I want to start collecting cereal boxes. How do I properly open them?

Can I use a heat gun?

What other way of opening without sticking your finger at the top?

It makes it soggier faster.

I was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and, as a lifelong cereal lover, it's been tough! Cereal is one of my ultimate safe foods but it's been spiking my sugar as I've been trying to get it under control.

Any recs for low carb cereals? tough question I know, but I figured I'd ask anyway! thanks y'all!

this is all personal opinion. i like to eat cereal. a lot of these were tried for the first time and i wanted to share with my cereal eating homies on this reddit.

kashi maple waffle bites - healthy cereal so it makes sense, but pretty much tasteless. i heard other kashi was better. didnt enjoy.

kashi go fiber - my girlfriend loved this. too hard for me though. good, healthy and very filling.

golden grahams - its simple but really i think this is just the maltomeal smores but with all the swag and power ripped away. did not like at all.

motts cinnamon - when i was a kid my grandpa had motts for tots apple juice in his crib. this was a core memory and i had to grab this. it was pretty good, you can taste both apple and cinnamon perfectly but not too much. good stuff

three wishes cinnamon - honestly i think this one was terrible. reminds me of magic spoon, which i also think is terrible. has that nasty fake cinnamon/sugar/cinnamon bun flavor.

count chocula - the count himself has never let me down. he started this journey. i have always liked count chocula, and since you cant have it all year its more enjoyable. he never overstays his welcome.

maple frosted flakes - were pretty good. i would say better than normal frosted flakes but cinnamon maple is a very me flavor so if u dont like brown they might be worse. i also dont particularly like normal frosted flakes.

cookie crisp & waffle crunch maltomeal - both were fire but waffle crunch was better

krave - lowkey a W classic cereal, very good but demure and doesnt feel fat and disgusting. W vitamins and minerals W iron W whole grain. but since krave is deceivingly demure the cereal milk lowkey sucks and thats the only thing that keeps it out of S tier. since the chocolate is inside the cereal the cereal milk just tastes like the outside grain wheat cereal part.

malt-o-meal smores - the goat... the icon... the legend... the hype... the moment... the aura... i just got chills typing this. the paddington of cereal. like poetry and motion. some things are meant to be. some things are destiny.

• SS, Ultra Super Cereal Tier: smores malt o meal. if cereal came to an end, I'd wish for this to be the only one left. W nutrition, W taste, W marshmallow, chocolate, and graham combo. like cinnamon toast crunch but injected with swag and beauty. get me a cereal with all the wonders of earth. get me a cereal with the beauty of the stars. get me a cereal without evil. get me a cereal with love and kindness. get me a malt o meal smores complete with a large bag and low price compared to other brands.
• S tier: count chocula, kashi go protein fiber honey almond
• A tier: cinnamon maple frosted flakes... okay we see you tony... and waffle crunch malt and krave
• B tier: motts apple cinnamon, cookie crisp D tier: kashi maple waffle bites
• F tier: golden grahams
• FF: three wishes cinnamon

we need to buy up as much of this as we can to ensure it isn’t limited time. It reminds me so much of RKT cereal.

Notably, the boxes say these are peppermint-flavored marshmallows, so don't expect the Oreo Puffs themselves to carry any peppermint flavor. 

Smell-wise, it's about identical to regular Oreo Puffs: a mildly sweet, semi-dark corn cereal. There are a good number of Oreo Puffs and not so many small marshmallows — the ratio isn't great; in fact, I didn't get any marshmallows on my first bowl pour! These marshmallows are colored a mix of pastel pink and white. 

Regarding taste, the Oreo Puffs themselves have no peppermint flavor; instead, they have a mildly sweet, cocoa-like cereal corn taste. Not as dark or sweet as an Oreo cookie, to say the least. Lastly, they are somewhat rough and crunchy.

After finding a few of the marshmallows and trying them out, I find they actually punch above their weight, especially compared to regular cereal marshmallows. Sure, they're small, but they are decently sweet and provide an authetic candy cane flavor alongside generic cereal marshmallow. It's not as punchy or sweet compared to a regular candy cane by any means, but if you grab a handful, it will certainly be much stronger than you may anticipate. When I combine them with the cereal--again, to note, there are barely any marshmallows, so I really had to seek them out--I find it's a tasty combination for the most part. The cereal, together, doesn't come across as too sweet and rocks a semi-dark, cocoa-like flavor. Unfortunately (or not), this is 95% regular Oreo Puffs due to the lack of marshmallows, unless you deliberately combine several marshmallows with the puffs.

In milk, the cereal remains mostly crunchy, and I find that the chocolate comes out more, and the cereal as a whole starts to really resemble the cookie portion of an Oreo: a richly dark, mildly sweet cookie taste. However, even when I deliberately added marshmallows to my bowl, that peppermint taste was hardly there. Essentially, you're just getting an Oreo Puffs-tasting cereal. If you were blindfolded, you likely wouldn't even notice any peppermint or candy cane flavor.

Released in late October/early November 2026. Found at Target in late October 2026.

SCORE: 6 / 10 (unless you love Oreo Puffs)

None of my local stores sells it. Their website claims my whole foods had them but they don't.

Does anyone know where to get it in the DMV?

Going to mix the marshmallows with the confetti cherrios! I looked and looked for the sugar cookie Cinnamon Toast Crunch which target said was in stock, but could not find it 😩

This is the cereal section of the closest DG to me. Also, they have 15oz malt o meal options for those that are looking for smaller bags.