Grocery Coupon Guide

This week CVS has $1.00 Money Maker on U by Kotex! You can also pick up a free 6×8 Photo Book. For anything else on your shopping list this week, be sure to use the coupon data base to match up any available coupons: U by Kotex Liners, Pads or Tampons – $4.99 Buy 1, [...]

I had to make some decisions on how I wanted to proceed with this challenge these last couple of weeks. I think that I have done a decent job showing that it is possible to eat well on $1 a day and I’ve created a pretty decent cushion between the goal of eating on $1 [...]

My sister is evil sometimes (how come they know all the buttons to push?). She knows that this experiment has had a huge impact at the way I look at the cost of things. I now tend to look at prices in terms of how many days of food something is worth even for non [...]

I’m not sure if I should be happy that word is getting out that people can cut their shopping bills while helping those in their local community or if I should be hiding in shame in a deep, dark corner. It is definitely a double edged sword when articles refer to you as The Coupon [...]

This looks like a pretty good week at Safeway. You can get free Yoplait Yogurt, free Kraft Salad Dressing, and Haas Avacados for only $0.28! For anything else on your shopping list this week, be sure to use the coupon data base to match up any available coupons: Yoplait Yoplus, Fiber One or Delights Yogurt [...]

Yay! Free produce this week at Albertsons! All you have to do is sign up for Albertsons Newsletter here. Just enter your name, e-mail, zip code, preffered card number, and enter PRODUCE in the promo code box. Takes less than a minute to sign up and you will be able to print a $2.00 off [...]

I received an email asking me if it makes sense to get more than 1 CVS card since the deals that CVS has are often limited in quantity. For this Eating Well On $1 A Day Challenge, I have only used my card (I think I may have used another card once when I had [...]

Here is a question for anyone that reads this blog that lives in the San Francisco south bay area (if there is anyone) – would there be any interest in meeting as a group so that I can answer any questions you have about how I do the couponing? If there are any individuals that [...]

Who would have thought that it would be much more complicated trying to give money back to a store than getting the stuff for free in the first place? I found out today that this is most certainly the case. Even funnier is that if you go into a store and say that they made [...]

I wish that cooking could always be this much fun as I had today (see below to the plastic bag omelet). It was a good reprieve from looking at cooking as a chore and I think it has helped me defeat the cooking rebellion (at least for the time being). I had run out of [...]