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My friend dropped off her freezer this morning. I’m giddy with excitement!! She is living in a rental and looking to buy, and she wanted to free up some space in her garage, so I get to hold onto the freezer for a while!! The timing is just PERFECT!!

Did you know that March is National Frozen Food Month? I didn’t know this until about a week ago. YAY!!

Now, you are well aware that we like to be weird and live on $200 a month in groceries/personal care/household items, right? Long story short: We used to spend a lot more and thought we were being frugal. We switched to using cash only and Krazy couponing. We discovered we can live on less. We now feed our family of four for $200 a month (easily . . . this includes an occasional bottle or four of wine and meals out, if there is money left in the weekly envelope).

How’d ya like that nutshell? Hee, hee!

Anywho! I thought you might be interested in seeing what you can get during National Frozen Food Month. Safeway is having a “spend $25 in specially marked frozen food items and earn $10 to use on your next purchase” (Catalina) promotion going all month long.

On Wednesday I did this:

(Feeling a bit sheepish about the Toaster Strudels, but they were SO cheap and my kids have never tried them! LOL!)

Frozen Food items: 2 family size lasagnes, 2 Toaster Strudels, 1 Potatoes O’Brien, 4 frozen veggies.
I used a bunch of coupons.
I had a $10 Catalina left over from the Charmin/Bounty deal.
I paid $14.34 OOP and earned a $10 Cat!

Today, I rolled that Catalina into these deals:

This is two different transactions to maximize savings.

Transaction 1 - Buy 4 California Pizza Kitchen Pizzas and one Safeway Potatoes O’Brien.
No coupons.
Used the $10 Cat from above and paid $12.46 OOP
PLUS, I earned a $10 Catalina from the Frozen Food Promo AND a $3 Catalina by buying 4 California Pizza Kitchen Pizzas!

(Okay, now that I am looking at this transaction closely, it shouldn’t have worked. I think I should have purchased 2 potatoes. When I went through the line, the $10 Catalina didn’t print, so I took the groceries to customer service to return them so I could go through and add more groceries to the purchase to get the Cat. I didn’t know exactly what happened, but I knew it didn’t work so I needed to investigate. Instead, the lady just gave me a $10 bill. Hmm. Now I’m feeling guilty.)

Anyway, Transaction 2 went like this:

Buy 4 Freschetta (my fav frozen pizza!) and 1 Birds Eye Meal (I like to “extend” these with extra veggies and pasta to make it a meal for 4!)
Use (4) $1/1 Freschetta IP
Use $1.50/1 Birds Eye IP
Use Safeway Doublers (-$2)
Pay with $3 Cat and $10 Cat
Pay $6.74 OOP and earn a $10 Catalina!

SO, I spent $18.91 on 8 pizzas, 1 meal and Potatoes O’Brien, AND, I still have a Catalina to roll!!

I’m totally doing going back for more frozen food this month. Cross your fingers that there will be a big veggie promo next week!

By the way, did you see the couponing article I wrote over at The Daily Digi? Go check it out!