[mom2Belle&Steven]

Yep that is what the signs in the cereal aisle said. It is the same deal running until the 27th.

[mom4]

thanks MMS i might have try this tomorrow

[snoopywoman]

I gotta go find me some more coupons!

[snoopywoman]

If all goes well, I plan on doing 4 transactions tomorrow - and paying oop less than $30. We shall see how it goes! The regular price for these items would be well over $100 at Rainbow - so I think I'm doing okay!

Plan:
#1
No-Name steaks - 9.99 (double $1 q) = 7.99
Fisher nuts - .97 (double $1 q) = Free +1.03
Hefty One-zip 1.81 (if reg is 2.49 and double $1 q) = Free +.19
I will get two of those
Carefree 1.00 (double $1 q I got from a Women's Day mag) = Free +1.00
My total should be about 5.58

#2
6 Banana Nut Cheerios at 3.69 each (double 3 $1 coupons & take off $10) = 6.14
Fisher nuts - .97 (double $1 q) = Free + 1.03
Total - 5.11

#3
No Name steas - 7.99 (same as above)
3 Kids' Crest 1.00 each (use .50 q to double from 6/7 PG) = Free
1 Fisher nuts .97 (double $1 q) = Free +1.03
Total = 6.96

#4
Hefty One-zip
Milk (use cat from last week)
Lact-Aid milk - double .55 q = 3.39
Roundy's chicken breasts - 5.97
Marshmallows - .57
Open Pit - .47
Hormel Little Sizzlere - .77
Mac & Cheese .27

This should be somewhere around $11.00, depending on what is available and what I get. Should add up to less than $30 - woohoo!

[050303033005]

Originally Posted by snoopywoman

Fisher nuts - .97 (double $1 q) = Free +1.03
Hefty One-zip 1.81 (if reg is 2.49 and double $1 q) = Free +.19
Carefree 1.00 (double $1 q I got from a Women's Day mag) = Free +1.00

Curious as to how are you getting overage? My Rainbow (assumed all) price adjusts the coupon if there is overage.

I suppose with the Fisher coupon you could give the Rainbow coupon last?

[zmique]

The Rainbows I go to the coupon will automaticly double up to the reg price of the item so if it is reg over $2 and you have a $1 coupon it will double up to that. I don't think the carefree will double up to that it says in the ad save up to $3.50 on 10so I think it will only double to $1.35 I think that is reg price. The fisher one should double if you give theirs last.

[deoxy144]

The cereal deal was running at my Rainbow again today. They have a lot more varieties included than they did last week. Unfortunately, the milk coupons I got expire 7/8/09. Not a lot of time to use them.

Diana

[creativecoupons]

Just wondering what the cereal is ranging for price. I was out of town last week so didn't get in on the deal. We need milk so was thinking I might just to the cereal deal.

[mom4]

i am sure this very alittle but i buy cheerios and at my store 3.09 but last week i got lucky charms and reese cereal and these where 4.00 and 4.20 so it cost me like 7.00 for 6 boes of cereal and two milks . this week am doing cheerios and should cost me nothing and get two free milk!

Originally Posted by creativecoupons

Just wondering what the cereal is ranging for price. I was out of town last week so didn't get in on the deal. We need milk so was thinking I might just to the cereal deal.

[deoxy144]

I got mostly Honey Nut Chex at $2.99. Regular cheerios were $3.75. The honey nut cheerios and plain Total were each $4 something.

Diana

[mom4]

ok can someone tell me before i am looking for nothing where the 1/1 crest came from
thanks

[mom2Belle&Steven]

Last week I bought Trix (2.89), Honey nut chex (2.99) and Honey kix (3.69).

[superk]

I might have to get in on the cereal deal tonight.

[mnnewbie]

Originally Posted by mom4

ok can someone tell me before i am looking for nothing where the 1/1 crest came from
thanks

te 1/1 crest is from the p&g booklet ($120 in savings booklet)

[snoopywoman]

The cereals I saw were 3.19 to 3.85 in price.

You wouldn't get overage on the Carefree (which they didn't have - not even a place on the shelf for it!) - my bad!

I spent $35.92 oop today. Here's what I got:
2 boxes of No Name steaks
3 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts
9 boxes of Hefty One-zip bags (various kinds/sizes)
1 box of Hefty cinch-sak bags
3 jars of Fisher nuts
1 pkg marshmallows
1 Open Pit bbq sauce
6 boxes of various Cheerios (NO Banana Nut - waaahh!)
1 gallon of skim milk (got overage!)
1 96 oz container of Lactaid milk
1.75 lbs of bananas
1 mac n' cheese
2 Hormel Little Sizzlers
1 Hostess fruit pie ( a treat for my ds who suffered through 4 transactions!)

I thought I did pretty good. The Fisher nuts gave me $1.03 overage - I did give the store coupon last - not sure if that matters or not. I was tearing it out as the cashier was ringing it up every time - I kept forgetting about it until the end!

Thank goodness for the Hefty one-zips. There was a blinkie right by them for $1/1 and I used those for fillers and to get lots of those bags. This was at the Savage store.

They also did not have any Crest Kids' toothpaste that was pictured in the ad - they said they were out, but I didn't see any place for those either. Got a raincheck, but not holding my breath. So, I had to do some rearranging on the fly - but thought I did okay!

I did not find the Ball Park/buns q anywhere - was REALLY hoping to find those! Last year they had them out all summer long practically - I hope I find them soon.

Hope y'all have a good day of shopping!

[zmique]

I found the crest kids toothpaste but it was hard to find it and the adult one were on a bottom shelf hard to see but I got 3 and got $1 overage for each tube and got the $1.03 overage for the nuts and used it towards my Iams cat food. and paid like $3.xx.

[mom2Belle&Steven]

I got 2 of the milks and when I went to use my free milk cats the cashier said they can't scan them! She just wrote 1.58 on them and then manually entered them si I was bummed! Glad it worked for everyone else! At least I got free milk.

I did 2 transactions and spent 10.02 oop and saved 62.00 and got 4 free milk cats!
I got 12 boxes of cereal
2 milks
2 Bar S hotdogs
Kraft to go dressings (on clearance for 1.58 so .42 overage
McCormick grill seasoning
marshmallows
4 Red Gold tomato sauce
1 Pasta sauce
2 Hefty one zips
1 Purina kitten chow (free q)
1 Blue bunny personals
1 Activia Yogurt

So not too bad for all of those things but would have been even better with the full milk cats off!

Oh and they were out of the Fisher nuts so I got a rain check.

[050303033005]

Yippee! Thanks so much for the tip on Hefty One-Zip blinkies! I "splurged" and got 5 of the larger 1.5 gallon size. Also excited because the Apple Cinnamon Cheerios had BOGO haircut coupons for Great Clips!

You guys are the best!

[mom4]

i did not do so great with first tran with pop she would not ring me up with out my total 25 first boo
so i got 5 pops
eggo waffles
baby rice cereal
2 33cents bags chips treat for kids
fisher nuts
2 hefty ziplock
1 no name steaks
loaf of bread
hormal sizzlers
om franks with cheese
so my total op was 20.59 (i think cashier said i saved 42 bucks )
my 2nd trans was perfect almost as i was worried i be unders minus as i did get over on milk and cereal (milk i bought most $ as i was not sure how they ring them )
6 cereal (cheerios 3.15 and cin toaster 2.99)
2 milks
2 breads
fisher nuts
paid dum roll 51cents and got to more free milk cat after using two so yes it works hehe
so paid 21 op and got a lot of stuff and even stoped at cub on way home and spent 2.50

[FortyNFun]

Here is what I scored today:

Roundy's 1% Gallon Milk - less $3.50 catalina
Roundy's Gallon Chocolate Milk - less $3.50 catalina
Red Gold Tomato Sauce - store coupon
York Peppermint Patties - less $2.00 mfg coupon (from Hershey's defect in bag of candy last month)
Roundy's Heavy Duty Forks
Roundy's Heavy Duty Spoons
(2) Crest Adult Toothpaste - less (2) .50 coupons - (1) of the coupons doubled
(2) McCormick Taco Seasonings - 2/$1.00
(2) Hefty One Zip Bags - 40 ct. boxes - less (2) 1.00 off coupons that doubled
Gold Bond Foot Spray $5.79 on sale for $3.88 and then $1.00 off coupon that doubled - pd 1.00 - wanted the powder - they were all out - didn't think to get a raincheck for next week (will go back and get one)
(2) jars Fisher Nuts - used $1.00 mfg coupon that doubled and rainbow coupon for .97
Roundy's Angel Food Cake - store coupon

Paid $7.82 oop - savings on receipt $34.73

Thanks everyone for the good tips!

[shortygirlk2]

I was so bummed at Rainbow tonight, about half the items on my list were out of stock. I wasn’t really interested in getting rainchecks, but I might still head back this week. I almost went home without buying anything, but I figured since I went, I may as well at least do the cereal deal again. So I ended up doing two transactions, because I had two peanut coupons and you could only buy one at a time. So I ended up buying 6 boxes of cereal, two gallons of milk, activia yogurt, two containers of peanuts, peanut butter, and ended up spending *drumroll* $2.58 plus I have two more coupons for a gallon of milk ($7 value). Plus there was $.42 in the change dish from a previous customer. I saved around $36 in coupons alone. YAY!

[snoopywoman]

The wonderful thing about rainchecks at Rainbow is that you can then use them the next week to get to your $25 for doubling. You never know when you might need them!

I almost always do more than one transaction because then I can double many more coupons since they only will double the first 5. The cashiers know that I do this and some even think it's great how I shop!

shortygirl - sounds like you did awesome on your trip today!

On a separate note, what is WITH some of these cashiers who won't even TRY to ring coupons through if your total isn't $25? They can't refuse to take your coupons. I would say I don't care if they double - just please scan them. If she tried to override the doubling - I would probably let it go and then go to customer service to return the items. Then I would go to another cashier the next time! I hope this is not a trend among cashiers - I've been hearing about that a lot on this board recently it seems...

[mom4]

mine was not about double it was about getting the pop at the 1.77 price which i know if she rang it it would of came off . they where real crabby last night so i did not push i try to say just run it thought but she was no go and i was worried what she do if i did get pop for the sale price after she said no . so i played along ..
never issue with 25 and coupons so far anyway

[mnkid]

I've had issues with the morning cashier at Inver Grove Hts Rainbow. Couple weeks ago she rang my stuff up, then when my coupons doubled she voided the doubles..."You have to be at 25.00 for your coupons to double." So I said I don't want any of this stuff then. Went back to the same store that afternoon, no problem doubling, when you hit 25.00 SHELF PRICE.

This morning, same cashier, looked into my cart at my 5 Pepsi 12-pks and 2 pks of lightbulbs, tells me I won't get the pop at 1.77 ea unless I spend 25.00which doesn't include the cost of the pop. Well last night, Wed doubles, that's now how it worked, but she wouldn't even ring them up.

I stopped at West St Paul Rainbow 10 minutes later. They have a self-check out. I scanned my 5 pops, and the price dropped even before I scanned the lightbulbs. So in W St Paul all you have to buy is 5 12pks to get them at 1.77 ea.

[rach]

MNKId I had no problems at West St. Paul or IGH doing 2 trans at each. Just depends on which cashier you get.

Has anyone reached $.50 on the gas pirks yet? I have and when they tried to scan my card it said exceeded limit. When the manager came over she said you could only use the card 3 times in one day (which is not true, this was the 8th trans). But I am thinking you can't rack any more cents off until you use it. Anyone know for sure?