Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cheapest Place to Buy Breakfast Cereal

Chalk a rare win up to the local grocery store. You search long and hard enough, you can almost always beat the prices at any grocery store online. There are a few products however where you can find the best deals right at your local store.

In most stores, you can always find some kind of deal going on for cereals. Never, and I repeat, never pay full price for a box of cereal! Wait your time and cereals always go on sale. At my local store, every couple weeks, one of the cereal makers complete lines goes on sale for a few days, and they are usually 50% off or buy one get one free! One week it will be General Mills, a couple weeks later it will be Kelloggs, etc.

The great thing about cereal is it has a very long shelf life, so when you see those sales, get them while you can. I go through a couple boxes a week of cereal at least ( Hey, I like my cereal. I usually eat a healthy kind, like Special K, in the morning, then sometimes at night, I will have a sugary one for dessert).

This latest sale was 50% off, and at $4 a box, it was time to rack up some serious savings. I picked up 12 boxes, I probably should have picked up more, but I have limited storage space right now, and I am confident there will be more sales in the future.

At an average of 2 boxes a week (and if you have 3 or 4 kids I know you can easily double that) at $4 a box, only buying 50% or buy 1 get one free cereals, gives me a savings of $208 for the year. Not to bad for one product!

If for some reason you must buy your cereal online, or you just can't wait tell that next sale, here is a link to the cheapest place I have found to buy online. Its not 50% off, but you will still save about 25%.





Total savings on deal = $208