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GIVEAWAY: Win a General Mills “Breakfast At Home” Gift Pack!

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Disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by General Mills through MyBlogSpark. I have received a General Mills gift pack, as well as information to help promote the product as part of this giveaway.

UPDATE: Giveaway has ended! The winner is Pezpup!

Super-Couponers, this week I’ve got another great giveaway for you! Here’s your chance to win a General Mills “Breakfast At Home” gift pack!

Do you eat breakfast at home, or do you eat on the run? While it’s easy to fall into the trap of grabbing breakfast on the way to work in the morning, it also costs more money than eating at home. One study notes that the average household spends more than $2600 each year eating away from home! Ouch.

Obviously, it’s a lot cheaper to eat at home, and that’s what we do each morning. I really enjoy having breakfast with my family every day, especially now that summer’s here and no one has to rush off to school! Everyone has their favorite cereals at our house, of course, and some days we’ll have one box of cereal on the table. Other days, we have five different boxes. (Such is the life of a couponer!)

Want some free breakfasts at home? One lucky reader will win this Breakfast At Home Makes Cents gift pack, which includes:

  • One box of Lucky Charms®
  • One box of Honey Nut Cheerios®
  • Big G breakfast bowl
  • Big G lip balm
  • $25 gift card to use for additional breakfast fixings (milk, juice, fruit, your choice!)

For a chance to win this General Mills Breakfast At Home Makes Cents gift pack, simply post a reply in the comments under this article! Why not include an idea for your favorite breakfast at home? This General Mills giveaway begins today, June 13, 2013, and runs for one week. The giveaway will end on June 19th, 2013 at 11:59pm CST, and on June 20th, one winner will be chosen via a random number generator!

 

A rare breakfast when all three kids agreed on the same kind of cereal!

More about the Breakfast At Home Makes Cents Challenge:

Do you know how much money you could save by having breakfast at home?

It’s time to re-think your breakfast routine! Wake up and take the “Breakfast at Home Savings Challenge” to see just how much time and money you could save during the week by shopping and eating breakfast at home.

Beginning on June 15th, take advantage of great savings in-store and online on some of your family’s favorite General Mills breakfast items like Honey Nut Cheerios®, Lucky Charms® and Cinnamon Toast Crunch® cereals! Simply select the coupons you want and print them directly from your printer. It’s that simple! Visit EveryDaySaver.com/breakfastathome for details!

Legal: This giveaway is sponsored by General Mills through MyBlogSpark. Responding to this post with a comment qualifies readers to enter. Duplicate posts do not increase chances of winning. The contest began at midnight CST on June 13, 2013 and will end at 11:59pm CST on June 19, 2013. One winner will be chosen via random-number generator on June 20, 2013 and announced the same day. Winner will receive ONE General Mills Breakfast At Home Gift Pack as shown above. Prize, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark. I have received a General Mills Breakfast At Home Gift Pack, as well as information to help promote the product as part of this giveaway. Winners will be contacted via the Private Messaging feature of JillCataldo.com and via email. If a winner does not reply to the message within 48 hours of notification, that winner will forfeit the prize and a new winner will be chosen. Fulfillment will be handled by MyBlogSpark. Giveaway is only open to residents of the United States. Odds of winning are determined by number of eligible entries received. Good luck to everyone!

Comments

  2. some oatmeal and a cup o joe no matter what the weather is like is my favorite way to start the day!!

  4. My kids are cereal freaks! Great giveaway! Weekend breakfasts are the best when my hubby makes homemade biscuits and gravy!

  5. Breakfast cereal is huge in our household, especially Chex and Honey Nut Cheerios!

  7. my favorite breakfast will be the one i make with ingredients i bought with that $25 gift card!

  9. With a family of 7, we go through an inordinate amount of cereal-would love to win this!

  15. We almost always eat breakfast at home. Also, it is usually cereal – we all like different cereals – this would be great to win.

  16. One of my kids’ favorites is daddy’s biscuits and gravy. It takes a long time to make, but it’s a great treat for breakfast about once a month:-)

  17. My favorite breakfast is vanilla yogurt with fresh berries and topped with cereal to add some crunch. Yum!

  18. Gotta have my coco puffs in the morning. Is it healthy? No, but they sure do taste good. :)

  19. I favor dry cereal as breakfast in my household. It can be portable when necessary!!!

  23. you know, my breakfast this morning was a box of Cheerios eaten right out of the box because I have no milk, and I actually find milk to be a little irritating (I live alone, never drink it, and don’t use it in recipes quickly enough to have it gone). So I just gave up on that part of things.

    (but when you eat straight out of the box, Honey Nut Cheerios are…sticky)

  26. Oatmeal with blueberries is my farovite in winter. In summer it’s cold cereals. Honeynut Cheerios, Lucky charms & Reeses Puffs are my kid’s favorites. Rice Chex & Yellow Box Cheerios are my & my DH’s favs!

  28. I NEVER skip breakfast, I would rather stay in bed all day than not eat it. This would be a prize well used.

  29. My 4 boys eat cereal from the time they wake up until they go to bed!!! This would be awesome to win!!! Thank you so much for the chance.

  30. I enjoy waking up in the morning and having a bowl of cheerios with skim milk. It helps me get ready for the day :)

  31. We do omelets and cereal at home in which everyone loves eggs and they get to put what they want in it and it can be a white omelet or regualar and of course everyone have their own cereal.

  33. I would love to win the Honey Nut Cheerios for sure. But my kids would use the $25 gift card to load up on Chex- we love them and they seem to be excluded from the sales lately.

  35. We are a family of 4 and are constantly going through the cereal. Especially problematic is my 12 year-old son who is going through puberty, growing like a weed and never stops eating! I came home today to find cereal crumbs all over the kitchen countertop and floor. Not sure how much actually hit his mouth! lol

    Our perfect breakfast would be having enough cereal and milk for all 4 of us! Sounds so much easier than it actually is.

    Thanks for this great giveaway! Love General Mills. :D
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  36. My three boys are all big cereal eaters! We go through a LOT of cereal at our house. Lucky Charms is a favorite.

  37. My favorite breakfast is cereal when I’m in a rush and scrambled eggs, hash browns and toast when I’m not.

  39. would love eggs and bacon, but do a quick smoothie w/ berries, banana, spinach – healthier!

  40. My favorite breakfast to prepare for my family consists of “home-made” (out of the bread bag, LOL) French toast (the vanilla extract I add makes it taste really yummy!) with lots of maple syrup and whipped cream, eggs over-easy and bacon or breakfast sausages. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it… :-)

    Thanks for the giveaway as always Jill!

  41. I’m trying to eat healthier, and I happened upon the breakfast that works best for me: microwaved scrambled egg beaters and low fat salsa cream cheese on a bagel thin.

  42. We eat cereal pretty much every day. If I make waffles on a weekend I’ll double the recipe and freeze some of them to pop in the toaster on days that we want something a little more “elaborate”. =)

  43. I hope I win. My stash of cereal is dwindling! I think the best breakfast includes eggs. I love omelets and toast. My favorite GM cereal has to be Honey Nut Cheerios.

  44. My kids would eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday if I let them. We can never have enough cereal!

  45. It rotates between hot and cold cereal or a quick scrambled egg… but coffee with everything!

  46. Is our favorite meal! Eggs, cereal, French toast, pancakes…you name it. We are always mixing it up.

  47. Usually its cereal or english muffin and juice…weekends bacon and eggs! We often have “breakfast” for dinner. Fun giveaway!

  48. My toddler loves Cheerios! Fav is the Multi-grain! I have been seeing Lucky Charms commercials lately and have been craving them. I saw a little boy getting some at CVS and was tempted to get some, but didn’t have any coupons with me! :-)

  49. We eat cereal and fruit in the summer and oatmeal and fruit in the winter. My 2-year-old loves Cheerios.

  56. I love a good bowl of cereal with the kids in the morn thanks jill for all you do

  60. I have to say, nothing beats a good bowl of cereal! Of course I like strawberry pancakes too :)

  67. There are 6 active adults living in the house and all we do in the morning is grab cereal to go. we go through a lot of cereal! I hope to win this giveaway! My family would love it!!

  71. It’s especially great for dinner on a hot summer day when no one wants to cook! Let’s hope we get some of those soon!

  78. If I didn’t eat breakfast, I would be a very unhappy camper. Thankfully, everyone in my family is pretty easy going and will eat either cereal, muffins, bagels, or simple breakfast wraps. Weekends will include pancakes or biscuits/gravy if we don’t have to be somewhere early.

    Thanks for a chance at the giveaway, Jill! : )

  81. Between me, my wife, my sister-in-law and my 2 daughters we go through a box a day. I’m always looking for deals on cereal, thanks.

  84. General Mills definitely has some of my favorite cereals. I love scrambled eggs as well for a breakfast at home

  86. We eat cereal almost everyday and I love the idea of adding toast for a breakfast at home

  87. Easy for them to take care of themselves in the morning. I like it sometimes for a snack. We too all have our favorites and thanks to couponing I can have plenty of a variety!

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