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 [...]

Things have been a bit quiet for the last couple of months, but that wasn’t due to me forgetting about this project in any way. In fact, I embarked on a Eating Well ON $1 A Day Challenge which I hope will ultimately bring a lot more publicity to Penny Experiment (I’m currently on day [...]

The Mall of Fan — DJG

It has truly amazed me the number of people that have wanted to participate in this penny experiment. Even more amazing is that many of them live outside the US. Book #34 (there are still books numbers available if you would like to launch one into the world) was recently launched in Australia by Roxane [...]

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]