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1 Supermarket Smarts: Make a List
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2 Do You Buy Pre-Grated Cheese?
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3 Do You Like To Go Food Shopping?
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4 Do You Mind Shopping in a Crowded Grocery Store?
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5 Do You Use Coupons When Grocery Shopping?
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6 Simple Tip: Purchase Sliced Bread From the Deli
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7 Do You Taste Grapes Before You Buy Them?
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8 Let's Dish: What Products Will You Buy Generic?
Thanksgiving
9 Thanksgiving Tip: Don't Shop on Wednesday
Tyler Florence
10 Yummy Links: From Tyler's Restaurant to Bobby's TV Show
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11 Do You Buy Generic/Store-Brand Food?
Link Time
12 Yummy Links: From Grocery Shopping to Make-Ahead Brunch
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13 Yummy Links: From Cheaper Groceries to Top Chef Casting
Eco
14 Shop the Farmers Market Smarter
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15 Celebrity Chefs Share Recession Tips With Oprah
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16 Do You Salt Your Own Chips?
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17 Do You Talk on the Phone While Grocery Shopping?
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18 Do You Shop at Ethnic Markets?
Grocery shopping. It's something we all do, but to ensure you're making the best choices it helps to have a strategy in place before hitting the aisles. Watch this video and learn how best to navigate your local grocery for the healthiest purchases. Read more
What better time than the present to assess your diet and start making some healthy changes? Choosing to eat a cleaner diet can give you more energy, strengthen your immune system, and even help shed those pesky holiday pounds. Here are a handful of ways to get your diet back on track with a clean makeover. Read more
With less than 24 hours until Thanksgiving dinner, it's a mad dash to greet your guests while putting the finishing touches on your feast. It's likely that you've forgotten to pick up an essential ingredient or two or three, but now is not the time to panic. If the grocery aisles are beginning to look like a dizzying kaleidoscope, here's is a quick, cost-effective guide to help you find the best Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Prevention here on FitSugar! Have a healthy (and cheap) trip to the grocery store By Bari Nan Cohen, Prevention You walk into a grocery store expecting to buy only the items on your list, yet you leave with a cart full of extras you may not really need — and a considerably lighter wallet. An accident — or lapse in judgment? Actually, the Read more
Reusable bags are great for the environment, but a new study has found that your stack of reusable grocery bags may be harboring high levels of bacteria if you're not careful. If you regularly haul raw meat, dirty vegetables, and cartons of milk from the supermarket, your reusable bags may be due for a cleaning. The study, published in Food Protection Trends, found that practically all bags Read more
Unless you're doing all of your shopping at a farmers market, buying groceries can be the gateway to an unhealthy diet. Conventional grocery stores are filled with heavily processed foods containing a laundry list of ingredients. On top of that, convenience is key — from frozen foods to jarred sauces, it's tempting to never cook again. Eating a cleaner, healthier diet has a myriad of benefits Read more
I'm not sure whether it's the readily available resources online or the sheer number of food documentaries I've watched (Forks Over Knives was the latest viewing that gently pushed me over the edge), but I've officially decided to go vegan for 30 days. I realize this lifestyle change is not for everyone, but making the shift is something I feel ready to experiment with, if only for a limited Read more
This past Sunday kicked off National Farmers Market Week. And what better time to celebrate, given the berries, stone fruit, tomatoes, corn, and other amazing offerings that are at their best right now? Hopefully you'll have a chance to head out to a nearby market — one of our top eight, perhaps? — and buy the season's bounty until your bags are bursting at the seams. But before you do so, Read more
The USDA has declared this week, August 7th through 13th, National Farmers Market Week. According to the USDA, more than 1,000 farmers markets have opened in the past year — up 17 percent from 2010. There's good reason to get behind them and the whole farm-to-table experience: they're sustainable, community-driven, and personal. But perhaps most importantly, they're fun! While all farmers Read more
A trip to the grocery store with your little one may seem like a simple, safe outing, but are you aware of all of the shopping cart-related accidents that happen each year? And aside from falls, within the few seconds you put your child in the cart, he or she is exposed to a wide variety of bacteria and germs. According to researchers at the University of Arizona, shopping carts are dirtier than Read more
