General Mills Day 5 – Trix
Trix are for kids! Who hasn’t heard that slogan and smiled at the thought of it. The Trix Rabbit is a cultural icon to those of us growing up in the 70′s. He represented fun, excitement, and he fronted a cereal that came in fun colors that made fabulous rainbow colored milk! Were they nutritionally sound? We didn’t care, they were delicious.
When I became a mom, I introduced my kids to all the yummy Saturday morning cereals I’d enjoyed as a kid. I loved collecting points and sending away for toys for them – our favorite a set of beanie toys just after the Beanie Baby craze of all of the breakfast cereal mascots. I think we still have them in a box in the closets somewhere.
I’ve enjoyed reliving my teen years as well as my kids’ childhood through this General Mills promotion. Special thanks to them for allowing me to participate.
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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 5! This is also your last chance to enter for the GRAND PRIZE of an Atari Flashback 2 Plug and Play!
The Atari Flashback 2.0 delivers the classic gaming sights, sounds and action that introduced so many people to the world of video games. It features the same wood grain paneling and look of the Atari 2600, and will capture the feel through two classic joysticks for multi-player competition and vintage controls. The system comes pre-loaded with over 30 classic games. No new purchases are required, just connect it to your TV and play! The system that brought you hits like Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Millipede, Missile Command, Combat and Pong now has them all collected on one handy system. Experience the start of the gaming revolution!
Comment below with your favorite childhood Saturday morning memory.
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 03/02/10 BECAUSE OF A SERVER OUTAGE, THE CONTEST HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 3/8/10 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.
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My favorite childhood Saturday morning memory is watching cartoons.
Watching Sat morning cartoons!!
My favorite Saturday morning memories were watching cartoons such as Fat Albert.
Big family breakfasts together.
i loved watching cartoons!!! 2 stupiddogs….smurfs….captain planet!!!
watching Scooby Doo
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I used to love to watch the cartoons – especially Laff Olympics!
i remember having to get up really early because the best cartoons started at 7
I remember making pancakes and watching old rocky and bullwinkle cartoons at my grandma’s house. She always had extra brown sugar for topping off the pancakes.
I loved waking up on Saturday with my bowl of ceral and watching the smurfs!
watching Looney Tune cartoons.
Getting to stay home, wrapped up in a blankie, watching Saturday morning cartoons…that was the best!
sign me up, please
I remember watching cartoons early on a Saturday morning in late winter, when the sun was streaming into our living room heating the floor so that you could lay on the carpet and feel warm.
My favorite Saturday morning memory would have to be waking up early with my sister, running over to our best friend’s house down the street, still in PJs, and watching our favorite Saturday morning cartoons (especially Muppet Babies and Inspector Gadget) while we ate French toast, cereal, bacon and eggs, and whatever her mom would bring out to us. Nostalgia :)
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My favorite memory from childhood in the morning is watching cartoons and eating cereal right in front of the TV :-)
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A favorite memory is watching Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo (boy am I old!) while eating my favorite cereal.
My fondest Saturday morning memory was actually when I had the chicken pox and I had to stay home for the last half of the week and the entire weekend. I was treated like a king :D and had everything I needed and wanted brought to me pretty much on demand. Ah, the Napolean inside me was howling with joy :D
When I was a kid, my sisters and I got up early and watched cartoons all morning. Then, we went outside and played until it got dark…boy, those were the days.
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would like to win this
watching thunder, thunder, thundercats hooo.
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My fave childhood Saturday morning memory is getting up early so I could watch cartoons for hours…The Smurfs, The Snorks, Care Bears and my fave, Dungeons & Dragons!
I had cereal for breakfast, then watched the saturday morning cartoons.
My favorite memory of Saturday mornings was watching Roy Rogers on tv. Thanks!
I always watched cartoons on Saturday mornings, but my favorite Saturday morning memories are when there was a cartoon called the Snorks. They were kind of like the smurfs, but they were cute underwater creatures. i just really liked that show, but it wasn’t very long-lasting.
Waking up before my parents, eating bowl after bowl of Trix, whist watching a morning full of cartoons!
I say there was never anything better than sitting in front of the tv on Saturday mornings and eating Trix, and watching cartoons. Now my grandson is starting to do that!
Back when Carnation Breakfast Bars were good (in the mid-80s), I would get up before anyone else on Saturday, get a Breakfast Bar (sometimes 2 if I thought I could get away with it), sit on the floor by the TV, pull up my Raggedy Ann & Andy stool to use as a table, and watch cartoons until the ‘rents got up. I was so proud that I could “make” my own breakfast!
i love atari!
My favorite was getting up on Sat. morn and my dad would make breakfast and sitting down and watching popeye and olive oyl. OMG I am old !!
The Saturday morning cartoons were the best. I particularly loved “The Banana Splits Hour”. Those were the days when even words like cr__ and s__ks were considered swearing and never uttered on television. I don’t allow my children to even use these words! :)
Getting up really early and watching the Loony Toons 1/2 hour show that came on at 6:00 in the morning (or 5:30).
watching cartoons while eating cereal in the family room.
Waking up at 6 am to watch Scoooby Doo…..
Saturday morning cartoons!!!!!
My saturday morning consisted of sitting in front of the tv for saturday morning cartoons :)
My brothers and I would devoure a box of cereal and a gallon of milk while watching cartoons from 7AM to 11AM. Then going outside to play.
Same as a lot of the others. Sat. cartoons and a good bowl of cereal in front of the TV!!
My favorite memory is everyone slowly waking up at my dads house and coming downstairs to watch One Saturday Morning cartoons. I usually fell back asleep! :)
When I was a kid, Saturday mornings were making myself a bowl of cereal and sitting on the floor right in front of the tv, watching my favorite cartoons, like ‘The Flintstones’, ‘The Jetsons’, and Looney Tunes cartoons!
Cereal & toast with Kukla Fran and Ollie
Getting up at 6am and watching hours of cartoons.
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My favorite Saturday morning memories are of watching the cartoons with my 4 sisters. Scooby Doo was one of them. I won’t name the others (or you would realize how old I really am!).