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Have you ever thought to yourself, “Hey! I REALLY like those Starbucks Refreshers, so much so that I wish they came in a snortable form.”

If so, your wish will soon come true because next month Starbucks will offer a VIA Ready Brew version of their Refreshers.

(Note: Please don’t snort the VIA Refreshers)

Some of you might be thinking, “Hey! Those Starbucks Refreshers thingies sound familiar.” They should because earlier this year Starbucks introduced a line of ready-to-drink canned Refreshers, which you’ve probably passed by at your local grocery store. Here’s a Google search query for canned Starbucks Refreshers reviews.

According to the blog, Starbucks Melody, Starbucks VIA Refreshers will be hitting stores on July 10 and come in two flavors: Very Berry Hibiscus and Cool Lime. Making one is as easy as making a regular VIA coffee–just add water and stir. A Starbucks VIA Refreshers package will contain five mix packets, each of which will make a 16-ounce serving.

If you’ve sampled a Starbucks VIA Refresher, let us know what you thought of it in the comments below.

Source: Starbucks Melody

According to the Option Pitch and Waffle Crisp blog (our reviewer Adam’s blog), Post has pushed out a whole line of breakfast cereals called Good Morenings. Before you scroll down and leave a comment about how I spelled “Morenings” wrong, let me stop you and tell you that’s how Post spells it.

Thanks, Post and other companies that make up their own spelling of words! I bet teachers everywhere can’t wait to correct the following sentence: I’m xtremely sorry I didn’t say “Good Morening” 2 the studentz.

The Post Good Morenings cereal line comes in a number of flavors:

Berry Loops

Waffle Crunch

For those of you who believe HFCS not only stands for High Fructose Corn Syrup, but also Heavy Fat Causing Sweetener, you’ll be happy to know the cereals don’t contain high fructose corn syrup. However, according to the website My Fitness Pal, the cereal line’s sugar content ranges between 9-13 grams.

If breakfast cereals are one of your main sources of vitamins and minerals, each serving of Good Morenings is an excellent source of B vitamins and a good source of other vitamins and minerals.

If you’ve tried any of the Post Good Morenings cereals, let us know what you think of them in the comments section below.

Source: Option Pitch and Waffle Crisp

Update: Click here to read our Vicks ZzzQuil review

You know how on the packaging for NyQuil there’s a warning to let people know they shouldn’t be operating heavy machinery after taking it. Well, the folks at Vicks NyQuil have a new product that shouldn’t be taken before operating any heavy machinery — ZzzQuil.

I’m not making that name up. That is what this new over-the-counter sleeping aid to help occasional sleeplessness is called.

The active ingredient in ZzzQuil is diphenhydramine HCI. According to the ZzzQuil website, the diphenhydramine acts as an antihistamine blah, blah, blah… Ugh. That explanation is so boring, it’s putting me to sleep. I guess ZzzQuil is so powerful that explaining it makes me drowsy.

While ZzzQuil comes from the same folks who brought us the sleep inducing, NyQuil, it doesn’t help with colds or the flu like NyQuil does. ZzzQuil comes in a berry-flavored liquid version and in LiquiCap form.

At the rate Kellogg’s is going, I predict, within 10 years, there will be a Pop-Tart for every possible occasion.

There’s pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, Spookylicious Chocolate Fudge for Halloween, Spring Berry for spring, Gingerbread for Christmas, and every other Pop-Tarts flavor for 4/20. Now there’s Limited Edition Frosted American Apple Pie Pop-Tarts for the Fourth of July.

I hope they make a Columberry Pop-Tart for Columbus Day next.

I’m looking forward to trying this new apple flavor because back in the 1980s the frosted apple one was my favorite, and I’m hoping this one comes close to it. Although, the Limited Edition Frosted American Apple Pie Pop-Tarts don’t have much frosting on top. Instead, it looks like a first grader is practicing his or her lower case cursive L’s with a White Out pen.

Update: Click here to read our Cap’n Crunch’s Cinnamon Roll Crunch review

My mouth has been cut up by regular Cap’n Crunch and I’ve been burned by Cap’n Crunch’s Chocolatey Crunch. So I might stay away from Cap’n Crunch’s new Cinnamon Roll Crunch.

But, it’s hard because I’m such a sucker for cinnamon roll-flavored cereals.

According to the Cap’n Crunch website, the naturally and artificially flavored corn and oat cereal has “straight-from-the-bakery taste of cinnamon rolls combined with the Cap’n’s famous CRUNCH.” The cereal isn’t like Chocolatey Crunch, which consisted of inner mouth-scratching, chocolate flavored Cap’n Crunch cereal. Instead, Cinnamon Roll Crunch is made up of round cereal puffs, like Crunch Berries.

A cup of the cereal has 110 calories, 1.5 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 170 milligrams of sodium, 50 milligrams of potassium, 23 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 12 grams of sugar, 10 grams of other carbohydrates, and 1 gram of protein.