I went and picked up more Pillsbury pastries and Scrubbing Bubbles for free last Tuesday for the food bank:
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Free Pillsbury Food
Safeway has a couple of products for free through tomorrow including Pillsbury and Scrubbing Bubbles (which is actually a small money maker) so I went out to get a few today:
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Tagged Coupons, free food, free stuff, Pillsbury, Safeway deals, scrubbing bubbles
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$1000 Worth of Del Monte Fruit Smoothies
Del Monte fruit smoothies were on sale this past week at Safeway for $1.00 each and there was a $1.00 off coupon available from the 8/15 Red Plum Sunday newspaper insert making these free. I had 20 of these coupons available and ended up getting $59.80 worth of fruit smoothies for $0.00:
Penny For Your Thoughts Book #87 Launched
Penny for your thoughts book #87 has been launched (there are still book numbers available if you would like to launch a book) by Tina L. Arons and set free into the world. After creating book #87 and placing her own thoughts into the book:
New Penny Experiment Button
We have been making a lot of changes to the blog over the last week. As you can see, we have a new theme, a new header and a new blog button that you can place on your blog if you have one:
We have also made some other changes including allowing anyone that wants to donate to their local food bank to add their donation to Penny Experiment even if they do not have a blog (along with a running list of all those donations). I will be going into a more detailed explanation about this change in the next couple of days. I would love to hear your thoughts on the new look.
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Dream #60 Penny Postcard Art
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Tagged #60, art, art project, art work, dream, ink art, Natalia Zanko, pencil art, Penny Art, Penny Experiment, penny postcard, penny postcard art
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$715 Worth of Food for Free
A couple of days ago I ended up buying 120 packages of Nature Valley Nut Clusters along with 1 bag of tortilla chips, 6 large cucumbers, 5 packages of Wacky Mac veggie spiral pasta, 8 bananas, 4 kiwis, 1 mango, 1 flower of garlic, 1 can of refried beans and 10 loaves of bread worth $507.88 for free:
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Tagged couponing, Coupons, donating food, food banks, food pantry, free food, Nature Valley, nut clusters, Safeway
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300 Boxes of Cereal
I recently took the Kraft cheese (along with a lot of other stuff I had collected from my eating well on $1 a day challenge) to the Milpitas Food Pantry:
Free Kraft Cheese At Safeway
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 is how the deal works.
Kraft shredded cheese (2 cups) is currently marked at $1.99 each or $9.95 for 5 packages. There currently is a Catalina coupon deal (these are the coupons that you get from the register after you pay) that is worth $5.00 toward anything on your next purchase:
So $9.95 – $5.00 = $4.95
In addition, in some stores there are Kraft shredded cheese packages that have $1.00 off 1 peelie coupons stuck on them:
Penny Experiment Update
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 64 having spent $40.01 on food).
While I had initially hoped that the coupon bloggers would be able to help me get to the final goal (they have done a fantastic job and have already done more than their fair share in helping this experiment along), the reality is that they are quite busy with their own blogging and there are a limited number of them out there so I needed to come up with a new strategy.
That new strategy is to teach anyone that wants to learn how to greatly reduce their grocery bill how I have been able to eat well on $1 a day. In doing that, they will end up getting some food for free which they may not need, and they can then pass this food onto their local food banks. Since there are far more people that want to learn how to reduce their shopping costs than coupon bloggers, I am hoping that over time we can find enough people to help out that will eventually get Penny Experiment to $1 million worth of food donated to food banks.
I do have a backlog of updates to get up (more penny art work, penny for your thought books and updates and food bank deliveries) and hopefully you will being seeing multiple posts going up beginning this weekend. I just wanted to send a quick shoutout to all that have helped thus far that all the little things have added up (over $13,000 worth of food donated!) and it has been greatly appreciated. I hope that we can do even more in the months to come.
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