Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Sat. May 14

National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive — Saturday, May 14th

The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is Saturday, May 14 where mail carriers across the US will collect and donate food to local food banks!  What better time to go through your pantry, cupboards, and stock piles and donate those FREE items and food items that are near their expiration date!  If you have a community mailbox, just leave a note for your mail carrier to let them know you have bags of food sitting by your front door!  This is a great opportunity to pay it forward with those coupon deals you have scored in the past and to sort and organize what you already do have, making room for more!

My Great Smith’s Trip!

Smith’s is having a promo where you can mix and match 10 items and get an instant $5 off your order. You can do many groupings in the same transaction (buy 20 items, get $10 off instantly). Here’s some pictures of my trip:

I bought:

8 Boulder Canyon Gluten-Free chips

4 Cheez-it Baby Swiss Cheese boxes of crackers

1 box Clif brand organic granola bars

4 Blue Diamond Almonds

3 Miracle Whips

6 Mom’s Best all-Natural heathly cereals

6 Quaker Life cereals

3 Captain Crunch cereals

4 Ragu spaghetti sauces (found an online coupon)

12 Ragu Alfredo sauces

6 American Beauty Quick Cook pastas

16 Ronzoni Garden Delight pastas (veggie)

24 Smart Taste pastas

24 Healthy Harvest (whole grain) pastas

and I also bought 3 Tostitos cheese dips on sale that aren’t part of the mix and match sale!

Ready for the grand total?

I bought 142 items in two transactions and paid $46.40 total for both transactions! I did use my $19 Smith’s reward that came in my gold envelope to make my OOP (out of pocket) expense only $27.40! Not too bad, huh?

That works out to be about 20 cents an item AND I even miscounted and came home with 2 extra pastas so I did have to pay a little bit more for those 2 things!

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