Review and Giveaway: Trix Swirls® (CLOSED)

Both my husband and I grew up on the sweet, sugary cereals like General Mills’ Trix, Lucky Charms and more. And it’s been fun to be able to share these childhood favorites with our own kids (along with a whole bunch of new favorites as well). We don’t let our girls eat sugary cereals on a regular basis – but they are thrilled to be able to have them once in a while for a special treat or incentive. For example, my hubby night-time potty trained our oldest by letting her have a bowl of Trix for breakfast if she was dry when she woke up.  She potty trained at nighttime almost immediately. 

My husband eats cereal not only just for breakfast, but also as a bedtime snack – and often for dinner as well, if he gets home from work late. And one of his favorites has always been Trix. That ‘silly rabbit’ is a staple in our cupboard and I can’t hardly think of a grocery shopping trip where I didn’t have a box or two of Trix in the cart. Lately though, it’s been the new Trix Swirls^® instead.

What they are:

Trix Swirls^® is a new limited-edition of this childhood favorite, which combines two mouthwatering fruity colors into every fun puff. The fruity combos include lemony green, berry berry blue, and rasporangey orange. Fortified with 12 vitamins and minerals, made from whole grain, Trix is also a good source of calcium.

Courtesy of General Mills and MyBlogSpark, we received a Trix Swirls^® Creative Kid gift basket that included a box of Trix Swirls^® along with a colorful apron, a set of watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, brushes, a sketchbook, and an art supply box.

Here’s my our take on them:

I don’t know what the girls were more excited about – the box of cereal, or the art supplies. They absolutely love to paint, and immediately set to work with the paints, pencils and brushes. Having a book of good-quality paper for painting on has been wonderful too – I’m usually mopping up paint on my table and countertops that’s soaked through the paper, but not now. 

In order to forestall an argument between the older girls over the apron, I declared that it would be ‘too small’ for either of them and bestowed it upon my youngest.  A little white lie – but one that’s made my life a whole lot easier. My three little artists have been having so much fun with the painting supplies – especially the watercolor pencils that make a wonderful-looking design when you brush water over it. We’d never worked with those before.

It’s so much fun to watch them paint and see how each of the girls has her own style. My oldest loves to fill up her paper as quickly as possible and move on to the next, while my 6-year-old takes her time and is very thorough about making her picture exactly the way she wants it. My youngest so far is just happy to be allowed to paint with the ‘big girls’ and making swirls and squiggles on the paper.

With all of the fun colors to work with, it was inevitable that rainbows became the picture of choice for a while – both with the paints and the pencils.

Now don’t think that the painting completely eclipsed their excitement over being able to have the treat of a bowl of Trix Swirls cereal! They happily sat down to eat breakfast the next day and ate a full bowl each. And have been asking for it pretty much every morning since. 

The bottom line:

The limited edition Trix Swirls^® cereal is a fun new take on an ‘old’ favorite. I can see that ‘silly’ rabbit doubling and tripling his effort to get some Trix for himself – and my girls are just about as crafty in their begging and pleading as well.

Where can you find them?:

You can purchase Trix Swirls^® wherever boxed cereals are generally sold.

Would you like to try them?:

I have the opportunity to give away a couple of Trix Swirls^® Creative Kid gift baskets like the one we received, to two lucky readers! Each gift basket contains a sample of the product along with a colorful apron, a set of watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, brushes, a sketchbook, and an art supply box. If you’d like to share this fun and delicious cereal with your family and spark your kids’ creativity with the art supplies, here are the rules:

1. Enter by a comment here to let me know how you and/or your children think Trix Swirls were created (i.e. Did they run into one another? Dance around? Spin with one another too quickly? etc.). Please don’t just say ‘choose me’, or your entry will be discarded.
2. The contest will run until Wednesday, August 26th at 11:59 pm EST. The winner will be selected through random drawing, contacted by e-mail, listed on this post and also submitted to PRIZEY. US entries only, please.
3. Please leave a valid e-mail address or other way to contact you! If the winner hasn’t responded within 3 days, an alternate winner will be chosen by random drawing.
4. If you’d like extra entries, you can:

• Subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange icon in the upper right sidebar) or subscribe via e-mail – leave me a separate comment to let me know.
• Mention this contest on your blog with a link back to this post, and leave a separate comment with the link to your post so I can find it.
• Either Twitter about, ‘Digg’ or ‘Kirtsy’ this post – leave me a separate comment with your username at whichever site(s) you chose (one extra entry per method).

So that’s a total of 6 comments/entries if you do all of the extra entry options.

Good luck! 

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – the random number generator has chosen comments #34 and #46 as the winners:

Congratulations to:

• Vicki Wurgler (no blog) who said, “my grandkids say they were put into the blender“
• pixie13 (no blog) who said, “A bunch of rambunctious preschoolers broke int the factory & went wild mixing things!“

I will be e-mailing you both shortly to work out the details!

This post courtesy of: General Mills and MyBlogSpark. No payment or compensation, other than product samples and the art supplies as described above, was received for this post.