There are a lot of reasons why shoppers reach for a bag of Malt-O-Meal brand cereal.
Perhaps the most obvious is that ounce for ounce, Malt-O-Meal brand cereal costs less than its competitors.*  Of course there’s also Malt-O-Meal’s guaranteed great taste that places ten of its cereals among the top 50 selling cereals in the U.S.**

But that’s not all.  Malt-O-Meal’s resealable bag results in 75% less consumer waste.***  Packaging cereal in bags leaves less to throw away than boxed cereal brands that package their products in bags inside boxes.

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*Based on net weight comparison of comparable sized packages, average retail price without promotional discounts.
**AC Nielsen, Total U.S. Food + Mass + Wal-Mart SC, Current 52 Weeks Ending 4/11/09
***Based on the net weight of empty consumer packaging per pound of cereal delivered. Even when their box size is smaller, the net weight of their box and empty inner bag is still greater than the net weight of the larger Malt-O-Meal bag when empty.

A note from the chef:
I’ve made this for both Thanksgiving and Christmas my entire adult life. Carbs, glorious carbs! -Kimberly

Ingredients

• 1 head of garlic (more if you really like the garlic flavor)
• Olive Oil
• 3 lbs of russet potatoes (I like mine with the skins on)
• 4 tbs butter
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• salt & pepper

Instructions

1. Separate the garlic cloves but do not remove the peel.
2. Make a “boat” out of aluminum foil, and place the garlic cloves inside.
3. Drizzle with olive oil and a little salt & pepper.
4. Close the foil and placed in a 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes.
5. Peel the potatoes if desired, and cut into chunks.
6. Boil in salted water until tender. Drain.
7. Return the potatoes to the warm pot.
8. Squeeze the garlic out of the cloves into the potatoes, add the butter, buttermilk, salt & pepper.
9. MASH MASH MASH!

This timely, funny and fashionable post was generously contributed by everybody’s favorite Fairy Blog Mother. Visit her blog for giveaways, great stories and more at: www.fairyblogmotherblog.com. Enjoy!

MP Godfrey
Team Malt-O-Meal

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I will never understand the fashions that kids are into these days.  For example, my daughter…wears socks on her arms.  They look like leg warmers with a notch cut out for her thumb.  Arm socks!

I was too young for leg warmers when you wore them on your legs.  And somehow I’ve been bypassed again and the kids wear them on their arms now.  I’m feeling a little ripped off here!

Ok, not really.

I like to give her a hard time about the arm socks.  We joke about them, yet she still wears them.  Oh well, I don’t really care…I just don’t get it.

What really gets me are these hairstyles where the hair hangs right in your face, in your eyes.  When I was that age I used gallons of hairspray to keep my hair as high as I could, as stiff as I could.  It

could rain and my hair wouldn’t fall.  There was absolutely nothing natural about my hair.

Eighteen years ago I had bangs that were ceiling high while the rest of my hair was pretty flat.  I wore pants that were folded over in front and then rolled up (pegged).  I wore shirts that were two or

three sizes too big.  Leg warmers were something you seen in old movies…and made fun of.

Today the kid’s hair is flat all over, hanging in their face, their pants and shirts are tight.   Leg warmers are now worn on the arms.

I know my daughter (who is 13) would KILL me if I posted a picture of her.  She’ll probably get mad for me even mentioning her in this article, but hey…I’m the Mom, what I say, goes.

But to justify this article (in her eyes, hopefully), I’ll post a picture of me…when I was her age.  To show her how ridiculous I looked eighteen years ago.  Not saying she looks ridiculous, but eighteen

years from now she may think differently. –Then maybe she’ll really laugh about the arm socks.

Fairy Blog Mother, 1991