Stamp Out Hunger Drive

Tomorrow, May 8th, is the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive!  Simply gather your non-perishable food items and place them by your mailbox for your mail carrier to collect tomorrow during their route.  So simple!

I have always said that one of the best things Grocery Smarts does for me is affords me the opportunity to give back without taking away from my family or hurting our budget.... So come on ladies and let's clean out those cupboards and get ready for some great sales this summer. 

Stamp Out Hunger

If you have been to my class you have heard me talk about how much extra 'stuff' I now have by simply shopping using the Grocery Smarts lists. One of the first things I recognized was that when it came time for the Boy Scouts from church were doing a food drive, I actually had excess that I COULD give away and not feel a dent at all in our food storage. What a GREAT feeling!!!

You want to experience the same thing? Special thanks to Colette (my coupon guru) for pointing this out!! May 9th is "Stamp Out Hunger" Day & if you are like me and have food coming out of your ears, then what a better way to give back!!

"Stamp Out Hunger™ is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. Last year, over 73 million pounds of food were donated to food banks. Join in the fight to end hunger on Saturday, May 9, 2009, by leaving non-perishable food donations in a bag next to your mailbox for your letter carrier."

Check out the website for more info: http://www.helpstampouthunger.com/

Want MORE deals?

You know you're a Grocery Geek when... you get out of the store and just have to call someone and brag about your great deals!

Pinching Your Pennies is an AWESOME forum for doing just that! There isn't a ton of participation yet in the Nevada Forum so I thought I'd do a post to get awareness out there so we can all start using it!

Basically, you just register then can share info on extra deals you find as you are out shopping. The Grocery Smarts lists are great, but if you find something extra - this is where you can post it for everyone to see! Pass the word around - the more "eyes" we have on the deals the more we all wil benefit! See you there!!

FREE RICE

Yep, that's right, but you won't find it in any store.

I got an email from a friend of mine & I thought about all the free toothpaste I have to donate for hygiene kits (no, rice and toothpaste don't have much in common, but hear me out). I was thinking more on a humanitarian effort how fun would it be to send some freebies across the world.

All you do is go to this site FreeRice.com and answer some trivia questions. They do warn that this game may make you smarter, and my friend says it is quite addicting. For every question you get right, sponsoring organizations donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. Questions come from all sorts of categories such as Vocabulary, Art, Chemistry, Geography, and Math.

So, if you ever find yourself sitting around on the computer with nothing else to do, take a few minutes and expand your vocabulary or science knowledge and help world hunger at the same time!!