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:

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 [...]

Tomorrow is Stamp Out Hunger day where mail carriers across the nation will be picking up non perishable food at your mailbox and taking it to local food banks in your area. Even though I am spending the month of May eating on $1 a day, I have some extra food that I can spare [...]

With nearly 700 boxes of cereal stacked at home, I needed to get them to the food banks as soon as possible. Last Saturday I made the first attempt to clear some of them out by packing up the old Honda Civic to the brim:

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:

I have space in my room again! I took the food that I had stored there from last weeks food purchase to the Tri Valley Haven Food Pantry where it was gladly accepted by Claire.

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 [...]