Ready your best Oprah impression and say it with me: “You get a blueberry flavor! And you get a blueberry flavor! Everybody gets a blueberry flavor!
With the introduction of Very Berry Cheerios earlier this year, the recent rebranding of Blueberry Tiny Toast into Blueberry Toast Crunch, Cap’n Crunch’s Blueberry Pancake Crunch, the unexpected appearance of Kellogg’s Blueberry Lemon Special K, the inevitable return of Boo Berry in October, and now the dawn of gluten-free Blueberry Chex, it seems like 2017 is poised to be the year of the blue-but-mostly-indigo-but-pretty-much-purple-inside-berry.
That or General Mills just had a surplus harvest of pulverized blueberry flavor dust. In that case, I expect to see Chocolate Fondue Berry Cocoa Puffs and Reese’s Peanut Butter & Blueberry Jelly Puffs any day now.
But until such a gastronomical triumph is achieved, let’s content ourselves with these Smurf-kissed corn squares.
Alright, seriously guys: who put my Blueberry Toast Crunch in the waffle iron?
This new Blueberry Chex cereal really does look quite similar to those small sweet slices I’ve come to love—or at least half of them do, as this cereal features a bizarre yin yang split between innocently naked Chex bits and squares coated with so much blueberry sugar that their corny cross-hatches are plugged tighter than my toaster’s crumb catcher after a late-night BLT gauntlet.
Which happens more often than me, Aunt Millie, or Oscar Meyer would care to admit.
When eaten dry, Blueberry Chex tastes a lot like Blueberry Toast Crunch/Tiny Toast, too. It just has a far lighter and crispier crunch (despite its shape, never trap a prisoner in a fragile Chex cage), as well as a savory toasted rice base flavor that’s completely submissive to the ultraviolet dust glazed upon it. You can taste the iconic golden flavor of Rice Chex when eating the plain pieces, but the heavily dusted pieces are straight blueberry.
It’s a very wholesome and genuine blueberry taste, too, rather than the fruit snackish pectin pucker of some other blueberry breakfast products. Blueberry Chex is flavored with only honest berries, the kind you’d trust to feed your cats while you’re on vacation, keep their hands off your leftovers, and not yank the piñata up when you’re blindfolded and about to hit it. This cereal’s blueberry flavor still has a potently jelly-like flavor, but it also has the lighter berry notes of a blueberry smoothie and little of the slightly mouthwatering tartness of raw blueberry…essence? Blueberry spirit? Blueberry energy?
Forgive me: I’m writing this on a plane so I feel closer to the cosmic side of fruit philosophy.
While other Chex cereals go soggy quickly in milk, Blueberry Chex shines, both literally and flavorfully. Okay fine, it gets soggy pretty darn fast, too, but you likely won’t notice if you eat with the same Time Hortons-esque vigor that I did.
Why do I mention Tim Hortons? Because Blueberry Chex in milk tastes exactly like a bakery-fresh blueberry muffin. I know I exaggerate sometimes when comparing cereals to decadent desserts in order to provoke the theater of the mind—a corn puff will never be a lava cake no matter how many adjectives I use. But this stuff really does have the buttery baked ‘n’ browned dough flavor of a muffin, complete with occasionally explosive bursts of creamy, melty blueberry.
But that “occasionally” is the ultimate berry patch thorn in Blueberry Chex’s Achilles heel. Since there are essentially two kinds of Chex at play here, the forces of rice and blueberry tend to clash more often than they work together, producing bites have a blandly diluted berry taste in between juicier ones. As a blueberry fan, I think I’d find myself turning to Blueberry Toast Crunch over this any time for its more consistently bombastic blueberry sugar blasts.
That shouldn’t deter you from trying Blueberry Chex at least once, though. Its reasonable savory-sugary balance will be sure to satisfy berry fans who want a more sensibly sweet breakfast, while its in-milk muffin magic is worth the price of admission alone. If General Mills keeps producing blueberry cereals of this high quality, then I don’t care how many Lucky Charms or Cookie Crisps they coat in pale violet fairy dust.
Sorry, loganberries: maybe 2018 will be your year.
The Bowl: Blueberry Chex Cereal
The Breakdown: It stays smoothly (and smoothie-ly) true to its namesake fruit, while becoming a moist muffin when milk enters the mix, but Blueberry Chex’s half-naked, half-dressed piece gambit ultimately works to its detriment when placed alongside its Toast Crunchier brother.
The Bottom Line: 8 midnight BLT benders out of 10
Why am I having such a hard time finding blueberry Chex on the shelves here on Long Island, NY? I shop at Stop n Shop, Shop Rite, King Kullen, Target, Walmart etc . No one had it?
From the uk 🇬🇧 but my god do I love American cereal, particularly the kids cereal…I’m 25 🤭 (fruity pebbles, trix, cap’n crunch etc) but just bought this on eBay for £2 as on offer and omg it’s lush, like summer cereal! 😍
Blueberry Chex with Almond Milk is the ONLY way to go. My daughter bought this cereal a few months ago on a whim. I tried it and immediately fell in love. The next time we went to the store there were only 3 boxes. We bought them all. Actually,every time we go to the store we buy every box. I admit,for the last several months I have eaten Blueberry Chex everyday for breakfast!
Today my wife was at the grocery store. There were 2 boxes. She bought them both! General Mills, please deliver more boxes to my Walmart/Alberrsons Weekly!
BEST CEREAL EVER!
Wow. You guys have a winner. I like all Chex , but the Blueberry Chex is the best. I eat it with a sliced banana on top but it’s also great without the banana. The blueberry flavor is excellent and the cereal does not need sugar. I am getting home Hungary writing about it.
Hold the sugar it is way to sweet. People can add sugar if they want it I prefer no sugar. They would be really good without the sugar.
It just hit the shelves in Los Angeles around December 2017. I am unable to find it now at the end of January. I figure all of the new dispensaries have stocked up on it in anticipation of demand. It better not be a temporary flavor. By far, one of the best cereals ever created. It made me go out and try their other flavors… which are niiiice, but not even close to the heaven that is represented by this well-rounded industrial food-scientist blueberry formula flavor. If you told me right now that it was giving me Martian Mumps, I would still order a truckload.
Probably due to the fact that I live about 5 miles north of General Mills/Pillsbury headquarters, I tend to be drawn to their products, but I’ve actually been eating Rice Chex on and off since high school (think early 1980s) when Chex was still owned and distributed by Ralston Purina (yes, THAT Purina). And for the past year or so, I’ve been throwing a handful of Cinnamon Chex into my bowl of Rice Chex to give it a little kick.
So when I saw Blueberry Chex on the shelf this afternoon, I decided to grab a box to try, although I’ll likely just substitute it instead of the Cinnamon Chex in my Rice Chex.
I love chex, plain is good, honey and vanilla are great, but cinnamon is my favorite! Just tried blueberry, and Im not a fan. 🙁 sorry but something is sadly off with this stuff – its almost, but not quite bitter? Or, I don’t know… something just tastes ugh.
I forgot to add the endmilk turns REALLY blue, which is kind of cool.
Maybe if I mix this with something more substantial like an Alpha Bits or Berry Berry Kix (the old one when they were shaped like fruit, not the bland version of today), it would work a lot better.
I was really impressed with the blueberry flavor. It’s no joke.
Overall I’m not sure if Chex strategy of half flavorful, half plain Chex is really the way to go, but I do love Cinnamon Chex and I used to love Frosted Mini Chex (RIP).
But the Blueberry Chex are literally hollow compared to Blueberry Tiny Toast (still calling it that). I like it but there’s not enough there to make me want to buy it again.
What’s deterring me from trying this or Blueberry Toast Crunch or Special K Blueberry with lemon is they’re not available in my part of Ohio! I’m still licking my wounds from never being able to find or try the Cap’n Crunch Orange Creampop cereal last year and I fear that I will suffer a similar fate with these blueberry cereals :/
Do you have places like Big Lots or Ollie’s near you? They often get the limited edition flavors that didn’t normally show up in grocery stores. I know I saw the orange Cap’n Crunch at Big Lots.
I do have those in my town! I’ll be sure to check those places! Unfortunately, it takes longer to get to those stores but that’s better than nothing. Great idea, thanks!
Here in Cereal Prison (Seattle), it’ll probably be months before this hits shelves. I am going to be packing a suitcase full of cereal on my way back from a trip to Chicago in a couple of weeks.