If you shop at Safeway, be sure to take a moment to see if you can get Oscar Mayer Hardwood Smoked Turkey Franks for free from 5/26 – 6/1 2010. Keep them for yourself if you and your family will eat them (you can freeze them so you have hot togs for BBQing the entire…
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If you are going to be going to Safeway today or tomorrow, you might want to consider these two catalina coupons that are available. They both end on 5/27 (Thursday), so you will have to act quick if you want to take advantage of them. Hamburger Helper Catalina Coupon Buy 4 boxes of Hamburger Helper…
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There is a new coupon booklet beginning to show up in the dairy sections at Safeway (and all Safeway affiliated stores: Vons, Dominick's, Genuardis, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Pavailions and Carrs) – it's pretty big and hard to miss — called “Add Dairy to Your Summer Adventure” and contains over $26 in coupon savings including Safeway…
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I mentioned during my Eating Well On $1 A Day Challenge that men don't buy tampons and my succumbing to buying tampons for a jar of free peanut butter. One of the comments on that post was from Julinda who said: My sister is poor and frequently visits a food pantry. She, like many other…
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Hard to believe I'm down to the final week. Considering I started this challenge off in the hospital emergency room and I wasn't sure I would make it this far, it is nice to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This also marks the day that I get to…
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I should have known that not paying attention in math class would one day come back to haunt me. My math is so bad that I am seriously considering taking a calculator with me to the store from now on (although that still might not be enough). For awhile I thought I might have to…
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I knew that today was going to be a tough day even before it began. I had finished off all my fruit and pasta and was running low on a lot of other things. I figured that for the first time, I would actually be eating like people imagined I would be eating when there…
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I love peanut butter. I seriously love the stuff. If I hadn't been able to buy some for this challenge, it would have been immensely more difficult for me to stay on tract. I love peanut butter so much, I was willing to buy tampons to get some for free. I have no problem eating…
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You know when you go on a trip and you forget your toothpaste or something else and you get angry with yourself because you knew you were going to forget something and despite that, you still forgot it? Then you have to go to a local store and pay an outrageous price for whatever you…
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As I have mentioned before, I should have thought through that I really don't enjoy shopping or cooking before I decided to attempt this challenge. Add another thing I should have considered to that list: eating on $1 a day is not fun when you move around a lot. I have a house sitting job…
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