Tag: grocery shopping

How to Stock Up Your Food Pantry in a Time of Shortages, Inflation

Grocery shopping is a chore or a fun adventure, depending on your viewpoint, but rising prices and shortages have added a lot of stress to this unavoidable task. Due to inflation and shortages, millions of Americans are quietly building their own food storage pantries to sustain their families in a time of growing uncertainty. How…


Food Cost-Cutting Strategies for Every Lifestyle

If it seems as though you never have enough money to consistently save some of it for emergencies—consistent, regular deposits out of every paycheck that go straight into a savings account—perhaps it’s time to consider that you’re handing over your savings to restaurants, drive-thrus, diners, and coffee shops. Think about it. No matter your lifestyle,…


Don’t Give Frozen Foods the Cold Shoulder

Nearly every health expert will be quick to tell you that it’s a good idea to load up your shopping cart with more vegetables and fruits. Their unique nutritional stew of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals is key to lasting health. But sometimes fresh options in the produce aisle don’t look so fresh and are…


What Do ‘Best Before,’ ‘Use By,’ and Other Dates on Food Products Really Mean?

No doubt, you’ve noticed that some food products come with dates and codes printed on them. And who isn’t noticing this more now as food costs are skyrocketing? Do those codes and dates mean the item must be consumed by that date or just sold by that date? What about canned or packaged goods that…


The Best Reason Not to Buy Pre-Washed Salad in a Bag

Pre-washed, pre-chopped, ready-to-go salad greens in sealed bags can be found in the produce department of just about every grocery store and supermarket. Those bags are certainly a tempting option, because what’s not to like about having someone else do all the work of chopping and then double- or even triple-washing? Even so, I don’t…


Do I Need to Drink Filtered Water or Is the Tap OK?

These days, a trip to the grocery store requires nerves of steel. The cost of everything, it seems, is soaring. Why? Can we blame the pandemic? Will prices return to pre-pandemic levels once this thing settles down? Will it ever go away? Who knows? One thing is for sure: It’s time to hunker down and…


 Amazon Fresh Store Opens in Fullerton 

A new Amazon Fresh grocery store opened in Fullerton Feb. 25, marking the tenth Fresh store in the nation, and the second in Orange County. The high-tech grocery store moved into 1100 S. Harbor Boulevard, the previous site of a Toys R Us store. It is across the street from the city’s Costco and a block away from Spout’s Farmers Market….