Deals on groceries
Thursday, September 11th, 2008If you feel like there’s a little nip in the air and fall breezes are stirring, you wouldn’t be alone. It’s getting downright chilly in my neck of the woods. But my favorite thing about fall isn’t the turning leaves…it’s the crazy sales at the grocery store where the top name brands don’t hold anything back. If you have the room to stock up, now’s the time.
Leading off with September is the General Mills family of brands. Watch for 10 for $10 type sales. With the higher ingredient costs, many brands are willing to spend money on marketing to continue developing brand awareness, particularly as consumers are being driven to generics by the media as a cost-saving strategy at the store.
In the next two weeks, watch for the Quaker family of brands to be on sale. Not only does this include oatmeal and chewy granola bars, but Quaker also owns Aunt Jemima pancake mixes and syrups. This sale has already hit my area and these items are 10 for $15. But with coupons from last Sunday’s newspapers and high value “peelie” coupons you might find in-store on the boxes, you can score these items for .50 cents each. I bought 70 assorted boxes of breakfast bars, oatmeal and granola bars for $40 yesterday morning. And with long shelf lives, that will keep us in oatmeal long after the price has jumped back up to $4.29 a box. It’s an even better deal on the pancake fixings, for which there are rarely coupons on the Aunt Jemima brand. At $1.50 a box versus $4 or more, this is a great deal for stocking up.
The last of my favorite fall deals is the Campbell’s family of brands which include Prego, all the soup lines, and Gold Fish crackers to name a few. Hints of soup sales are already happening – 10 cans of tomato and chicken noodle could be found last week for .50 cents a can - a teaser of the sales to come. And this is the month that Campbell’s makes their coupons the most available. There were coupons in last week’s paper and watch for more as we get closer to October. Soups have a long shelf life, so buy what you can for the year while the prices are at their best. It’s why I love fall – the real fall harvest isn’t in the garden….it’s in the pantry aisles at the grocery stores!
