Cereal Deal at Smiths this Week

We were down to almost no cereal and my kids know that I won't buy things like cereal until there is a great deal. Well, lucky them ... Smiths has a great deal this week.

40 boxes of cereal for less then $40. Each box cost between $0.88 and $0.97. Smiths promo this week takes $6 off instantly when you buy 4 boxes of GM cereals. That takes $1.50 off each box. Then with coupons the amount drops below $1 per box. Check out the Grocery Smarts Planner to find details on the deal and coupons to use.

Smiths Deals 8/12

By combining sales, promotions, coupons and catalinas I was able to get all of the above for $45.16! Normally this would've cost $112.74!!

The pizzas worked out to be $3.74 each.
The fruit snacks worked out to be $.74 each.
The granola thins worked out to be $.54 each.
The cereal averaged out to be $.43 each using regular coupons and e-coupons.
The nut clusters worked out to be FREE!

Here are the catalinas I took advantage of today.

General Mills Fruit Shapes, Fruit By the Foot, Fruit Gushers, Fruit Stickerz Catalina Offer (Valid 8/9/10 - 9/5/10)
• Buy 3, get $1.50 OYNO {.50 savings per item}
• Buy 4, get $2.00 OYNO {.50 savings per item}
• Buy 5, get $3.00 OYNO {.60 savings per item}

California Pizza Kitchen Catalina offer (Valid 8/9/10 - 9/5/1)

• Buy 2, get $1 OYNO {.50 savings per item}
• Buy 3, get $2 OYNO {.67 savings per item}
• Buy 4 + get $3 OYNO {.75 savings per item}

General Mills Granola Bars and Snack Items offer
• Buy 3, get $1.50 OYNO {.50 savings per item}
• Buy 4, get $2.50 OYNO {.63 savings per item}
• Buy 5, or more get $3.50 OYNO {.70 savings per item}

Remember these items that have catalinas also work with the buy 8 items get $4 off instantly promo so make sure you buy in increments of 8. You want to buy 8 items but you don't want to buy more the the number that will trigger the catalina in a transaction. So here is what I did. Hopefully this will help you think about how to capitilize on this easily.

1st transaction:

4 pizzas
4 fruit snacks
5 nut clusters
3 boxes of cereal
= 16 items, two $4 off promos
Got back a $3 cat for the pizzas, a $2 cat for the fruit snacks and a $3.50 cat for the nut clusters.

2nd transaction:
4 pizzas
4 fruit snacks
4 granola thins
1 nut clusters
3 boxes of cereal
= 16 items, two $4 off promos
Got back a $3 cat for the pizzas, a $2 cat for the fruit snacks and a $3.50 cat for the nut clusters/granola thins.

Wags Deals 8/4

I went to Walgreens this morning to take advantage of the 15% off Fans & Family coupon. I used that coupon in conjunction with some other deals this week and was able to get all of the above for $20.32! Without sales and coupon this would've cost $114.04.

Check out Hip2Save's Walgreens posts HERE for more deal details.

Today's FREEBIES - Target & Walmart

Did you get anything for free today? I made trips to two stores today and got a lot of things for FREE.

At TARGET I got these freebies:

4 - Tide 2x Ultra Travel Size (1 Load) $0.97 each
Used four $1/1 coupon from the 8/1 PG
Final cost FREE!

12 - Band-Aid Brand Adult (8 ct) $0.97 each
Used four $3/3 coupon from the 8/1 SS
Final cost– 3 for FREE!

4 - Clean & Clear 1 oz travel size Morning Burst Cleanser $0.97 each
Used four $1/1 coupon from the 8/1 SS or found here
Final cost FREE!

I know these items are small but think about the 4 loads of laundry that I won't have to pay for, the 96 owies that I have free bandaids for, things like that, you can see that buying these smaller items for free can really pay off. You will find that you will end up with these random item shopping trips but as you stockpile you will find more and more things that you don't need to buy so often.

Then to Walmart ...

These are on sale for $2.99 at Smiths this week but with the P&G promo when you buy four you end up getting them for $1.99 each. Since I was at Walmart I decided to price match this price. YMMV on whether you can price match to the promo price but I usually have had no trouble doing this. I price matched these to the $1.99 price and used four of the $2/1 Gillette coupons from yesterday's (8/1) P&G insert making all of these items free. Actually the one taller one rang up at $1.50 so I ended up making money on that one.

There are more freebies available at Target this week. I only got the ones that I will use. You can check out THIS Hip2Save post for more deals.

Smiths Doubles

Smiths is rounding any coupon lower then $1 up to $1 today through Saturday. I ran there this morning and got $76.34 worth of groceries AND one free movie ticket for $27.22!!

Quick Smiths Trip

I ran to Smiths today to stock up on cheese while the Mega Event was still going on (ends tomorrow). I got 10 bags of Kraft Naturals shredded cheese and 10 cans of Hunts diced tomatoes for $14.30. I did this deal WITHOUT using ANY COUPONS but by taking advantage of the store promo and the Kraft cheese catalina deal running right now I was able to save $33.10. Paying full price this would've cost $47.40.

The cheese freezes well so if you stock up when they are at a great price then you won't have to pay the $3+ price they want to charge you normally. It pays to stock up so that you can buy things at the price you want to pay, not at the price the store wants to charge you.

Smiths Mega Event

Smiths is running a "Buy 10 items get $5 off instantly" promo this week. You can check out the grocery smarts list for partipating items HERE or check out UtahDealDiva's post HERE for some ideas.

I don't take advantage of every sale that comes along but I did run to Smiths for this one because with three little boys, frozen pizzas come in handy and we use cream cheese a lot in pastas and desserts and you can't beat FREE.

I got these 10 items for $1.42!