About a year ago I came home late from a night of drinking with a bad case of the munchies. I had nothing better to eat so I poured myself a nice big-ole bowl of Grape-Nuts cereal.
No problem!!
The next morning when I awoke, I poured myself another bowl for breakfast. Problem!!
Thanks to the light of day I noticed that quite a few of my Grape-Nuts were floating.
Hmmmmmm…
Upon further review I realized that they were not floating pieces of cereal but nasty little ant-like BUGS!!
I quickly dumped the bowl in the toilet and threw the box outside into the garbage to only later realize later in the day that I must have swallowed about 50 of those suckers the night before… Awwgh!!
Since then I have always made sure to keep one of those oversized “BAG CLIPS” on all of my cereal and I always do a pre bug check on any box of cereal that sits more than a week. What can I say…? That freaked me out!!
Last night while getting ready to eat another bowl of Grape-Nuts and regardless of my “BAG CLIP”, guess what I found floating in there again???
There is no way that over a hundred more bugs could have Houdinied their way past my defenses.
What gives?
I checked all of the other cereal boxes and other foodstuffs in the area and all came up uncontaminated.
Has anyone else had unwanted friends over for a Grape-Nut breakfast??
I find it real odd that with all of the cereal I eat this has happened to me twice with the same product.
were they alive.
lots of different bugs live in cereal, rice and pasta all harmless just a bit crunchy.
I once had a pack of pasta that was crawling with the little suckers still alive i disgarded the pack but essentially weavils live in these things and when you cook rice or pasta they die you strain the stuff and they are gone, i wouldnt worry.
I keep all my cereal and rice in air tight jars but theres always an occasional little blighter in there but my guess would be weavils. just chill it happens you probably eat heaps of bugs in other things and dont even notice, its just a little extra protien.
Zaphod
Those bugs likely were hatched and spent their entire lives in that box of cereal, so they didn’t need to get past your bag clip.
… I forgot to mention: One way to avoid having this happen to you again is to put any cereal or rice or etc in the freezer overnight when you first bring it home. Kills the eggs.
Both times they were the same type of bug and both times they were all dead. The weird thing is that I took the clear bag out of the box and gave it a rather good inspection and then again before I added the milk. (I’m still paranoid about the whole ordeal a year).
The bugs only make themselves visible because they float. After dumping the bowl I went back again to inspect the bag and couldn’t find any sign of them. It’s almost like they are somehow inside of the grains of cereal and the milk releases them. I don’t think that there is much of a health problem with it but it is straight up fuckin nasty to realize you just got a lot more protein for breakfast then you ever wanted!!
Thanks for the tip but…
** I don’t want to eat the eggs either!!!
I just want cereal damn it!!**
This is my question. Where the bugs or eggs bagged and boxed at the factory??
Or did they somehow get in later??
That’s my problem. If they got there after. ohhh well that sucks but if I bought them prepackaged then there is a few laws being broken here!!
I am hoping to find out that more people have made the same disgusting discovery.
I have my doubts about coincidences.
Weevils can seem to magically appear in everything! I’m surprised that your Grape Nuts are the only thing they have infested.
Unfortunately, once your cabinets become infested with weevils, you will probably have to empty it out, dispose of all grain products, and fumigate it in order to get rid of them. If you don’t, they will continue to infest any grain products you put in there.
If you bought the two cereals from the same store, the problem may be emanating from them. Inform the manager of the recurring problem so the store can take proper measures.
Bolding mine.
I may be mistaken but I think the bugs are in all types of grain. Cereal, flour, oatmeal all have bugs in them from the production process. Most of the bugs are dormant unless left too long in the cupboard. I would guess that you use most of the other grains in your house often enough to not notice but GrapeNuts may be left in the cupboard longer.
Don’t fret. There’s a lot worse things to eat than bugs in your grain products.
I am soooo gonna have to learn to type faster! 
Thank you for that. I used to love pizza.
Parahrasing a snippet of wisdom I once read in this boards, if the bugs were born in the box, by the time they´ve grown up are probably 99% GrapedNuts themselves. 
Ejem… I´d better paraphrase that. :o
It’s also possible that the bugs aren’t coming from the people at the Grape Nuts factory, but that they live in your cupboard. They’re not going anywhere because hey, you keep bringing them food.
Try bringing home a fresh box of Grape Nuts and dumping the cereal in an airtight container such as Tupperware. Tear the lid off (the part of the box that says Grape Nuts) and wedge it against the front of the container so you don’t forget what’s in there.
I keep all of my dry goods (sugar, flour, pasta) in airtight Tupperware containers.
Well, I was also traumatized by my Grape Nuts. Thanks for dredging up hideous old memories!
I was in college and on some weekend morning I was scrounging for food. I looked at the box of Grape Nuts and said “Sure, I’ll be healthy this morning after all those beers last night”. I poured myself a bowl and before I put in the milk I noticed something strange.
Was I seeing things? Was I still drunk? No and no. My Grape Nuts were MOVING. The pile of pebbles was animate! Upon closer inspection I noticed that it was the many, many small maggot-like life-forms infesting my bowl that were moving. Tiny, white three-millimeter long worms. I then looked into the box and sure enough the Grape Nuts in the box had also been endowed with life.
I threw them all away and stayed away from Grape Nuts for at least five years.
I’ve since gone back to them (9 years and counting) with no other traumatic experiences. I think I can attribute the infestation to my grimy college cupboard, and not the cereal itself.
But I STILL inspect my bowl of Grape Nuts for movement before I add the milk. Every time. Maybe twice after reading this thread. 
Damn, time to start looking at that no-carb diet!
I can add to this story. A couple of years ago, I bought a dozen or so packages of Raman noodles. I ate 4-5 of the packages over the next week and left the rest in the cupboard.
A year later, I found them again and took one out. The package was still sealed when I opened it and dumped it into the bowl. As you must have guessed by now, I found a couple of dozen dead maggot-looking bugs. Barf me out!
I tried three more packages before I found one that was bug free. The funny thing was that all the packages were still sealed (I dunked a few of the packages in water for a half hour to verify the seal).
I tend to agree with the egg theory mentioned earlier in the thread.
Once weevils (“cupboard bugs”) get into your dry food, they will spread. See Cillasi’s post.
The eggs hatch into tiny grubs, which hatch into small flying insects that look like 1/8" moths. At the right stages, they can drill through cardboard and plastic, work their way through tiny cracks, and somewhere I read they could go through aluminum foil (I suppose through the cracks). Do throw out all your packages of cereal, flour, cornmeal, cookies, etc, and thoroughly clean the cupboards. If you want to cheat on that, freeze or bake the boxes and clean the cupboards; it worked for me the last time. I dump my cereal into sealable-top plastic jars now, and haven’t seen them lately.
Your ancestors ate a lot of insects–parts, whole, and even on purpose. Gov’t inspection keeps them way below what they were 50-100 years ago.
Basic cleanness and dumping antique food is a good habit.
I wouldn’t expect them to be coming from the Grape-Nuts factory or any other processor, not on a regular basis. Most likely Ms Weevil got to the box somewhere between the factory and your kitchen.
They are certianly not Weevils although I don’t know what they are. I’m going to do some experimentation with Grape-Nuts “spontanious generation” and tupperware.
Louis Pasteur, eat your heart out!!!
I’ll be back!!
Weevils ate my table!
Back when I had a hamster, I kept her cage on a nice end table with her huge bag of grain next to it. After it had sat there for several months, I picked up the bag only to have the grain spill out of hundreds of tiny holes!
It turns out the grain was infested with weevils, which had eaten their way through the bag and bored holes into the table, ruining it.
I was relieved, however, to finally know where all the ugly bugs that kept flying through my house came from…