Disclosure: The prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

As an active member of MyBlogSpark, I periodically get invited to various campaigns to try out healthy foods. In addition to trying out said foods in my home, I also get to host a giveaway and offer one reader the chance to also try those foods.

This time, MyBlogSpark and General Mills provided me with five boxes of cereal!

For a while now, General Mills has been promoting more whole grains in their cereal.

To be quite honest… I don’t eat a great deal of cereal, and when I do, I usually make it myself (recipe coming soon!). However, there have been many busy mornings where I haven’t had time to make myself breakfast or I’m out of my regular cereal, and it would be nice to have something to fall back on.

As a result, when I was given the chance to review (and giveaway) these five boxes of cereal, I was happy to give them a whirl!

I’ll start with the taste. They tasted exactly as I remembered them. No change at all, so that’s a plus.

As far as the ingredient list, I was simultaneously pleased, surprised, and disappointed.

I was pleased that Cheerios are surprisingly clean! I was surprised that Cinnamon Toast Crunch, while admittedly being high in sugar (although whole grains were still the #1 ingredient), did NOT have high fructose corn syrup. And I was disappointed (and surprised again) that Total does! Total cereal, the cereal I would have bet to be the cleanest in the box, had high fructose corn syrup as the third ingredient.

I still advocate a clean diet, but if you read my blog regularly, you may know that I follow a 90% clean/10% don’t-sweat-it diet. I place cereals like these in that 10%. I fully believe that the occasional indulgence is acceptable and appropriate in a healthy diet.

Want the chance to try these five cereal out for yourself? (Full boxes, too. Not the little scrawny single serving ones.)

Giveaway is only open to US residents. (Sorry everyone else!) Entries will be taken until 10 p.m. Central time, January 26th. Winner will be announced at next Friday’s weigh in.

This is going to be a nice and simple giveaway. One shot per person. To enter, just leave a comment here answering this question: “Which of these five General Mills cereals (Lucky Charms, Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Total, Honey Nut Cheerios) are you most excited to try?”

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