Penny Experiment

If you shop at Safeway this week (7/21 – 7/27), be sure to go to the dairy section to see if the Kraft shredded cheese has $1.00 off 1 coupons. If they do, pick up some free cheese for yourself and your local food bank. These coupons are in some stores, but not all. This [...]

I was long overdue to make a food bank delivery since it was getting difficult for me to walk around my room with all the cereal that was piled up:

I sometimes get comments that the food that I donate isn’t always the most nutritious food. It is true that when sugary cereals go on sale and I can get them for free / nearly free, I will buy them. After talking with the coordinators of the local food banks, they would rather have the [...]

From May 12th to the 14th, Safeway had a sale where Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were free after coupons (in fact, it was actually a $1.00 money maker requiring me fill in other things which I also will donate), so I desperately scrounged up all the coupons I could find and hit the stores hard each [...]

I needed to make a purchase because the $0.75 off catalina coupons I had gotten on the first day of the Philadelphia cream cheese mini purchase were expiring. I was hoping to use them to get some more great cereal deals, but Safeway hasn’t had much in that area the last two weeks, so I [...]

I still find it hard to believe that I did this. Lucky Supermarket was having a cereal promotion this week (still good until Tues) where if you buy 4 boxes of Kellogg’s Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Fruit Loops and Corn Flakes, each box is $1.39 or $5.56 for all four. I had a lot of [...]

When the good deals come around, it’s the time to take full advantage of them since there is no telling when the next one will appear. With that in mind, I went on another Philadelphia cream cheese mini buying spree picking up another 230 packs. I just found out that this deal is active for [...]

I went out and purchased another 150 packages of Philadelphia cream cheese minis and then immediately made a run to the Milpitas Food Pantry to drop them off:

If you have a Safeway near you, you can take advantage of a sale this week where you can get free Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese mini 4 packs with coupons. Even without coupons, they are only $0.49 each when you buy five. I just bought 145 4-packs (I bought these at 7 different stores so [...]

Safeway continued to have their deal on Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles where you can purchase 5 boxes for $1.50 using coupons from the 3/14 Smartsource newspaper insert (each box was $1.50 when you bought 5, or $7.50. The coupons form the insert reduced the price by $2.00 so the cost was $5.50 and you received [...]