Pierce County Queen Bee readers – Let’s help fill the bowl!

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Thanks to all the items I get FREE and inexpensively with coupons, my family has a decent stockpile and a well-stocked pantry. I feel blessed and grateful for my couponing adventures and for the peace-of-mind that a stocked pantry provides. It’s important to remember that not everyone has that peace-of-mind or the food they need to feed themselves and/or their family. Did you know in Pierce County more than 140,000 people seek emergency food assistance EACH month!?

To combat hunger in Pierce County, Northwest Harvest, Emergency Food Network and other community leaders have planned the world’s largest food drive to “Fill the Bowl” at Stadium High School in Tacoma, September 18. In an attempt to break the last Guinness World Record for food drives, the goal for the Fill the Bowl event is 1 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD! We can do this!

I’d like to rally all you amazing Queen Bee readers to carefully consider what you might be able to donate to this food drive. I’d love to meet up with Queen Bee readers on September 18 at the Stadium Bowl to deliver a donation from Queen Bee readers. Wouldn’t it be amazing to help our community AND be part of a world record? Who wants to join me?

There are few ways you can participate:

• Bring food to the site – I plan to be there with my family. I’d love to meet up with other Queen Bee readers and take a photo of our donation. We can even calculate how little we spend on our total donation – which I think will be impressive! Start collecting non-perishables now – you have TWO WEEKS!
• Drop food off at a designated pre-event pick up site. Drop your donations off at any of these drop-off locations. The food will be delivered to the pick up site and be counted toward the total. If you’re going to do this, maybe take a photo of you and your donation beforehand and e-mail it to me at heather @ queenbeecoupons.com and I’ll post all our donations!
• Text “HUNGER” to 85944 during the food drive to donate $10 toward the record. This $10 will show up on your next phone bill. The funds collected are accounted for in real time and will be used to purchase pre-ordered food to be delivered to the pick up site within the time frame. This purchased food will then be added into the totals for the record. (But we know how much food we can get for $10 when there are coupons involved!)

They are looking for non-perishable foods and these are some of their favorite items – peanut butter, canned meat and fish, canned fruits and vegetables, chili, soup, stew, baby food and formula, pasta, rice, cereal, dried fruit and shelf-stable milk.

Here are some ideas for coupon deals this week that would make good donations:

• Albertsons – Any of the Kellogg’s products would be great to pick up, especially the cereal. Or the pasta. See Albertons deals for this week.
• Fred Meyer – Ronzoni pasta, Bubble Bee tuna, Bush’s baked beans, Wheat Thins. See Fred Meyer deals for this week.
• Safeway – Hidden Valley salad dressing, Best Foods mayo, Lawry’s marinade, Progresso soup. See Safeway deals for this week.

All you have to do is pick up a few extra things from the coupon match-ups each time you shop and within a couple weeks I’d guess you’d have a few bags of donations for very little out of pocket.

Read a News Tribune article on the event here: World-record one million pound food drive started in Pierce County.

So who is in? Start collecting non-perishables now, you have TWO WEEKS. If you’ll meet me at the Stadium Bowl September 18 (not sure on time/location just yet) – leave a comment on this post and let me know. I’m going to be doing something special for the people who participate!

Don’t worry, for all you Thurston County readers, I’m partnering with the Thurston County Food Bank to have a local event – so stay tuned and start collecting donations!

If you live elsewhere, take a load of donations to your local food bank or shelter. If you take a photo of you and your donations, I’ll post it on the blog. . .let’s see how many other people we can bless with our couponing!