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Hello! I’m Karrie, also known as the “Freezer Meal Queen”. 

I’m the author of the international award-winning cookbook “Seriously Good Freezer Meals“, the recipe developer, cook, writer and the-sometimes-photo-taker of the recipes and other pictures on my blog happymoneysaver.com. I’ve been making and developing freezer meal recipes for over 15 years in my kitchen and have learned all the best techniques and strategies.

I’ve been featured on…

I’ve been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and featured in the All You Magazine as well as some local news segments. I’ve been featured in Buzzfeed, Msn.com, Yummly, Bloglovin, and Flipboard. As for magazines I’ve been featured in Marie Claire Magazine UK, San Diego Woman Magazine, At Home New Jersey Magazine, Seattle Magazine, Shape Magazine, Albany Times Union Newspaper, Eat This, Not That Magazine, Mom Magazine, Paris Post Intelligencer Daily Newspaper, Bella Magazine and more!

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Food is my love language. But so is saving money. So I like to combine the two a lot and make thrifty make ahead and freeze meals to save time. Because life is busy, and freezer meals can come to the rescue for all of us. And yes, they actually CAN taste good. 

A little bit about me. 

Growing up in a large family I’ve always been keen to find ways to cut costs and more importantly time. I live my dream of spending time with my family while getting into all sorts of trouble and living life to the fullest. You know, doing crazy things like making 50 freezer meals in a day, raising chickens, learning to make things the old fashioned way, and dancing to 80’s music while cleaning the house.

I live and blog out of eastern Washington with my husband and four amazing kids who keep me running around crazy all day long with sports, activities, and all the other regular mom stuff. But they also steal my heart.

I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I love love love the Gospel. I love that I can always ask God to help me out in this crazy thing called life. And I know that He loves me and answers my prayers. This is a big part of who I am so I wanted to mention it.

The blog.

I started blogging in 2009 as a way of sharing recipes and money saving ideas with my 3 silly sisters. I never dreamed of the exciting ride it would take me through the years working with brands like Frigidaire, Quaker, Albertsons, Allegiant Air, Maytag, Instant-Pot and Kimberly-Clark. I’ve also been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and featured in the All You Magazine as well as some local news segments. 

My blog happymoneysaver.com helps my readers find delicious recipes, learn ways to live life to the fullest while on a budget, make things from scratch, and learn to try try again when things go wrong. We like to have fun around here. So I share ideas to keep my readers cooking in the kitchen and laughing along with my funny adventures.

The cookbook.

In 2018 I released my very first published freezer meals cookbook. Seriously Good Freezer Meals is full of my own tried and true, best freezer-meal recipes. As soon as I started posting freezer meal recipes on the blog my readers instantly fell in love. They were hungry for a whole freezer meal cookbook full of  my  best freezer meal recipes and commented/emailed me often about wanting a cookbook. Seriously Good Freezer Meals cookbook is helping out thousands of busy families by teaching them methods of time saving freezer meals. But seriously tasty ones. 

Catchin’ Up with Karrie

First thing you wanna do is subscribe to my email updates in the little box at the top of my site. That way when fresh new content or big things are announced you’ll be the first to know.

You may also want to follow me on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Youtube and if you love freezer meals you can ask to join my private freezer meal club group too.

If you need to get ahold of me feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected] If you are a brand that wants to work together also shoot me an email. I’d love to hear from you!

Comments

  1. Chris says

    March 21, 2015

    Karrie,

    Huge fan of the website. May be a little presumptuous of me but, if you have more freezer recipes, you should sell a cook book. I feel kind of bad using your recipes and advise of which I’d gladly pay for. If you wrote a book, I’d buy it. If you wrote an Ebook, I’d buy it and print it off.

    I appreciate all the information you’ve provided on your site.

    Regards,

    A Father, A full time worker, full time student, full time husband, and a guy running a bit short on time.

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      March 21, 2015

      Oh you are so very nice Chris! Thank you very much. I am currently working on my cookbook and hope to have it finished soon. 🙂 Can’t wait to share it with you!

      Reply
  2. Ward says

    March 14, 2015

    Could you send me a bread recipe for banana bread Karrie ?
    Thank you.

    Reply
  3. Alex Ramos says

    January 22, 2015

    Found your site while looking up articles on expired food. Looked interesting to me, so I added you to my Google+ list. I hail from SoCal, the land of perpetual summers! (I once lived in the Northeast U.S…. I actually miss the snow a little.)

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      January 23, 2015

      So glad you found me!

      Reply
  4. Chris J. says

    January 8, 2015

    When you make your bread, is it with a bread machine or in the oven? I love home made bread(especially wheat). I want to make some but don’t know how. Can you buy the bread mix at the store or better to put all the ingredients together yourself?
    My mom always made stuff from scratch till she got older. Used to can fruits too.
    I miss all that good cooking.
    Thanx,
    Chris

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      January 9, 2015

      You can use a bread machine but I think it is just as easy to make it yourself with your own ingredients. And it’s cheaper (and better!) too! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Heather says

    November 30, 2014

    Are you LDS (Mormon?). Just wondering!! Happy new piece of land!!

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      December 1, 2014

      Yep! I sure am!

      Reply
  6. Tiffany says

    November 10, 2014

    Hi Karrie!
    I stumbled across your blog today while looking for something dōTerra related (I’m consultant too!). I have plans to try your homemade laundry detergent recipe for my family of nine. I’ll let you know how it goes, and thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      November 11, 2014

      So glad you found me! Let me know what you think! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Belinda says

    September 7, 2014

    I just stumbled across your website. In a word: Amazing!

    Loving all the money saving tips that I’ll use…bonuses: environmentally sound & healthy!

    Literally went to Bath & Body Works today and an employee attested to the fact that they stopped producing the anti-bacterial soap due to Triclosan. Once my new bottle is empty, it’ll be filled with your recipe 🙂

    All the best,
    Belinda

    Reply
  8. Sharon says

    August 23, 2014

    I am new to your posting. Found you through Pinterest. Iam from the Midwest and love doing things the old fashion way. I am retired now so I have more time to play. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      August 25, 2014

      So glad you found us!!

      Reply
  9. Lucy says

    August 20, 2014

    Normal ziplock / sandwich bags are already reusable. Just wash them and reuse them. Or use those tiny size Tupperware, super useful and they can just be thrown in the dish washer 🙂

    Reply
  10. Christine T says

    June 9, 2014

    Hey Karrie! I see you live in the Pacific Northwest! I do as well. Do you live near Spokane, WA perhaps? I moved to the area in August of last year and always want to met fellow Spokane area blogger like myself 🙂

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      June 9, 2014

      Hello Christine, I am actually in the Tri-Cities so not too far away. We are practically neighbors. 🙂

      Reply
  11. Kristin @ Heart of a Farm Girl says

    February 4, 2014

    Just discovered your site… I think I may be in love!!

    Reply
    • Happy.MoneySaver says

      February 5, 2014

      So glad you like it! 🙂

      Reply
  12. Rick Russell says

    January 9, 2014

    Could you substitute Lema-Shime (sp) for the lemon flavored drink mix?

    Reply
  13. Monica Hall says

    January 6, 2014

    Hi Karrie, Loved your play-by-play on tallow rendering. I have 15-yr old rendered tallow in my freezer (it doesn’t go bad)…one day I’ll get back to soap making. Many years ago I made all of my family’s soap and candles, it was lovely hence the rendering. I thought I’d pass on a couple of tips. No need to chop it up (this will make straining easier later on), just lay the sheets and chunks into a big roasting pan and put them into a 200 degree oven. Your house will smell like roasted beef (but that’s better than boiled beef) and you don’t need to constantly watch it…also it’s safer around little ones. Once it’s all rendered (seems like this took hours) you could pour off most of the rendered fat into jars without straining as the “stuff” stayed at the bottom of the pan…I only strained the last quart maybe. Glad to see that some young people are still interested in the old ways…who knows, we may need this knowledge some day. My son’s wives don’t get it…my daughter understands completely. Anyway, good luck on your “pioneer adventure”.

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      January 6, 2014

      Thanks Monica! It was an experience that is for sure. 🙂

      Reply
  14. Kelly says

    November 12, 2013

    Hi Karrie, I love your site!!! You save me time by trying out recipes and only posting the best of the best! My request is for Liquid Dish Soap and Liquid Hand Soap! There are so many recipes out there that I just don’t know where to start and your are always tried and true! Plus you show me step by step how to make them AND how much money it saves me!! Thanks and keep them coming! Kelly

    Reply
  15. Jessica says

    July 8, 2013

    I have a question for you, my husband is so picky all of a sudden with his lunches I’m sure it’s because he eats it over and over but do you have some easy reasonable lunch ideas? I usually do like chicken with rice or something like a sandwich and chips he is very healthy to.

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      July 8, 2013

      Hi Jessica, yes I am currently working on some great ideas for lunches – it will be a post hopefully within this month. 🙂

      Reply
  16. cathy says

    January 1, 2013

    hi…just found your site via hip2save….i have downloaded your savings tracker and watched your video but cant quite understand how to get my own spreadsheet top come up from the download I did…not sure if this makes sense to you…but all i can see on my download are your instructions, not a blank spreadsheet…can you help me, please?

    Reply
  17. Lori shaw says

    November 20, 2012

    Karrie,

    Great tips for household management and money saving! Do you have any concerns about using so much processed foods and heavily preserved items
    . That’s my main struggle! I’m very concerned about GMOs and artificial everything! Any ideas on this? 🙂

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      November 21, 2012

      Yes, lately I have been trying or at least thinking about doing more natural and organic foods. I think if you are couponing for toiletries you should be able to save so much money to be able to justify spending a little more on natural foods. Good luck on your savings journey!

      Reply
  18. Ayla Bond says

    November 1, 2012

    I have recently gone threw brain surgery and have been diagnosed with brain cancer! I am only 25! I have two little girls, age 5 and 2.5 not to mention my wonderful husband . I would love you help with whatever fundraiser u can give and it is November 10th at the moose lodge ( knights of
    Columbus) on Sylvester from 4-8p. If u just want to come and support it that would be great! We are having a silent auction there’s going to be a lot of things there to bid on! We want to get all the stuff together this friday! Let me know!

    Reply
  19. Kathy R says

    September 29, 2012

    I really like your website! I totally believe in couponing, once a month shopping & beginning once a month cooking. So much that my co-workers got me a t-shirt that says “I have a coupon for that”. Keep up the good work. Crazy how those who roll their eyes one day, will be cheering you the next. God bless.

    Reply
    • Karrie says

      September 29, 2012

      Thanks Kathy!

      Reply
  20. Karrie says

    September 16, 2012

    Sorry, I am not sure – havent seen one around myself. You might try searching on ebay or other coupon trading websites to see if someone would trade for it.

    Reply
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