Will it Freeze?

If you're lucky enough to have a big or 2nd freezer you can score (and store) some great deals. There are times during the year when frozen good are dirt cheap and stockpiling those items will help you save money. Once of twice a year Lin's has a 1-day sale on chicken breast for $1.29/lb. or so, in a 25 lb. box. Around Thanksgiving time Albertsons usually has a buy-1-pie-get-2-free sale, and they also have buy-1-ice cream-get-2-free sales at other times of the year. I so wish I had a deep freeze. :(

There are other things that you can stockpile in your freezer that you wouldn't normally think of. I have a tendency to overbuy cream cheese when i can get it for free or $0.50 a box, and I recently learned that it can be frozen. Here are some other items you can freeze: (from HotCouponWorld)

These freeze great!

• Cream soups -- poured into ice cube trays. Thaw and stir with milk or water if it separates.
• Goat Cheese
• Croutons
• Hot dogs
• Heavy cream -- shake well and mix with a small amount of dissolved gelatin if it separates.
• Eggs (raw, out of the shell)
• Egg Beaters
• Red potatoes, halved
• Avocados, halved and pitted
• Guacamole
• Poultry, cooked and off the bone
• Butter
• Margarine (sticks and tubs)
• Pasta
• Rice
• Tubes of Cookie dough
• Yogurt
• Gogurt tubes
• Yeast
• Cheese singles
• Shredded Cheese
• Parsley
• Cilantro
• Flavored coffee creamer
• Berries
• Orange Juice
• Cookies
• Tortillas
• Bread
• Green onions -chopped in 1/2 inch pieces. Smaller pieces are too watery.

These are ok -- minor troubles

• Lunchmeat
• Milk
• Soy Milk
• Ricotta Cheese
• Cottage Cheese
• Block Cheese - slightly crumbly, but fine in recipes
• Cream Cheese - a little watery and grainy when thawed, but fine in recipes
• Bananas
• Onions and green peppers (chopped)
• Lemons (whole)
• Pillsbury Crescents & Flaky Layers - not as flaky and layer-y as the MFR intended

Don't even try it!

• Sour Cream
• Mayo
• Miracle Whip
• Apples (whole or chopped/sliced)
• Ready made sandwiches

More information on what to freeze or not can be found at the original source here.