Best Financial Tips from FMF Readers, Part 5: Seven Ways to Eat for Free

Here's the next entry in "The Best Financial Tips from FMF Readers" series. Today's post is from Noah Kagan at Okdork who gives us seven ways to eat for free:

1. At Work

A) Get free food by looking at different conference rooms while walking around the office

B) Sign up on company groups email lists and look for flyers of free food while at work

2. After work

A) At Safeway

i) Go to the deli section, you are allowed to sample 1 free thing there. I generally recommend the buffalo wings but sometimes I am partial to the potato wedges.

ii) Go to the candy section where you are supposed to fill it up in the plastic bag. Generally, the chocolate pretzels are my crutch but you may prefer jelly beans or sour worms.

iii) Try out the fruit section, NO please do not snack on an apple and put it back. But trying some grapes or the nuts is not a bad thing.

iv) They have these delicious new Safeway select soups but they hide the sample cups at the deli. So go ask and then enjoy a few cups of soup.

v) Go to the bakery late in the day and generally they will give you the donut holes for free.

Here's one from me that's only three words: Costco - Saturday - 11 am. We've been to Costco at 11 am on Saturday a few times and let me tell you, they roll out the samples all over the store. This past weekend, we had chips, ham and cheese, drinkable yogurt, fish, chicken and pasta, cheese, soda, cookies, and mini-turkey sandwiches. We were so full when we left that we didn't have "lunch" until 3 pm!

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Comments

[Dan]

ii and iii both sound like stealing. Am I missing something?

[noah]

You are allowed to 'sample' food for free which I learned from asking the manager. Just NOT excessively at one time for # ii & iii.

[Uncle Foobar]

Hi:

see:
http://www.simplyfired.com

fired for eating leftover pizza
in a conference room!

Foob

[Aine]

Hi
Thank you for the laugh! Poor you, you must be starving with all those bits and pieces and not one decent meal! But I loved the article.

Actually I've just thought of something, have you mentioned 'road-kill'? I live near a forest and animals, particularly deer, are always getting killed on the roads. So you could sit and wait for a meal in the bushes.

Aine

[snakeflake]

Sam's Club, ALbertsons and many grocers have free samples. The albertsons near my house has bacon every morning and crab salad during the day. Anyway I thought of another way: next time you go through the bank drive throughjust ask for a peice of candy for your child. SOme banks even have doggie treats (not for you but if you have a pet).

[Kelsey]

Hi... lol i have one, its for sam's club also... if you go there about an hour before they close, they will give you the rotisory chickens for free.

[apimom]

And it is a real turnoff to watch a grown man eat "sample" grapes with both hands - one hand for a "sample" is not enough. It gets better: said gentleman than turns up his nose and makes a disgusted face as the quality is not to his standard after - I counted - 17 grapes.

Road kill and the donut holes are of course a decent suggestion!