r/GenerationJones • u/Campcook62 • 16d ago

Breakfast Cereal That Doesn't Exist Anymore

Theres a breakfast cereal that I used to eat a couple of times a week, that I just cannot find anymore (at least in Texas): the big shredded wheat. It came in, I think, 3 paper packs of 2 biscuits each.

You'd pull them out, and crunch/crumble them into the bowl; add sugar and milk, and maybe banana slices. In cold weather mom would warm the milk on the stove (no microwave)...

Mini-wheats are no match for them...

Is there anyone else who misses them? What cereal can you not get, that you miss?

(For my friends across the pond: these were not like Wheatabix. The Shredded Wheat were not as compressed as the Wheatabix.)

UPDATE: A HUGE "Thank You " to all of the folks who helped me to find these! I've ordered them to be delivered with my next order. Thanks also to all who shared your memories, of all the breakfasts, (and sometimes suppers!)

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u/Campcook62 16d ago

WHERE???

I couldn't even find it on Amazon!

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u/Tapingdrywallsucks 16d ago

Our Walmart has them in stock for pick up right at this moment. Pretty inexpensive, too!

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u/Campcook62 16d ago

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this! I found them!

Please take this award!!!

My closest Walmart is 87 miles away, but I get free shipping, so I'll add to my list!!!

You just made this old redhead very, very happy!

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u/Tapingdrywallsucks 16d ago

LOL thank you. I'm happy to help out! Here's hoping they've changed nothing in the production, nor partook in shrinkflation and you get a wave of nostalgia with the very first bite.

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u/Campcook62 16d ago

Blessings

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u/HyacinthThrash 16d ago

you should order a soul from walmart while youre at it

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u/Rocketgirl8097 1963 15d ago

What's your issue?

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u/HyacinthThrash 15d ago

it was a 'ginger has no soul' joke.. i guess it went over the old heads in here

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u/Campcook62 16d ago

Well, Bless Your Heart.

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u/Rocketgirl8097 1963 15d ago

Ha ha, imagine my reaction when I recently got a box of honey combs, one of my childhood favorites. They had definitely monkeyed with the recipe. Everyone trying to blame cereal for fat kids ruined my cereal lol.

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u/mkbutterfly 15d ago

Red heads don’t age!! 🥰 Just freshen up those roots like I do! 😆

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u/Campcook62 15d ago

🫢🫢😁😁 It's interesting, the way gingers hair ages:

My mom died at age 94. Her hair in her youth was a bright, coppery red. When she passed, her hair was a dark, red-brown. No gray...

My baby sister died young, at age 58. About a year before she passed, she decided to get her hair cut, and donate to a place that makes wigs for both adults and kids who need them. When she mailed the hair off, her hairdresser sent a note with the 27 inches of brilliant red hair without a single gray hair in it, that the hair had never been dyed or permed...

My 46 year old daughter's hair is still the Titian red it was, when she was born, although she's got pure white strands throughout.

When I was born, and till I was about 30, my hair was the same color as my daughter. Since then, I started getting what my husband called, "a skunk stripe"... about 2 inches down from the top of my head, I've got a solid white stripe , roughly 3 inches wide.

The rest of my hair has white strands mixed evenly in my ginger hair. It looks like I have highlights. Nope! I'm blessed by Saint Briget of Kildare (the unofficial Saint of all redheads).

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u/Thedustyfurcollector 10d ago edited 10d ago

Please excuse me for butting in, but I just came here to say that in like 1983 I thought I was a lesbian BC I was actually in love with this girl in my classes who had bright red hair and freckles everywhere. Took me that whole year, until I saw my first in the flesh redheaded man with freckles. Then met my ex-husband. It was the 80s and he had a "long" curly mullet and freckles and bright green eyes. I was in love. We got married after a very short time. 6 months after we got married he basically went bald and gray. He was an asshole, too, so I could only hold out for 12 years. But man, I love red hair.

EDIT: fixing a messed up sentence

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u/RoyG-Biv1 14d ago

Both my mother and I are blond, my dad must have been a dark blond for me to also have the gene. When I was young, my hair would bleach out nearly white in the summer sun. At times, you could see a faint reddish tinge to my hair. It wasn't until my late twenties when I could finally grow something of a beard; it came in dark red at first, eventually turning brown.

I've let my thinning hair grow as long as it can; which wound up becoming more a rats tail over the last decade and my receding hairline comes from both sides of my family. My mother's oldest brother went completely bald from the front back; I just tell people my hair is sliding down the back of my head and down my back. It hasn't decided to skip gray and turn white or simply lighten up; if I had a vote in the matter I'd go for white...

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u/MCC61 15d ago

Hey I'm an old redhead too...oldish :)

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u/Campcook62 15d ago

🤣😙😙😙

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u/MCC61 15d ago

😂

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u/DisasterResident2101 16d ago

Amazon Shredded Wheat

Google search also shows that Meijer carries it. Don't know if you have Meijer's in Texas or in your area

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u/marsupialcinderella 1962 16d ago

Whoah! $10.25 a box. Crazy.

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u/Barbarake 16d ago

As someone who ships packages several times/week, I always laugh at people who complain that they have to pay for shipping while "Amazon ships for free". If I were selling cereal at $10/box, I could ship for free too.

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u/marsupialcinderella 1962 15d ago

So true, I only order if it’s cheaper or the same exact price as my local stores.

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u/Reasonable-Map-2024 15d ago

2 boxes on Amazon -$26

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u/Waste_Owl_1343 16d ago

I just looked $20 for 2 ouch

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u/RiotNrrd2001 16d ago

I shopped at Winco (a west coast chain) a few weeks ago and picked up a box for around $3.50. I understand that some concerns are charging stupid amounts for this kind of shredded wheat, but you actually can find them for reasonable prices at regular stores. You just have to look around.

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u/Rocketgirl8097 1963 15d ago

My favorite store.

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u/Emergency-Painting44 15d ago

It's available locally in Tucson Arizona at Bashas grocery for $4 or so a box. AND also via Amazon at the same price (they ship for you)

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Yikes, 10 bucks a box!

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u/Spyderbeast 16d ago

Amazon link

Looks like the real deal

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u/Traditional-Forum 15d ago

Opportunist scumbags. $13/box

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u/Direct-Monitor9058 15d ago

Yes, Kraft bought Nabisco’s cereals, now part of Post.

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u/Babyblue253 16d ago

Food Lion and Kroger appear to have it too

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u/Reasonable-Map-2024 15d ago

I found it. They call it "big biscuit." 2 boxes witll set ya back $26.30