If you live in the DC or Baltimore Metro areas, I hope you’ve been to Safeway to see the new lower prices overall. Using the gift card that Safeway sent me, I challenged myself to get as much as I could for $50, all to donate to my local food bank. I did great! I did use coupons, along with the new low prices, Club Card sales, and current promos, to buy everything in the following two photos for around $50:
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Extra bonus question–you can answer in the Comments below–is anyone interested in doing a challenge like this for charity? Food banks are always looking for donations going into the fall, and I know they really struggled last year because of the economy. What if we all put our couponing/grocery store dealing ways to extra-good use and helped them out? Would you like to participate? How much money should we spend for the challenge–$10? More?
I think that's a great idea.
I have read that our local food bank takes fresh vegetables one day a week, so today I was deciding where to plant some extra lettuce for the food bank. I can plant lettuce in my fall garden in the next few weeks, and again for a couple of months. I may also plant extra radishes, as I have plenty of seeds.
You can find out if your food pantry takes garden vegetables here:
http://www.ampleharvest.org/index.php
If they do not, they have a way for you to try to get them to participate with them to organize the acceptance of fresh food.
Right now, I live in the state with the second highest unemployment rate (Nevada). I know people need donations.
Another thing that you can do is make sure to participate in Scouting for Food with the Boy Scouts (I think that's in October) and the USPS food drive in March.
Also, I have heard that Goodwill has been advertising for donations lately. The need is so great that they are having some slim pickings! If you can clean out those closests and donate them to a thrift store near you, you could be helping a lot of people.
I do something like this for charity already. All year my co-workers at my school give me coupons and I collect non-perishables for my school. Then we give them away in December as part of a holiday basket. (My school is primarily very low income students and families).
$10 sounds good to me but $20 woudn't bust my budget either. I love to be able to donate to our local food bank. As a vetran couponer, I get so much more than my family counld ever dream of using and it always makes me feel good to be able to give our excess to the bank.
Our family donates canned goods and bags of rice to the local food pantry several times a year.
I love Safeway and encourage others to donate when they can.
I would absolutely love to participate and do a challenge like this for charity. Great idea!
I think this is a great idea, we already drop off food for our local shelter through our church but I know with my coupons I always end up buying more than our family eats as well. I also think $20 is a perfect number, to some it’s only 4 cups of coffee at Starbuck and for other it could mean not going to bed hungry.
I am in! I think I could get a lot for $10! Let's do it!
I would love to participate. I think $10 or $20 would be great.
I would also like to participate. I do food bank donations each month through my church (they tell us what they are collecting), but I would love to get my 2 small children involved and actually take a bag of groceries to the food pantry.
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great idea!! id love to participate!
love this idea!! would be totally fun and good way to help others!
I say between $10 and $20 seems manageable with tight budgets and a fun challenge to see how much you can get with it.
$10 doesn't sound like much, but with double or triple coupons and sales, you can buy A LOT. I vote for something in the $10-$20 range.
I love how you're always thinking about giving to others Gina!
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I'm in. Our Church has given out shopping lists of items that are in high demand. I add several of those items to our list every week. It's a little something that I can do and it also helps me share with our girls as they pack the bag of donations while we are putting the groceries away.
Count me in-I usually give one of my co-workers 3-4 bags of groceries every 2 wks. (Her husband is currently out of work and things are tight.) I wouldn't mind putting $10-$20 worth of food into our churches food basket on Sunday.
that sounds like a great idea. Count me in on this one too:) I can definitely put $10 or $20 worth of items to a family or charity…
I think this is a great idea! I would like to participate. $20 seems reasonable!
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I could manage $10 to go my church food closet. They seem to be runnin glow on a lot of stuff lately.