God will feed me!

Luke 12:24
Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds!

I love Jewel!!!
Over the past week I have got TONS and TONS of free food from them :)
It started last week Wednesday when I went to Jewel and essentially paid 34c for $54's worth of groceries. Believe it or not, that was just the start!
So from Sunday before last, to yesterday Jewel was running a Buy $30 worth of groceries get $15 back. Well that sounds like a good deal to anyone as it is basically half price, but the key word in that sentence is worth. You see for those of you who are not familiar with Jewel Osco, they have a little card you can sign up for (for free) and when you use your preferred card, you get items at a better sale price. So the $30 was before scanning your preferred card, so if the item was already on a 50% off sale, then technically you could get that item for free!
Okay, so thanks to one of the blogs I follow (http://www.mummydeals.org/) I heard about some cool ways to actually make money off the deals.
2 of these Items were organic Pasta sauce, and Breyers ice-cream. I won't bore you with the details of how, but over the week I got 20 tubs of ice cream, and even with tax, I still earned $10 off the whole deal. Yes your eyes are not deceiving you, I got 20 tubs of ice cream and I was paid $10. Now I am sure you are thinking what do you do with 20 tubs of ice-cream?
Well those of you who know me I love to give to others. I am a gifts person, but with our limited budget that is one thing I am not able to do at the moment...but now I can :)
Who wouldn't love a tub of free ice-cream. We live in a building of students, all facing the same financial struggles as us, cutting corners where possible, so often those cuts include ice-cream so it has been fun to be able to share with them (and others too :))
The pasta sauces I didn't have any coupons for but they worked out because of the sale I could buy 7 for $14 and get $15 back (to use to buy the next set and now the sale is over, use to buy milk and banana's etc etc) so basically gaining a Dollar. Thus leading to quite a large accumulation of organic pasta sauce. We love organic stuff (with all the horrible hormones and pesticides polluting our foods these days) but it is normally WAY too expensive for our budget, but now we have tons, and plenty to share, especially at my health nut school where everyone loves organic.
Well it wasn't only pasta sauce and ice-cream on the sale, not everything worked out to be completely free, but pooling coupons I had I was able to get lots of baking goods, more Margarine (which we will need soon), Caleb's Favorite Deodorant and a bunch of other stuff with a total weeks spending of only about 7 or 8 dollars - pretty good I'd say! :)
A side note that I also got 2 coupons for free items with my orders along the way. One for a free bakery bread, and one for free bakery cookies, I got the 24 cookies today and they are super good, tomorrow is bread day :) so thanks Jewel, you are not only feeding me and helping afford this hectic journey, but also helping me to be good to others :)
Okay, one last point, Can't post about free stuff without including that I have gotten TONS of free school supplies and other items from CVS at the moment with their ECB system, we are totally sorted for the new semester plus for the operation Christmas Child boxes this year.
Obviously this isn't it all (18 ice creams, and lots of pasta sauce not here, plus other stuff already donated and Caleb's deo, cookie dough and probably other stuff I haven't realised yet I forgot.