My pantry and fridge runneth over with items to be donated so I headed over to Helping Hands Monday.
My little helper and I donated 78lbs of food, health and beauty items, and cleaning supplies in conjunction with the Penny Experiment:
(3) Betty Crocker Pouch Potatoes (recent HT trip this past weekend)
(1) Bounty Basic Single Roll
(4) Kellogg's Mini Wheats Cereal
(3) McCormicks Vanilla Extract
(2) Country Crock Tub Spread
(2) Coffee Mate Creamer
(2) Philadelphia Cream Cheese Mini's
(2) Ester-C Supplements 60ct
(2) Breakstone's Sour Cream
(3) Campbell's Chunky Canned Soup
(2) Ortega Taco/Fajita Seasoning
(1) Franks Hot Sauce
(4) Martha White Bread Mixes
(2) Quaker True Delights Snacks
(2) FREE Sample of Burts Bee's toothpaste
(3) Ore-Ida bagged french fries and tater tots
(4) Tums 24ct pkgs
(3) Crest Kids toothpaste
(4) Oscar Mayer Lunchables
(4) Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Spaghetti Noodles
(2) Up & up wipes
(3) Danimals Yogurt drink 6pks
(1) Fusion manual razor
(1) Fusion 5ct blade refill
(3) Reveal 4ct Light bulbs pkgs
(4) Reach floss
(2) Bandaid 10ct
(1) Travel Bandaid
(2) Kellogg's Raisin Crunch
(2) Kellogg's Special K
(4) Pop-Tarts 8ct pkgs
(1) Kellogg's Yogo's
(4) Right Guard deos
(1) Post Shredded Wheat
(2) Dawn Hand Renewal dish soap
(3) All Small and Mighty Detergent
(2) Covergirl Pressed Powders
(4) Airwick iMotion Air Fresheners
(1) Colgate Total Advanced Toothpaste
(1) FREE DiGiorno 200 Calorie Pizza
(1) Ensure Single Drink (another mailbox freebie)
(4) Knox Gelatin
Total Org. Retail: $327.47
What I Paid after gift cards, coupons, and ECB's: $20.57
Savings: 94%
These items were collected on shopping trips just for
P.E. or were FREE items I grabbed during my regular grocery shopping adventures!
To date, the
Penny Experiment has donated over $6,600 worth of groceries to food banks across the U.S. for only a little over $400! Amazing!