Do You still like "Honey Bunches of Oats" Bkfst Cereal

Do you still enjoy "Honey Bunches of Oats" and have you noticed that over a period of time, Kraft Foods is gradually reducing it's volume of oat clusters down to a single digit fraction of what the box once contained.

Why and how could this be? Perhaps there should be a name change, like "Post's Honey Bunches of Wheat and Cornflakes with Oat Clusters." A change of name such as this would at least be an honest representation of what the content actually is. Under U.S. law, the ingredients must be correctly listed in the order of volume contained therein. According to the package Honey Bunches of Oats contain corn, whole grain wheat, sugar, whole grain rolled oats, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated sunflower oil, rice flower, wheat flower, malted barley flower, salt, rice, corn syrup.......plus a misc buttortment of artificial color and natural and artificial flavors plus preservatives. There is more sugar (not including brown sugar and corn syrup) making up the volume of sweetness contained therein.) Consider removal of brown sugar and corn syrup, there's not a lot of other sugar in the box and there is even less oats to help balance or counteract the potential ill effects of the hydrogenated sunflower oil, (a healthy fat that has been corrupted with a hydrogen atom into a heart clogging trans-fat.)

I liked this cereal before when you could almost get a cluster of oats in every bite. The oat cluster stays crunchier much longer than the wheat and corn flakes that get flacid in only a couple of minutes submerged in milk. Also the clusters are just a bit sweeter than the other cereal flakes imparting a very balanced adult-level of sweetness. That doesn't seem to happen anymore.

I have been in touch with Kraft Foods twice. In each instance the representative has been courteous and attentive. In one instance, I received an unsolicited coupon for a free box of any Post product. I wasn't given any promised but several months have elapsed. In the last box I purchased only today, I find even fewer bunches of oats and the few that there were smaller than usual and difficult to seperate. I suppost that this latest example is an indirect response to my effort. I feel discounted and ignored.

Perhaps the company is saving an extra couple of cents by its stinginess. At the extreme that is being displayed, folks will stop buying the product. Post has has already gone too far and they may not be finished yet. I'd like to see the cereal to continue as an honest satisfying product. I'd even be willing to pay the added cents to have the original quality restored. Wouldn't you?

Does anyone else agree with me? If so, are there others with the linguistic skill to communicate with Post more effective where I have apparently failed? I could use all the help I can get and I thank you for the time you have given to reading about my gripe.

Kraft Foods email: www.postcereals.com

Telephone: (North America) 800 431-7678

Thanks Again,

Larry