Today was the great Quaker Oatmeal Stock-Up of 2011!!

Okay, so you know how I gave away two sets of coupons (ten, total)? Well, I found another 6 coupons. On top of my 20 that I got from ebay. Crazy, I know.

I bought this at Albertson’s today:

• I ended up with 25 boxes/canisters of oatmeal. 10 canisters and 15 boxes of instant. Since you had to purchase in groups of 5 to get the good Albertson’s price, I gave the extra coupon to a lady with only one box of oatmeal in her cart (poor thing!).
• Obviously we didn’t get doubles, or this would have been totally free and you would see a lot more groceries in my photo.
• My last transaction was the 3 packages of tortillas, and I paid for them with my final Catalina.
• My grand plan to pre-order my oatmeal sort of backfired on me. I “ordered” Peaches and Cream oatmeal, but when I got there my man Josh had put 3 cartons of Maple and Brown Sugar behind the customer service desk for me. Not interested. The store didn’t carry Peaches and Cream, so I scrounged together some boxes that I thought my family would like. I asked the manager what I should have done differently, and he said that I did everything right. It was Josh who didn’t follow through. They appreciate it when they know there is going to be a big sale and they can plan accordingly. In fact, he acknowledged that we probably know about the sales way before he does! In the end, he gave me his email address so I can email him when I want to special order and he can make sure it happens for me. SO cool!!
• At the checkout line, this lady looked into my cart and said, “Well, I guess you must love oatmeal!” I said, “Yeah! They end up being 30¢ a piece after the coupon and sale!” Her jaw dropped. It was a total look of shock. Love that!

I thought I should mention here that if you are not near an Albertson’s, but you have a Safeway close by, you can still get a great deal. I posted this under the comments at Frugal Living NW:

Keep in mind that if you can’t get to Albertson’s for the awesome Quaker sale, you can still save with the Catalina promotion that is printing starting Friday at Safeway, too!

Buy 4 Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ 2/$5 = $10
Use (4) $1/1 MC from 1/2 RP
Use 4 doublers for -$2.00
Pay $4
Earn a $2 Catalina which you can roll to the next transaction!
Like paying 50¢ a box! Still very good and stock-up worthy!

If you buy 5 at a time, the price would end up working out the same. You can only double 4 coupons, so you would end up paying $5.50 and earning a $3 Catalina, so it is still 50¢ a box.

Hope that helps some of you out!

After arriving back in Dallas, I decided to swing into Safeway to grab more fruit. MAN, we go through a lot of fruit in our house. We have an open fruit drawer policy, so the boys are constantly munching on fruit. However, after today’s oatmeal stock-up, I taught the boys how to make their own oatmeal for a quick snack! Hee, hee!

• I bought the Hefty plates for 50¢ again.
• I used my Rancher’s Reserve $2 off coupon from the Joy of Football book to pick up the meat for practically free. It has a sell-by date of tomorrow, so it was marked 50% off, then when you take the $2 off, it ended up being 31¢. I marinated it and we cooked it for dinner tonight. SO good! For only 31¢!!
• I also used a Catalina that Mitch got at the checkout counter last night. He bought spices. {sigh!}

Have I ever mentioned how much I love couponing!?!

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