New Couponer: Saving My Sanity, One Coupon At A Time

It is always wonderful to welcome a new coupon blogger that has decided to participate in Penny Experiment because that means one more local food bank that is going to get some needed food. DJ, who writes the blog Saving My Sanity, One Coupon At A Time, (make sure to check out her blog where she explains how she has purchased over $700 worth of food for $145) emailed me to let me know that she had made a number of runs for Penny Experiment. They included the following:

Trip #1: $64.89 worth of food for $0.10 which included the following food:

(4) Boxes Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks
(3) Travel Size Band Aid kits
(2) Bags Voila Frozen Meals
(2) Boxes Bayer Low Dose Pain Reliever
(2) Boxes Aleve Pain Reliever
(2) Tubes Aquafresh Toothpaste
(4) Bottles Sundown Vitamin Supplements
(2) Boxes Green Giant Frozen Sweet Peas
(2) Boxes Minute Rice
(2) Boxes Betty Crocker Scalloped Potatoes

Trip #2: $75.46 worth of food for $20.39 which included the following food:

(5) cans FL Tomato Sauce
(5) cans FL Pork and Beans
(10) FL Yogurt cups
(1) Cottonelle wipes
(5) FL Taco Seasoning packets
(5) FL Cornbread mixes
(10) boxes FL Mac and Cheese
(3) 4 pks Benevia Nutrition drinks
(2) can Rotel
(3) cans Hunts Tomatoes
(4) cans Bush’s Kidney and Chili Beans
(4) boxes Kraft Mac and Cheese
(2) jars Bertolli Pasta Sauce

Trip #3: $44.05 worth of food for $2.46 which included the following food:

(3) Betty Crocker Boxed Potatoes
(2) Jolly Time Popcorn
(2)Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix
(1) Ivory Bar Soap 3pk
(1) Quaker Instant Oatmeal
(2) BeneVia 4pk Nutrition drinks
(1) Naked Juice
(2) Rotel Diced Tomatoes

Trip #4: $16.81 worth of food for $2.53 which included the following food:

(4) Country Crock Tubs Butter
(6) Friskies Party Mix Cat Treats – kitties gotta eat too

Trip #5: $47.18 worth of food for $12.71 which included the following food:

(2) Wet Ones canisters
(2) Old El Paso Refried Beans
(2) Old El Paso Tacos Shells
(2) Glass Plus Cleaner
(2) Colgate Toothpaste
(2) Magic Erasers
(1) Daisy Sour Cream
(1) Soft Soap Hand Soap
(1) Box Marcal Facial Tissue
(8) Cans Campbells Tomato Soup
(2) Southern Home Chocolate Pudding mix
(1) Texas Pete Hot Sauce

After these purchases, it was a time to take a trip to the local food bank to deliver all the food. It ended up being 65 pounds of food which went to Helping Hands:

When added all up, Saving My Sanity, One Coupon At A Time ended up purchasing $248.39 worth of food for $38.19 — an 85% savings. All the items purchased will be added to the ever growing master list of all the food purchased for Penny Experiment. Couponers have now managed to purchase $1358.18 worth of food for $159.63. This is yet another small step to the overall goal of $1 million worth of food for food banks and leaves us $998,641.82 left to go…