CLOSED-General Mills Whole Grain Checker & #Prize Pack #Giveaway #MyBlogSpark

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You all know I’m on a mission to get healthy in 2012 and Ringing in the New Year often means new eating habits. We all know whole grains are important to you, and the Dietary Guidelines recommend choosing products with a whole grain listed as the first ingredient. Now every cereal with the white check has more whole grain than any other single ingredient with the same great taste. You will see “whole grain” as a part of the first ingredient on the ingredient list, indicating that whole grain is the first and most prevalent ingredient.

According to Dr. Travis Stork, emergency room physician and host of “The Doctors,” identifying whole grain products can be challenging. Shoppers can look for nutritional cues on the front of the box, but they need to read the ingredient list to know if they are getting enough whole grain. Ingredient lists detail ingredients in order of prevalence, and if the words “whole grain” are followed by a grain like wheat or oats, it means the food contains more whole grain than any other single ingredient. Here’s how to determine if your cereals have whole grain as a first ingredient:

With all the health messages facing grocery store shoppers, it can be confusing to translate what appears on food labels into nutritional needs, and hard to determine which foods have a meaningful amount of whole grain. Dr. Stork has some additional recommendations to help you include whole grain easily into your diet.

They include:

Start Early! The Dietary Guidelines recommend people get at least 48 grams of whole grain in their daily diets. Get a jump-start on the day’s nutrition by incorporating whole grain into your morning routine. For instance, when choosing cereal make sure whole grain is listed as the first ingredient. One easy choice is cereal with the white check, which have more whole grain than any other single ingredient.
Make Simple Swaps. Choose whole grain versions of the foods you love. Great options include whole wheat pasta and whole wheat bread or even whole grain crackers. Also, try different types of whole grain. Use brown rice instead of white rice as a side dish at dinner or popcorn, which is a whole grain, for a snack.
Don’t Judge a Food by Its Cover. The front of food packages provide good nutritional cues, but don’t forget to read the ingredients and check the nutrition label and side labels for additional health information. Cereals with the white check even include the amount of whole grain per serving on packaging.

To help with choosing products with whole grain, General Mills developed “Fast Lane for Whole Grain,” an online educational game. Consumers can navigate virtual grocery store aisles and identify products that have whole grain as the first ingredient, with the option to enter a sweepstakes to win one of each of the 50 cereals with the white check.

Make a commitment to add more whole grain to your diet by simply pouring a bowl of cereal with the white check including Cheerios®, Lucky Charms®, Cinnamon Toast Crunch®, Honey Nut Cheerios® and Total®.

For more information on the importance of whole grain and a chance to enter the “Fast Lane for Whole Grain” sweepstakes, visit www.WholeGrainNation.com.

And also to celebrate a new me in 2012 as always we’re Having a giveaway!

GIVEAWAY!

Win 5 boxes of General Mills cereal with the white check!

ONE WINNER WILL WIN 5 boxes of General Mills cereal with the white check!

TO ENTER:

MANDATORY ENTRY:

Leave a comment below telling me which of your favorite General Mills cereals with the white check will you kick start your morning this New Year? Cheerios? Total? Let me know!

EASY GIVEAWAY FOLKS!

That’s all you have to do to enter…but if you’d like additional entries:

For Additional Entries after the main entry is completed, do ANY or ALL of the following and PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT BELLOW FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ENTRY YOU DO!

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Those are all the Bonus Entries folks!

-GIVEAWAY WILL END JAN. 31st, 2012 at 11:59pm pacific time! Winners will be notified by email, twitter, or facebook and winners will be announced on this blog, on twitter, and on facebook.

-This GIVEAWAY is open to USA ONLY! NO PO BOX ADDRESSES SORRY.

PRIZE WILL BE FULFILLED and MAILED TO THE WINNER BY General Mills AND MYBLOGSPARK.

**PLEASE SEE RULES AND DISCLAIMER FOR MORE PRIZE INFO. AGAIN WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN AT RANDOM USING RANDOM.ORG FROM ELIGIBLE ENTRIES.**

Good luck to All who enter! THANK YOU so much for following my blog!

Disclosure: The prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.