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Perth Now
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Kyle MacLachlan 'would love' to appear in And Just Like That
Kyle MacLachlan "would love" to appear in And Just Like That. The 66-year-old actor portrayed Charlotte York's ex-husband Trey MacDougal in Sex and the City but he turned down an initial approach to come back for the spin-off show because he felt there should be "more" than what the writers pitched. He told Us Weekly magazine: 'Listen, I would love to come back and have fun. 'And what they suggested to me, I said, 'I think there should be more. So I just said, 'I wonder, if the relationship that Charlotte and Trey had demands a little more than their first idea.' " While Kyle - who has his own wine company, Pursued by Bear - didn't give any detail as to what a potential return would have involved, he thinks Trey would be going through a "very interesting" time in his life now. He said: 'It'd be very interesting. I had suggested that Trey has maybe moved to Napa and has a very successful winery and label there — you can see where I'm going with this. "But no, I actually haven't said anything yet. Regardless. The show's doing great. They're all lovely. And I adore them.' While there are no current plans for an appearance in And Just Like That, the former Twin Peaks star is busy working on a new podcast. He said: 'I have a podcast that's going to be dropping in September called 'What Are We Even Doing?' 'I'm interviewing young creatives and getting to know their world, basically, and the creative process that's important to them, how they use social media and coming at it from [the] perspective of an old guy.' Kyle recently joked he would have preferred to play Cynthia Nixon's alter ego, tough lawyer Miranda Hobbes, in Sex and the City. He told Us Weekly: "I would've loved to play Sex and the City's Miranda Hobbes. Alas, I was never asked to audition." Meanwhile, the Flintstones actor is a keen chef outside of work and revealed that while he is mostly made up of coffee and wine and goes to great lengths in the kitchen but his favourite food is just a basic cereal. He said: "My body liquid is made up primarily of coffee and wine. Some say this is alarming, but I'm reframing it as product research. If I'm cooking, my favourite food is lamb. If someone else is cooking, my favourite food is Cap'n Crunch. "If I was reincarnated, I'd come back as my dog, Elvis. Treats, belly rubs and endless hours hearing me talk about coffee and pie?."
Time of India
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
NYT Connections answers and hints for June 11, 2025: Puzzle #731 clues, word groups, tricky connections, and smart strategy to solve today's challenge
NYT Connections answers for June 11 bring a fun mix of challenge and nostalgia in puzzle #731. With themes like boasting, arc-shaped things, cereal mascots, and citation symbols, today's game kept players guessing till the end. If you're a fan of Cap'n Crunch or ever used a dagger in citations, this puzzle was made for you. It's a perfect mix of clever clues and surprising links. Want to boost your win streak or learn what tripped most players up today? Dive into the full breakdown with helpful tips, group explanations, and strategies to beat tomorrow's puzzle, too. NYT Connections answers for June 11 puzzle #731 feature tricky categories from cereal mascots to citation symbols. Get the full breakdown, clues, and smart strategies to boost your score and solve the puzzle faster with today's complete Connections hints. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads What are the color-coded hints for today's NYT Connections? 🟨 Yellow (easy): boast boast 🟩 Green (medium): arc-shaped things arc-shaped things 🟦 Blue (hard): cereal mascots cereal mascots 🟪 Purple (tough): ways to denote a citation How do we identify each word group? What are all the answers for puzzle #731? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads 🟨 Boast : bluster, crow, show off, strut : bluster, crow, show off, strut 🟩 Arc-shaped things : banana, eyebrow, flight path, rainbow : banana, eyebrow, flight path, rainbow 🟦 Cereal mascots : count, elves, leprechaun, rooster : count, elves, leprechaun, rooster 🟪 Citation symbols: asterisk, dagger, number, parens Why did the yellow group focus on bragging words? What made the green group all about arcs? Who are the cereal mascots in the blue group? Count (Count Chocula) Elves (Snap, Crackle & Pop from Rice Krispies) Leprechaun (Lucky the Leprechaun from Lucky Charms) Rooster (Cornelius from Kellogg's Corn Flakes) Why were citation symbols such a tough purple group? What's new with NYT Connections features and scoring? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads How can you solve future NYT Connections puzzles more effectively? Say the words out loud — This helps spot common phrases. Don't go for the obvious first — Sometimes the trickiest groups look the easiest. Break down compound words — Think of words like 'Rushmore' as 'Rush' + 'More'. Use the shuffle button — This can give you a fresh view on stubborn words. Practice daily — The more puzzles you solve, the sharper your pattern recognition becomes. On today's NYT Connections puzzle FAQs: The NYT Connections answers for June 11 are finally here, and if you're one of the thousands who struggled with today's purple group, you're not alone. Puzzle #731 gave players a fun mix of categories — some straightforward, others a bit sneaky — including sugary cereal mascots and college citation symbols. Whether you're a daily solver or just getting started, we've got a complete breakdown of all hints, answers, and helpful tips to keep your streak Connections puzzle gives you four hints tied to colored difficulty levels:These clues help you zoom in on the right word groups without revealing answers outright. Knowing their order—from easiest to hardest—can guide your guess with what's easiest: yellow is all about boasting or showing off—think crow and strut. Green links arc‑shaped items like rainbow or flight path. Blue is cereal mascots like Leprechaun and Rooster. Purple is the trickiest: symbols used for citations, like asterisk and parens. When puzzles mix themes like snack mascots and grammar marks, they stay creative and keep us on our are the full sets for today's Connections:Spotting one category often clears the way to the next, so build yellow group today circled around the theme of boasting — a concept easy to recognize once you see the words lined up. Terms like bluster, crow, show off, and strut all evoke images of someone flaunting their success or trying to gain attention. In Connections, yellow categories tend to be the most straightforward, helping players ease into the set had a more visual theme — banana, eyebrow, flight path, and rainbow all describe things that naturally form an arc. It was a good test of whether players were thinking beyond literal meanings and visualizing each term. This kind of grouping often rewards lateral thinking, a skill that's becoming more important as the puzzles evolve you grew up eating sugary cereal, this group may have felt nostalgic. The blue category featured famous cereal mascots:This theme brought a playful vibe to the puzzle and offered a fun challenge for players to match characters to their breakfast purple group, traditionally the hardest, focused on ways to denote citations. These included asterisk, dagger, number, and parens (short for parentheses). Many solvers found this group challenging because the terms can easily blend into other contexts — for instance, dagger might make someone think of weapons, not kind of abstract grouping is where many players get stuck, especially when the words seem unrelated at first glance. But that's the twist — the New York Times loves to test knowledge outside of just New York Times recently launched a Connections Bot, similar to the Wordle bot, to help registered players track their stats. This feature lets users analyze their win streaks, perfect scores, total puzzles played, and more. It's becoming a popular tool for puzzle fans who enjoy measuring their daily to the NYT Games section, this helps build a sense of community around the game and provides more ways to improve over are a few tips that keep showing up from veteran players and the NYT Games editors:The NYT Connections answers for June 11 offered a smart mix of vocabulary, visual concepts, and cultural references. From cereal mascots to citation symbols, puzzle #731 was full of variety and a decent challenge for solvers of all levels. As the Times continues evolving its Games section, it's clear that Connections has joined Wordle and the Mini Crossword as must-play morning rituals for puzzle tuned for tomorrow's Connections hints and answers — and don't forget to check out the Wordle and Strands updates June 11 puzzle includes boasting words, arc-shaped items, cereal mascots, and citation for patterns, say words aloud, and use the shuffle to refresh your view.
Chicago Tribune
04-06-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
In the land of cereal, Minnesota's breakfast upstarts offer substitute for Lucky Charms, Froot Loops
Hannah Barnstable remembers browsing through the cereal aisle at her local grocery store as a child, feasting her eyes upon colorful boxes of breakfast staples like Cocoa Puffs, Trix and Cap'n Crunch. Decades later, when she was readying to open her own cereal company, she had a moment of déjà vu. 'When we got started, I had this epiphany: How could the cereal aisle look exactly the same as it did when I was a kid?' said the founder and CEO of Seven Sundays. Cereal brands like hers would end up irrevocably altering the industry, which has seen sugary standards fade while expensive-but-healthy options have surged. One local breakfast industry player calls it a 'renaissance.' Parker Brook, the founder of Edina, Minnesota-based Lovebird Foods, left General Mills after the birth of his daughter to make organic cereal without grains or refined sugars. Never mind inflation, shoppers are shelling out up to $10 for a box that lists all the ingredients right on the front. Since 2019, Lovebird sales have doubled every year. 'People are willing to pay more for quality,' Brook said. 'Especially in a category like cereal that historically has been dominated by the few.' The four largest players in cereal — General Mills, Kellogg, Post Consumer Brands and Quaker Oats — still control 80% of the $11 billion retail cereal market. But they all continued to sell less cereal over the past year, according to retail sales data from Circana. The fastest-growing brands are often the most expensive, meanwhile, and tend toward 'clean labels' with lower sugar, higher protein and no additives. 'You're paying more for ingredients,' Brook said. 'So I think it's less sticker shock for people. It's more like, 'Hey, I know what I'm getting. I'm getting what I pay for,' vs. paying for some advertising budget for Nickelodeon or for these other cereal companies.' Cereal has long been slipping as younger generations turn on the century-old breakfast staple. After a brief resurgence during pandemic lockdowns, the industry's big players are back to managed decline. Then comes the health-and-wellness trend reshaping food and beverages, which has folks opening their wallets for less-processed options. Brook said the cereal aisle is one of the last parts of the grocery store to really feel that shift. 'It's a massive category,' he said, 'and I think it's due for some new entrants.' Seven Sundays started selling muesli at farmers markets more than a decade ago. Now the Minneapolis-based company is in 7,000 stores around the country. Recently hitting shelves at Target and Costco, the brand has found quick growth alongside other increasingly mainstream natural cereal brands like Magic Spoon, Catalina Crunch and Three Wishes. 'We've heard from people, 'Thank you, I haven't had cereal in a year,'' Barnstable said. 'There was a lack of incremental ideas that are truly going to bring new sales down that aisle.' Like Lovebird, Seven Sundays has seen sales more than double year over year since the pandemic. 'This is why we quit our jobs to start Seven Sundays,' Barnstable said about the accelerating trend toward 'better-for-you' options. 'Real food actually tastes better.' The overall decline of cereal is not about price increases in recent years, she contends. 'It doesn't matter what the price of Cheerios is anymore; it's just not something some consumers are as willing to purchase because of all the stuff we all know about heavily processed, genetically modified ingredients, artificial dyes and sugar,' she said. On average, leading cereal brands are leaning into taste rather than health. A study of cereal trends published in JAMA Open Network Wednesday showed 'concerning nutritional shifts: notable increases in fat, sodium and sugar alongside decreases in protein and fiber' since 2010. That prevailing trend in mainstream cereal is running counter to political pressure from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, which is casting ultra-processed foods in a negative light. The federal MAHA Commission recently issued a scathing report blaming the nation's food supply, and other issues, for chronic disease. With that kind of messaging targeting foods like cereal, 'no lower price is going to drive somebody to go back,' Barnstable said. 'It has to be something completely new.' Food industry veteran John Haugen sees several factors altering the landscape: the changing food preferences of millennials and Gen Z, advancements in food science and the national conversation around ultra-processed foods. 'Regardless of what the policy changes are that actually happen,' he said, 'it's creating discussion and visibility where consumers are taking a minute to say, 'Hey, what is in my food?'' Haugen is the managing partner of SEMCAP Food + Nutrition, a growth-stage private equity firm, as well as the founder and former longtime leader of 301 Inc. at General Mills. He led investment into granola brand Purely Elizabeth at SEMCAP and while at 301 Inc. Among ready-to-eat cereal brands Circana tracks, which includes granola, Purely Elizabeth had the biggest growth through the past year: a 65% jump in sales. The 16-year-old Colorado company now leads the granola category. 'Consumers are connecting with the authenticity of these small brands,' Haugen said. 'Legacy food brands in general were built before the digital age, versus the up-and-coming food brands of today built with a more direct relationship with the consumer.' That's not to say the big players are missing out entirely: Cascadian Farm is a recognizable organic brand with the heft of a multinational corporation behind it. The General Mills-owned organic label saw retail cereal sales jump 13% in the past year, while Big G cereals including Cheerios and Trix fell 4%. 'Cascadian Farm has seen strong growth across both granola and non-granola cereal varieties,' the company said. 'General Mills is also seeing brands that deliver protein perform well, including our recently launched Cheerios Protein and Ghost Protein Cereal varieties.' Even with the overall decline, sugary cereals aren't going away; they're still very profitable, just a little less so each year. And Post Consumer Brands is the leading producer of private-label (store-brand) cereals, which saw a 2% rise in the past year and have nearly doubled market share in the past five years. Post Holdings Chief Operating Officer Jeff Zadoks recently told analysts the company expects to keep making money as the category slowly shrinks. 'The objective is to do our best to manage our cost to maintain the profitability,' he said. 'So if we can get the category to more of that historic decline, we think that those actions would enable us to maintain our margins.' Yet while many analysts opine on operational efficiencies and promotional investments needed to keep the category afloat, Barnstable sees a fundamental shift in cereal and in food in general. 'Consumers are reading ingredients. They're learning from social media, for better or worse, some of the issues going on in food,' she said. 'But you always have to lead with taste. You can't just go correct a problem and not focus on taste.'
Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Quaker Oats class action lawsuit settlement: Here's a list of products eligible for refunds
Quaker Oats has agreed to pay out $6.75 million to settle the lawsuit that claimed it misled consumers by selling some snacks and cereals as safe, although they were actually contaminated with salmonella. Notably, the lawsuit was filed after the recalls of several Quaker products in December 2023 and January 2024. Concerns led to the recall because several packages were produced at a facility that tested positive for salmonella. Quaker hasn't admitted to any wrongdoing, but it has agreed to a settlement. Now, if you purchased one or more of the recalled products, you may be eligible for a full or partial refund. ALSO READ| Obama divorce rumors ramp up after Michelle gets 'flirty' with billionaire: 'If I were single… With proof of purchase (such as receipts), you can receive a full refund of the recalled items you bought. Without proof, you can still get a refund for up to two products, based on average retail price, plus 10% for sales tax. If you have already received a reimbursement from Quaker, that amount will be deducted from your settlement. Deadline to submit a claim: June 27, 2025 Deadline to opt out or object: June 27, 2025 Final approval hearing: August 4, 2025 ALSO READ| US dad stumped by son's 5th grade math quiz, internet reacts to confusing homework Granola Bars & Dipps Quaker Big Chewy Bars (Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Bars (multiple flavors including Chocolate Chip, S'mores, Oatmeal Raisin, Less Sugar varieties, and holiday editions) Quaker Chewy Dipps (Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Mini Dipps (Birthday Blast, Summer Night S'mores) Fruity Fun Granola Bars (Amazing Apple, Splendid Strawberry, Variety Pack) Yogurt Granola Bars (Strawberry, Blueberry, Variety Packs) Cereals Quaker Puffed Granola (Apple Cinnamon, Blueberry Vanilla) Quaker Simply Granola (Oats, Honey & Almonds; Oats, Honey, Raisins & Almonds) Quaker Protein Granola (Oats, Chocolate & Almonds) Quaker Oatmeal Squares (Cinnamon, Brown Sugar, Honey Nut, Variety Pack) Quaker Chewy Granola Breakfast Cereal (Chocolate, Strawberry, Variety Pack) Snack Packs & Mixes Quaker Chocolatey Favorites Snack Mix Quaker On The Go Snack Mix Frito-Lay & Quaker variety snack packs (including Lunch Box Mix, Snack Time Favorites, Ultimate Flavor Snack Care Package) Cap'n Crunch Products Cap'n Crunch Cereals (OOPS! All Berries, Cinnamon Crunch, Sea Berry Crunch) Cap'n Crunch Instant Oatmeal (Regular, OOPS! All Berries, Variety Pack) Cap'n Crunch Treats Bars (Crunch Berries, Peanut Butter Crunch, Original Crunch, Variety Pack) ALSO READ| Australian MP pours beer into his sneakers, drinks it. All about the drinking tradition Shoey Other Gatorade Protein Bars (Peanut Butter Chocolate) Gamesa Cereal (Gamesa Marias)
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Pioneer Woman' Ree Drummond Reveals 'Dumb' Baking Hack for 'Delicious' Cookies
just shared her go-to baking hack for making super special and "delicious" cookies to honor a recent graduate, but honestly, this trick is a game-changer for all birthdays and celebrations going forward. Over the weekend, The Pioneer Woman uploaded a video of herself baking several batches of her favorite chocolate chip recipe–just without any chocolate chips, and no, she wasn't going for the chipless chocolate chip cookie, either. Instead of chocolate chips, she suggested using your preferred cookie recipe as a base and taking "your kid's favorite cereal and candy" and stirring it into the mix, similar to a Kitchen Sink Cookie, without caramel or toffee (unless you want it). In the video, the Food Network personality appeared to be using a combination of Cap'n Crunch cereal, broken pretzel pieces, chopped dark chocolate, mini peanut butter cups and M&M's. Related: Once the cookies are cool, Ree said to "ice them with chocolate or vanilla frosting (whatever your graduate likes,) then sprinkle more of everything on top." Though the cookbook author admits the hack is "kinda dumb," she also promises it's a "fun" and "delicious" ode to whoever you're celebrating. "Might as well send 'em into their future happy!!!" she quipped. Fans agreed, with one top-liked comment cheering, "this looks amazing! What a fun idea!🤤." "This looks so yummy 😍," a second gushed. "I've done this with Halloween candy," another admitted. "It's a great way to use it up. 🙌🏻." As for Ree's exact cookie recipe, she said fans can recreate it by following the instructions laid out in her "Totally Terrific Cookies for Todd." Next:
