This is not my first year being a football Mom. However this is my first year being a High School Football mom. Last year before the football games for the middle school, the kids were given a sandwich, a bag of chips, and a drink. End of story.... all feed. Their games were at 4:30 so they were home before too late so they could get in a late dinner.
This year we are in the BIG TIME. Games are at 6:30 so ALL players, coaches, etc., have to be feed a MEAL before each game, and then a snack after each game too. I learned this last week at the parents meeting. I guess I have never gave too much thought to this before. But it dawned on me right then & there .... who are these "Football Food Fairies" that feed these 50+ people every Thursday (JV) & Friday (Varsity) nights. Well DDDUUUHHH!!! The parents of these players do. Are so that is how it is suppose to work.
There are 100+ kids in this football program. Turn out at the meeting was around 10 parents. Yes I know most kids have played before so their parents didn't feel they needed to be there. But this is were they ask for volunteers to feed these kids (along with other assignments). David & I stood there talking to the JV Coach for a while & the whole time I was watching the sign up sheet. It was blank.....completely blank. No one signed up for ANYTHING!! So I prayed for God to show me where I needed to be. I walked over & signed up to feed the JV team one meal, and the Varsity one snack. Shouldn't be too bad right?
We decided to go to Sam's Saturday & price out a meal for the team. After spending an hour in Sam's and coming up with multiple meal plans we decided that the cheapest we could do this for was $200. WOW!! That is 1/3 of my month budget for the entire month. So I started praying again. How was I going to do this? That is a lot of money for us. While riding home & thinking about it hard it dawned on me to ask for help. I called Austin's Dad & he donated $100. GREAT!! Now we are down to $100.
But I can do better than that. I am a COUPONER!! I can find a sale. But I realized I only have 3 weeks before I have to make this meal & sales only come around every so often. I get home & look on my trusty couponing sites for deals on the stuff needed for baked ziti. That is going to be the main dish. Well Food Lion has a good deal on pasta BOGO ...but the coupons needed to make it cheap, I can't get...all printed out. But I said well, let me just go and see what the cost is without the coupons.
I get there this afternoon and walk up. $ .80 per box of pasta. I guess I need about 12 boxes to make the dish. I start pulling boxes off the self & discover ALL of the boxes after the first one have a 50 cents off coupon attached. THANK YOU GOD!! That knocks $6 off my total. I get to the hamburger & it is on sale for $1.88 per pound. Another $21.33 off the bill. Great. I get to the register and pick up a copy of the ad. The BOGO is LIMIT 2. Well Great now I have to break it up into 3 transactions to get them all. The cashier looks at me & says that's a lot of pasta. I explained to her I was going to feed the football team, and that I need to break it up into smaller transactions. She said no problem, I can do a price adjustment and do it all at one time. THANK GOD AGAIN!! After all was said & done I have the pasta, and the hamburger to make the meal all for only $32.80.
So the main point of the story is PRAY HARD. God always clears a way to make things possible.
P.S. Anybody know of a good sale coming up on gatorade, pasta sauce, salad fixings, & bread. Maybe even a cheap dessert?
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