1970s
Vintage Wacky Packs cards for cereals: Cheapios, Weakies, Triks & more (1970s)
Here are eight different Wacky Packs cards (aka Wacky Packages), featuring humorous takes on some of the most popular breakfast cereals from the ’70s.
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1980s
Hot buttered Cheerios: How to make this super-easy, surprisingly savory snack from the ’80s – plus some tasty variations
Hot buttered Cheerios – the new quick and easy snack you make with Cheerios cereal. Make a bowl right now, and you’ve got Hot Buttered Os! Also get recipes for 5 variations to try.
1980s
Cheerios on a stick: Cereal plus peanut butter, marshmallows & more (1980)
Here’s an easy-to-make recipe for Cheerios on a stick – no-bake snack treats that combine Cheerios with peanut butter, marshmallows and a few other goodies .
1960s
40 favorite vintage breakfast cereals from the ’60s (1967)
From 1967: With sales up 43 percent in the past five years, the dry cereal business has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the food industry. Children consume about half the cereal eaten in the US.
1980s
Make yourself some Cheeriodle pizza snack mix! (1980)
Here’s an easy-to-make recipe for a pizza-flavored snack mix made with Cheerios.
1980s
Caramel-peanut nests with a candy egg (1980)
These adorable little candy ‘nests’ are created to hold one perfect little ‘egg’ — also known as a peanut m&m. This vintage recipe could help make an adorable addition to an Easter basket!
1980s
Chocolate, peanut butter & banana lollipops (1980)
Three popular flavors come together in one delicious dessert in this vintage recipe for banana ‘lollipops.’ These treats are coated with melted chocolate and peanut butter chips, then rolled in a nutty cereal mixture.
1980s
No-bake chocolate-butterscotch candy bar cookies (1980)
Here’s an easy-to-make recipe for no-bake bar cookies that have a layer of butterscotch flavor (mixed in with Cheerios cereal and marshmallows), that is then topped with a delicious layer of chocolate.
1980s
Cheeriodle chocolate ice-cream cups (1980)
This easy and delicious recipe uses a cupcake or muffin pan to shape these edible ice cream mini bowls, created from Cheerios stirred into a fudgy concoction made with chocolate chips.
1960s
Saturday morning cartoons & cereal ads (1967)
You might say they invented Saturday morning Every Saturday morning at least one out of every three commercial minutes available on the three television networks
1960s
8 vintage breakfast cereals from General Mills (1960)
Big new G on the box means… very special Goodness from General Mills Cheerios: The goodness of toasted oats Wheaties: The goodness of toasted whole
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