Spooned & Spotted: Honey Bunches of Oats with Chocolate Clusters Returns!

IMG_20160111_150300This is fate, friends.

Just this week, I was melodramatically lamenting (in layman’s terms: I whined and complained) Post’s discontinuation of Honey Bunches of Oats with Chocolate Clusters some 6 years or so ago. And immediately, and I mean immediately after posting that review, Adam, a fellow cereal enthusiast, alerted me that Chocolate Honey Bunches were back, baby! 

Okay, no one said “baby,” but my overexcited self certainly thought it.

I was still in skeptical disbelief (this was pretty much my version of Half-Life 3) until Adam sent me the above photo that he snapped at a Walmart. Note that the return of Chocolate Honey Bunches is now gluten-free, too. I’ve never had a gluten-less Honey Bunches, but I’m going to remain optimistic, because how can I not be optimistic after this great news?

I can barely contain my excitement! I need to go anxiously scour the globe and find myself a box. If I accidentally end this post mid-sentence, you’ll know where I

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  1. DAN! I crossed my fingers so much and i am so happy for you! It’s so great to see you so excited, ’cause they are back, although the nature valley copycat HBOCC are a good enough substitute. 🙂

    And: Aren’t Cornflakes gluten free in general? I mean yeah… there is sometimes (often) a hint of malt in them but i always thought it’s not enough for creating gluten indicated problems. The only difference could be the use of brown sugar and no use of machines/rooms where gluten product were also manufactured/produced and maybe, so i’m pretty sure you don’t have to be afraid that much. ^^
    (Although is still need to try the gluten free cornflakes from nestle i have lying around here ^^)

    • I’m newly educated in celiac because my son has this disease. One of the main ingredients in normal Honey Bunches is wheat flour. But even if it were just a small amount of malt, any amount is enough to trigger the immune response in people with celiac. But this new gf Honey Bunches states that it is gluten free on the box. FDA requires companies to test their product to the smallest allowable amount (20 parts per million) in order to make that claim on their labeling, so this cereal is safe for celiacs! 🙂 And no sugar contains gluten naturally, so it’s fine in any form as long as there aren’t cross contamination issues.

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