I love cereal. Like most kids, the cereal aisle was my favorite aisle of the grocery store growing up. I could eat cereal for any meal of the day, or as a snack. I just love the stuff.

Anyway, this is a good week to stock up on cereal, thanks to some real good specials and online printable coupons. The best deal is at Safeway stores (also known as Tom Thumb, Randalls, and about twenty other names depending on what part of the country you are in), ending Tuesday 3/11/2008. Safeway has a special where you get $10 off when you buy 5 General Mills or Quaker cereals. Several of the cereals are on sale 5 for $15, so after the extra $10 off they come out to $1 each. To sweeten the deal, there are printable coupons out there for many of these cereals. Depending on whether your area doubles coupons and up to what amounts, these could result in free cereal or even getting paid to take the cereal. Here’s a list of the cereal items known to be included:

QUAKER CAPN CRUNCH CEREAL 0-0-30000-06610 14.00/16 OZ
QUAKER CAPN CRUNCH CRNCHBRY CEREAL 0-0-30000-06560 14.00/15 OZ
QUAKER CAPN CRUNCH PEANUT BUTTER CEREAL 0-0-30000-06500 14.00/14 OZ
QUAKER LIFE CEREAL 0-0-30000-06340 12.00/15 OZ
QUAKER LIFE CINNAMON CEREAL 0-0-30000-06320 12.00/15 OZ
QUAKER OAT SQUARES CEREAL 0-0-30000-06430 12.00/16 OZ
GM CEREAL CHEERIOS 0-0-16000-27564 12.00/14 OZ
GM CEREAL CINN TST CRNCH 0-0-16000-27507 12.00/12.8
GM CEREAL REESES PEANUT BUTTER PUFFS 0-0-16000-27503 12.00/13 OZ
GM CEREAL TOTAL RAISIN BRAN 0-0-16000-27513 12.00/18.25
GM CEREAL WHEATIES 0-0-16000-27565 14.00/15.6
GM CHEERIOS CEREAL MULTI GRAIN 0-0-16000-27562 14.00/12.8
GM KIX CEREAL 0-0-16000-27525 12.00/8.7 O
GM TOTAL CRL CRANBERRY CRUNCH 0-0-16000-14164 12.00/15 OZ
GM TOTAL WHOLE GRAIN CEREAL 0-0-16000-27522 12.00/10.6

Printable coupons for these can be found at several of the following links:

$1 off Quaker Cinnamon Life
$1 off Total Cereal
www.BettyCrocker.com
www.boodle.com
www.CoolSavings.com
www.Coupons.com
www.EatBetterAmerica.com
www.EverSave.com
www.EverydayEating.com
www.RedPlum.com
www.SmartSource.com
www.Couponbug.com
http://www.boxtops4education.com/Promotions/

UPDATE: Per the folks at SD, Honey Bunches of Oats is also on sale at Safeway for $2 a box, so you may be able to get all of your cheap cereal in one stop! There is also a deal at Walgreens this week that is very YMMV. Walgreens has Post cereals including Honey Bunches of Oats on sale this week for $1.99. There are printable coupons for $2 off the Chocolate variety, however very few people have reported finding that variety. However, many have been able to get their locations to take the Chocolate coupon for other varieties, but they would be well within their rights to refuse you for anything but the Chocolate variety. Here are the links to the printable Honey Bunches of Oats coupons:

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

A few helpful hints on all of these coupons:

• Don’t copy the coupons that you print. Each has a unique barcode, and the store won’t get reimbursed for the copied coupons. Using copied coupons is fraud. Don’t be that guy!
• The program that prints the coupons limits you to two printings per coupon (each will have a unique code). To access the second coupon, use your back button to go back to the first page titled “Coupon Print”.
• Coupons don’t have to be printed in color.