Frugal Family: This Week's Bargains

We're all watching our family budgets these days. Whether shopping with coupons or looking for two-for-one deals, we're taking advantage of all sorts of offers and savings that help us stretch our dollars.

This column will be dedicated to giving you at least five great local deals each week that will help your family’s bottom line, and since we do the scouting for you, you can save time as well as money.

You are a big part of this column. Let us hear about the deals you've seen. Just add them to our comment box.

Then come back each week and see what we've uncovered together.

This week, Frugal Family scoured our local sources to come up with great deals on strawberries, seafood, cereal, films on DVD, baby products -- including a free stroller -- and other items.

1. 
   Deal: Florida strawberries (16 oz.), 3 for $5
   Good Through: March 9
2. 
   Deal: Gorton’s Shrimp Temptations, Premium Fish Fillets, or Fish Sticks, assorted varieties (10.5 to 17.2 oz.), Buy 1 Get 1 Free
   Good Through: March 9
3. 
   Deal: Free stroller (a $17.99 value) with CVS extra-care card and the purchase of $25 worth of the following baby items on sale:
   * Huggies Snug & Dry or Little Movers diapers (56 to 96 ct.), $20 each
   * Gerber Good Start formula (24 to 25.7 oz.), $20 each
   * CVS Pharmacy prenatal vitamins and minerals with DHA or DHA supplement (30 ct.), $7 each
   * Playtex selected baby accessories, $4.50 each
   * Johnson’s baby powder, oil, lotion, wash, shampoo (all 13 to 15 oz.), Johnson’s oil gel (6.5 oz), or Desitin (2 oz), $3 each
   * Huggies or Pampers wipes (64 to 72 ct.), 2 for $5
   Good Through: March 12
4. 
   Deal: Smucker’s strawberry jelly (20 oz.) and Jif peanut butter (18 oz.), 2 for $4
   Good Through: March 12
5. 
   Deal: Edy’s ice cream (48 oz.), $2.99 each
   Good Through: March 12 
6. 
   Deal: Kellogg’s cereal (10 to 20 oz.), Pop-Tarts (8 ct.), fruit snacks (9 to 10 oz.), or Rice Krispies Treats (8 ct.), $1.88 each
   Good Through: March 12
7. 
   Deal: DVD movie twin packs (two films on one disc), $5
   Titles include: “Muppets From Space” and “The Muppets Take Manhattan”; “The Swan Princess” and “The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure”; “Bad Boys” and “Bad Boys II”; and “Casualties of War” and “Black Hawk Down.”
   Good Through: March 12