Review/Giveaway: Banana Nut Cheerios Gift Basket

We are cereal junkies around here for a few reasons. 1. It's cheap. 2. It's quick to make. 3. It's relatively healthy (and can satisfy a sweet craving on occasion). Mr. Geek and I mostly go for the bran-y, crunchy, plain stuff like shredded wheat and Cheerios and dress it up with bananas or other fruit. Lately, I've been neglectful of making frequent visits to the store, so there are some mornings that we are scrounging for something to sweeten up our cereal. I'm not a fan of raisins, so if we don't have bananas or berries, I just go without :(.

But General Mills has saved us. They've just released a new Cheerios® flavor--Banana Nut Cheerios®, and it's really good. It tastes like--you guessed it---bananas, but it's not overpowering like some artificially flavored cereals can be. The banana taste is really natural, although I really didn't taste much of the "nut" flavor. But that's ok, because it's the banana that I was going for.

I like that this cereal's first ingredient is whole grain corn, followed by sugar (not high-fructose corn syrup) and then whole grain oats. And 3/4 of a cup contains 100 calories, which is reasonable for those of us watching our waists.

General Mills would like to give 3 Winners a chance to try out Banana Nut Cheerios®. They are offering a Banana Nut Cheerios® Gift basket, complete with a box of cereal, a fruit basket/banana holder, 2 cereal bowls and a bread pan.
To enter:
1. Visit the Banana Nut Cheerios website and leave a comment on this post with your favorite recipe OR what you like to put in your Cheerios®.
2. Make sure your email address is in the comment or is easily accessible via your blog profile or blog itself. I need a way to contact you!
3. For one extra entry, blog about this post and leave a separate comment letting me know
4. For a second extra entry, post my button (code is on my right hand sidebar) on your blog OR subscribe to my updates and let me know you've done this in a separate comment.
5. For a third extra entry, Twitter this giveaway and leave a link to your Tweet. You can follow me under Katydidandkid.

This giveaway is for US and Canadian postal addresses only.

You must do the first two things in order to enter ("I want to win, thanks!" comments will NOT be considered). You will have until Saturday February 28th at 11:59pm EST to enter. The winners will be chosen via random number generator the next day and notified by email. I'll also post the winners on my blog. If I don't hear back from the winner by Wednesday at noon, I'll pick another.

Thanks to My Blog Spark and General Mills for sponsoring this contest.