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Originally Posted by 2kats

I am really excited for this cereal deal but I have a question for you experts. I am going to buy 8 boxes of Mini-Wheats and I have 8 $1Q plus I have 3 coupons that I got from a tearpad at Walmart that say save $2 on fresh fruit when you buy 2 boxes of Kelloggs cereal. I should be able to use those with the cereal coupons right? Do you think the cashier will give me problems? So I should get 8 boxes of cereal and $6.00 of fruit for $2.00.

Jenny

Hi all. I'm new to this forum as I just figured out that Rainbow Foods and Copps Foods are owned by the same company and run the same specials. I was at my local Copps yesterday for a HUGE shopping trip. No doubles on Tues, I'm afraid, but I needed to make a major grocery trip and it wouldn't have been feasible to do doubles for all the stuff anyway. I work today so I'll only have a brief time to run over to Copps to do doubles, so I saved a few double Q plans for today and did the bulk of the shopping yesterday. With the amount of store premiums you get, I think it actually works out about equal this way. You have to spend $50 to get a store premium and the store premiums are redeemable for gift cards for free groceries. I got 9 premiums yesterday and you need 10 to get $20 off. That's as good as doing multiple doubles.

But, I digress...

I wanted to say that I did multiple deals yesterday with coupons like this. I had five of the buy 2 cereal get $2 off fruit coupons and used them in addition to multiple $1/1 coupons for the actual cereal boxes. I got the $10 instant cash back and I also used some buy 2 cereal get $2 off 1 gallon milk coupons.

Even w/o doubles, I got 16 boxes cereal, $10 worth of fresh fruit and 3 gallons of milk for about $7.

Not only that, but I bought 5 Ritz crackers using $1/1 Ritz coupons, then used buy one Ritz get one Wheat Thins free coupons to get 5 free boxes of Ritz. Combined the Ritz/Wheat Thins with the five Cokes for $10 deal by using five "buy two Nabisco crackers and get $2 off Coke multipack bottles". The Nabisco/Coke coupons were on a tearpad by the Ritz crackers. With those coupons, the Coke was basically free, as were the Wheat Thins.

I paid $7.50 for 5 Ritz, 5 Wheat Thins Artisan and 5 multipacks of Diet Coke (6 packs of 24 oz bottles).

I imagine that ymmv depending on the store and the cashier, but I had absolutely NO problems at all with my purchases, even using all these coupon combinations plus many others. I worked every deal I possibly could and combined them when I was able.

I read the coupons to be $2 off the *fruit* or the *milk*, rather than the cereal. That's how they were worded. So I was using those coupons on fruit and milk and other coupons on the cereal. Not all stores might interpret it that way. Otoh, the Coke/crackers coupons were less specific. They said "$2" off when you buy two Nabisco crackers and one multipack Coke bottles. But they still gave them to me.