I listened over the phone as Tom Budlong dumped a box of Kellogg’s Special K Fruit & Yogurt cereal onto the counter of his West Los Angeles home. “I’m looking,” he said. “There’s nothing red. ... No, ...

Three boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch offering a free toy - Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock Some of you may fondly recall seeing the "free prize inside" text on cereal boxes from your childhood. It was ...

Sonny the Cuckoo Bird's stare may be making your kids "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs." A new study of cereal aisles at grocery stores found cereal products marketed to kids are placed half as high on shelves ...

It's happened to all of us: You open a new box of cereal or crackers, dispense as much of the product as you need, and then prepare to close the box using the package's tab-in-slot mechanism. This ...