The Great Cereal Stock Up of 2010: Round Three - I’m done.

14 May 2010 2,500 views 15 Comments

My Quaker Coupons arrived today! Yippee!! About 10 minutes later, I rushed out the door to do the deal. Gotta love living in a small town where everything (including Safeway) is within a 10 mile radius.

This is what I got:

You are looking at 20 boxes of Life Cereal for $3.00. Eeeek!! You see, with my $3/5 coupons (and the Buy 4, Save $4 promo @ Safeway), plus the Safeway doubler (which is available in Oregon and SW Washington), my subtotal came to $6.00. However, I used the Catalina from my big Kellogg’s Cereal score the other night, which brought my total down to just $3.00!! WAHOOO!

The final tally:

On Day 1, I bought 12 boxes of cereal for $2.50. On Day 2, I bought 12 boxes of cereal for $1. On Day 3 (today), I bought 20 boxes of cereal for $3.

Grand total = I bought 44 boxes of cereal for $6.50.

Normal people pay $6.50 for two boxes of cereal. I’m so glad I’m not normal.

Wanna see?

Cereal stacked to the ceiling!!

Cereal stacked behind the door of the pantry:

(Don’t count the boxes, because I’ve already given some away!)

I think it is safe to say that I am done buying cereal for a little while. Please remind me of that this weekend when I am sorely tempted by the FREE Captain Crunch deal.

So, show me your scores!! I gotta see!!

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15 Comments »

Heather T. said:

*lol* You’re amazing!!

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# 14 May 2010 at 2:09 pm

Charlene Austin said:

Oh you LUCKY LUCKY thing!

One thing….can you tell me what “$3/5 coupons” means??? I am trying to understand the lingo so I can fully understand how you are doing this.

Another reason I am so jealous is that we love cereal in this house…..I could eat it for 3 meals straight and be happy!

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Kelleigh Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 2:25 pm

$3/5 means $3 off of 5 boxes. I’m the same way with my cereal! I ate one bowl for lunch and I still feel full 3 hours later.

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# 14 May 2010 at 2:18 pm

Nicole said:

I love reading about your shopping adventures! I’m totally inspired by your coupon savviness!!

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# 14 May 2010 at 3:06 pm

Gigi said:

AWESOME! Wow. My husband loves Life Cereal! I’ve gotta get me to Vons forthwith!

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# 14 May 2010 at 4:23 pm

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# 14 May 2010 at 5:48 pm

Lisa said:

Hehe….I have gone totally out of control with this cereal sale too…especially with the Corn Flakes because they are a money maker. I’m going to get my Life tomorrow…and some Cap’n Crunch!

I had to laugh at all your Ronzoni….we ended up with 40 boxes, which I’m sure will last us months!

Great job!

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# 14 May 2010 at 8:27 pm

Gigi said:

Boo. My Vons (Safeway affiliate) didn’t give me a catalina. They are the WORST about printing catalinas! This time I wasn’t 100% sure if I did the deal right so I didn’t make a huge deal. I bought 2 Life, 2 Apple Jacks, 2 Mini Wheats, Rice Crispies and Crispix. No Catalina. Boo.

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Kelleigh Reply:
May 16th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

Make sure you call the Catalina company!! I bet they will send you your Catalina!

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# 15 May 2010 at 5:00 pm

Diana said:

I am so jealous.. I wish we had a safeway here in tennessee..
Great job… I can’t wait to be this good at couponing and getting the deals…

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# 18 May 2010 at 11:20 am

Christine said:

I stumbled across your Cash envelope system on SCS last night, which took me to your blog. OMGosh-I was so in AWE-I was up until 2 am reading and reading about your amazing coupon deals and also about Swag Bucks, went to bed, tossed and turned until 4 am and got up at 9 am. I signed up for Swag Bucks already. As for the coupon savings I don’t know where to start. I live in Minnesota. I want a pantry full of food like you!! We have a Fareway-I hope they are like your Safeway. So tonight I picked up an ad from the grocery store-but now what do I do? Will you help me get started? I ordered your free envelope template-THANKS! Oh, my hubby just started Dave Ramsey-so you may have some tips there for us to. LOL. God Bless, Christine

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Kelleigh Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:10 pm

Christine, that is wonderful!! Good luck with the cash system, and I’m so happy I could inspire you!!

I am trying to find a coupon blog in your area that posts Fareway deals. Hmmm . . . I’m not having much success!

However, I did find a couple of forums that will be able to help you!!
http://www.hotcouponworld.com/forums/grocery-stores/ (I see Fareway!)
http://www.afullcup.com/forums/fareway/ (Scroll down. You don’t have to pay for this service.)

Hope that helps! Let me know how it goes!!

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Christine Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:42 pm

Are you trying to find the ads for Fareway? If so here is the website. http://www.fareway.com. They have hot dogs Oscar Meyer $4/4-we eat them when we camp. I found $1/2 (printed two) manufacture coupon-so on Monday my hubby is going to stop to see how it works out with them. I will chk out those links you gave me. Thanks so much! I hope I am not too much of a bother. Fareway has post cereal 3/$5.00 but not finding any manufacture coupons.

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Christine Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Should I sign up for afullcup? It’s free. I found a coupon for raisin bran (which I love)-but I can’t print it without joining. I am so nervous about signing up for some of these coupon sites b/c of spam.

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Kelleigh Reply:
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:56 am

Actually, I was trying to find the blogs that dig deep and figure out the awesome deals for you. The Fareway website isn’t going to do that!! However, I think that some of the ladies on A Full Cup and Hot Coupon World will. They might even have match-up blogs!!

If you are concerned about spam, you could always set up a free gmail account just for your coupons. That’s what I would do!! AND, you should be able to print that Post coupon by going to http://www.postnatural.com/. All those forums do is link you up to the coupon. They don’t host them.

AND, have you looked through the 10 Days to Become a Krazy Coupon Lady series, yet? That’s how I learned everything I know!! http://thekrazycouponlady.com/beginners

# 22 May 2010 at 7:47 pm