Target: Get five boxes of cereal for as low as $0.40 each!

by Crystal on February 18, 2013

You know the Target cereal deal I told you about late last week? Well, it’s gotten even better since I posted about it! Yay!

Here are the details of the deal:

Buy 5 select General Mills cereals at $2.50 each, Get a $5 Target gift card

Here are the cereal varieties included in the deal:

Golden Grahams $2.50
Cocoa Puffs $2.50
Reese’s Cereal $2.50
Chex $2.50
Multigrain Cheerios $2.50
Peanut Butter Toast Crunch $2.50
Cinnamon Toast Crunch $2.50
Honey Nut Cheerios Medleys $2.50
Lucky Charms $2.50
Honey Nut Cheerios $2.50
Yellow Box Cheerios $2.50
Fiber One Cereal $2.50

And here are the printable coupons available for these cereals:

$0.50/1 Chex Coupon
$0.75/1 Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch
$0.50/1 Cinnamon Toast Crunch
$0.75/1 Peanut Butter Toast Crunch
$0.75/1 Fiber One Cereal
$0.50/1 Cheerios Original Cereal printable
$0.50/1 Cheerios Cereal Original printable
$1/1 Multigrain Cheerios coupon
$1/3 Target General Mills coupon

So, taking all of those details, here’s a deal idea for you:

Buy 3 boxes of Multigrain Cheerios at $2.50 each
Buy 2 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios Medley crunch at $2.50 each
Use $1/1 Multigrain Cheerios coupon (will need two computers to print three coupons)
Use 2 $0.75/1 Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch
Stack with $1/3 $1/3 Target General Mills coupon
Spend $7 plus tax out of pocket, Get $5 Target gift card back
$0.40 per box of cereal after coupons and $5 Target gift card!

Note: You can “roll” this gift card deal — meaning you can use the $5 Target gift card earned to purchase more cereal thus lowering your out-of-pocket costs!

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  • Jenny W February 18, 2013 at 10:14 am

    I’m not seeing the Target general mills coupon – are they all gone?

    • Jenny W February 18, 2013 at 10:14 am

      NVM – just found it. Dang pregnancy brain!

  • Rebekah February 18, 2013 at 10:48 am

    Thanks for posting these deals! I haven’t been able to do much coupon shopping lately, but this is too good a deal to pass up. :)

  • Amy February 18, 2013 at 10:50 am

    My Target won’t let me use gift cards I just earned on a purchase that day. It has to be the next day. Still a good deal, but you may want to check with your Target before you have a cart full of cereal…

  • couponcrazygirl.com February 18, 2013 at 10:50 am

    There is a better deal if you use the $1.25/1 Peanut Butter Toast Crunch Coupon and the $1 Fiber One 80 Calorie. It makes them only $.10 a box.

    • Crystal February 18, 2013 at 10:58 am

      Just found that and am getting ready to post it in just a minute — yay!

  • Emily February 18, 2013 at 11:59 am

    Have any Mac users been able to print Target coupons in the last couple weeks?

    • Sarah p February 18, 2013 at 01:25 pm

      Emily I have a Mac book and have always had issues with printing Target coupons:/ it’s such a bummer!

      • Sarah P February 18, 2013 at 02:03 pm

        So I just got my Target coupon to print but it printed out kind of funky and off center with no date on top…the last time I tried to use one that printed the same way they wouldn’t take, but I’m still going to try!

      • Emily February 18, 2013 at 08:58 pm

        Up until about 2 weeks ago or so, I’ve had no trouble printing Target coupons from my MacBook. Then all of the sudden, I could no longer print Target Qs or the Earthbound Farm Qs. I think it has something to do with Java, but I don’t know how to fix it so I can print again.

  • Amanda February 18, 2013 at 01:22 pm

    I just got back from target I have a desktop and laptop so was able to print 4 of the 1.25 off pb toast crunch and then one 75cents off making total after coupons only 6.75 then got the 5 g.c.! so 1.75 for 5 boxes of cereal is a great deal!!!

  • David February 18, 2013 at 04:27 pm

    Can you double this offer in one transaction? Aka can I get 10 boxes and 2 gift cards at the same time or do I need to split it up?

    • Crystal February 18, 2013 at 04:35 pm

      You should be able to!

    • Maria February 18, 2013 at 06:52 pm

      My Target won’t let me use more than 1 of the same Target printed coupon, so if I doubled the deal, the 2nd 5 boxes would be slightly more each.

  • Barb S. February 18, 2013 at 05:35 pm

    Peanut Butter Crunch & Honey Nut Medley did not prompt for the gift card at my Target. Left without the deal. :-(

    • Heather February 18, 2013 at 06:55 pm

      If you take your receipt to the service desk, they should give you a gift card. I’ve had that happen before, and they’ve been really good about it. hth :-)

    • Cris February 18, 2013 at 10:31 pm

      Did they not have signs for it? I bought the honey nut cheerios medley and got the gift card. I would check on it again. By the way toaster strudels are also included in the offer and they are 1.99; there’s a 0.5/2 on the 1-6 ss insert (i think).

      • Barb S. February 19, 2013 at 10:05 am

        I came home and found the updated post with the even better coupons, so perhaps it was meant to be that way. I will go back when I’m running errands tomorrow and double-check to make sure the sign is by whatever I purchase. I didn’t pay enough attention. I was just going by the previously posted list, assuming all those mentioned were included.

  • Jane February 18, 2013 at 07:31 pm

    What is this “rolling” gift card thing you mentioned? Do I have to do each set of 5 boxes of cereal in separate transactions or can I use the GC for other things in the same purchase?

    • Crystal February 18, 2013 at 07:32 pm

      You’ll have to use the gift card for a separate purchase. But you can use it to purchase more cereal and earn another gift card, if you’d like.

  • Aaron February 18, 2013 at 09:36 pm

    Is the link to the second-to-last coupon ($1/1) missing? It’s blank for me, instead of a product name w/ link. I suspect it’s supposed to be for Multigrain Cheerios.

    • Katherine February 18, 2013 at 10:33 pm

      I was wondering the same thing.

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