I hope that I’m able to find a lot more deals like this in the coming weeks as this will make my job of creating a Thanksgiving meal for six people for $1.00 a lot easier. I ended up securing six packages of Pillsbury Grands biscuits for better than free at Lucky Supermarket – I…
DetailsI have decided to go very basic with the Thanksgiving menu for a number of reasons. First and foremost, this meal ultimately needs to be edible and with my panache for completely ruining meals I make, basic is good. While I do ultimately hope to make some of the food from scratch (I will try…
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If you have a Safeway near you (even if you don’t shop there), you will want to stop by and grab a few of The Big Thanksgiving Coupon Books (over $60 in savings) as they have some good coupons that will make for free / nearly free food. Most are manufacturer coupons which can be…
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This actually dates back to last week and it is both good and bad news. The good news is that I got free food toward my $1 Thanksgiving for 6 meal challenge, but that bad news is that had I been a little more prepared, I could have done much better. Last week Del Monte…
DetailsThe $1 Thanksgiving meal challenge just got a lot harder. There were two recent store coupon updates that are going to make the $1 Thanksgiving meal challenge that much more difficult to complete. Both are bad news for those of us that use coupons to get food for free (or nearly free). CVS BOGO Coupon…
DetailsOnce again, I have to ask myself what in the hell have I gotten myself into. I’m pretty sure that I have set myself up for a disaster waiting to happen (for those of you who may have somehow forgotten, I don’t know how to cook), and I’m already terrified of what this is going…
DetailseCoupons eCoupons are relatively new and are coupons that you load directly onto your store affiliated card. What is wonderful about these coupons is that currently they can be stacked in conjunction with manufacturer coupons, there is not any cutting or sorting needed with them since they are electronically placed onto your card and they…
DetailsIf you have read the Eating Well On $1 A Day Challenge, you know that the beginning of this entire bet was the result of me buying food for the best price that I could for local food banks. For those of you who already coupon and have decided to donate the food and other…
DetailsJust received confirmation that I will be on CNN to do a short interview tomorrow (Saturday) at 11:40 am PST about eating on $1 a day for 100 days. I’m not sure if I should be excited or terrified…
Why would I ever imagine that things would slow down now that the 100 days of eating on $1 a day are over? I returned home from Oregon (which in itself was an experience — I watched a box spring mattress decide that it wanted to learn how to fly as it freed itself from…
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