It looks like the coupons for free Velveeta and free Reynolds Wrap that are spreading by email are counterfeit. But Reynolds Wrap does have an Earth Day promotion where you can download a rebate form Wednesday for a free roll...
In between feasts of lamb and ham at my future in-laws' home this weekend, I perused a copy of the May issue of Consumer Reports. The magazine offered some good basic supermarket shopping tips, including products displayed at the end...
You're a careful grocery shopper. You check the labels on the store shelves to compare prices per ounce. But now this: KXAS-TV (Channel 5) points out in this report that a Wal-mart in The Colony still had labels on the...
You'll never have a better tomato than a deep-red beefeater picked right off the vine from your sunny garden, eaten while sitting on the back porch with a salt shaker in one hand and juice dripping off the other hand....
A Dallas shopper commented on this Alpo coupon blog post that Wal-Mart won't take coupons printed from the Internet. She told me in a separate email that the manager told her the store had been scammed with some coupons. Wal-Mart's...
In a story posted Tuesday, I shared some of the lessons learned when my husband and I set a $100 food budget for January. The budget challenge was set up for just one month to save some money and find...
We had a shocking development this weekend on our food-budget challenge. My husband and I are only spending $100 on groceries this month to force ourselves to stay home and cook, to use up some of the food in our...
Two weeks into our no-new pledge, I'm suffering no pangs of desire yet and don't expect to since I'm not a pledge virgin. Not even hunger pangs. Here's our story. Shopping is not a competitive sport for me anyway,...
My husband, Guy, and I challenged ourselves to spend no more than $100 on food this month as part of a year-long pledge to be frugal -- an effort we wrote about in this report. Here's an update on the...
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