Confessions of a Pop Tart ADDICT!!

It's really my friend Janet's fault. She knows how I love Pop Tarts. She knows how addicted I am to using Grocery Smarts. She knows how I love a great deal. She knows how I love to go shopping with my coupons. After all, where do you think she learned it all from?

O.K. , back to the Pop Tarts. She told me about a sale at Walmart: Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts in the Dollar Aisle (didn't know there was a Dollar Food Aisle, but there is) and they were actually $.75 a box. She was there and bought me some because she had coupons. But I also had coupons, and it took two trips there to finally locate them (they seemed to be a wandering display for some reason), but I struck Gold!! Hee! Hee!

They were being discontinued because of the advertising on the boxes, and they didn't expire until December, and there were 18 boxes, and I had enough coupons to buy 20 boxes. So I loaded up my cart, avoiding the boxes that were Gingerbread Flavor--the only other flavor available on that aisle. Never having tried Gingerbread, not sure I really wanted to try Gingerbread flavor, sure my kids would take one nibble and hate Gingerbread Flavor, I avoided any box that was Gingerbread Flavor.

I was sure I had every box (and, admittedly, feeling a little bit greedy), and along comes another woman down the aisle. She stops, picks up a Gingerbread flavor box, and asks me, "Are these only $.75?"

"Why, yes, yes they are." I answer, feeling more guilty about my loaded up cart.

She puts down the box, and comments, "I'm not really sure I'd like that flavor."

I'm not sure I, and obviously by the number of boxes of that flavor on the shelf, many others were sure they'd like that flavor, either.

"Do you like Brown Sugar Cinnamon?" I offer.

Why yes, yes she does.

"Would you like some of these?" I guess I could spare one . . .

"Maybe just one." She appears to not want to take too many, unlike someone else, namely me . .

"Here, have two." I give her two boxes, because you have to buy two to use the coupon, after all. "And have a coupon, too. Now you'll only pay $.25 a box. Are you sure you don't need more?" Forget greedy, why not share the joy, right?

She didn't need, or say she needed any more, and we went on our merry ways. The check out girl commented, "That's a lot of Pop Tarts."

But long story short, I got 16 boxes of Pop Tarts for $4.00!!!!!!!

Now, just to justify the need for that many boxes, all four of my kids and myself LOVE them. So we literally can go through a box a day if we all have one package for breakfast. So, really, it's only about a 2 week supply, give or take a few.

So I apologize. If you go to the Rainbow and Spring Mountain Walmart, the Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts on the Dollar Aisle will be cleared out. But I know there are some Gingerbread Flavored ones still hanging around.

(And maybe, for $.25, it might be worth trying a box. Who knows, maybe they really do taste good . . . )