For those of you who live near an Albertson’s, this week is a great week to stock up on cereal. If you have a preferred customer card, you can buy 10 boxes of General Mills cereal for $10. If you have coupons, the deal gets even sweeter. I happened to have a fistful of coupons and today I bought TWENTY boxes of cereal for– get this– $11.50. Awesome. Talk about having fun shopping– that was definitely it.
Oh, and for the curious, we eat cereal two mornings a week (about two boxes per meal) which means that the cereal I bought today will last about 5 weeks.
I'm Mary, wife to John, and mom to 10 kids ages 3-20. Six of them were adopted, from Ethiopia and Korea. I spend my days applying Bandaids, reminding kids to use their inside voices, persuading kids fractions are useful, cooking spicy ethnic food, and snapping gig after gig of pictures. Very late at night, I write about it all.
You just don’t know how much I appreciate you taking the time to write this precious little gem of a post. My kids are HUGE cereal eaters…I just went to the Albertsons website and checked and the sale is also happening in our area. Thank you thank you thank you.
Wish I lived near Albertsons. I never even heard of them before Planet Nomad mentioned that store on her blog recently.
AND I’ve never heard of cerial that cheap in the recent past.
When I lived on the West coast we had Albertson’s, now on the East coast it’s Acme (same store tho). I did the cereal deal as well, but for us it was buy 10 for $15 with your card. I had 10 $1 off 2 boxes coupons, so did 2 transactions. By the time I paid for both (my 1st transaction gave me a $5 off your next order coupon which I immediately used), I spent 13.80! Apparently the tax came off too!
Oh I wish I lived near one, I’ve heard so many amazing things about them. Love your frugal suggestions and recipes! Thanks!
That is awesome. I hate spending extra money on groceries.
AH! I am heading over there today!! Were they nutritious cereals? Or were they sugary?
Cheerios and Kix were two of the choices. I bought Golden Grahams and Chex too. I have my kids eat a serving of healthy cereal before the sugary kind stuff…
Mary
here’s another great freebie of the week -
If you live near Walgreens, they have a deal going on this week where they give you Register Rewards (RR) back if you buy certain items and you get more RR back the more items you buy.
So- follow carefully- If you buy 10 tubes of Crest pro-health toothpaste all in one transaction, and have the cashier scan the coupon from inside this month’s walgreen’s rebate book for $3 off 2 tubes of Crest toothpaste, you’ll pay $10 plus tax but you’ll get back a RR coupon worth $20 off your next Walgreen’s purchase (valid for the next 2 weeks). Um hello! You just made $10 and got 10 tubes of toothpaste free
Only good through saturday. Happy shopping!
You give some great tips!
Hi Mary,
I just wanted to let you know that I ran out and took advantage of this great deal. I shop at Vons (because they double coupons) and am always forgetting to look for deals at the Albertsons. Thanks so much. I got 20 boxes also exept mine cost seventeen dollars. Still a great deal at under a dollar a box.
Thanks again,
Julie
I did this too – I spent less than $17 (including tax) and saved over $62. In fact, I need to go back over there and do it again…