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convenience foods

The Ultimate Cheapskate Snack

June 26, 2009

Our between meal snacks can add a significant, although often unnoticed, expense to our food budgets.
Yet its not just the added financial costs of potato chips, cookies, ice cream, and other snacks that hurt our budgets. The added calories also threaten our waistlines.
Recently, I’ve been searching for snacks that are not only healthy BUT ALSO [...]

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The High Price of Convenience – Microwave Popcorn

December 29, 2008

In previous posts of our High Price of Convenience Series we examined how we pay an extraordinarily high price for items that are not much more convenient to prepare than their conventional counterparts.
Today we take a look at the high cost of microwaveable popcorn.
It seems that with the advent of the microwave, we’ve lost the [...]

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The High Cost of Convenience – Case 2 (Foods in Microwaveable Bowls)

November 29, 2008

In a previous post of our High Price of Convenience series, we discussed how consumers pay excessive mark-ups on “instant” foods that aren’t much quicker to prepare than their non-instant counterparts.
Today we’ll take a look at the insane mark-ups stores get us to pay for ready to serve microwaveable foods – bowls or cups [...]

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The High Cost of Convenience Foods – Case 1

November 24, 2008

It seems that grocery stores are increasingly pushing convenience items – instant soup, microwaveable dinners, pre-cut meat, 100 calorie cookie snack packs.
We often don’t realize that these convenience items may not be that much more convenient than their alternatives.  Worse yet, the price of such “convenience” can be extremely high.
In our High Cost of Convenience [...]

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7 More Simple Ways to Slash Your Grocery Bill

November 14, 2008

In a previous post we listed seven simple ways to dramatically cut your grocery bill. With food prices expected to rise even further in 2009, its more important than ever to take steps to slash your grocery costs.
Here are 7 more simple ways to save money in tough economic times.
Shop with a list. Grocery stores [...]

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An Easy Way To Save on Juice Costs

October 22, 2008

The next time you buy your favorite apple or orange juice remember this fact.  The greatest percentage of your favorite juice is water, for which you pay the manufacturer to collect, package, and ship to your local grocery store.

Instead of buying a carton of orange juice, consider going to the frozen foods section of the [...]

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