Realizing that not everyone who comes to stay at my house likes the same cereal I do, I usually try to have multiple breakfast options for them. In the past, this sometimes meant buying boxes of cereal that I didn’t like and then forcing myself to eat what was left in the box when the company left after only a day or two. I couldn’t throw it away because that was a waste of money.

The solution is samples.

When I see a cereal offer, I sign up. That way I usually have at least a couple samples in the house for my company to choose from. Unless, of course, I eat the sample myself.

Here’s the latest cereal freebie I came across.

Target is offering a sample of Bear Naked Nut Cluster Crunch cereal.

Go to http://samples.target.com/#63. You do have to take a quick survey with eight questions related to things like your eating habits, activity level and how you heard about the sample. You should get it in eight to 10 weeks, the site says.