Albies trip! FREE milk and produce!

5 April 2011 1,745 views 5 Comments

Once again, my friend Susan and I loaded up our preschool aged children and trekked out to Albertsons (25 min). We were excited about the cereal/milk Catalina deal, and had several transactions all ready to go. Unfortunately, it was extremely slim pickin’s when we arrived. I was kind of disappointed at first, but then I got over it and looked around for other deals I could snag. Thankfully, I had some back up plans.

This is what I ended up with:

They had 5 boxes of Cocoa Krispies (gag) and NO Crispix or Corn Flakes, which were the cereals I was planning to buy. Fortunately, Susan had a coupon for $1/2 ANY Kelloggs, so I grabbed some Frosted Flakes. The key was to buy the cereal in groups of 6, because the available coupons were $1/2, and a free milk Catalina would print or every 3 that you buy. PLUS you could use one set of 3 doublers.

To sweeten the deal, I had 3 peelies for $1 off of a fruit purchase WYB 2 boxes of select cereals (pretty much all sugar cereals). I grabbed the bananas ($1.34) and a bag of oranges ($2.67). The oranges had a $1 off store coupon on it! Yay!

So, it looked like this:
6 boxes of selected cereal = $10
Fruit = $4.01
Before Coupons = $14.01
- $1 off bagged produce
- (3) $1 off fruit WYB 2 boxes sugar cereal MCs
- (3) $1/1 Cereal MC
- $3.00 (doubler)
= $4.01 OOP, plus 2 free gallons of milk Catalinas printed at the register. NICE!

T2:
4 boxes of pasta @ $1 each
2 cans of tomatoes @ $1 each
2 gallons of milk @ $3.49 each (this is the good, local stuff!)
Before Coupons = $12.98
- 2 free milk Catalinas
- $1/1 Hunts MC (came in an Albertsons mailer)
- $1/2 pasta IP
- $3 in doublers
= $0 OOP + a random Catalina for $1 off my next purchase printed at the register. We think it might have been for the pasta, since I bought 4 and received one and Susan bought 8 and received 2.

T3:
Cabbage @ 99¢/lb = $1.04
- doubler (the checker doubled it for another 4¢ off)
= $0 OOP

So, essentially all of the produce you see in that picture cost me one penny.

Kinda cool, huh?

Next, I’m going to save my UPCs until I have 10 and I will submit it for the $10 in gas cards rebate!

By the way, the manager at Albertsons said that the milk Catalina is going to be printing next week, too. I don’t know if that is true, so don’t quote me, but Susan and I got rainchecks, just in case. I would love some PLAIN Rice Krispies and some Crispix! In the meantime, my husband might roll his eyes at me for buying sugar cereal, but my kids will love it!

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Kelsey said:

Great job! Especially for the produce. Can you tell me how much time you spent preparing and how much you spent on papers/printing for the coupons? Do you count the gas for a trip to Salem, or add on extra errands and call it good?

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Kelleigh Reply:
April 5th, 2011 at 1:17 pm

I probably spent about 20 minutes preparing (mostly printing a few coupons and checking the details on the blogs, plus grabbing the doublers out of my papers), and then I ended up not being able to use most of those coupons because the cereal was out of stock! Oh, well. The paper is free (we get all of our printer paper for free through Office Max rebates, which we roll) and the ink was pennies. I usually buy ink for my business once a year and personal use once a year. Business is tax deductible and personal is through Swagbucks (Amazon gift cards). Really, though, the cost of printing coupons is eensy-weensy compared to how much I save on groceries. I gave Susan a couple of bucks for gas, but I don’t include that in my “what I spent” total. It came out of the $50 a week grocery budget, though, and we didn’t run any extra errands in McMinnville. Hope that helps!

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# 5 April 2011 at 12:40 pm

Kristin said:

They must have restocked b/c there were no frosted flakes or cocoa crispies there yesterday but they did have corn flakes and rice crispies. Weird.
I started mixing frosted flakes with corn flakes, that way it isn’t so sugary but it makes the corn flakes a little more appealing.
Unfortunately, the sugar cereals don’t count toward the rebate:-( That’s why all the healthy ones were out!

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Kelleigh Reply:
April 5th, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Ha! Oh, well. I’m still happy with my score! We were in McMinnville on Sunday and they had some plain Rice Krispies (but I didn’t have the coupons) and no Crispix or Corn Flakes. They said they would get a new shipment and it would be on the shelves this morning, but it never came. Ah, well! AND, I just looked on a coupon blog (Happy Money Saver, I think) and she confirms the Catalina on the milk next week! Perhaps I’ll go again, since I’ll be in Keizer on Saturday anyway, but then I won’t have doublers, so it might not be worth it. We’ll see! I have so much cereal right now that the only reason I would do the deal is for free milk!

Ah, but Tillamook is $4.99 - $1 FB coupon, so I might run by anyway!!

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# 5 April 2011 at 1:31 pm

Lily said:

I got rain checks on the Kellogs deal, and they were nice enough to include the free milk in the rain check, because they advertised it in their sale. Technically, they dont do that, but since they made that milk deal advertised, they had to.

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# 8 April 2011 at 10:48 am