I just about passed out when I saw all the free produce boxes this week. For those of you who don’t know already, this all started a little over a year ago when I walked in to our local grocery store and asked one of the produce guys {whom I refer to as Mr. Produce Read More >>

This past week we found quite a few treats in the fresh produce boxes we picked up from Mr. Produce Guy. Now that summer is right around the corner I have  feeling we’ll be seeing lot’s of watermelon and tropical fruits in the scrap boxes we pick up every week for our backyard chickens. Slightly Read More >>

A big thanks to One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Em who sent me an article from the L.A. Times, with this description, “Mavis, I thought you’d be interested in this article on how a grocery store chain is using unsold produce.” Umm, yes, yes, I am interested. We’ve been collecting “unsold produce” for just over a Read More >>

It was another fantastic week gleaning from the free chicken scrap boxes. Lucy discovered she likes watermelon! There were so many strawberries to go through this week it was crazy! We made a few smoothies and ended up freezing the rest to use later in the year. If I remember correctly this is around the Read More >>

If there is one thing I’ve learned over the past year from picking up free chicken scraps at our local grocery store, it’s that you never know what, or how much produce you are going to go home with on any given week. We picked up 3 boxes of produce that was headed for the Read More >>