Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
I am the worst offender at helicopter parenting. Always have been, always will be.
But when we went on our “adults only” vacation last week, I knew I had to let it go if I was going to have a good time. Yes, the girls might not eat, sleep or wear their hair like they do when they are at home, but they would survive. And they probably needed a break from me as much as I did from them. Still, the less I knew the better. I simply would carry on in blissful ignorance.
Until the girls spilled the beans. Or the heaping bowl of sugary, chocolatey corn balls, as the case may be.
The first morning back, I cheerfully asked the girls what they wanted for breakfast.
Gigi sat straight up in her chair, composing herself as if she had something very important to say and looked straight ahead out the breakfast nook window so as not to make eye contact with me.
“I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!” she said, with absolutely no inflection in her voice, knowing full well that she’d get a reaction out of me.
“What did you say? Where did you hear that? Do you even know what Cocoa Puffs are?” I was baffled.
Lulu couldn’t contain herself. “We had Cocoa Puffs at Mimi and Poppy’s when you were in Hawaii! We had them every single morning. I’M CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS!,’” she shouted with far less restraint than her sister.
Gigi defended her choice,”They were made with whole grain!” Clever marketing, General Mills.
“That’s nice,” I said, “How about some oatmeal?”
Blissful ignorance.
I thought that was that. Until Lulu decided to write a story.
The Three Little Puppies
Once upon a time, there was a puppy.
The puppy was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
There was a storm raining Cocoa Puffs!
The puppy ran around the yard in circles!
The End.
Perhaps the puppy was running around in circles because of the almost 20 grams of sugar in a cup of cereal! Not that I looked it up.
Blissful ignorance.
I thought that closed the Cocoa Puffs chapter until yesterday when we went to the store. I just so happened to be on the cereal aisle when a very kind young woman named Carrie came up and introduced herself. She graciously explained that her husband is an acquaintance of ours and they both enjoy the blog, our recipes and overall approach to healthy eating. And then it happened.
“Cocoa Puffs! Cocoa Puffs! Cocoa Puffs!”
I tried to get back to our conversation, but Lulu just got louder.
“I WANT COCOA PUFFS! I’M CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS!”
I felt myself turn red, quickly said goodbye, took Lulu by the hand and we casually made our way out of the cereal aisle, explaining, “That’s a Mimi thing, not a Mommy thing.”
And then added loudly, so my new friend could overhear, “But they are made with whole grain.”
Hilarious. My kids try that whole grain line too. They beg for reeces puffs cereal which I will admit is delicious.
I think anything with Reese’s in the title has to be delicious.
I wholeheartedly agree.
You didn’t think they’d be eating flax crackers and drinking wheatgrass shots while you got to sip pina coladas on the beach didya?
When I first read the title, I thought this post was gonna be healthified Cocoa Puffs…DO IT, Mama!
Sorry to disappoint…but perhaps I’ve got something in store for you next week?
That perhaps better be a for sure. Or else (shaking fist.)
HILARIOUS! I remember horrifying moments in the Pop-Tart aisle… (“But, Gramma said they have FRUIT in them!” Lovely!)
I’m hoping to re-do Pop Tarts sometime soon too!
PLEASE do! My daughters eat Pop tarts at the babysitters (they are considered an okay food by the state food program, wth??) and I also have to explain they are a babysitter food, not a mom food. A healthy version would rock!
YES! Pleeeeeease?
Please do! My daughter has talked me into organic whole grain real fruit “pop tarts” that I’ll get on occasion, but if you could remake them I think it would make our day!!
So, do you have a vegan, less sugar-y version of cocoa puffs for us?
I’ve never actually tried them, but I’m game for anything chocolate for breakfast!
Now I know what you guys want to see next!
Yeah, probably 1 whole grain.
Yup!
that would be the one the BOX is made of! lol
haha!
I was the unfortunate kid who had less sugar and fat at grandma’s than I did at home. She was not of the “spoil the grandkids” variety.
I’ll probably be that grandma…and my grandkids will hate me.
Just to let you know, I’m that type of grandma and my grandkids love me! So there is hope!
Thanks!
That is SO SO SO funny! I used to eat the WORST FOOD EVER at my grandparents house. They would feed me Dairy Queen ice cream even though I am lactose intolerant. Lots of sausage, bacon, eggs, toast with cinnamon spread and mac and cheese from a box! I think you got it easy with the Coco puffs! I have to be honest, I totally thought that you were going to veganize and recreate cocopuffs when I saw the title. Ps. I am so glad you are back, I missed you whilst you were gone. <3
Oh, I don’t sweat it. I just wish they’d pick more opportune times to yell out their cravings.
I’m happy to be back too!
true. ah well, we are only kids and allowed to voice our desires loud and proud for so long, right?
2 things:
1) I expected this to end with a healthy-ish vegan version of coco puffs.
2) Buy that girl a puppy!
I think I’d rather buy cocoa puffs.
Haha I thought it was a Cocoa Puffs recipe too! But I clicked the link anyway, even though I don’t like Cocoa Puffs. I guess I just like anything you write, MamaPea!
Well, that’s just sweet. Even better than 20 grams of sugar.
thats so funny!!!!
i know i ate a lot of really yummy food at my grandmas but the only cereal they ever had was, Grape-nuts… i used to think it was bc they were old and needed the fiber.. lol (well i guess they were old, and probably did need the fiber) but i would eat it bc they did.. bla
I love Grape Nuts!
So funny.. M hates Grape Nuts because he had to eat them as a kid. I love them!
Sometimes ignorance is bliss. On the bright side they could have had so many worse things for breakfast, I cringe thinking about what I ate as a kid. Somehow I thought a poptart was healthy? I would love to see you redo some of those foods!
I’m all over that Pop Tart thing.
Ugh, I feel your pain. My mother-in-law pulls that with Cinnamon Toast Crunch and has the nerve to tell me that it is healthy because of those ridiculous whole grains…are you kidding me? Broccoli isn’t even healthy when you process it and mix it with a pound of high fructose corn syrup….gag me!
I LOVE Cinnamon Toast Crunch…which is why I made my own version.
I feel your pain. I used to work at a Pediatric Fitness Clinic. Whenever I was out grocery shopping, sure enough, I would run into one of the kids I helped counsel. Do you think they ever saw the heaps of healthy fruits and veggies, nuts and grains at the bottom of my cart? (I always head the same direction in the store) No, they found the one item I would buy for myself or my fiancee in a moment of weakness and harp about it on and on to they parents about how “if their instructor can eat sugar, so can they” ::sigh:: … its fate. At least you can write a blog for Carrie to see an explanation for the interaction?
I hope she’s reading this….
It’s okay; I cook/nobake with Cocoa Rice Krispies all the time. I tell myself they’re full of whole grains and the chocolate sauce and marshmallows I tend to pair with them are gluten-free
Seriously though, I know how it feels to be a bit undermined in parenting decisions and/or food choices and it’s infuriating to me. Whether it’s as simple as cutting crusts off bread after we’ve talked about eating the crust, too…or feeding cocoa puffs…anything like that gets under my skin. But I’m getting better!
I think I’d be more annoyed by the ‘at least it has whole grains’ type justification than anything else. A treat is a treat and there’s nothing wrong with that – just don’t try to dress it up as healthy food with meaningless advertising phrases.
Totally agree!
If you ask my kids (especially my boy) his favorite foods, he’d say ‘hot dogs, pizza, chips and ice cream.’ Does he eat those foods often? Heck no! But, say you’re the pediatrician and you ask him what he likes to eat, that’s what you’ll hear. And then you’ll see me start to rush in to explain. And then I think “why again do I care what the (very nice) doctor we see once, maybe twice a year thinks of me?’ And I go home and feed him cucumbers and cashews and let him keep dreaming about the hot dogs his grandparents buy him.
Life is too short to not let grandparents indulge their grandchildren. Especially if it comes with free and loving childcare.
You are absolutely right. I am very fortunate to have my parents around to look after the girls. I trust them fully.
Ahhhhh!! That is hilarious, particularly the part about the kids begging for cocoa puffs in front of your friend! Kids have impeccable timing. I can relate. When the kids had a two-week break from school recently, I was very careful to adhere to our half-hour per day screen time rule, filling the rest of each day with crafts, reading books together, building forts, etc. When an acquaintance asked one of them, “what did you do over break?” they promptly replied, “played video games!”
“All day! Everyday! While eating Cocoa Puffs!!!”
That is comedy!!!!!!!!!! I had to laugh out loud. So my husband like trying to figure out why I’m laughing. So I have to explain to him why eating Cocoa Puffs is kinda funny…. oh boy.
I agree, I’d love to see a Recipea for healthy cocoa puffs!! Kids never disappoint it seams
hehe
oh mimi! what have you done? or undone? I guess its time to make those home-made cocoa puffs now, right?
best of luck!
Yeah, that’s gonna be a tough one.
My Grandma (Nonnie) had a cookie drawer and I pretty much jumped out of the moving car to race my brother to the drawer. Such good memories.
Oooh, I want to go to Nonnie’s!
Oh, what a riot. I love the story.. definitely a sugar-induced puppy, haha. I gotta say, I thought this post was going to be a recipea for Cocoa Puffs, so now I am bummed. I love those things. And now you have me convinced that they are health food
Love you!
For you? I’ll do it.
I remember spending the night at my Grandma’s house once and she let me have ice cream for breakfast. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Until about an hour later when I was starving and she calmly explained to me that I already ate “breakfast.” But she eventually caved and bought me fast food for lunch. Typing this out makes me cringe. Ahh the kinds of things ignorance is good for!
But I bet you were LOVING it!
Haha, so funny and so cute! And not what I was expecting.
Yes, but a whole grain of what. That is too funny..I think that will be one of the hardest things for me, helicopter parenting, leaving my daughter with someone and knowing that even if they don’t do it my way, pie will be ok…. My way is the right way, the only right way, right? It really stresses me out.
She… Not pie…. Auto word darn you.
Pie would be okay though.
mmm..cocoa puffs. my grandma’s would have none of that nonsense, it was all cottage cheese and peaches. I still shudder at the though.
GAH!!! I HATE cottage cheese and fruit! HATE it.
Teehee, just so you know you’re not alone, we were never allowed Coco Pops as kids, except when we went on holiday and then there would be *one* single serving box of them for my brother and I to SHARE. Funny thing is, as soon as I grew up enough to buy them for myself, I realised how icky they are.
Oh, and down under, our tagline is “Just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy!”
I’d prefer one of your smoothies, thanks all the same.
How is cereal like a milkshake? So bizarre.
Oh how funny
I guess the rules just go out of the window with grandparents. One of my friends went home the other day after a 1 hour shopping trip and found that her 2 month old baby was propped up in front of the TV! Her mother had discovered that she “liked it”. My friend liked it less 
Ha ha. But she liked it!
Ahahahaha……. that Lulu!
That “made with whole grains!” thing they do on the sugary cereals is just evil, by the way. It’s all fun and games to those of us who know better, but some people don’t and its not fair that they might get tricked into thinking that’s a healthy option for their families.
Totally agree. As much as I don’t know the government should be policing that, it just doesn’t seem right.
LOVED this! Since moving to the land of beef and lard (a.k.a. Texas), we’ve gone fairly healthy vegan by cooking at home. I even perfected both quinoa and oatmeal cooking in my rice cooker, so I eat it more often. Until this week: we bought frosted toast cereal… then bought another three boxes last night. I have created a monster! We love organics, eat more fruits and veggies than I thought possible, became (mostly) vegan, and I allowed my husband to get new breakfast cereal that we both love. We’re CUCKOO for frosted toast cereal (a healthy option of that would be delightful!)
Thanks for the morning smile!
My mom’s name is Laura, so I got kind of scared when I saw the name on this comment
haha, you poor thing. Sorry! I’d post my pic if I knew how. I likely feel like your mom- how do I use/do anything online?!
Good luck with oatmeal again this week, though!
I think they are forgotten now (fingers crossed).
Grandparents are the best, right? Mine used to let me eat Pop Tarts for breakfast whenever I slept over (a food that was completely forbidden in my house). I still remember how much I looked forward to those!
Brown sugar and cinnamon? Those were my fave.
Yup! And strawberry. Ugh. So gross, but so good.
ha, I love it! what a cute story!
They are crack puffs, yup thats what those evil things are, haha!
Happy Wednesday! <3
We call that vacation cereal in our house! (Along with fruit loops and lucky charms.)
lol I can so relate to this post. My son is only 1.5, but already he gets exposed to food choices he would never even know at home, when he is out at the grandparents, aunts/uncles etc. It’s hard to not just put them in a bubble :s.
Growing up, I was Lulu, screaming for Cocoa Puffs every grocery trip. We got a box once a year, on Christmas! And it was ONLY for dessert
If you give it a Mama Pea makeover, I will be undying grateful. But it must turn the milk into chocolate milk. That is the best part
Ooh, I hear ya!
Man, my grandma used to make me eat steel cut oats and natural peanut butter—on spelt bread. Go figure that’s what I’m eating 20-some-odd years later. Well, maybe not the spelt bread…If I ever have kids, though, I just know my dad is gonna say stuff like, “You mean Mommy doesn’t buy Wonderbread or Skippy Peanut Butter?! Try this kid, you’ll never go back.”
That’s so funny! Go grandma!
bahahaha i just love that she wrote a story about it! i’m not much of a cereal girl (i know that’s rare) and never really liked cocoa puffs anyway, but my hubby swears they are the essence of childhood. methinks that needs to change – and as sad as this is, because i don’t like having cereal boxes in my pantry.
is that weird? probably…
No, not weird! They are huge and take up so much room!
LOL! My mum had it easy with my sister and I when we were kids because I despised chocolatey cereals (I know, I was an odd one). Lucky Charms on the other hand.. I was the type that picked out all the marshmallows, ate the cereal bits, then stuffed the marshmallows in my mouth all at once. I bet my dentist looooved me.
I used to eat a bowl of Lucky Charms before every basketball game in college. I was also ignorant of sports nutrition.
Hmmm…I’ll bet you are hard at work in the Mama Pea Recipea Development Lab creating a healthy version, aren’t you? If you aren’t, can you remake a Pop Tart?
I would be your BFF, I would take pics of the recipea remake…complete with my cats getting in the way…I would plan your book tour stop in Washington, DC (ahem, hint hint for book #2)…. 
Actually…if you came out here, I’ll bet you could score a meeting with the First Lady…
I think Pop Tarts will be easier. I’m all over that!
haha this is hilarious. Does this mean we are going to see a mama pea approved version of cocoa puffs on here soon ?!
Ugh! My son is always asking for those sugar cereals! I try to get him to opt for the organic knockoffs, but I’m not sure there is one for Cocoa Puffs. By the way, I made your Butternut Brownies last weekend and they were amazing! I don’t think I’ll ever make them any other way.
That’s great! I haven’t made those forever! Thanks for the reminder.
My mom feeds Henry and Clara chocolate milk with HFCS. It drives me NUTTY and I’ve commented on it several times. I’ve just decided now to let this one go…and to go on fewer date nights with Travis.
Don’t do that! We need those date nights.
Awww! Lulu’s two favorite things, a puppy and Cocoa Puffs!
Hahaha…your kids are smart ones! How funny! And come to think of it…I don’t think I’ve ever had cocoa puffs. Reeses puffs yes, once…guilty as charged. And I can’t use the whole grain excuse, since it was 15 years ago. haha!
Never had Cocoa Puffs? For shame!
I’ve somehow managed to keep my kids away from Cocoa Puffs… But, my husband loves Fruity Pebbles, and I shudder to think how many varieties of artificial colors are in those things.
It could be worse, Mama Pea. It could always be worse…
I loved Cocoa Pebbles. Mmmm….
I agree– anything chocolate is yummy. And, it’s pretty easy to make chocolate things brown. But making “fruity” stuff rainbow-colored? Scares the heck out of me…
I’m expecting my first, and these are some of the things that keep me up at night… obsessed foodie? Yep.
You gotta love the grandparents. We just did back and to back trips out of town (the longest we’ve been gone) and we got the same reports back. I know this stuff didn’t fly when we were little – so it kinda cracks me up that they are suddenly so lenient. Thankfully we weren’t gone long!
Exactly! I never got sweet cereals as a kid. Kix was about as far as Mom would go.
Ahaha!! That is the besssst story. Your grocery store experience and Lulu’s doggie tale.
that sort of thing would make me mad. I had an aunt that fed me candy for breakfast and all sort of other things that would make 90% of parents upset but it became her thing. i used to go want to be cuckcoo for cocoa puffs too but just from the ad. i don’t think I’ve even tried them!
My 13-year-old son asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could buy him some Cocoa Puffs because he had read about them on some blog or other and he thought they sounded good. I reluctantly agreed to buy him a box for “tasting” purposes, only to find that they’re not available in Canada (at least not in our part of Canada). Whew! Regarding Poptarts–my brother used to fly small planes and was required to carry 7000 calories per person per day for trips as emergency rations. It turns out that the most caloric bang for your buck in the smallest possible package is Poptarts, so that’s what many of the pilots carried–no nutrition, but lots of calories to keep you alive until help arrived. This was back in the ’80s, so things may have changed since then.
That’s fascinating about the pilots! Who knew PopTarts were rocket fuel?
LOL! I can totally relate. I love my in-laws and they are wonderful grandparents…except when it come to feeding my kids. The first thing my boys ask for when they go there is BACON AND EGGS!!! AHHHHH! and my Father in law thinks CHEETOES are an acceptable snack…they are made with cheese, right?
I cringe and try not to freak out. I try to say, “ok, they are so wonderful otherwise and those are special Grandma house treats. ” and I just have to detox them when they come home! LOL!
Yup, I don’t sweat it too much. It’s good for me to not try to micromanage everything and they have such a fun time. It’s worth it!
How old are your girls again? Because I swear I had that exact same conversation with my husband yesterday…
LOL! 4 and 6
Thanks for the laugh! OMG! Tell them/show them they look jsut like bunny poop and are about as good for you. Actually they could get greens through the bunny poop. LOL.
Have you ever made Tal’s (???) Cashew Cream? Concious Cooking I think is what the book is called, you might LOVE IT. Also, wanna vegan Teriyaki (beef)jerky recipe? It was incredible.
I am totally going to call them bunny poop now. I do have Tal’s cookbook, but I haven’t tried many of the recipes yet.
bahahahahaha dying. This is great.
My kids always beg me to buy those crappy cereals! So now when they have a week off for school break, I let them pick whatever ‘junk’ cereal they want. They eat it for three or four days and then they are totally sick of it and want something healthy. It may not be the healthiest way to deal with it, but I think it’s a good way to remind them of what’s really good for their body, especially the way things are marketed towards little ones now a days!
Nope, I think those are the best lessons!
LOL! My husband and I are always fighting over cereal. My mom never let us have it and he grew up on it. So when he goes to the grocery store with a list for cornflakes, granola etc somehow we get frosted flakes and fruit loops and my kids go NUTS for fruit loops now.
Soo funny, Mama Pea! You inspired me to write my own entry on this topic as I am getting ready to go on a trip as well. ck it out if you get a chance: http://bananboatsandcabbagepatches.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-happens-in-vegas.html. I thought we were going to get a recipe following this story,but the story alone is good enough.Welcome back home.
Glad the story was good enough
Hahahhaha! My dad does the same thing with my little one. I let him take her for a Peanut/ Papa day last year and she came back with a horrible belly ache. Found out he had taken her to Jack in the Box and let her eat a taco and a Large Chocolate Milkshake!!!! She was 3 at the time!!!
Oh my goodness! Her poor tummy!
Lol! That’s too funny…
Cocoa puffs (pops, in Australia, actually) in my house when i was a kid were air-popped corn and puffed millet coated in a bit of cocoa and icing sugar, and Mum only ever made it when we’d been wearing her down for months and she finally cracked. When we were teenagers my brother actually got a box of cocoa pops for a Christmas present, because that’s how much of a treat they were haha
I will have to try that! We were just talking about puffing millet today
you know what you got yourself into now, don´t you? There is no other possibility for you than to make those cocoa puffs (with whole grains, of course!)
I know, right?
I can’t stop laughing! This is so my life!
Oh man, i laughed heartily at this as i’m the exact same thing played out (with myself playing the role of Gigi/Lulu) approximately 20 years ago. You should be warned, though: the minute I had unhindered access to the grocery store, i pretty much went on a year-long “sugar cereal” bender (cookie crisp! cap’n crunch! frosted flakes!). and while i eventually realized that they made me feel like total sh!t, daaaamn they tasted good. Perhaps a mamapea recreation is in order? (Though I don’t blame you if this recipe ends up in the “dessert” section of your site rather than “breakfast”).
That is so funny! I can’t wait to see your Wannabe recipe for Cocoa Puffs!
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. The puppy story puts it over the top. I am also disappointed that there isn’t a healthy cocoa puffs recipe.
Thank you for always making me laugh when I need it! I died at the Cocoa Puff running in circles dog.
I had a kid in my class yell at me yesterday because I switched out the candy in the communal candy dish for organic fruit snacks & gluten-free pretzels.”MRS. S I NEEED SUGARRRRRR!” Sugar + kids is a scary combo.
That was my main thought–why should I worry about it, Mom was the one who had to deal with them
Thankfully your kids didn’t have to wear their hair on top of their heads. Horrible look.
Do you count calories? If you so how many do you eat a day? Do you eat 3 main meals or 5-6 small meals?
haha…damn you sneaky marketing campaigns!!! Just proves how addictive sugar can be hey. If only they made good marketing campaigns for apples and oatmeal! Maybe a compromise of oats mixed with cocoa would win them over the time being??? stay strong mama p!
This is exactly why I hate marketing! I might use this as a side story for when I’m trying to communicate to people why I have a problem with marketing to children. P.S. I’m a public health nerd
Oh, sugary cereals!
We didn’t allow many in the house when I was growing up, although a few made their way into our cabinets as I got older. I still remember coming to college and finding 6 glorious varieties of cereal dispensers lined up in the cafeteria every day; it was there that I got my first taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and re-discovered Lucky Charms and Froot Loops for the first time since childhood breakfasts at friends’ houses. Ever since then, I’ve treated cereal as dessert (since it doesn’t keep me full in the morning anyway). I’m grateful to my parents for not instilling in me the habit of calling sugary desserts “breakfast” just by pouring them into a bowl of milk!
Now I’m craving Lucky Charms for dessert…
Kari reporting here live after the incidence in the big box. It was so wonderful to actually finally run into you…what I mean is to actually say hello after avoiding you a couple times at Trader Joe’s when I had not quite showered (not to say I was actually showered on this occasion, just that I realized it was silly and vain to not say hello). I can assure you that although I heard the sweet chatter, I had no idea she was pleading for the hfcs balls of joy. My 3 Littles have trained me how to not miss a chance for brief moments of adult conversation and her words buzzed right over my head. Might have also missed it because I was obsessing over my coupons, free paper towels, and my 60 cent Merona shirts.
http://www.twinmamaloves.com/2012/01/23/big-fred-meyers-target-and-michaels-trip-aka-the-best-bargain-trip-ever/
I HATE cottage cheese too. Like really really can’t hardly even think about it. It is my #1 won’t touch food.
We ran into your husband at lunch today at Venti’s (or small box restaurant). For as little as I get out it is surprising how often we all are running into each other. A little 3rd and Bird told me they have lunch on the books for next week. Maybe we can crash it.
But who will watch the kids if we crash lunch? I know, we’ll leave them at home with an open box of Cocoa Puffs.
Thanks for saying hi yesterday!
“Incidence is a measure of the risk of developing some new condition within a specified period of time. Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during some time period, it is better expressed as a proportion or a rate.”
Often used when referring to likelihood of catching pink eye off of one of those little carts at Trader Joe’s.
INCIDENT-the word I was really trying to type.
The lasagna looks delicious…going to try for dinner!
You should, it’s fabulous!
Love the story! My parents got a similar surprise when I went crazy one time when they walked me by the corner store on the way to my grandma’s house. ‘Blue house! Blue house! Blue house with candy!!’ Yup I spilled our ‘secret’ candy sprees without a second thought…gotta love grandparents
Ps. Lasagna looks amazing!
No need to recreate – Ashley already did it with the popped amaranth + cocoa. I made it, tried it and loved it. You can’t go wrong, even with the almond milk in there. It tastes like dessert. Just tell the girls that they are Mini cocoa puffs!
Awesome! I will have to do it!
I’m an 80s baby so I know a little about old school cereals. Someone please tell me that I’m not the only person who realized the difference with cocoa puffs. They’re smaller now. Back then they were bigger. Like the size of Reese’s puffs? I know I’m not crazy. Lol..