Stretching the dollar or lack there of...

I told you that I would let you in on how I stretch our money to the max. Well today was a prime example. My husband gets paid on Wednesdays. And yeah that's biweekly. Well since we are now very short on food this lovely Monday evening, I had to pull out all the resources for dinner. We had about $1.70 in our bank account and about 87 cents on my paypal. Oh what shall I do!

I have been saving a coupon book I got online for free through this point program.( https://getonefree.com/rewards/create_account.php?customer_referred=lnduckworth@hotmail.com ) Well it just so happened to have a free medium pizza from Domino's in there. Since this is a family of four I am trying to feed, we will need more than that. The book also had a coupon for buy 2 get 2 free white castle burgers. I hope you are still not wondering whats for dinner. I collected as much change as I could from around my kid infested house and we all went out to "collect" our grub. We got the totally free pizza and right down the street was white castle. Even though you are not supposed to use two coupons in one transaction at many fast food restaurants, my husband felt compelled to use 2 of them, and successfully got away with it. So we ended up with 5 white castle burgers (one was fabulous, it had cheese!) and a medium Domino's pepperoni pizza. It was all for the low price of $1.02. How's that for stretching a dollar.

MY NEXT CHALLENGE: What the heck are we going to have tomorrow night?

P.S. Did I mention I ate a free sample of chex that I got in the mail for breakfast?