings. Wow if you can survive bacon greese on toast, you can survive anything!
about 6 months back i won a $25 gift card that was awesome thank god i found it and not my hubby or kids..lol i never would have known
I remember a cool submarine kind of thing that you put baking soda in to make it dive. That was the best prize!
My favorite prize was a spoon that changed colors when you ate your cereal.
I love Cocoa Puffs.
I got a LightSabre spoon in my corn flakes.
Best Day Ever.
I got a whistle one time and absolutely loved it lol Thanks for the great giveaway!
I actually got a “real” prize once – a token telling me I had won a manual 35 mm camera. It took really good pictures.
Honeycomb license plates!
It had to be my fake ruby ring. i wore it til my finger turned green.
I always liked figurines or rings in my cereal box….I would nag my mother to buy the cereal with the prize I wanted….what a kind and patient woman.
Thank you.
I loved when General Mills gave out the mini-Pez in cereal boxes! I collect Pez and still have them.
My fave cereal box prize was a DVD with The Mario Bros. cartoon!
honey nut cheerios mverno@roadrunner.com
Thank you for the giveaway. My favorite cereal prizes were the little magic pieces that came in some boxes.
i got a toy scuba diver once
Honey Nut Cheerios for me!
Lucky charm bracelet.
I like Raisin Brand and years ago Nabisco had “nature” cards in each box I thought were neat.
I got a bendable horse, you can move all 4 of his legs. I still have him and he hangs out on my planter.
I got a color changing spoon.
I got a superball from Applejacks
I got a batman figure from cheerios.
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I got tattoos once that I thoughht were really cool.
I love Life cereal, always have!
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I don’t recall what cereal, but the prize was a miniature plastic yellow submarine. When you filled the interior compartment with baking powder, the submarine would submerge, then rise to the top release an air bubble and submerge again. I remember putting the sub in our fish tank and watching it rise and fall over and over. I’m sure it freaked the fish out, but I thought it was the coolest toy ever. Ah… innocent childhood memories. Thank you for the fun give-away.
best one I ever got was a movie ticket!
I think I saw the land before time with it.
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I like the old school lucky charms box
Wacky Wall Crawlers!!!!1
I cant remember any toys I got.My brothers always got to them first.
Yum, Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Yikes, I can’t remeber any in paticular. I am bad!
My boy’s have a sheriff Woody that came out of a cereal box years ago. They still love it.
My son has a little Pluto keychain that came in a box of ceral once…I think Honey Nut Cheerios…he loves that thing!
Trix spoons!
I love the Trix plastic spoon that changes colors in cold milk!
I got a flying superman out of a cereal box that I had tons of fun with til it broke.
I loved collecting and playing with the Hot Wheels. I had three brothers and we would spend all day making tracks and racing.
Long time ago, I know, I got a cardboard record that really played.
My poor kids, I buy the wrong size boxes so they never get any of the cool toys. I’m too old to remember any of the toys.
I remember erasers from a cereal called Freakies. They were pretty cool.
Remember the color changing spoons from Trix? I loved those and I think Mom still has one or two from when we were little.
I loved the glow in the dark spoon.
I used to love a plastic cereal bowl I got as a prize!
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I love Lucky Charms
I love Kix as a child & still do!!!
the hot wheels with the characters they had on them were my favorites
I won a miniature magnifying glass and remember it well.
The old Cinnamon Toast Crunch box is my favorite! It’s just so cute and friendly.
I like the free money they were giving away last year. I can’t remember any prizes from when I was a kid
I remember getting little Mickey and Minnie mouse stuffed animals when I was a kid, I think it was in the Golden Grahams boxes, I collected those things like crazy!
Thanks!
I loved Hot Wheels. We would take chalk and make roads in the garage and spend all day driving around town.
My favorite was the spoons, they always made eating the cereal fun.
CHEERIOS WAS OUR FAVORITE
Loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch
I always like the fake tatto
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my favorite was monster plastic race cars
The Cap’n Crunch Whistle! I had about twelve of those and I thought I was just the bees’ knees.
I won a miniature magnifying glass and remember it well.
A paint set from Frankenberry with paints on a piece of cardboard and 3 pictures to paint….Frankenberry, Booberry and Count Chocula
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Anything from Cap’n Crunch!
My favorite ceral box prize was an ear of corn toy. It had rubber suction on the bottom of the ear of corn. It had a string that when pulled, the toy would walk. I use to have it walk up the wall when I was a child!
a mini fake xbox
The plastic spoons from Trix cereal.
Oh my gosh I haven’t thought of the banana splitz show in years that was my favorite!! My favorite box would be the lucky charms—it was a rare treat that I got to have lucky charms—I still love the marshmallows!!!
I remember getting the elephant from the Banana Splitz show. Then I joined the fan club.