My sister challenged me to try and eat well for a month spending only $1 a day for food. It probably would have been wise if I had thought about how much I hate shopping and cooking before I took on the challenge, but once I committed, nothing could stop me (not even a trip to the emergency room — two times — in the first week) I began May 1 with absolutely no food and managed to stay under my $31 budget for the month (I bought $597.96 worth of food and other stuff for $27.08 during the month). Here are some of the things I learned:
Grocery Shopping Is A Game: Getting good deals while grocery shopping is a game. If you don't think that it is, you are simply unknowingly playing it and it's costing you. Most people don't understand the rules of this game and that is why they pay much more for food than they need to. It takes about a month to learn the rules of the game and how to play it to your advantage which makes it possible to get huge discounts on the food you buy.
You Can Eat More Than Junk Food On $1 A Day: Most people that I told I was going to be trying this challenge assumed that I was going to be eating a lot of macaroni & cheese and instant ramen. I actually was able to get fruit and vegetables into my diet on a daily basis. I only ate 100% whole wheat bread the entire month. While I could have made my diet healthier if I had more money, I believe that what I ate was better than what many people in the US eat without the strict financial limitations.
Drug Stores Can Be A Great Place To Get Free Food: Most people don't think of their local drug store as a place to get free food, but if you have any of the three big national chains near you (CVS, Walgreens or Rite Aid), they are a great place to get free food. These drug stores often have deals where you can purchase things for free and when combined with frequent offers of a certain dollar amount off when you buy a qualifying amount, it can mean free food.
If You Don't Know What A Catalina Coupon Is, You Don't Know About The Most Powerful Discount Available To You: Catalina coupons are those coupons that you get with your receipt that give you money off your next shopping purchase. By utilizing these coupons in conjunction with sales and coupons, you go from getting good deals when shopping to being able to get food for free, or even make money.
Generic / Store Brands Aren't As Cheap As You Think: Most people I talked with believed that I was going to have to only buy generic / store brand food. I don't think I bought any store brand products (except for Safeway apples) because they were much more expensive than the name brand product discounts I could find.
If you are under the assumption that it isn't worthwhile to use coupons because you mainly use generic / store brands and they are less expensive than name brands even with coupons, then you don't know how to use coupons. I used to believe the argument and it is just false.
You Don't Know How To Shop: If you are like most people, you decide what you want to eat and then go to the grocery store and buy the ingredients you need to make that meal. If this is the way that you shop, you have already lost the game and will pay much more than you need to be paying.
If you truly want to save money shopping, you need to learn how to create your meals from what you already have in your house and then buy the best deals each week to replenish what you have on hand. This allows you to purchase food at the best prices as opposed to what they happen to be when you go to get the ingredients for your menu. This simple change should instantly cut your grocery bill by 50% or more.
It's Possible To Donate A Lot of Food While Only Eating On $1 A Day: One of the things that I am most proud of in this challenge was that beyond not going hungry, I was actually able to donate quite a bit of food to my local food bank during the month. This included:
8 Deli Selections lunch packs
8 packages hardwood smoked turkey franks
3 sample packs of Maxwell House Vanilla Carmel Latte
1 can of Pork & Beans
32 boxes of cereal
50 packs of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Minis
4 boxes of Wheat Thins
In fact, to get many deals you probably will need to buy more than you actually need. Instead of looking at this as something negative (“I don't need that much so I will buy something more expensive but in a lesser quantity”), embrace it and begin donating to your local food bank. Your local food bank will greatly appreciate it and you will wonder why you didn't begin doing so sooner.
It Doesn't Take Near As Much Time As You Would Imagine There is an initial learning curve when you really do need to devote a good amount of time learning how the system works, but once you become familiar with it, things shouldn't take too much longer than they do for you now. While it is possible to spend a lot of time cutting, sorting and cataloging all the coupons you have, you don't have to. I don't. I simply date the Sunday coupon inserts with a pen and then only get coupons when there is a great deal that I want to take advantage of.
Being Able To Get Coupons Is Key: Your ability to get coupons will be the key to saving money and the more you can find, the better the chance you will have to get great deals. Although I was limited to using the coupons from 2 Sunday inserts, I still did well. Had I been able to use more, I could have done much better. I also utilized a lot of coupons found in the stores — something that most people don't do nearly enough.
Anyone Can Do It: I only started couponing in February of this year to help out local food banks and avoided shopping as much as I could before then. I didn't have a clue about anything about couponing or grocery shopping when I began. If I was able to figure out how to do this, I assure you that anyone can. It will take about 10 hours of learning how the different store systems work and about a month of practice using what you learn to become comfortable with using coupons. From that point on, you can expect huge savings in your grocery shopping.
Bonus Observation: It is amazing what you will consider doing in order to get a free jar of peanut butter when on a limited budget…
If this is your first visit to this challenge, you may be interested in frequently asked questions
Congratulations!!!!!! I have to say at the beginning, I honestly didn’t think you’d be able to do it! WOW! You’ve inspired this mom and many to try couponing. Excellent blogging!
Congrats on finishing and I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next.
congrats on doing that challenge. I would love to be able to coupon to that extent. I have always used coupons but I am learning how to USE coupons. We are a family of six with 4 boys in the mix so I can just imagine the food they will eat!
I was freaking out over my grocery budget for June of $30 a week…for a family of 5. Well, actually that’s a household consumable budget…toilet paper, diapers, toiletries, etc. I make nearly all our cleaning supplies, including laundry, hand soap, body wash; cook from scratch nearly every meal and bake my own bread, bagels, muffins, tortillas, etc. which really cuts our food costs down. But I am totally inpired and feel that if you could make it on less than one week’s worth of MY budget, I can make June work! Thanks for doing this challenge and sharing it…I read the whole thing in one sitting! I’d be happy to share recipes with you, btw. And have you heard of water kefir? If you ever have to do antibiotics again that would be very good to drink. It’s a healthy, refreshing probiotic beverage (full of healthy and beneficial yeasts and bacterias, vitamins, minerals and amino acids) that you make yourself. If you are interested let me know!
I admire your efforts and tips and believe anyone with common sense who puts his/her mind to it can do this to save money. As long as this kind of thing does not become a total weird obsession that takes over your life (which it obviously can), okay and more power to you. I’d do it if I had kids and a hubby to worry about, that’s for sure.
I loved the series. You may not have eaten what most people would have, but you truely were creative in coming up with a healthy diet on a $1 a day. This shows it can be done, and I think you definitely won the challenge despite your sister’s criticism. I do agree that with a little effort you could probably come up with some better meals and a little more variety. I look forward to seeing how June goes. Also great job in showing that you can still donate to the local food pantry regardless of how small of a budget you have.
I am very impressed by what you accomplished and am definitely considering doing just the same.I personally loved the 600+ boxes of cereal thing =D. I think it would be an awesome “game” to play and I will get free food, currently im in a good spot financially living as a college student with my parents but in a year i’ll be another poor student and could definitely use this info and ill definitely show it to my sister who I know will love your blog.
Good job.
Great experiment.
I read about your challenge on Lifehacker.
I learned quite a bit by reading your blog.
The only problem I have is that our only other local store besides Walmart doesn’t have Catalina coupons so I can’t use this valuable resource I learned about today.
I’m all for being flexible about what you eat but you take it to another level (11).
You definitely win the challenge but your sister has a point in that most people are much pickier than you are about what they eat.
Keep up the good work.
i don’t really care about saving money with coupons, besides, in my country don’t have coupons systems like you do, but having said that i just could not stop reading your blog. it was a fascinating read that has inspired me to follow though own my own projects in a more thorough systematic way. thank you.
Great post. I have known for some time that food shopping, when played like a game, can result in unbelievably cheap food for some, and overpriced food for the rest of us who sit out and don’t bother to play the game. Why is our food industry like this?
It’s the same way with cars – buyers who do massive amounts of homework and know how to play the game (argue, hold firm, present evidence, sit and stare down a dealer for hours) get significantly better deals than people who just want to pick a car and drive off.
Why do we have a system that rewards a jumping through hoops? Whom does that benefit? What’s the point? You’re not getting a better product, nor are you demonstrating or developing brand loyalty. You’re not even eating what you really want to eat.
okay…so you learned the rest of us are ignorant losers when it comes to shopping. But what, exactly, were the *other* 9 things you learned?
So sad that some rude people get enjoyment from kicking others!
Following some of your leads I’ve got more coupons including 6 coupons from Kraft for free items valued about $20! I responded to their email offering them only about a week ago and they are here already! Except for one of the coupons all are for edible food (not junk) and I was pleased to get them. I used a surprise $2 CVS extra buck that was good for only 3 days to get my Sunday paper with. So many ways to save if you just open your mind!
I’m still trying to understand this sentence: “These drug stores often have deals where you can purchase things for free and when combined with frequent offers of a certain dollar amount off when you buy a qualifying amount, it can mean free food. ”
Don’t you end up buying stuff you don’t want in order to get dollar amount off something you do want?
I don’t understand this sentence either: “I simply date the Sunday coupon inserts with a pen and then only get coupons when there is a great deal that I want to take advantage of.”
What date are you writing? The coupon expiration date?
Also, I shop at Fred Meyer (Kroger’s) and I get very few Catalina Coupons that I can actually use. They even have a coupon exchange basket and when I look in it there’s never anything I need.
@booch221
Don’t you end up buying stuff you don’t want in order to get dollar amount off something you do want?
Yes, but it is important to remember that just because I don’t want it, that doesn’t mean that somebody else can’t use it (and I hope that you will donate those things you don’t need to food banks and other charities in need). And with the overage that comes with it, I can often buy stuff I do need. I just bought 30 packages of Rolaids that I don’t need (and I will donate), but it got me some good food that I did need for nearly free: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/fighting-with-wildlife-day-45-eating-well-on-1-a-day/
What date are you writing? The coupon expiration date?
No, the date the insert arrived in the Sunday paper. Then when you use a coupon search engine ( http://www.savingadvice.com/tools/coupons/ ) you know exactly where to find any coupons that match sales.
Also, I shop at Fred Meyer (Kroger’s) and I get very few Catalina Coupons that I can actually use.
This is the time of the month when catalina deals change so many are ending soon or have recently ended, but there are quite a few for Krogers available:
Buy Alpo Singles between 6/18-7/11
Buy 6, Receive $1 Catalina
Buy 12, Receive $1.50 Catalina
Purchase 18, or more and Receive $2.50 Catalina
Buy Bacardi Mixers between 6/25-7/18
Buy 4, Receive $1 Catalina
Buy 5, Receive $2 Catalina
Buy 6 or more, Receive $3 Catalina
Buy Breyers Ice Cream (1.5 – 1.75 qt) between 4/26 – 6/20 (Excludes ID, CO, LA, NV, TN)
Buy 2, Receive $2 Catalina
Buy 3, Receive $3 Catalina
Buy 4, Receive $4 Catalina
Buy Frozen Cool Whip Topping between 5/21-7/11
Buy 3, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy 4, Receive $2.00 Catalina
Buy 5, Receive $3.00 Catalina
Buy Dole Fruit Cups, 4 pk through 6/16
Buy 4, Receive $0.75 Catalina
Buy canned Dole Mandarin Oranges through 6/16
Buy 4, Receive $0.75 Catalina
Buy Dole Pineapple through 6/16
Buy 4, Receive $0.50 Catalina
Buy Edy’s Fruit Bars, 6-12 ct., Nestle Dibs, 60 ct., Nestle Drumstick, 4 ct., Nestle Delicias, 6 ct., Eskimo Pie, 6 ct., Nestle Push Up between 6/20-7/17
Buy 2, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy 3, Receive $2.00 Catalina
Buy 4 (or more), Receive $4.00 Catalina
Buy General Mills Fruit Snacks (Fruit By the Foot, Fruit Gushers, Fruit Roll-Ups, Fruit Stickerz) between 6/14-7/11
Buy 3, Receive $1.50 Catalina
Buy 4, Receive $2.50 Catalina
Buy 5 (or more), Receive $3.50 Catalina
Buy Gerbers Juice, Select Varieties, through 6/19
Buy 3, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy Kraft Salad Dressing between 5/21 – 6/27
Buy 2, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy 3. Receive $2.00 Catalina
Buy 4, Receive $3.00 Catalina
Buy Pringles Chips through 6/16
Buy 4, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy Reach Toothbrushes between 6/1 – 6/24
Buy 2, Receive $1.00 Catalina
Buy 3, Receive $2.00 Catalina
Buy 4, Receive $4 Catalina
I think 19 has a fair point. It sounds like you’re just hiding a lot of your food budget in your budget for other stuff. Not that you can’t give that stuff away or re-sell it, but it sounds like an accounting trick.
Otherwise, cool project.
Wow!!! this is so Great I am glad to see that it realy works i fone puts the time in for it..it is like winning the loretty..I am so doing the couponing ..from now on .Thanks to You for putting it to the test.
@Nick
It sounds like you’re just hiding a lot of your food budget in your budget for other stuff
There is no other budget — everything I buy has to come out of the $1 a day budget. All the stuff I buy that I don’t need is free or a “moneymaker” so there is no money that is being hidden. I have never purchased something that I failed to mentioned on the blog in order to get a discount on food — that would completely ruin the entire point of the challenge (and I guarantee that my sister would never let me get away with that)
Thanks for your comments. I would love to do this, even if I only saved half as much as you, it would BIG plus to my bottom line. Also, I would love to be able to donate more to the local food bank.
Are there any sites you can point to that explain how to do this? You’ve given a lot of tips, but I’m not quite sure how to put it all together.
@booch221 – Yes, I will be addressing that in the next few days which should give the basics of what I am doing to anyone that wants to give it a try on their own
So the first site that clued me in to the game aspect of grocery shopping is safewaygirl.com. Safeway girl posts her receipts and points out the deals — she routinely saves ridiculously high percentages of her bill.
Do you think the stores realize its a game, or they just discount things they need to liquidate?
@ssingh
It’s rarely that the stores lose money. It is when manufacturers send out coupons and catalinas that these deals are possible and the grocery store gets reimbursed for all the manufacturer coupons used. The manufacturers goal is to get people to try their product knowing that most that do that like it will continue to buy it. I think they consider it an advertising expense.
Truly remarkable series..I simply loved it..thanks
Holy cow! I’m inspired! I’m going to include this post in my weekly roundup on Saturday! You’ve really set the bar here. Thanks – Emma @ Tightwad
I am still skeptical. I can get coupons for peanut butter, but not for natural or organic peanut butter. Haven’t found a way to get anything “free”; you have to buy something else first. If you are only counting your food $$ in the 31 total, great. But you had to buy other stuff to get the deals, and what if you don’t want and can’t afford the other stuff? I can’t find anything that actually tells me how to do this miraculous stuff except to buy things I don’t want. So I’m not sold at all.
@Anna H
You have misunderstood. The price of all that other stuff (non food items) I have purchased is counted toward the $1 a day budget I have. I have never purchased something that I did not count the price to get the food for cheap. The other stuff often makes getting stuff for free possible. I know it sounds weird, but read through my posts. You will see and I have posted all of my receipts as proof. Start here: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day/
Where I am coming from, the grocery coupons are something unknown. But we have a steady production of fruits and vegetables so it is cheap.
Anyway I can not believe that in the modern consumer society you can live with one $ per day for food.
I looked at the Sunday ads from Safeway, Fred Meyer and Walgreens. I saw nothing I wanted to buy except Jello at Walgreens with a coupon. But the Jello at Fred Meyer’s was cheaper just using their rewards card. I saw no coupons where if I buy something I don’t need, I get something free (that I probably don’t need).
@booch221
That is why you should rely on blogs that are better at finding the deals until you become better at it. You missed free yogurt and the Rolaids money maker last week at Safeway last week: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/rolaids-moneymaker-free-yogurt-safeway-deals-616-622/ – Gillette Body wash moneymaker, Bausch & Lomb Re-nu Multipurpose Solution moneymaker, free Herbal Essences Hair Care at Walgreens: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/gillette-moneymaker-free-tampons-walgreens-deals-620-626/ and there is Free Goldfish crackers and a Kraft salad dressing money maker this week at Safeway: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/kraft-dressing-moneymaker-free-gold-fish-crackers-safeway-deals-623-629/
While I like reading tips for being frugal, it sometimes upsets me that people treat food budgeting as a “game” or “challenge.” For many people, this is their life. They cannot access certain bargain shops, such as large supermarkets, discount stores, or national pharmacy chains, due to expensive or lack of transportation. Many may not have a monthly budget to start with, and have to wait a week or more in between shopping trips. I DO appreciate that you donated leftover/extra food to the food bank and I hope this becomes a trend among bloggers with this similar idea.
Great experiment! Thanks for documenting it. I appreciate these tips. For some reason I believe your tips better than those I-can-feed-my-family-of-4-for-$40-a-week mommy bloggers. BTW-I am a woman.
Your tip on using what you have on hand is called the “Pantry Method” officially named by Amy Dacyczyn a frugal celebrity.
I’m amazed at the number of people who attacked you, your objectives and how you went about it — after you stated clearly what you wanted to do and how you planned to go about it. Some seemed to think that you were doing something wrong because you did not do things their way.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog. You did a great job of combining the food you had into decent meals. I’m even more impressed with all the items you were able to donate to the food banks. You’re a good guy.
Look, I almost never comment and prefer lurking. That being said, I’m not going to resort to any kind of personal criticism here. This is an overall perspective recap.
My largest gripe with all of these blogs (this is not the first effort of its kind that I’ve read) is that people are really missing the point to our food system. You are participating in a really clever aim – you want to score food for almost nothing but as many have noted throughout your posts, these items are rarely proper foods. You hated cooking, fine. You hated certain prepared/processed foods, fine. But the bigger picture is that by doing these grocery games we are perpetrating a @#$%ed up industry that is bulk-oriented and disregards relationships we have with food producers, you know, like farmers and ranchers. I value your commitment to food banks. There’s no sense in stockpiling thousands of ounces of products if they are going to waste. Walk through any large grocery store – imagine their waste in the meat section or the produce. That food put in the hands of those that are on the bottom tier of survival is noble. Why else is there distribution being considered?
What I’d love to see is people embrace cooking methods that are using a variety of local produce way more often, not prepacked salsa from a nondescript region of the U.S. Really, what kind of salsa is that supposed to be? Where in Mexico do they make a Pace flavored salsa, complete with artificially-tasting ingredients? I’d like to see people say, “Shit, instead of dropping by Kroger or Wal-Mart, I should have gone by the farmer’s market. I should have picked up radishes in June or Acorn Squash in late August.” I wish our organic industry wasn’t a fraud either. Step into Whole Foods – how much of that is actually food and not gimmicky bullshit that’s sold on marketing research and not valuable nutrition? How much of most groceries is aisles of long-lasting product that faintly resembles mom’s or dad’s cooking/baking/braising?
What it all boils down to is that this was a clever use of a system. It’s akin to counting cards or timing traffic lights. There is nothing wrong with it. It is wrong, however, that this is what we’ve gotten to. Instead of supporting the people that provide us real food, we support bigger and bigger conglomerates that have no investment in the lives of communities. Agriculture is an industry, I get it. It’s necessary for “staples” but there is also no reason for us to allow ourselves to stuff garbage down gullets.
On the catalina discussion, were you able to use the savings on other things you purchased and not what the catalina was for; ie Alpo? Our catalinas in Ohio only apply to one particular item; ie Alpo again. Or am I reading the catalina wrong? Thanks for your help on that. For two people, could you double the amount you are able to spend?
@Beverly Robbins
Both. The ones that are for specific items are usually triggered when you buy a competing item. These are not the ones that are of much value to me. The ones that I go for are the ones that are good for anything on your next purchase.
Don’t get hung up on the amount and feel free to shoot for any amount you want. I am sure that if you did $5 a day, you would still save a lot over what most people currently pay. Start slow – reduce your current spending by 25% and then you can continue from there. It’s not the amount – it is the process.
Thanks for your prompt response. I need to share something. Since reading your blog, and since today is Sunday I really looked at the ads for the first time. K-Mart was advertising Levi jeans..buy two and get a free K-Mart $10 gift card. I was going to get jeans for my son for his birthday anyway, so rather than going to Macys and getting nothing but the jeans, I just got the jeans AND a $10 card to spend anyway I like! And the price was the same at both stores to boot! THANK YOU!! You may educate me yet!
You forgot the most important #1 rule of all: Don’t Do All Your Shopping In One Place!
My wife got to college before she realized people shop all in only one store.
Conversely, my mom was a single parent (even when she was married – my dad was the kind that closed our $25 kids account with a promise to repay us in a month with interest so he could afford some gas an 100% natural peanut butter) who worked almost all day, had to walk to her minimum wage job with a back injury, and had no choice but to shop for some meager cheap calories at a single place within walking distance of our house. This sob story is to show that I understand when people say “not anyone can do it”.
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I also am curious on a total cost analysis. What is you time worth and how much time did you put in? My wife currently works 2 jobs and I am working 1 job and going to school, so time is a premium. What is your mode of transportation? If car, how many miles did you use at what mpg? If public transport, what is that cost? Don’t forget the time used to prep meals. What region do you live in? (For example, my wife and I live in a small rural community with only 2 convenience stores, a small town 5 miles away with one grocery store, and 15 miles from Madison, WI – this will influence time/transportation costs as well as what types of coupons are available.) Also, for whom were you buying? Yourself, you plus 1 or more children, you and a spouse, or a family?
Now, I am all for work less for a company to work for yourself, so please don’t misread my intention.
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Finally, I’d like to say that I am getting far more into cooking. It started when we bought half a cow that was grass-fed. The farmer worked with a packer that cut and vacuum packed everything. The meat was far more flavorful and colorful than anything I had tasted in a store, and it has kept well for the 3/4 year (and should run out at the end of the year). With all this meat, we fell short of your challenge. It cost us about $800 in total, and should last us a year – that’s over double your monthly budget in just beef alone for us 2.
However, it is inspiring me to cook for flavor. I use to buy Prego spaghetti sauce. Now I buy a 6 lb can of crushed tomatoes, 2 lbs of carrots, some onions, green peppers, some garlic, and a use 5 quart canning jars to make my own fresh spaghetti sauce. Vinegar, a bit of brown sugar, and some other spices, and I divert 2 cups of tomatoes to make home-made ketchup that is far better than anything made with corn syrup. It still costs a bit, but the flavor and control of the ingredients are important to me. I am starting to convert my lawn into a garden (I hate mowing and refuse to use any chemicals on it, so my neighbors hate me), but the 6lb can is the same as a 20 lbs fresh tomatoes (and a lot of gardening labor). Of course, fresh made pizza crust with crushed sun-warm tomatoes, the lightest sprinkling of mozarella, and onion-and-garlic with italian seasoning tossed in olive oil far outdoes any cheap Jacks frozen pizza deal any day.
Heck, discovering my favorite candy (toffee/brittle) is nothing more than a stick of butter, a half cup of sugar, 2 tbsp water, and a tsp of vanilla boiled and stirred on a stovetop to the right color (or above 300 F but below 320 F if you have a candy thermometer) is my favorite recipe next to fudge brownies (which is almost as simple). Its simple and inexpensive, and how much does one little candy bar cost today?
Oops, I am getting side tracked with too much detail – now you know why my moniker is Verbosity. My point is I also agree with those who say there is something about becoming reconnected with food again that reawakens one’s taste buds. Unfortunately, this means spending a lot more, either in cash or in the garden/farm.
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Anyway, these are some things I am hoping your readers will start thinking about when they hear the $1/day challenge is doable. Congratulations with your success, and I hope you soon discover the joys of cooking.
@Verbosity
The FAQ page should answer some of your questions: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day-faqs/
This is a very impressive series – you’ve definitely taught me a lot about how shopping really works. I plan to stay with the “backwards” model of choosing what food I want first – although if I apply your more opportunity-based approach to staples, I bet I can save a bunch.
I’ve also learned that people with poor reading comprehension find your experiment profoundly threatening for some reason. It would never have occurred to me – there may be a psych Ph.D. dissertation in there somewhere!
Your generosity has also inspired me to find ways to donate to my local food bank.
I would like to know where the proof is. Is the raw data and receipts to prove this story is true available to the public?
@W
You can follow the entire 100 days here: https://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day with all the receipts of the food I bought, how i bought it and the costs.
Wow, I am amazed at how much was donated while stil sticking to the budget. Congrats!
I feel like I’m having a reading comprehension fail. What date do you put on the Sunday coupon inserts, exactly? The expiration date?
Thanks much!
No, you place on the Sunday date that the coupon insert arrived so you can easily find it at a later date.