[food review] Honey Bunches of Oats cereal w/ strawberries!

Jan 9, 2002
5,232
0
0
Maybe you've seen the commercials on TV about this recently- this is one rocking cereal. I just polished off my first bowl and must say it's my favorite box on the market right now. It tastes better and has more substance than Special K's offering, and did I mention I found it for $1.67 (average size box- 13 oz.) at Wal-Mart yesterday?! Incredible deal. It's basically corn flakes, some honey-oat clusters, and an average of .7 sliced freeze dried strawberry to every spoonful. Best part (well, IMHO)? NO FRIGGIN' ALMONDS!! There are a couple other 'berry cereal offerings, but they've got nuts in them, which I despise. Anyway, highly recommended!

Recommended drink: Welch's 'Strawberry Breeze', $1.86 at Wal-Mart for a 2 qt. carton.
 

bmacd

Lifer
Jan 15, 2001
10,869
1
0
we just got this cereal in @ kmart. I wasn't planning on buying it, but if you praise it so highly, maybe i will

-=bmacd=-
 

Ciber

Platinum Member
Nov 20, 2000
2,531
30
91
i love this cereal, i went through a box in like 3 days....i had it as a snack lol....
 

I just finished a heaping bowl of this stuff - it's awesome.

I love original HBoO, and SHBoO, but I hate the almond kind.

HBoO - that's kind of cool.
 

geoff2k

Golden Member
Sep 2, 2000
1,929
0
76
Maybe we got a bad box of the stuff, but my wife and I could barely get through our first bowls -- the freeze-dried-and-soaked-in-milk strawberries tasted very "off" with almost a chemical-like taste, and a very gritty texture.

We'll be sticking to the original honey bunches of oats without freeze-dried strawberries and slicing fresh strawberries into it. Ummm. Now that's good.
 

dman

Diamond Member
Nov 2, 1999
9,110
0
76
Maybe we got a bad box of the stuff, but my wife and I could barely get through our first bowls -- the freeze-dried-and-soaked-in-milk strawberries tasted very "off" with almost a chemical-like taste, and a very gritty texture.

That was my experience with Special K w/ strawberries. They were blah--as described above. Adding some sugar before hand helped minimize the blah, but, I wouldn't buy cereal with freezedried strawberries again. Then again, I don't like fresh strawberries so I don't know what I was thinking to begin with, I think it was on sale. :p

 
Jan 9, 2002
5,232
0
0
The new 'HBoO' (uh, thanks JuMpR629.. :D) works out great for me, because slicing fresh strawberries is too time consuming and I'm lazy. I love freeze dried stuff anyway. :)
 
Jan 9, 2002
5,232
0
0
Bump for the original thread! ARRRRRRR!! :D

I'm at home visiting from college this weekend- just mulit-grain Cheerios in the pantry. :(
 

CPA

Elite Member
Nov 19, 2001
30,322
4
0
Cool and I just picked this cereal up on a whim this morning.