Walgreens has the Monster Cereals!

[dee T.]

I Just picked up all three of them at my local grocery store. Wow, these bring back memories,
I'm keeping the boxes this time.

[jwyblejr]

I noticed the monster cereals at Dollar General today. I dont know if its just on the eastcoast stores though.

I havent thought about buying in the last few years. I always thought the cereals tasted fine, I dont see any reason to change them.

I saw them at Dollar General too. Except mine didn't have Frankenberry. Wonder why?

[galaxyexplorer42]

Without the old box art, I can't bring myself to buy any this year....

[toysrus]

They should add in some monster toys like back in the 70's! I also remember Fruit Brute from back in the day, didnt care for it. And there was Yummy Mummy, never tried that one. Boo-Berry was always my Fav- these days my stomach cant seem to handle these cereals.

[HardyGirl]

Amen! And when we went shopping w/ Mom we always picked out the cereal w/ the best prizes, not the lowest sugar content.

What's funny is a generation ago kids actually ate a lot more sugar than they do now but weren't half as fat.
We drank Kool-Aid by the GALLONS all summer long, but we also played outside all day instead of plopped in front of a video game console for eight hours.

[Gorn Captain]

They're like 200% sugar, right?
When I eat those, my body goes into shock.

But I do love the artwork. I should start collecting empty boxes...

[enyawd72]

What's funny is a generation ago kids actually ate a lot more sugar than they do now but weren't half as fat.
We drank Kool-Aid by the GALLONS all summer long, but we also played outside all day instead of plopped in front of a video game console for eight hours.

[Bruce Banner]

They have 100% changed the formula...I own a ton of vintage monster cereal boxes and the ingredients list alone is different...they taste absolutely nothing like they did in the 70's/80's

After growing up on the Monster cereals, I finally found an import store that carries them over here a while back.

Yeah, they have definitely changed the Frankenberry formula.... and the shape of the cereal pieces.

[MegoMark71]

Peter is there any way you could take a picture of the boxes side by side for us? I would love to see the difference in the ingredients.

[Peter Panda]

They have 100% changed the formula...I own a ton of vintage monster cereal boxes and the ingredients list alone is different...they taste absolutely nothing like they did in the 70's/80's

[Hector]

I can appreciate the artwork of those boxes...but I just don't dig eating those sugary cereals, I'm a straight Corn Flakes, Wheaties, or plain Cheerios man...lol.

[Enik24]

My Target had them.(Along with all the other halloween.) I didn't know they were rare,last year all my Grocery stores had them on clearence forever. I wish they would change the packaging. They had the same CG design for about 2 years now.

[Random Axe]

Count Chocula is my all-time favorite cereal. Yeah, they went all multi-grain in the formula so there is a slight difference. I don't eat that stuff anymore, but way back in my childhood I used to mix Chocula and Peanut Butter Crunch. I should be given partial credit for Reece's cereal.

[Figuremod73]

I noticed the monster cereals at Dollar General today. I dont know if its just on the eastcoast stores though.

I havent thought about buying in the last few years. I always thought the cereals tasted fine, I dont see any reason to change them.

[Megotu]

Well the corporate goal for General Mills was all cereals had to be whole grains and 25 percent less sugar or corn syrup. So yeah, the formula probably has changed from the 70's.