Food shopping is the single, most effective way you can cut your household budget. The key is stockpiling and freezing food when it's on sale. He'res a look at what you can freeze and what you can't. There are several things you can freeze that will probably surprise you like butter: up to 9 months, and cream cheese for about 2 months. Would you believe you can even freeze eggs? Kroger had them on sale last week $1 a dozen. The trick is crackign them open, adding a little salt and freezing them in an air tight container. They'll explode if you freeze them in the shells. Bread and meat freeze well. You just have to do it the right way.

"You would obviously want to put these in a freezer safe bag or food storage type bag, something like that and freeze those in that particular bag," says Living in Abundance Couponing's Ann Haney. "I would label those the type of what you have when you put it in there, because most items can all be frozen except for a few, but the quality is where the difference comes in."

Other things that freeze well include cheese, box mixes, tortillas and brown rice cooked or uncooked. White rice, potatoes, cream sauces and mayonnaise do not freeze well.Freezing Foods