Category: Stretch Your Food Dollar
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Eat Your Broccoli, Part 2
This is the seventh installment in our weekly series about food budgeting. Last week one of our readers made a really good comment about factoring the cost of driving into your food budget. It’s been a long-standing mantra that the best way to save money on food is to check out the weekly food ads…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Eat Your Broccoli
Here’s the sixth installment in our series about keeping within your food budget. This week’s headlines have been dominated by news about the Olympics and the tensions in Georgia. But the financial news has been filled with different analysts’ takes on the latest consumer price index report. Last week I mentioned that the recent government…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Amazing Grains
This is the fifth installment in my series about the rising cost of food. This week the Commerce Department released its monthly report on consumer spending. According to the Associated Press: US consumer spending cooled in June and inflationary pressures accelerated strongly as higher food and energy costs stretched Americans’ wallets, a government survey showed…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Rethinking Meat – Part 2
This is my fourth post in our series about stretching your food dollar. Perhaps now more than ever, adopting a vegetarian diet (or at least abstaining from meat once or twice a week) is more attractive than ever. In last week’s post I talked about the effect that higher corn prices have had on the…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Rethinking Meat
This is my third installment in our series about making your food dollar stretch. Today I want to ask you to rethink meat. For many Americans, meat is the primary source of protein in their diets. Although I’m a long-time vegetarian (and aspiring vegan), I’m not going to inundate you with the host of ethical…
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Chipotle Goes Local
One of the promising trends in the restaurant industry is the movement towards environmental sustainability. More and more businesses are seeking ways to become more eco-friendly, largely in response to customer demand. As part of that trend, we are seeing an increase in the number of restaurants that are buying their produce locally. Until recently,…
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What is Driving the Rising Cost of Food?
Unless you haven’t gone to the grocery store or to a restaurant in the past six months, you may have noticed that the price of food has continued to rise. In fact, because you’re a savvy Queercents reader, I’ll bet that you already knew that food inflation is twice the rate of inflation overall. A…
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