They changed from recyclable paperboard to plastic? That seems like it's not better?

Rob, that's what I said too! Then people said the original liner isn't recyclable either, but at least they got rid of the cardboard. Duh.

I use the inner liners for so many uses.......freezing fruit, beans etc. It's much heavier than parchment paper.

Bag or box. Look to see if it is made with GMOs. If you don't know what that is investigate.

You bought this in Canada?

I never understood the repackaging of things once home until our vacation in Florida. I came to realize this was driven by climate/pests. I have seen cereal in bags for years and have always wondered how much crushing and crumbs were invovled by the time those bags were empty. I don't know how one wouldn't invest in a plastic container if this is your choice for brands. Bottom line this packaging is CHEAPER for the company. That's truly all they care about. They weren't using recyclable cardboard to save the trees--IT WAS CHEAPER. Move on, go to the dollar tree and get a container.

I can understand your frustration if now you are getting a product with crushed flakes.

As mentioned, many people use containers.

I prefer the boxes as well and I also reuse the lining paper. I do buy oatmeal in the paper packaging, but I find that stands upright like a box.

Yikes...I would be drummed from my family!!!! Half my family

did, at one time or another, work for Kellogg's in some way. If it's cereal in my cupboard,

and not Oatmeal...it's Kellogg's!! And, in the inside paper bag in the cardboard box!!!!!

Never heard of the brand that is mentioned however. Interesting.

Buy a cereal container. They work grreat.

That's a house brand of a major grocery chain.

I try to buy larger box sizes, to cut down on amount of packaging, along with getting more goods per dollar. The boxes can be recycled, the inner bags can't, and the plastic bags can't, unless they carry a number and many don't.

Thanks for the suggestion of using the inner bags to store things, jasdip. We get milk in plastic bags and I often use them as carriers for storing food.

Will cookies, currently often in plastic trays, inside of a plastic bag, which is inside a box similar to the cereal boxes, be next?

ole joyful

As I mentioned, I did go and buy a plastic container. But I've never had to do it in the past, so one more frustration.

The plastic is not recyclable as it's the crinkly type with a ziploc. So more landfill waste.

OJ, I save all my milk bags, the small ones are perfect for freezing fruit, black beans, l lb portion of hamburger, 5 or 6 drumsticks in each bags, portioning bacon, the list goes on and on.

side note: i would use a BPA-free, made in USA container to put the cereal in.

Rubbermaid Brilliance containers are great! Expensive but really good quality

Rubbermaind Brilliance

In my area the inner bags of the boxes are recyclable (at the grocery store along with the grocery bags, bubble wrap, plastic overwrap from multipacks, zip loc bags, not with the curbside) but ONLY if they meet one criteria: if the bag "tears like paper" it isn't recyclable. So, some brands can be, and others not. They take the inner bags from boxes of baking mixes too. They do have to be rinsed out and dry.

Bags like the new cereal bags are not, AFAIK. I have also taken to reusing such heavier bags as the outer wrap when I portion things for the freezer.

I would buy a more expensive cereal container with a good seal. My favorite is Tupperware followed by Rubbermaid.

Nearly all of my containers are Sistema (Made in New Zealand).

Have you tried any other kinds of cereal? We like Mountain Summit and Great Grains. Once upon a time...Northwestern won the Rose Bowl, and Kellog put a Wildcat on the corn flakes box, so of course we had to buy one. The cereal itself was terrible.

I wouldn't like it either. The second ingredient is sugar, and the third ingredient is salt.

I used to buy granola, and I carefully read the ingredients list and avoided all brands that had any kind of sugar/HFCS added or any salt. I was okay if it had a bit of honey or molasses.

I haven't eaten any cereal (other than grits, steel cut oats, bulgur wheat, rice, or quinoa - a pseudocereal) since I retired, and I never ate cereal as an adult that required milk. I would have yogurt with granola, but never milk, as milk upsets my stomach quite a bit.

I have, however, used corn flakes as a breading for chicken, but not recently.

I use old plastic nut containers in place of canisters, and they store nicely because they are square. Right now I have too many of them because Kevin and I eat a lot of cashews and almonds.

Just an aside, this store brand has some really good other products as well. i have always avoided store brands, but I have tried this brand and they are very good..

I have bought them in the past when I was poorer and had kids in the house. I don't really care for them. I don't eat dry cereal anymore but if I did I would buy it in a box. Seems like they're going backwards but using more plastic.

Remember when the bag inside cereal boxes was waxed paper, not plastic? Quite a few food products used to be in waxed paper instead of plastic. Graham crackers, saltines, potato chips, cookies. I remember cottage cheese, milk, and yogurt were in waxed cardboard. How amused I was when half gallons of milk began to come in plastic cartons!

But even in the 1960s and 70s there was sometimes a huge plastic bag of puffed wheat cereal in my childhood kitchen. That was meant as a treat rather than a regular breakfast. Cheaper cooked cereals -grits, oatmeal, cream of wheat-- were more usual and they came in cardboard or paper.

Haha Lars and others. I didn't post to critique my choice of cereal. I happen to like Corn Flakes, as well as Shredded Wheat, Shreddies, Cheerios. You do you and I'll do me.

They switched from a package that is at least partially recyclable for one that is entirely non-recyclable? That's a move I don't support - I hate the move to these non-recyclable recloseable packaging bags. There are lots of other ways I can close my food packages, or decant them into jars for air-tight storage.

Jasdip -- I thought you said you did NOT like the brand, just the store brand. I think we all agree that the Compliments has made a bad packaging decision.

We can recycle the cardboard boxes here, and I put the liners in with plastics that our local grocer takes back. I'm also putting all the store's 'jewel' boxes into their bin -- the hard plastic containers marked with a 1, which our recycler won't take. (What's wrong with pressboard for berries? That worked for decades.)

Chisue I don't like Kellogg's, just the Compliments Corn Flakes.

The packaging absolutely sucks. They're going backwards.

This reminds me of a trip to Grand Rapids with DS. We went with a neighbor and her two boys. We toured the Kellogg plant, where we saw the epitome of dead-end jobs. As corn flakes came out of the ovens on a conveyor belt, women stood on either side witn long spatulas, flicking any burned flakes onto the floor.

One of our cable companies has been sending out promotional offers on plastic cards. Can't be recycled, can't be repurposed for much (I have kept a couple to use as scrapers or glue spreaders).. Should be illegal to create useless plastic, especially when it is purely destined for the landfill.