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Couponing for Charity
Feeding 5,000 people every month is a tall order. For Lauren Puryear — single mother, full-time mental health therapist, and founder of the nonprofit For the Love of Others — the secret ingredient is coupons. Lots and lots of coupons(优惠券).
The meals themselves are often quite impressive. 29-year-old Puryear prides 【小题1】 on preparing and serving dishes to the poor and homeless. She feeds them several weekends a month, in a number of cities.
Still, she manages to do it all for nothing, 【小题2】 the menu depends entirely on that week’s bargains. “The best way to get 【小题3】(low) cost is to match the coupon when the item is on sale.’’ she explains. Her brilliant talents save between $250 and $1,000 per grocery trip.
Puryear inherited her passion 【小题4】 culinary (烹饪的)giving from her grandmother Marison Smith. When Smith saw beggars on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey, she would offer to buy them food instead of giving them money.
Puryear got into the act when she was ten. If there were leftovers from dinner, Smith would put them in a container, 【小题5】(rely) on her granddaughter to give them to the homeless man on the street.
When Puryear founded her nonprofit, she chose the name For the Love of Others to honor her grandmother, who passed away in 2012. “Love was just the central core of her being,’’ Puryear says.
Mrs. Smith would certainly be proud of her granddaughter’s efforts and her impact. At one meal in Baltimore, three boys asked 【小题6】they could take extra sandwiches. ‘‘We’ll eat this today, but we’ll be hungry tomorrow,” one said. Puryear let them take five each. The boy’s 【小题7】(cry) mother thanked Puiyear, explaining how she uses her entire paycheck for the hotel room 【小题8】they live. They never know what they 【小题9】(eat) day to day.
“Stories like that, that’s why we do what we do,” Puryear says. “Something as simple as couponing, 【小题10】takes a couple of hours out of my day, can help somebody eat for three or four days - that’s amazing to me.”
