Bright Eyes — Rachel Lindan

I have added a new Coupons Needed section to Penny Experiment. These are high value coupons that can help you (or Penny Experiment) get food for pennies on the dollar. If they are something that you buy, please use them yourself. If not, please consider printing them for Penny Experiment so that we can get the food for local food banks (and if you are a coupon blogger, please consider participating). The latest coupon added is:
$1 off one Uncrustables (requires sign up)
The Uncrustables coupon is one that I have used with success to get a lot of food from Frozen Food month campaign for my local food bank. Please be sure to see if there are any other coupons that can help you or you can print for Penny Experiment.
Holly from Mommies With Cents had a wonderful shopping trip for Penny Experiment this week where she was able to get $123.10 worth of food for $12.01 — a 90% savings. Even better, she also has $13.50 worth of Catalina coupons that she received which she can use toward her next Penny Experiment purchase (The deals that she got are still running through Tuesday, so if you have an Albertsons near you, you can also score a similar deal and Holly shows how.) The purchase included the following:
It is great to see the food making its way to the food banks on a regular basis now that we have a number of established couponers helping out Penny Experiment. The latest donation was made by Carie’s Coins & Cents where she donated the $123 worth of food she had purchased to the Moorestown-Stitsville United Methodist Church food pantry. I’m quite excited to see where Penny Experiment can ultimately go…
Penny For Your Thoughts book #5 hasn’t even been officially launched yet, but that hasn’t stopped it from gaining some artwork. Kye Sangha (who also did My Two Cents #2 Penny Art) will be officially launching book #5 soon, but along the way while searching for a bell for the book, some artist friends wanted to contribute. Kevin, who is an altered book artist, is one of them:
The art says “Every Penny Counts” which I think really highlights what Penny Experiment is all about. If you decide that a penny has worth, it can have a huge amount of value and can make a big difference…far more than you ever imagined.
It’s always great to hear about the couponers taking the food that they have purchased to their local food banks. Jenny Ward recently took her haul to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina:
If there is one thing that I have learned from Penny Experiment, it is that I will never pay more than $1 for a box of cereal again. In fact, I won’t even consider buying cereal for Penny Experiment unless I can figure out how to get it for $0.50 a box or less. The reality is that with a bit of knowledge and using coupons, it’s not nearly as difficult to do as you might imagine.
My latest trip had me buying 8 large boxes of Cheerios (7 multigrain cheerios and 1 regular Cheerios) which were a $35.92 retail value for $3.52 — or a savings of 90% at $0.44 a box (I can keep getting this wonderful deal as long as I have coupons – please consider printing some off for me)