Cereal, anyone?

Every time I read someone's blog about how they bought $50 worth of food for $2 I'm always pretty impressed by their mad bargain-finding skills. I mean, that takes a lot of work, time and planning to get all your coupons, match them with the store's sales, get there, etc., etc.

For the past couple of years I've been a partially committed couponer. Some weeks I'm planning menu's, cutting coupons, searching blogs for deals, the whole nine yards. But it seems more often than not all the effort is in vain when I'm at the store trying to sort through coupons while simultaneously wrestling a two year old who's shoving gummy dinosaurs in the cart and also attemping to feed the baby a continuous supply of Cheerios to keep him from screaming. (deep breath) So basically, I usually end up choosing sanity over saving a few dollars in the check out line.

However, I do continue to keep my eye out for deals and I feel that I finally have one that I should record for future posteriety to know that I too put forth the effort to find a great deal (at least every now and again). Kroger had a one day sale of 50% off Kelloggs and other brands cereal and crackers, and along with many coupons I got all the above items for $24. Averages out to around $1 per item, not bad I'd have to say. I'm just glad I won't have to cut cereal coupons for awhile.