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Happy New Year, cereal fans!

I think it’s part of the universe’s running joke to make our videos have at least some sort of quirk.

Today, the Weetabix video I tried to record for you said it fully recorded, but when I clicked Done it said there was no video. And since I only had one box of Weetabix and the one take was done, I took it as 2012′s sign to move on to the next one, so today you get Cap’n Crunch’s Oops! All Berries instead!!!

Quaker Oats lovingly gives us Cap’n Crunch’s Oops! All Berries, which is just like Cap’n Crunch’s Crunchberries but without the golden biscuits that cut up the roof of your mouth! Oops! All Berries is a bowl of colorful balls — pinkish red, green, blue, and purple — that has a starting sweet taste with a salty ending.

Oops! All Berries is not big on protein or fiber, there’s a lot of sodium per serving, and the carbs in it aren’t the wonderful kind, but it does have some pretty substantial minerals, with a few B vitamins thrown in for good luck. The rest of the nutrition facts are as follows:

This product does not specifically say it contains any allergens, but those sensitive to gluten should be careful of the corn and oat flours which could carry some gluten if processed in a glutenous location, and if you’re hypersensitive to food coloring please take note that there’s a lot of color added via food dye.

I love that Oops! All Berries offers us grown-ups a retro Cap’n Crunch t-shirt and an 80s flashback puzzle. Also, not mentioned during the video, is an ad for their newest Cap’n Crunch flavor, which is on our cereal shelf, so expect to see it soon!

Taste: Yummy sweetness with a salty chaser
Box opening: Not difficult
Bag rippage: A little tough
Bag slippage: Total, and the cereal didn’t even want to come out
Sog factor: Perfect dog
Allergy alert: None listed, but be careful

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Oops! All Berries visit the Cap’n Crunch site!

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Welcome to week 2 of the German cereals! Thanks again to our friend, Creature!

This week it’s Seitenbacher Kakao-Düsis, a turbine shaped cocoa cereal that smells really horrible and tastes equally so. That taste? It’s spelt, which Poppy can’t be bothered to remember from week to week, but thanks to wikipedia for the definition:

Spelt (Triticum spelta) is a hexaploid species of wheat. Spelt was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times; it now survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain and has found a new market as a health food.

Seitenbacher is famous for its Müsli cereals, sold as health conscious and natural. Too bad their Kakao-Düsis smells like dog food… and tastes even worse. We might recall by now that Poppy loves healthy cereals in general, but not this one. Dog biscuits taste better. DOG BISCUITS TASTE BETTER, PEOPLE.

Nutrition information is as follows per 30 gram serving: 108 calories, 3 grams protein, 22 grams Total Carbohydrates, 3 grams Fruit Sugar, 0.9 grams Total Fat, 0 milligrams Cholesterol, 3 grams Dietary Fiber, and 2 milligrams Sodium. Ingredients: spelt, fruit sugar, and de-oiled cocoa.

Congratulations for being “100% spelt” (presumably, as in, no other grain was used in the making of this product), high in fiber, and containing real fruit sugar, but your cereal is so inedible that Poppy refused to eat a second bite.

The only bowl given is for the shape of the cereal — turbine!

Taste: Dog food
Box opening: No box, just a bag
Bag rippage: No rip, but I used scissors
Bag slippage: None
Sog factor: It sogged out on the edges only, the center remained crunchy, but no one wants to eat it either way
Allergy alert: Wheat

Poppy’s Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

NYCWD’s Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Kakao-Düsis visit Seitenbacher!

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This week’s cereal comes to us all the way from our friend Creature in Germany. It’s Kölln Zuberfleks Honig! The rough translation on that one is Honey Flavored Magic “Fleks”, which happen to be a flower shaped corn and oat nugget that tastes similar to Cap’n Crunch but with a lot less sugar.

As our friend Creature explains, Kölln Zuberfleks Honig is a cereal based on an educational kids show called “Die Sendung mit der Maus” (“The Show with the Mouse”) which follows the daily life adventures of a mouse and his elephant friend, and has been on television for over 40 years.

There is a mouse mask cut-out on the back of the box which kids cut out to wear on “smart excursions of discovery”.

NYCWD is freaked out by this mouse mask, but Poppy finds it charming.

And now for some nutrition information! Per 30 gram serving there are: 167 calories, 5 grams protein, 29 grams of total carbohydrates, 12 grams sugar, 3 grams fat, 4 mg cholesterol, allllmost 1 gram of fiber, 150 mg sodium, 20% daily phosphorus, and 9% daily magnesium.

The ingredients list is super short, so let’s list them all! Corn flour, oat flour, sugar, wheat starch, glucose syrup, honey, unhydrogenated vegetable fat, iodized salt, soy lecithin, and carotene for color.

Poppy deducted a bowl for the low nutritional value, while NYCWD deducted for the mask on the back, because he can.

Taste: A less sweet Cap’n Crunch
Box opening: No trouble
Bag rippage: No rips!
Bag slippage: None
Sog factor: It sogged out on the edges only, the center remained crunchy!
Allergy alert: Wheat

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Zauberfleks Honig visit Kölln!

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Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax granola bars are another fan request! Somehow these have been sitting on the cereal shelf for a very long time, but when we went through the Cereal Wednesday comments over at YouTube (always an adventure) we found this request and were happy to oblige.

Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax granola bars are part of the TLC line of products. These Tasty Little Crunchies are very tasty. They taste like the spices of a pumpkin pie. Oddly, they don’t really actually taste like pumpkin at all. Also, they’re extremely dry. I adore dry foods, for some strange reason, but this one was so dry that I almost had to pour myself a glass of water to get it down my gullet. Also, the box shows lots of luscious looking pumpkin seeds, but I couldn’t really find any, except a halved seed embedded deep into the layers of the bars. I found the flax seeds right away! Thanks, Kashi! Love my flax!

Nutritionwise, Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax doesn’t have added vitamins or minerals and is high on fat content at 6 grams per 2 bars (one foil package), but the protein and fiber contents are also high, as is the whole grain carb count, so that’s pretty fantastic news. The first ingredient listed:

Whole grain oats! And then the grain blend that Kashi is known for shows up in the list as well.

Overall, a tasty product that forgets to deliver on the pumpkin, is a bit too dry, and isn’t high on vitamins and minerals but is high on protein, whole grains, and fiber. Solid.

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Pumpkin Spice Flax granola bars please visit the Kashi site.

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Spookylicious Pop-Tarts is a limited edition Kellogg’s flavor, just in time for Halloween! This chocolatey fudge toaster pastry is coated in orange frosting, and ghost, spider, and full moon candies.

Spookylicious Pop-Tarts are delicious cold and even more delicious toasted. The fudge heats up to taste just like a brownie. The frosting and candies add an additional sweet treat kick.

The nutrition information is, of course, not awesomely healthy and filled with allergens:

…but for Halloween we make this a small deduction. (Dude, it’s our favorite holiday, we get to do what we want on our favorite holiday.)

The Spooky Snack isn’t listed on the Kellogg’s website, so I’m posting it for your enjoyment:

Prep time 15 minutes
Total time 2 hours, 15 minutes

Yield: 24 pieces; 12 servings

Run out and grab a box of Spookylicious Pop-tarts before they make like ghosts and disappear.

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Spookylicious Pop-Tarts please visit the Kellogg’s site.

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Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows are a true Marbits (“marshmallow bits”), hence their feature in this Marbits edition of Cereal Wednesday! Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows are only the crunchy marshmallow bits that you normally would find in cereals such as Lucky Charms.

The marshmallows are perfectly sweet, very crunchy, and taste delicious in cereal as well as on ice cream. I have no doubt they are amazing in hot chocolate. Kudos to the family who brought this idea to fruition.

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows please visit their site and Like them on Facebook.

Photo credit: Magician’s Cereal Marshmallows

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This week I present to you another fan request, this time from an advocate of the flavor rather than someone who wants us to check out a cereal before she does. Too bad I can’t remember who asked me to review this…

Kashi GOLEAN Crisp! Toasted Berry Crumble is a new flavor in the Kashi family. It packs cranberries and wild blueberries in with delicious and nutritious whole grains, including oats, sesame, red wheat, rye, brown rice, triticale, barley, and buckwheat.

Also of note, Kashi Toasted Berry Crumble includes 18 whole grain grams per serving, 9 grams or protein per serving, and 8 grams of fiber per serving! These are all wonderful words to our eyes. The rest of the nutrition information, for your viewing pleasure:

Kashi Toasted Berry Crumble maintains a deliciously natural sweet berry taste (with the help of a little cane sugar) while keeping the grains tasting natural instead of sugar-coated. This is like eating a cranberry/blueberry crisp, as the name implies. It could definitely be your morning cereal or your healthy dessert after dinner!

Deductions for a bag opening so tough that I had to use the kitchen scissors, and for not packing added vitamins and minerals (as it never should, but if you hope your cereal acts like a vitamin you will be disappointed).

Taste: Like a fruit cobbler / crisp, but without too much sugar
Box opening: Good
Bag rippage: I had to cut it open to get it open *scowl*
Bag slippage: None
Sog factor: Sogs pretty perfectly and makes the milk taste delicious
Allergy alert: Soy and wheat

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Kashi GOLEAN Crisp! Toasted Berry Crumble please visit the Kashi website.

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Today’s cereal video started with a fan request. And then we visited a Walmart in Virginia on our way home from a wedding and found a Limited Edition cereal to compare it to.

Apple Cinnamon Cheerios are a General Mills whole grain oat cereal. They taste like Cheerios always taste, but with a delicious cinnamon coating. The apple isn’t very noticeable, but the cereal is very tasty. Also, thanks to Kung Fu Panda 2, there was a toy inside the box. If NYCWD had been in the room the cereal would have received 5 bowls for that alone. Apple Cinnamon Cheerios also gets pluses for a good box and bag opening, a perfect sog, and real apple puree in its ingredients. Deductions are for having wheat but not listing it as an allergen and being high in sugars while being low on fiber and protein.



Post Pebbles Boulders are listed as being Stone Age Caramel Apple flavor. It smells like apple, it kinda tastes like apple, but it definitely tastes like sticky caramel sugar that will rot your teeth before you can even finish grabbing for your toothbrush. Its nutrition information is pretty comparable to Apple Cinnamon Cheerios but boasts whole grain corn flour as well as whole grain oat flour. Kudos to Post for listing wheat so those allergic will quickly be able to see they should stay away from this one. Too bad the taste knocked out any positive. I feel generous in the number of bowls I gave this cereal. Despite its claim to having less sugar than Honey Nut Cheerios, it tastes like a big bowl of sweet yucky. Also, what’s up with the bones? I know it’s a Flintstones based cereal, but I don’t eat bones. Ew. Dude.

Apple Cinnamon Cheerios

Taste: Deliciously cinnamon oat goodness
Box opening: Good
Bag rippage: A little tough to get in the bag but it didn’t rip
Bag slippage: None, and a toy came flying out! Bonus!
Sog factor: Unsoggy
Allergy alert: No listed allergens, but there’s wheat in there

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Apple Cinnamon Cheerios visit Cheerios.

Pebbles Boulders Stone Age Caramel Apple

Taste: Like apple, but with a really strange and sweet tang
Box opening: A little rip.
Bag rippage: Tough
Bag slippage: No slip
Sog factor: Unsoggy
Allergy alert: Wheat is listed as its ownly “Contains” ingredient

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Pebbles Stone Age Caramel Apple Boulders visit Post.

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Kashi Indigo Morning is a new cereal made up of puffed corn flakes, blackberries, and blueberries. IT is organic and has 24 g of whole grains per 27 g serving. With not much added sugar or other fillers the cereal is able to stay at 100 calories.

Nutrition information for Kashi Indigo Morning is what is expected for an organic cereal:

Low in vitamins and minerals, but pronounceable ingredients.

Deductions come from … DID YOU SEE HOW TINY THOSE BLUEBERRIES ARE, and overabundance of delicious Corn Nut tasting flakes compared to the berry goodness, tartness of the berries, lack of vitamins and minerals, low fiber and protein, a bag made for right-handed people that falls completely out of the box, and… well, I think that’s it. I neglected to mention in the video that the cereal didn’t really sog out, but I’m not increasing its overall score for that.

Taste: Corn Nuts with tart berries
Box opening: Fine
Bag rippage: This leftie did not appreciate a bag made for righties
Bag slippage: Alllllll the way into the bowl.
Sog factor: Unsoggy
Allergy alert: No listed allergens

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Indigo Morning visit Kashi.

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Fiber One Blueberry Toaster Pastry is a General Mills product that is high in fiber and whole grain and peculiar on flavor.

Fiber One Blueberry Toaster Pastry tastes entirely like the Newton portion of a Fig Newton, and very little like blueberry at all. Perhaps that’s because it is being flavored with grape juice and colored by food dye instead of having much natural blueberry in it to start.

As you may recall from the video, this product has gelatin in it which, unless explicitly listed as vegetable gelatin, should be assumed to be an animal based gelatin and therefore this is not a vegetarian product.

It also has a large amount of wheat in it so isn’t gluten free either.

I was having trouble understanding what was providing the fiber in Fiber One Blueberry Toaster Pastry during filming. Enzyme modified soy protein is NOT the fiber ingredient, that’s just a cheaper way of adding soy to things, and therefore adding protein. The fiber ingredient is polydextrose, which always throws me off because it has the word dextrose in it, which to me means SUGAR. But here it means fiber. (Insert eyeroll here.)

Allergens listed: wheat, milk, and soy

Deductions for taste, method of flavoring, too much pastry, some pretty un-awesome ingredients, and lack of vitamins and minerals.

This thing’s lucky it got any bowls, GEEEEZ.

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Fiber One Blueberry Toaster Pastry visit …well, for whatever reason General Mills doesn’t talk about their own freaking product, so how about you just go buy some at Amazon. For other Fiber One products visit Fiber One.