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If you're in the mood for some stylish but affordable furniture, click here to print out a coupon that will entitle you to one free coffee and one free breakfast (a $1.98 value). The offer is valid October 11th through 13th.

As a lifelong lover of cereal, soaring commodity costs have been messing with my head. The tipping point was a recent trip to New York City when a supermarket was charging $5.69 for a 14 ounce box of shredded wheat.

Now that I'm back on Cape Cod, cereal is somewhat more affordable but, as you may have noticed, they've been shrinking the boxes lately. On a recent visit to Stop & Shop, I came face to face with the company that is my new hero: Malt-O-Meal, which sell high quality cereal in resealable plastic bags at a price of 99 cents each (At Stop & Shop, and it wasn't a sale!) for 12 ounces, at least 75% off comparable name-brand products in carboard boxes.

I'm eating a bowl at this very moment and, honestly, I don't think it tastes any different. Even better, because the packaging is just the plastic instead of the usual cardboard and plastic, this is one bargain item that qualifies as green-friendly.

To find a store offering this discount cereal in your area, use the company's store locater. Better yet, click here to print out some coupons that will make your first bags free!

Is McDonald's having trouble moving its "so simple, so juicy, so perfectly seasoned" Southern-style chicken and biscuit breakfast sandwich? Or its regular-menu Southern-style chicken sandwich? Perhaps. But if you're in the Washington, D.C. area, you can find out if its worth your money (and the considerable amount of simple carbs you'll consume) tomorrow, Thursday, July 24 with the purchase of a medium- or large-sized beverage.

The biscuit sandwich offer will be good 7 a.m. through 10:30 a.m. (McDonald's typical breakfast ending time) and then the chicken sandwich will be available for free with purchase through 7 p.m. This is a repeat of a nationwide offer from May; McDonald's has been repeating the offer in local markets in a (desperate?) attempt to shore up sales for the new menu item, even offering the sandwich free for pajama-clad customers in one Florida market.

If you hit the breakfast sandwich, you can check out the premium coffee at the same time. Sales for the pricey caffeine have been slower than expected so you may not have this chance for long!

Have you tried the sandwich? What did you think? If you're in the D.C. area, will you wait in line for it tomorrow?

I grew up in a "traditional" family with the sort of mom who got up early to make us a big breakfast. I remember eggs, pancakes, biscuits, sausages, toast, and always a pitcher of freshly-mixed juice. We were also firmly on the underside of the poverty line (so it was margarine on our toast and generic brand 'pancake syrup' on our flapjacks).

When I got to be a parent, I stuck to my grown-up spendthrift ways for quite a while, buying cold cereal, scones, bagels and the like, rarely making a big delicious breakfast of biscuits or pancakes or muffins but far more often just picking it up from the coffee shop.

And then one day -- maybe it was the fact that I stopped eating processed foods and cut out white sugar, or maybe it was just that our grocery budget was through the roof -- I made a commitment to start making breakfast, just like my mama before me.

My family struggled financially growing up, and I remember the rare occasion of breakfasting on toaster pastries (when there was a great sale) and mourning how they were rich kids' food. The next day, it was back to Cheerios or pancakes with imitation maple syrup. But this week, news that wheat prices are rising fast could mean that Cheerios and Wheaties and Raisin Bran could show steep increases in price; as much as $7 a box, and higher. They could soon be rich kids' food, too.

You'll recognize the conversation from oil, whose per-barrel cost is pushing $90. Wheat has topped $10 a bushel due to dry weather in Argentina bringing concerns about a global shortage; it's already doubled this year and seems to be climbing a steep price curve. Economists are actually saying breakfast cereal could get so much as twice as expensive as it is today -- and don't think that eating Corn Flakes will save you. With many farmers producing corn and soybeans for biofuels, those crops are getting pricey, too.

My answer to rising food prices is always something like, Buy generic! Shop at Trader Joe's! But the prices are rising in concert throughout the grocery outlets, from wholesale club stores to brand name to seriously off-label. My advice? Start thinking oatmeal for breakfast, and buy local; while you may not save much in sticker price you'll save in fossil fuels for transport and you'll be helping protect our future.

Here are a few places you'll see price increases in your supermarket: