To Freeze of Not to Freeze

I got an awesome deal last week at my local Stop & Shop. They had buy 4 boxes of GM cereals and get a free coupon for gallon of milk valid on your next purchase. Plus, when you buy 4 boxes, you get an instant $6.00 off. Great! I had a few coupons left over from when Shop Rite was having their Dollar Days Sales so I took them with me to spend there. I asked customer service if I could do more than one transaction and they said yes, they just had to be separate. Yippee, Skippy! I get my cereal, which I have to say I about died when I saw the prices since we usually shop at the military commissary or DECA. The cereal cost a bit more than we are used to paying but according to my math, which I always try to do a spreadsheet before going to a store or at least writing down what the deal is, it was still a good deal.

So, I grabbed 12 boxes of cereal, 3 gallons of milk and took my 12 coupons and went to self checkout. As I scanned my coupons something AMAZING happened! All the coupons under $1.00 DOUBLED! I know, a lot of caps and exclamation marks but I did not know my Stop&Shop doubled coupons. It's new or old and maybe I just missed it, which is entirely possible since I don't usually shop there unless I need emergency items. Nonetheless, I ended up with 12 boxes of cereal and 3 gallons of milk for $4.61. That's less than .31 an item.

So what does this all have to do with Freezing? Well, researched it and found you can freeze milk, especially if it's fat free, which is what we drink. So, we froze all 3 gallons as we already had 2 gallons in the fridge. When we finally needed the milk we took it out and put into the fridge. That was Sunday, March 13, 2011. It was still partially frozen as of the 17th of March. On the 14th, my husband decided to take out another so it would be defrosted by the time we finished the previous gallon. Well, I will have to get back to you because it's still frozen too!

Needless to say, I went back and got more milk with my soon expiring coupons. No I am not crazy, well maybe a bit. See, if I had read the coupon, they were good until the end of March so I didn't need to buy them all at once. So from that transaction I got 8 boxes of cereal and 2 coupons for free milk for $2.46 so under .25 an item.

Did I happen to mention that Shop Rite had a special where if you buy 3 boxes of Kellogg's cereal you get a free gallon of milk? Yeah, I bought them and spent $2.23, which is about .47 per item. What can I say, if I could have my own cow I would but my DH vetoed that. At least I am getting chickens this spring! And don't worry, I will cash that milk coupon when we actually need milk again.

Yes, I did learn my lesson. NO MORE freezing of the milk!