Food on the Table is an easy meal planning service that is based on sales at local grocery stores.

With Food on the Table, users will be able to:

• find thousands of easy, healthy recipes 
• save money by knowing the items that are on sale 
• simplify your shopping experience with a well organized grocery list

It’s free and web-based (so no downloading of mystery software). It’s also available in the iPhone App Store and Android Market, so you can take your lists with you to the store. Give it a shot! I certainly will…I love trying out anything that will make couponing, grocery shopping, and meal planning easier (short of hiring a personal assistant, haha).

Some of you might think – what do I need with so many inserts? I only need one or two coupons from each one. (referring to the fact that I sell inserts in sets of 5)

Here is a good tip – when you buy 2 sets of inserts, 5 RP and 5 SS, you take all of the extra coupons and cut them up. You then make 4 or 5 envelopes with 100 mixed coupons. You don’t want doubles so you can use coupons from previous inserts to make the 100 total. Ebay does not allow more than 100 mixed to be sold in any one envelope, if they catch it, they take it down. These envelopes sell usually from $2 to $5. This is a good way to make back money you spent on the inserts.


Good tips though so you dont get bad remarks and people stop buying from you are:


1) make sure the coupons have plenty of time before they expire, and;

2) make sure you have about 60/65 % food and 40/35% other coupons.

Another thing you can do is if you are buying 2 sets of the same insert (or more), You can makes sets of 10 (or more) individual coupons to sell on ebay. ie 10 Similac coupons. First do your homework and make sure that the coupon is a hot item, obviously one that you dont need. You dont want to list it if you dont think it will sell. A good example is the $5 Similac Coupon from the 4/3 SS. You might not need the coupon so it would be smart to list them on ebay. They are money making coupons at Walmart. They have been selling for around $7 to $10. Ebay only allows 20 identical individual coupons to be sold in one auction. They will take it down if it is more.


This might help you to justify purchasing whole inserts as appossed to the clipping services. Most clipping services have a $3 minimum plus shipping. Your forced to buy more than you probably want anyway…this way you can make some money back.


You wont make a ton of money but if you let the ebay account build up…then your coupons eventially pay for themselves and you dont have to dip into your “house money”. Which in a sense is a savings too.

This was shared with me by a reader.  These are not my words below….just a great tip.

You may have noticed that we occasionally post HOT deals that are listed on Amazon. Many of the deals that we post, Caity and I buy. As you can imagine, this can add up fast. We don’t worry about it though because we shop for FREE on Amazon, and you can too!

It’s simple really. There are numerous websites out there that will give you FREE Amazon gift cards for doing very little (if anything) in return. We use many of them to earn our Amazon cards and then spend them on anything we want or need. You wouldn’t BELIEVE all of the goodies i’ve purchased and paid NOTHING for!

Interested in shopping like we do without spending a dime? Then you should sign up to the following websites and snag yourself some FREE Amazon gift cards!!

Crowdtap: Earn Amazon gift cards PLUS Free full sized samples!
Swagbucks: Earn digital dollars for searching the web and redeem them for FREE Amazon gift cards (or other prizes if you prefer).
Zoombucks: Just like swagbucks.

Irazoo: Another one like swagbucks and zoombucks.

For instance.. here’s a screen cap (click to enlarge it) of a recent order of mine (with my personal info blacked out). Notice in red I have circled my grand total. That’s what I paid… $0! Without my FREE Amazon gift cards, my total would have been $211!!! Yikes! But, we needed a way to sort laundry (we’re a family of 7 so you can imagine the piles we have) and also some new towel / bath sheets. The 2 laundry sorters came to $89.98 and the 6 bath sheets (3 two packs) came to $121.02. Thanks goodness for Amazon gift cards right?