Are not talking about the Natural-Bridge? I just made the same drive a couple of weeks ago and I also stopped along the way. Pretty awesome site.

Actually, I bypassed the Natural Bridge on this trip and drove to the New River Gorge bridge, at Fayetteville VW. It is the longest metal arch bridge in the world, and the second highest. I'm a big bridge fan, and this one has been on my list to visit for a long time. It was awesome, and pictures don't do justice to the scale.

Papollo, just did that drive (saw the bridge- pretty neat) a couple weeks ago, going from Gatlinburg, Tenn. back to Western NY.
I have been checking for Corn Flakes with the mileage offer locally, but there are none in Batavia. I'll have to check in the larger neighboring cities of Rochester and Buffalo.

I just checked the WalMarts in southern Orange COunty, CA and their cereal boxes had NASCAR toys as premiums....unfortunately not frequent flyer miles!

I was in the Wal-Mart in Fairfax, VA yesterday. Corn Flakes, but no AA promo boxes.

It's odd (maybe random?) that the Walmart near me (and I live in a quite rural area) is the only place I've found the small boxes of Corn Flakes with the coupon. I'll have to check other superstores here in ME to see if they might also have them. I suspect they might, as they're probably all served by the same distribution center. The smaller box isn't a big seller, since the jumbo boxes are also sold, for only 70 cents or so more.

And I don't have a particular affinity for Corn Flakes! They just happen to be the cheapest cereal on the shelf having the coupon.

For those in the chicago area, dominicks has the 18 oz for $1.50 on sale this week, limit two and I have ones with the AA cert. The smaller box has them too but the bigger box is cheaper. So, I am looking forward to getting the cookie recipe. Any recipe for dog biscuits would be appreciated as well.

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saw the boxes in vons, but only the $4 per box cereal, but what about this,
buy the cereal cut off certs,
donate cereal, write of donation on taxes,
get UAL miles from Vons
get double points using Amex to pay for it.
would this be worth it for the 4 bucks?

FYI-the reason I started looking for Corn Flakes was because the ad with the coupon now has 9 cereals that apply: Complete, Corn Flakes, All Bran, MiniWheats (fruit flavor), Just Right, Product 19, Cracklin Oat Bran, Healthy Choice, and Crispix. So far, here in So Cal I have only been able to find 4 of the 9, and all over $4. Good Luck.

MileKing,

I've been watching the Germantown, MD WalMart--no luck yet. However, Giant has the 12 oz. box for 2.69; I'm waiting for it to go on sale...

I had an interesting thing happen today. I received an envelope from the company handling the coupons for Kellogs. I had inadvertently put an extra coupon in my envelope. They mailed it back to me with a nice note to be careful to keep them in groups of 500. I was surprised that they bothered to mail it back.

For those who live near a Safeway, I purchased two boxes of Kellogg's cereal last week and received a Safeway coupon for $1 off my next purchase of two boxes of Kellogg's cereal. I hope to find the bargains some of you have found at WalMart. Happy hunting!

I don't think it is worth spending $4.00 per box unless that is what you planned to spend anyway for that particular box of cereal. This promotion will be here for awhile, and Kelloggs does put their cereals on sale periodically. So it takes patience. To spend $4.00. you could spend that kind of money and actually fly somewhere and get those miles. It only pays if you can get them cheaply. The sunday papers have coupons, and dominicks also gave out a $2.00 off for 4 boxes of cereal. I think patience is the key. Just think, the $500 tax deductible donation (amounting to about $360 after taxes depending on your tax bracket)to WWF that clickrewards had (expired March 31) gave you 20,000 click- rewards. 10,000 of those could be converted to 20,000 starpoints. 20,000 starpoints could be converted to 25,000 miles (with 10,000 still remaining in the clickrewards account). That's 35,000 miles for $360 which would only buy you 90 boxes of cereal (at $4.00 each) for 9000 miles. So, there are better deals around unless you have a good use for the cereal AND you get it cheaply.

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Could you repeat that please?

It must be nice to live in an area where the food stores do name brand promos. I used to live in Arizona and miss the double and triple coupon deals at Safeway. Then after I move to NC, the UA miles for groceries deal comes out. Oh, well. I'll be resigned to paying more for food in the Charlotte market and singing the blues.

I have bought several of the cereals as I eat the mini wheats all the time, and have tried the oat bran because of the promo. There are boxes with the miles out there, but it takes a little look because here in the heart of NASCAR country they now have that promo going on.

As a shareholder in Kellogg, a stock that has taken a beating lately, I am glad to see that they are doing things to get market share back to what it once was.

Still "fighting" to get those healthy choice miles, though!