The best tasting cereal was the early 1960's recipe for Post Oat Flakes, prior to Post reformulating the recipe as Post Fortified Oatflakes.

OMG someone else who ate these! My brother and I loved this cereal. Another of the "why did they stop making it" questions.

We were just talking about cereals at work and my all time favorite was Post Fortified Oat Flakes ... anyone know how we can get them to make them again???? Nothing compares.

I LOVE THIS CEREAL! My sister and I used to eat this for dessert! I have looked for this cereal for a long time. Sadly, it isn't to be found. Why? I wish Post would reissue this again.

I thought I was the only person in the world that loved this cereal too. I agree bring back Oat Flakes!!! I get Oat Flakes Flashbacks every now and then. Maybe we need to start a Oak withdrawl user group?

I too miss Fortified Oat Flakes. Everytime I'm in the cereal isle, I look in the hopes of finding them. I loved them as a kid and an adult. I have tried all the other oat flake type cereals, they taste NOTHING like Fortified Oat Flakes. I have thrown countless full boxes of imposters away. I rarely ate any other cereal if I didn't have to. I now almost never eat cereal now, the occasional Cheerio, but it has to have a banana on it to give it some flavor!!

Try Whole Foods 365 brand of Oat Flakes. Tastes exactly how I remember Post's Fortified Oat Flakes only the 365 brand is a little thicker (crunchier). Of course it's been 25-30 years since I've eaten FOF and I've tried to match that flavor for a long time. I think I've done it with the Whole Foods brand.

I loved Oat Flakes!! Come cereal cos., produce them again, but do not adulterated with sugars, berries and lumps of crap. Just a plain and simple FLAKE!!

I ate a box a week and my Dad told me I was a pig. After I convinced him to try them he would buy 2 boxes at Grocery time. POST>>>>PLEASE MAKE THEM AGAIN!!!!!!

I too thought that Oat Flakes was the best cereal ever. I have been looking for them all over, and feel that the new oat cereals are just the same. I'm glad to see others felt the same way. What would it take for Post (or someone else) to make them again?

THEY WERE THE BEST, PLEASE BRING THEM BACK THEY WOULD MAKE A GREAT STIMULUS PACKAGE MAYBE THE GOVERNMENT CAN STEP IN, AT LEAST WE WOULD ENJOY SWALLOWING THAT ONE!!!HA,HA

I loved this cereal. I use to eat it for breakfast and even dinner. It had the best taste, yet it was simple. I wish that Post would bring it back with exactly the same taste as I remember it. Why change a good thing!

I used to love this cereal growing up in the 60's and early 70's. Wish they would bring it back!!!

I have written Post in the past and they said they had no plans to re-introduce Oat Flakes, but maybe if enough of us write they'll listen. Here is a link to the Post Cereals comment page: http://www.postcereals.com/contact/

Bring back post oat flakes. Also rice krinkles too

I loved oat flakes definitely one of the best tasting cereals ever! i've tried other oat cereals nothing has the taste of those oat flakes, bring em back!!

If we could get our FOF back we could take less Prozac! Please! Get us our Fortified Oat Flakes! And thanks to Ali for the Whole Foods 365 suggestion - I'll try those.

I'm an RN who works in Battle Creek, MI (Kellogg's headquarters). Somehow we got into a discussion one day about cereal...you should have seen the look on one of the patient's face (a former Kellogg executive) when I mentioned that my favorite cereal of all time was "Post" Fortified Oat Flakes. Anyway, I'm all for a letter-writing campaign to bring them back. There's nothing like them. I'll try the Whole Foods 365 suggestion, too, but I'm not so sure anything could ever be as good as the real thing!

Maggie - if you're still there- what was the look on the executive's face? Surprise? Dismay? Did he even know the product? I've actually contact the corporation but I keep getting shuffled to cs drones that just answer with boilerplate about discontinued products. Frustrating.

I LOVED POST OAT FLAKES! I would definitely buy them This is a product that would sell.

I could eat bowl after bowl of this stuff. Go outside and play, come back and eat more. The taste was so good and satisfying. Why is this no longer made. Any cereal maker have a clue?

The best cereal ever made -- I've eaten cereal practically every day of my life and I have never had a better one than Post Fortified Oat Flakes. I started eating them as a child in the '60s and was thrilled when they came back during the "oat bran craze" -- I'd love another shot at them!

Try contacting www.vermontcountrystore.com, a self-advertising purveyor of hard to find items. Maybe if enough people request Fortified Oat Flakes, they will be able to convince Post to make a batch for us die-hard lovers of this fabulous tasting cereal!

This is by far the BEST cereal EVER, I mean EVER. Post please bring it back.

I loved ths cereal and keep hoping they bring it back. Never expected to find anything on the internet about it but thought I would try. Was surprised to find this site. Anyone know who we could write to see if we could get them to bring it back even as a limited time? Glad to see others loved this cereal too!

Left a comment at Post Cereals site. Found the link on another website for Fortified Oak flakes but they won't let you post it here. You can go to the Post site and the comments and leave your suggestion.

I use to eat them three times a day! The best cereal ever!

Perhaps Post would bring the treasured flake back under another name and marketing scheme. Let's help them move the process with suggestions: CholesterOs? Great Lakes Flakes? Nutriflakes? WholeOats? For the kids: butterfries, snowflakes, Leaves, sweetsie flakes, Sparkles, sugar snackums? Join the fun and take some credit when this sacred cereal revives!!! Let's hear those ideas!

How about the name: "Honey Bunches of Oats: Just Oat Flakes". Post is kind of lazy. Just look at all of the variations on Honey Bunches of Oats. It shows no creativity at all. They even tried bringing back several old cereals under the banner of Post Toasties. To me, Post Toasties were corn flakes, and nothing else. They are bastardizing the name.

BEST CEREAL EVER!!!!! LOVED it as a kid, ate it all the time!!! Did they ever have a Fortified Wheat Flakes version cuz for some reason, I swear they did! Either way, Post needs to bring this cereal back!!!!!!!!

I sadly look in the cereal aisle every time I go to the store, knowing I won't see the little box of PFOF. I loved them. They WERE the best tasting cereal ever. And for kids to love them like they did... well, that oughta say something right there! BRING 'EM BACK!!!

I also sadly walk down the grocery isles longing to see post oat flakes and maypo hot cereal. Please bring them back?

When my mother used to let me do the family grocery shopping for her, I was allowed to get Post Oat Flakes instead of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Oh how happy my brother and sister and I were -- but only until the next week. We could NEVER get enough. I SWORE I buy "zillions" when I "grew up" but Post, silly Post, stopped making them. Why don't they (or whichever company now owns Post) WISE UP now? Please? Please????

I wish Post would make this cereal again. It was the best. Plain & simple but delicious. I have not found any cereal that tastes as great as Oat Flakes did. Please Bring the Back!!

I really would love to be able to buy this cereal. It was THE BEST! There is NOTHING like it out there now sadly!

I used to buy Fortified Oat Flakes and loved them! I wish Post would bring them back. In the mean time I've found that Nature's Path brand Oaty Bites have a very similar taste. I've found Oaty Bites at Whole Foods but imagine they can be found at most stores that carry Nature's Path cerials. HTH Steve

You would that with all the well-documented and well-marketed health benefits of oats and oatmeal, Post would be savvy enough to reintroduce Post Fortified Oat Flakes. That cereal was always my #1 favorite. At least my #2 hasn't left the market: Quaker's Life cereal. ("He likes it! Hey, Mikey!")

I agree I would love to eat them again as well. I'm glad to see I'm not alone! Bet they had to do away with them because they had an addictive additive and they worried the food laws would change uncovering Posts secret. :) Anyone know what stores carry the Whole Foods 365 brand of Oat Flakes? I haven't seen them. Thanks

They were my absolute favorite cereal ever! I loved to let them get soggy in the milk! Has anyone had any luck finding them anywhere? In the meantime, I guess I'll try the Nature's Path Oaty Bites or the Whole Foods 365....or if anyone has other suggestions I'd love to know!

I have contacted Post so many times about this and like others above, just get the old "sorry we have no plans to bring it back, but please try some of our other wonderful cereals." I adored Post Fortified Oat Flakes and have thrown away so many other boxes of wannabes with the hope of finding something even remotely like them. I can't understand why Post hasn't seen ALL of the sites about this cereal..it's insane how many people loved it! It seems a shame they couldn't just give it a shot and then if it didn't sell, ok..but I can guarantee it would. Especially if they marketed it correctly and billed it as a health food..which is was!! C'mon Post, WAKE UP!!

My whole family loved Post Fortified Oat Flakes! Grandparents to us kids! It was the main cereal in all of our cupboards. I lost track of them for awhile, then I found a store that still stocked them. Then the cereal disappeared! I too just emailed Post to let them know that another great fan of PFO wants them brought back!! Dump a cereal in manufacture now if you have to! Glad to see I'm not the only one missing the unique taste of this cereal. Even as a child, it was my favorite cereal, over all the other "kids" cereals out there. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!!!!

Now I have discovered Whole Foods is no longer carrying or making 365 Brand Oat Bran Flakes! What to do, any suggestions?

I am a Canadian, who, as a child, lived in the U.S. for a couple of years in the 60's. We LOVED Fortified Oat Flakes!! When we moved back to Ontario we realized we couldn't buy that cereal here. Friends from the U.S. would visit us from time to time and would bring us boxes and boxes of that cereal! There's no other like it! Even though I am now middle-aged, I still look for that cereal whenever I go cross-border shopping!

We loved Post's Fortified Oak Flake cereal growing up in the late 1960's. Much later, I could buy them in Food For Less Grocery Store in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the mid-1980's. I used to buy them by the case from the store manager, and ship them to my mother and sister in Houston! I would scream for joy if Post would bring them back---just as they were with no embellishments. That cereal was wonderful just a bit soggy with milk, and it made the left over milk delicious. We made cookies from the recipe on the box, too. Please, Post cereals! Hear our cry. It was the best cereal ever! Bring it to Sugar Land, Texas!

OMG - my entire family absolutely LOVED this cereal! POST - please (even if you're not the same Post of the past), find a way to bring this cereal back. It was so great. Just the flakes, nothing else in them. Just plain flakes. It was great. Anyone who I have EVER asked about this cereal that is old enough to know about it loved it. I've yet to find anyone who knows about this cereal say that they did NOT like it.

Post Fortified Oat Flakes was the best cereal I've ever had, I loved them, and wish they would bring them back. They are much better than all these crappy sugary odd colored mess they come out with lately. Post needs to definitely bring these back. accjr

FOF was truly the greatest cereal ever, and this is from a cereal connoiseur. Please-POST- bring Fortified Oat Flakes back!!!

We cannot find this cereal anywhere. Has it been taken off he market.

I actually contacted Post to see what the minimum order would be to make a batch. They said it was no longer going to be produced. I seriously would order a full batch and make it available to us zealots.

I agree it was the BEST tasting cereal. I loved it. I wish they would put it back on the shelves again. Why do not not have it anymore? It seems like there are many people that would like to see it return to the cereal aisle.

What can we do to get Post to make Oat Flakes again? Does anyone know of a cereal that tastes simliar to it? I've tried several imitation ones and they are nothing like Oat Flakes. If Wheaties would make them and put it in a blue box and call it OATIES, that would be wonderful.

I would pay a very large amount of money for a box of Fortified Oak Flakes again. What a money maker if they would just bring it back.

Here's a picture: http://www.mrbreakfast.com/ucp/1167_7671_ucp.jpg

Fortified oatflakes were the best cereal ever made. Just bring them back post and then adv. them telling people to try them. The kids today are missing out on what we experienced eating this cereal.

Yeah, it was my favorite cereal too. I have been missing them ever since they were discontinued. I have to assume that Post thought they were not making enough money from them and that is why they were discontinued. But, I really can't see that justification. I think they just didn't market them well. I'm not sure the people who run Post now even know what they were or how to make them anymore. I haven't completely given up hope, but they have been gone for it seems like at least 20 years.

I, too, miss the Oat Flakes. They, far and away, were the best oat cereal made, then and now. I've tried all the varieties on the market today and none matches the flavor of Post Oat Flakes. Too bad Post discontinued this product as it would make them a small fortune today with the oat health craze. In fact, you'd think they would have considered bringing the cereal back by now!

BRING BACK FORTIFIED OAT FLAKES! We used to have those for breakfast in the 70's, and it was the best cereal I've ever had. Ralcorp has control over whether or not they will be bringing it back we need to make a petition!!!

I WANT MY OAT FLAKES

Please bring back the oat flakes. This was the most wonderful cereal. Why did they quit making it.

Please bring back this cereal! The original was the best. Loved it.

I have been looking for this cereal for the last 10 years and no luck and grocery stores think I'm crazy when I ask for it. Please bring it back Post cereals!!!!!!

It sounded ridiculous back then and it still sounds ridiculous today but Post was forced to stop making the original Oat Flakes because part of the advertisement claim was that Oat Flakes were good for your heart. Either the court or FDA said that if it was good for your heart it was a drug because only drugs heal. Post is not a drug company so they couldn't make Oat Flakes.

Best cereal I ever tasted - was always a treat when Mom bought them. When my own adult life began I continued buying them. We moved to a small town and at about that same time they disappeared. I did not realize they were gone for good. I have searched and wished for these for years. My Dad was a foreman at Post 1963-1969 at 29 Building, then an Industrial Engineer at Carton & Container of Post. Post, bring these Fortified Oat flakes back!!!

Such a good tasting cereal it's the only one I remember with distinction. This was in the 1970's.

POST really dropped the ball when they allowed “Fortified Oat Flakes” to fail. There is nothing like them in flavor and texture. They are simply GOOD! I am surprised that such a great product would be discontinued. The fact that most everyone I speak to about POST “Fortified Oat Flacks”, they don’t know what I am talking about. This tells me that its not the product that failed, but the marketing was inadequate. The name “Fortified Oat Flakes” does not do the product justice. POST needs to assign the project of bringing this GREAT cereal back to the store shelves to someone in their Marketing Department. They might rename it to make it more appealing. Once it is tasted I can see the customer buying it repeatedly. I don’t think POST realized that their “Fortified Oat Flakes” were the best tasting in the world. I hate to see them experiment with new cereals and try to make a HIT cereal with mixed nuts and dried clumps of, “who know what” when the best tasting oat flakes are under their noses the whole time. BRING THEM BACK! PLEASE. Jeff W.

I've been looking for them to make a come back too. I've contacted Vermont Country Store about FOF to. O avail. My dad and I loved this cereal. Come on Post, listen to your consumers!

I have tried every Oat Flake out there, thinking something has to taste like PFOF....but none do.....not even Whole foods brand. I miss those Post Oat Flakes. I would buy them every week if they would bring them bac!!

I am 65 years old and post oat flakes remains my all time favorite cereal, a great combination of nutty and slightly sweet, please bring it back.

When soooo many people miss that wonderful cereal called fortified oatflakes which my sister and I were just talking about this morning why oh why wont they bring it back? We ate it for breakfast...as a snack..crunched on ice cream...good memory...bring it back please!

Best part was the texture. If you didn't eat in Post oak Flakes within 5 minutes it turned to mush. But before that the best cereal.

Best cereal ever. Post needs to bring it back!

I loved this cereal too and my favorite cookies were made from a recipe on the box, with chocolate chips. Best ever. I was just now overcome with the memory of those cookies and got online to find the cereal and found this site with everyone wanting them. Lets storm Post with demands for our cereal!!!!

OMG, my sisters and I loved post fortified oat flakes back in the sixties and seventies !!!!! They were the best please bring them back !!!!

If Fortified Oat Flakes are made from oats and were forced off the market because of their "good for your heart" feature then why are they still advertizing that cherios are heart healthy and still making them? Just bring back those wonderful oat flakes. Our favorite!

I use to love them and would even use my meager allowance as a kid to buy them! Just so I could munch on them by the handfull. I even kept a box in my J. High locker. PLEASE, could some small cereal company, reverse engineer them and bring them back. I even have a ready made name for them "Oat Flakes, just like they were meant to be!".

I loved this cereal..why did they ever stop making it?? Looked for a long time for it every time I went shopping..please bring it back

i am 60 years old and want my unadulterated oat flakes in the blue box back. tired of the add ons in cereal. bring them back

@steve: Fortified Oat Flakes originally came in a beige box (in the 70s). When Post brought them back in the 80s they were in a blue box.

This was the best cereal ever made. What a mistake to stop making it. I don't even eat cereal anymore now that this is not available anymore. I sure wish it would be made again

What a delight to find an entire FOF community that craves what was simply the ideal cereal from my 70's childhood. Those who never had a chance to try it simply don't know what they are missing. My brothers and I all loved it, and had it only when my mom could afford it. Bring it back!

The best cereal ever...Me and my brothers used to kill this cereal in the 70s...Wow what memories, what memories...I'm not gonna cry yall...lol

I grew up eating this amazing cereal.You can eat it DRY straight out of the box! Its been gone for so many years now. People like me who grew up in the 60's & 70's know there is a BIG DIFFERENCE with the TASTE of this cereal! HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS CANNOT COMPARE, ITS A VERY LOUSY OPTION! WHAT IS THERE TO LOSE?! COMMENTS FROM SO MANY ARE PROVING THAT THIS IS SO, INCLUDING ME!!! WE, THE CONSUMERS KNOW WHAT WE WANT! WHAT'S THE MATTER? LISTEN TO OUR VOICES!

I want my fortified oat flakes.the best cereal in life ever

In thinking about why Post hasn't brought back Fortified Oat Flakes, despite all of the cries to do so, could it be that the manufacturing process (or the ingredients) would be too costly today? I loved this cereal in the 60s and 70s! Please, Post, bring it back!

My favorite cereal, please come back, both my favorite cereal are gone I also liked GMills Buc-Wheats.

Post FOF was the best cereal EVER! I ate it as a kid/teenager and loved it! We weren't allowed to eat cereal with a lot of sugar but I always thought of these as a special treat. My mom had her own box and would keep it hidden from my sisters and I...but we always would find it and finish it off. Nothing compares, I've tried them all. Please Post bring back Fortified Oat Flakes!! Sooooo yumm!!

Maybe reason they will not bring it back is they lost the formula... as it is in this age where people look for some gluten free foods and I think oats are, their missing the boat not bringing it back as such

Have to agree with all of the posters above me -- ten years worth -- those oat flakes were the best!

If anyone has the Post Oatflake cookie recipe could you please share or send a yahoo email to chashart2000? That was my favorite cookie and our recipe seems to have disappeared with the passing of my parents.

Please Post! Okay fellow Oat Fkake Lovers, I'm gonna get on my knees and pray we get our Oat Flakes back lol! I sure do miss them and could even lose some weightif they came back since I loved them as much or more than ice cream lol! Please God, move Post to ACTION on this!😍🤗🤣

This was my favorite all time cereal; I never eat cereal anymore since they stopped making it. I would actually eat cereal again if they brought this back.

I,m 67 yrs old and would love to see them brought back.

All I can say is: I have written to Post and asked them where can I purchase their Oat Flakes, even if I have to order them from Canada or other foreign country. If I EVER see Oat Flakes on the supermarket shelf again I swear I will buy at least ten boxes right then, with more within 2 weeks. BRING BACK OAT FLAKES !!!

Pleeeeeaaaase bring back Post Fortified Oat Flakes! They were just simply, well...orgasmic! That's right, I did say ORGASMIC! ;-)

I found the holy grail, Arrowhead Mills Organic Oat Bran Flakes. Sold mostly in Health Food stores, but found at Daily Deals, went back and bought all they had. It’s the real deal.

I've also been thinking about Fortified Oat Flakes & wondering what happened. Have not seen them in a long time! I remember the texture & taste. It was on my mind for one of my favorite cereals. Yeah, make them again!

I ate Post Oat Flakes every morning growing up in the 60s & 70s. Great tasting, fairly healthy cereal. I used to collect the box tops and redeem them for ??? Also utilized the coupons whenever they were on the cereal box.

I don't understand why Post stopped producing this amazing cereal. My mouth is watering just remembering the uniqueness of my favorite breakfast cereal. I would travel for hours if I could find them on a grocery shelf!!

Put me down for another 'Boomer' that would like to see Post do a re-launch of Fortified Oat Flakes. As a kid, I ate these all the time....

The best cereal ever! Bring it back.,,

I STILL look for this in the grocery aisle. Granted I would still add some sugar, but let them get soft and a bowl, okay 2, of AWEsome. I’m so sad now.