Another $1000 Worth of Food for the Food Bank

As I mentioned before, even though it was going to be impossible to top the Kellogg’s cereal buy last Wednesday, there were a lot of great deals to take advantage of this week. I spent most of Sunday driving around hitting as many Safeway stores as I could to continue to take advantage of them. I ended up with $1057.10 worth of food for $54.50 (a savings of 95% over regular retail value) and another car full of food to donate to Tri Valley Haven food pantry:

I continued to find boxes of Post Raisin Bran with coupons inside them, so I kept buying them, taking the cereal out of the boxes, placing it into large plastic bags, and cutting out the coupons so I could go and buy even more cereal:

The Raisin Bran taken out of the boxes ended up filling 4 large plastic bags with about 20 Raisin Bran packages in each one:

Then there were all the Raisin Bran boxes that didn’t have coupons on them that were purchased:

The bags and boxes combined came to 140 boxes of Raisin Bran donated. In addition to the Raisin Bran, I had an anonymous reader send me a bunch of Quaker Oat Square cereal coupons (thank you so much) which allowed me to get 50 boxes for free (Quaker Oat Squares was on sale for $1 each when you purchased 5 and the coupons were for $1 off one package). These were also loaded into the car:

The other purchases were for Betty Crocker fruit snacks. There were a lot of coupons available on the Internet and I had access to more from a past Sunday paper insert. These were on sale for $1.00 each when five were purchased. The coupons brought the price down to $4.00 and then there was a $3.50 Catalina coupon (register coupon) that printed making the price $0.10 for each box. I ended up purchasing 100 boxes of these fruit snacks which filled the car:

To make it all work required 34 trips through the cash register line at about 15 different Safeway stores (again, the managers of the stores all knew what I was doing and gave their approval and I always made sure to leave food on the shelves so that other customers could get the deals as well):

These were all taken down to Tri Valley Haven food pantry and dropped off:

All of these will be added to the Penny Experiment food purchased master list. Penny Experiment couponers have now purchased $4617.60 worth of food for $354.38. This is another small step toward the goal of getting $1 million worth of food for food banks with only $995,382.40 to go…