While it’s going to be tough to beat the 190 boxes of cereal for $5.50 purchase, there are still a lot of incredible deals available this week that I have been taking advantage of to buy more food for the food banks. My second haul this week was $233.35 worth of food for $15.60 — a 93% savings off of the regular retail price:
Post Raisin Bran is on sale at Safeway for $1.50 a box when you buy 5 boxes. There was a coupon for $1 off 2 boxes in the 2/28 SmartSource Sunday paper coupon insert and I happened to have a fairly large number of those coupons at my disposal from people collecting that insert for me. Post is also running a Catalina promotion (the coupons that come out with your register receipt) of $4 off your next purchase when you buy 5 boxes. So this is the scenario:
I buy 5 boxes of Raisin Bran for $1.50 a box which comes to $7.50. I use the two $1 off 2 boxes coupons bringing the price down to $5.50. I then use the $4 Catalina coupon (I used the one I still had from the Kellogg’s cereal for the first purchase) bringing the price down to $1.50 for the five boxes and then you get another $4 off your next purchase. Wash, Rinse, Repeat for Raisin bran for $0.30 a box or a 92% savings off of its normal retail price. I bought 30 boxes of Post Raisin Bran this way:
There is also a great deal on Betty Crocker fruit snacks this week that you can take advantage of until Tues with online printable coupons. They are on sale for $1 each when you purchase 5 and they also have a Catalina coupon deal where you receive $3.50 back when you purchase 5. You can print $0.50 off 2 coupons here:
$0.50 off of 2 Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot, Gushers (you will have to search through the pages to find it)
$0.50 off of 2 Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot, Gushers (you will have to search through the pages to find it)
So this is the scenario:
I buy 5 of the Betty Crocker fruit snacks for $5.00. I then use two $0.50 off of 2 coupons bringing the price down to $4.00. I then use a Catalina coupon for $3.50 (you have to pay the $3.50 out of pocket on the first purchase) making the final price $0.50 for five boxes — a 97% saving off of the normal retail price. I bought 25 boxes of Betty Crocker fruit snacks this way:
I also purchased 5 packages of Nature Valley Nut Clusters which I thought I needed to make one of the transactions work, but it turns out that I made a mistake. Still, they were a great deal and something that the food banks have said they want. They were $1.50 each when 5 were purchased and I had $1 off each so they came to $0.50 each which came to an 87% savings off of retail.
All of these are still sitting in my room with the 40 boxes of cereal that I didn’t take to the food pantry because I knew we were going to buy more Raisin Bran to fill up the car on the way. I will be donating these along with the other cereal to a new food bank later next week.
These will be added to the Penny Experiment food purchased master list. Penny Experiment couponers have now been able to purchase $3252.66 worth of food for $275.06. This is another small step toward the goal of buying $1 million worth of food for food banks (only $996,747.34 worth of food to go…)
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