The original pizza salad
The ONLINE Frugal Festival kicks off today with two events:
- A Recipe Contest to win $25 Restaurant.com gift cards, AllRecipes memberships, and a copy of the Frugal Festival eCookbook.
- A Daily Book Giveaway to win Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half. FIVE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW!
I couldn’t help it, but I already entered a recipe for pizza salad, pictured above, into the contest. All details for how to win the Recipe Contest and Daily Book Giveaway are on the Frugal Festival event website. Use the above links to access them.
If you are in LA on June 25, make sure to get tickets to the in-person Frugal Festival Food!
Win this book Monday, June 13!
Can’t wait for the first ever ONLINE Frugal Festival!
Here is the line up of contests and giveaways! Open to everyone (even if you plan to attend the in-person event in LA on June 25).
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Big news as we approach Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 in Canoga Park!
LOZO is raffling off five $50 American Express gift cards to celebrate it’s upcoming new tool that finds coupons for your grocery list. You get one free raffle ticket with admission so everyone is eligible to win!
The Stand is bringing free hot dogs and chili to share with everyone at the Festival. YUM!
By Bobbi Burger Brunoehler of BobbisBargains.
UPDATE: There IS going to be a free food swap at Frugal Festival Food! Get your food swap ticket here.
PREVIOUSLY: I went to my first food swap this weekend and I immediately asked myself – Should we have a food swap at Frugal Festival Food! on June 25? I am hopelessly hooked on this new trend, and you will be too. Almost everyone there was a newbie. Even the hostess of the event, Faith Landsman, had only been to two previous food swaps. I don’t want to sound redundant, but REALLY, everyone was going around the room saying the same thing. “This is so much fun!”
What is a food swap?
A food swap is an activity where people bring homemade foods that they have prepared and packaged in such a way that
Check out the free Festival bags!
Swag bags for Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 just arrived!!! Man, these Envirosax reusable bags are niiiiiice. I’m surprised they only sell for $9. You get one free with admission!
Plus, here’s where to park for free at the Festival.
Frugal Festival Food!
Canoga Park High School
6850 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Canoga Park, CA 91303
June 25, 11am-2pm
Win one of 100 books at Frugal Festival Food!
We have 100 amazing books to give out at Frugal Festival Food!
- 80 are door prizes for the event June 25 in Canoga Park
- 20 are recipe raffle prizes for the ONLINE event June 13-24
Plus, we’d really like to borrow your megaphone and/or two large water cooler/dispensers (like the ones you see at sporting events) so we can serve free water and lemonade.
Bummed you can’t make it in person to Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 at Canoga Park High School in LA? No worries!
Frugal Festival Food! is coming to you…ONLINE!
Details on the Frugal Festival blog!
Free Yozen Frogurt at Frugal Festival Food!
Big news! The Frugal Festival Food! raffle includes a whopping $300 Albertsons gift card. That would feed my family for an entire month!
Plus, the amazing Yozen Frogurt will be handing out FREE samples!!!
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Start saving your coupons! We’re going to have a coupon exchange at Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 in LA.
Plus, Homestead Hardware is going to demonstrate how a solar oven works.
Other activities include a coupon class, a recipe exchange, free face painting, fresh fruit samples, a canned good drive for the LA Regional Food Bank, a nutrition IQ class, and a free raffle with 136 prizes worth almost $3,000! Plus, lots more to come!
Tia is leading a class on coupons!
Want to become an Extreme Couponer? Save tons of money on groceries and toiletries with expert couponer Tia of Tia Saving Cents, who is leading the coupon class at Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 in LA. The class is free and space is limited.
Plus, Starbucks donated two raffle prizes each worth about $30. Coffee addicts rejoice! We now have 136 raffle and door prizes worth almost $3,000!
If you’ve ever been to the FIDM Scholarship Store in downtown Los Angeles, you know there are many hot clothing deals. I ventured to the store, at the corner of Grand and Ninth, last week. Here’s what I found:
A beautifully sewed jacket with a deep burgendy color was $25. The waist tie fell perfectly but alas it was too tight in the shoulders so I reluctantly left it for another bargain hunter.
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We have moved to a new location!
We have moved Frugal Festival Food! to a new location to accommodate a larger crowd. Ticket sales are much stronger than we had even dreamed of. Yay!
The new location is:
Canoga Park High School
6850 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 91303
The Frugal Festival blog has full details and a map.
Get your tickets now! (Note, the Goldstar page is being updated so you may see the old address.)
Date night? Win a $175 date night package at Frugal Festival Food! Credit: madmolecule/Flickr
Phew! All these raffle prizes at Frugal Festival Food! on June 25 in Los Angeles are getting hard to keep track of. The latest two additions include 10 $30 eco-lunchbox and matching cooler bags sets, and a $175 date night package THAT INCLUDES BABYSITTING.
Does it get better than that?
Wahoo! Get your ticket now!
Free $9 Envirosax bag with admission to Frugal Festival Food!
Two hot tidbits of Frugal Festival Food! news to share:
Our 50 VIP tickets for the Festival on June 25, 2011 in Los Angeles have sold out!
The reusable Envirosax bags we are giving away with admission to the Festival are worth $9 alone! With the goodies inside the bag and the $5 grocery gift card you can get inside the Festival, you’re making a sweet profit! Tickets are $5 with a canned good donation after all.
If you haven’t heard, Frugal Festival Food! is all about saving money on food. Get your tickets now!
Shortcuts.com is giving away $5 grocery gift cards at Frugal Festival Food! w/ easy signup!
One of our sponsors, Shortcuts.com, is giving away $5 Ralphs gift cards to anyone at Frugal Festival Food! who joins its email list, which means you essentially make your money back!!!
What? You missed the post about how to get into the Festival on June 25 in Los Angeles for $5? (That’s $5 off the normal ticket price of $10.)
Are kids allowed/invited to Frugal Festival Food!? Readers Arikka, Gina Marie, and Dee have been asking. The answer is yes! Find out what kids activities we’ll have on the Festival blog.
