Frugal Families: Best Deals Around Town

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 is dedicated to giving you 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.

Be sure to check with your local merchant for additional conditions. This week's deals:

1.) Eat Great at Grapeseed
Deal: Buy a $30 coupon and get $60 on food and drink at Grapeseed, a
Bethesda favorite. Via Living Social.
Good through: 5a.m. Thursday. Hurry!

2. Family Photography Deal
Deal: $95 for an on-location family photo shoot – 45 minutes and 10
edited files -- with Chasing Moments Photography. Or, choose a newborn
photo shoot for three hours and three edited files. Via Certifikid.

Good through: 3a.m. Thursday. Hurry!

3.) Circle Yoga

Deal: If you’ve recently had a baby this yoga studio is offering an infant massage workshop, ideal for babies one to six months old. The techniques are suppose to soothe, calm and stimulate the baby. The workshop costs $25 if you sign up before Feb. 19. It costs $30 after that date. The workshop is scheduled for Feb. 26 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

4.)

Deal: Purchase $25 or more of Clinique products and score a Milly make-up bag with $75 worth of Clinique products.

Good through: While supplies last

5.) Tiny Chefs

Deal: This business, which offers cooking classes for kids, now offers parents the option to purchase invitations for your child's birthday party for $10 per party. At the Tiny Chefs birthday parties children can cook entrées, desserts, and appetizers.

Good through: Ongoing