The cereal is TOO DAMN HIGH!!!!!
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Anonymous
| We eat oatmeal and make muffins or have fruit and yogurt. Cereal is crazy expensive. Honestly, we mostly use it as a dessert if we buy it at all. |
Anonymous
Good guess, Honey Smacks aficionado! Yes, it's Weetabix. |
Anonymous
| Pretty sure the giant box of Trader Joe’s Os (like plain cheerios) I bought was around $3. Can’t get cheaper than that |
Anonymous
Anonymous
My kids love Weetabix, but it is ridiculously expensive! So bummed that Trader Joe’s stopped carrying it. Was much cheaper there! |
Anonymous
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Cereal is a great example of shrinkflation. The boxes get bigger while the contents get smaller and the price stays the same.
Target seems to have better prices on larger boxes if Costco doesn’t carry what you want. |
Anonymous
| You can rip my Quaker Oatmeal Squares out of my cold dead hands. |
Anonymous
| Amazon Prime or Walmart will deliver to your door and have much lower prices than local grocery stores. |
Anonymous
| Canned soup and name brand cereal are two things that are very expensive full price but often go on sale. Just watch the sale ads. |
Anonymous
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I don't really care for cereal but my DH loves it and, more importantly, it is the easiest way to get my kid to eat breakfast before school other than some kind of baked good. So sadly, we just go ahead and pay the freaking $6/box for Cheerios even though I hate it.
The other problem with cereal is that people are very brand loyal. Since I don't eat it, I've tried to get away with buying store brand or discount versions, but it's a tough sell. They will eat some of the Trader Joes brand cereal but it's not that much cheaper. When I try to by the off-brand Cheerios, I get a lot of whining. Sigh. Of course, I like to have an egg and toast for breakfast and eggs are also really pricy right now. Though I will think that I get better value out of my $6/dozen eggs than they do out of a box of cereal, since I get actual protein in my meal and am eating a fresh, whole food, and they are eating processed whatever. |
Anonymous
Target is my go-to for any of the processed foods we buy, they are almost always cheaper or have better bogo deals. Cereal, apple sauce, granola bars, crackers... almost always cheaper at Target and since these are all shelf stable items, I can just do a Target run every month or so and stock up and not have to pay the price-gouged prices at the grocery store. I think the last time I was at Whole Foods, a family size box of Cheerios was over $7. I feel confident I could make Cheerios at home for less than that, no thanks. |
Anonymous
I like eating breakfast this way but I can't convince the rest of the family. People looooove cereal. I've never understood it. To me, it's what you eat when nothing else is available. I don't get eating cereal when there is fresh fruit, baked goods, yogurt and granola, etc., in the house. It isn't just a sugar thing because most of the cereals my family eats (Cheerios, Honey Bunches of Oats, Life) are no sweeter than, like, a banana and a muffin. The granola I put in my yogurt is probably sweeter than most of the cereals they eat because I make it myself and there's quite a bit of honey in it as a bonding agent, plus some dried fruits. They just love the uniform nature of cereal. I will never understand. |
Anonymous
| Muffins, yogurt and granola are just as bad as many cereals |
Anonymous
| last time i bought cereal i bought 6 boxes because the deal was better if ii bought 6 boxes. that made the cereal over 50% off. you can find deals like that fairly regularly, but you can't do that if you have to have ONE PARTICULAR cereal. |
Anonymous
| Wegmans house brand |