Rite Aid Look Ahead sales starting Nov 24

Finally, a reason to get excited and back into Rite Aid.!! Lots of freebies for the weekly sale starting Nov 24!  All these freebies are fine to get because you can easily roll your up Rewards to their Black Friday Freebies!  I personally plan to get my freebies on first day and then use them to roll onto the AWESOME Tide aka P&G deal they have.  You do need lots of your P&G coupons though but hopefully you took heed to what I've been saying and stockpiled a bunch of these booklets.

Tide Deal
Scenario 1
Buy 6 Tides  at $5.94 = $35.64
 use 6 $2 off coupons = -$12
Pay OPP or with other ups= $23.64  and get back $15 up rewards making real cost just $8.64!!!
Thats $1.44 a bottle + tax!
note with this scenario you will need to make 2 transactions as its 4 like coupons per transactions.


Other deal to mention not the best but the GROUPON and Living Social movie ticket deals are really scarce these days is the MOVIE gift cards, buy $25 worth and get $5 up reward, basically a 20% discount.  Its a good deal because there should be no exclusions and its an easy gift .

thanks to I heart Rite Aid for the aid scans!

NYC Freegan Finds and Update

Healthy Work Snacks- BYO so you don't waste money on vending machines!

I know I've been pretty MIA lately .. I've just been enjoying life, working and of course DIVING!! Anyways, I've finally got a day to myself and so I started thinking of the work week ahead.  My fridge is packed full so come Monday I'm moving a weeks worth of food to my office fridge.  I can't believe I didn't get more lunchables on my of my dives last week they threw a ton of them out in boxes (which I've since removed for extra space and so I don't have to clean).  Grr I had no idea they had Capri Sun's in them as well, man who'd of thought I would have found OSCAR MYER lunchables on a dive.  So thats why I havn't even been posting pictures of my Hauls any more because I've kinda got my grove on diving.  Remember all the things I said I had trouble finding .. well not anymore I have tons of Cheese, Yogurts, Lunch Meats, and just enought that I've probably spent less than $30 these past months on food.  And those trips were more couponing stock pile trips.  The above is a weeks worth of work week snacks.  Sometimes, I'll add whole grain cereal to the yogurt for healthy breakfast.

Anyways, I've also found lots of actual EGGs in my dives now too.  Crazy huh.. and I did take some pics of some recent things like tons of Organic Butter.

And the below, again.. I'd wish I'd had grabbed more of this stuff.  Its so yummi!  And these box things are the easiest because to clean all I do is remove the boxes!

I just wanted to say how amazingly grateful to have the chance to do these Food Rescues aka dumpster diving.  It is one of the best things about living in NYC!  I've literally just used all the extra money I've saved and TIME (I rarely cook)  to have fun and just relax!  And while I've been writing this post, I've been doing a yogurt face mask :)

Epic Weekend food rescue

Above was from large group dive.
And below was from a much smaller group.  It was pretty epic because I got tons of SUSHI not pictured, sandwiches and salads and... a huge bag of my favorite cookies!  And also not pictured was huge super cold cooked meat ! I had to give away stuff to make room for it.  But I literally got a huge bag full of premium sausages!

Awesome Freegan Haul

Stir fried veggies Kale stems, Green Beans, Asparagus, Celery and Eggplant

So here's a freegan tip, when taking home veggies that are loose, try to use it as soon as possible. For the most part my produce rescued comes in sealed packages.  But what I've noticed about one of my spots is they have become more spiteful of freegans.  And they will literally cut open packages and take salads out of their containers to discourage people from rescuing the food.  At least in most cases they toss it all in one huge bag so sometimes because I just can't stand the thought of not rescuing these veggies all in great condition I take home loose veggies. Like in this case the celery and Kale stems.  I'll clean and then blanche them to be extra careful.  And then stir fry them in oil and garlic.  

It's just a quick way to cook everything and preserve the nutrients as much as possible.  Plus, I'm a rice fanatic so it goes great with that.

Freegan Italian Pasta Salad Cooked

So so Yummi and this meal was entirely free. I had some basil from the garden, and the ready made pasta (with sun dried tomatos, feta cheese and spinach) along with cherry tomatoes and chicken from recent freegan food rescues.

This box of pasta alone would have cost $6.49 from the high end grocery store we rescued it from.

And here's the chicken I froze separated from the deluxe salads I rescued.

And I'm so bummed I didn't rescue more but literally there were two huge bags full of cherry tomato's I had to leave behind.

Basically all I did was cut these up and stir fry everything, took about 10 minutes max. And that's one free lunch right there.

Kale, Baby Potatoes and Kimchi over Rice

This has to be one of the most yummiest and healthiest meals ever and its vegetarian.  Best part is with the exception of the rice, the whole meal was free!

I'd gotten a bunch of Kale Salads from one of my favorite spots but I couldn't eat it all so I decided to stir fry them and Kale tastes super yummi stir fried I discovered.  I also added some of the baby potatoes I got from an earlier freegan haul and kimchi and everything just blended perfectly.