According to a USDA Survey released today, more than 1 in 7 American households had trouble putting food on the table in 2008. The numbers involving children are heartbreaking: "16.7 million children were classified as not having enough food."Because of your interest a few months' back, I want to challenge you to take $10 out of your budget and see how far you can stretch it for charity. Show off your couponing skills and make a difference in your community! Here's how you can participate:
- Set aside $10 this month and work your couponing/deals/promo magic to get the most you can. Shop anywhere--grocery store, drugstore, Walmart, Target, etc.
- If you're a blogger, please post a photo of your $10 purchase along with my orange Food Bank Challenge button. Encourage your readers to join us in this important community service!
- If you're not a blogger, please share your details in the Comments section below. I'd love to see your photo by email if you take one. Please pass the word around to your family and friends. Think about the impact we can make if we each contribute!
See an example of how to post your results. Thanks for joining in!
9 comments:
I love this idea, and have blogged about with a link back to you. Thanks, can't wait to see how far I can stretch my $10!
Got it posted! I love this idea, and I can't wait to see how much everybody can get for $10.00. This is going to be fun. Thanks Gina!
What a great idea! I hadn't even read about this yet, but I already got started on mine. I bought boxes of Quaker chewy granola bars for $1 each at Vons today and set them aside for donation. I'll try to get some more great bargains to add to them.
Gina, I love this challenge. I bought groceries for the food bags at church over the weekend and here's what I got for just a bit over $10. The tomatoes and ziti are from Wegman's, the peanut butter will be from Walgreen's later tonight, and the rest came from Safeway. We bought a bit more than this, but this is our $10deal:
3 cans of Progresso soup (one veggie pasta and two tomato basil) at 75 cents each when combined with $1/4 and the purchase of 5 more cans for our home pantry (the tomato basil is THE BEST!) - $2.25
One box of Quaker Instant Oatmeal - $1.50
2 cans each of Green Giant corn and grean beans at 39 cents per can - $1.56
16 ounce box of Wegman's brand ziti - 69 cents
1 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes - 79 cents
1 24 ounce container of raisins for $2.50 when combined with a box for home and $1/2 - 2.50
1 jar of Skippy peanut butter - $1.50
Total is $10.79 (so I guess I could take off the can of tomatoes to make it $10 even...)
I love your challenge! I am in on this one! I posted about this on my blog and when I get my items in order I will post. Thanks for inspiring me to do more!
Great idea, Gina! My local mother's club is collecting for a local food bank at our holiday party. We had a killer cat deal at Acme last week, so here is what I got for 6.55.
4 skippy PB
2 wishbone salad dressing
4 viva paper towels
1 cottenelle wipes
24 green giant canned veggies
9 boxes plain cheerios
15 rolls scott paper towels
48 mentos gum (not on cat deal, just free after coupons)
Behold the power of just a few coupons and a whole lot of cat deals!
I will probably keep a few things for our family (like the viva towels and a few veggies), but the rest will get donated!
You can delete my linky, it is just a post about the challenge - I will relink with my results!
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GREAT IDEA!! I love it!
I have been reviewing coupon sites for the past week and last week alone I was able to donate to our local food pantry.
16 fiber one yogurt
12 cheerios
3 progresso broth
4 cookie mix
8 scalloped potatos
4 frosting
This was all free thanks to coupons and CAT sale.
There was a great CAT sale at Shaws last week.
Today I was able to get 12 boxes of cheerios for the pantry for FREE thanks to coupons at Stop & Shop.
This was a great idea!
I had two boxes of Cheerios I got FREE recently I'm going to donate also. You have inspires me alot. Thanks, Amy
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