Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are cheap and delicious. If you are careful, one will cost you about 50 cents and provide a lot of nutrition. The National Basketball Association tells its athletes to eat peanut butter because a PB&J sandwich has 15 grams of protein per serving, 13 grams of plant-based unsaturated fat and …
Jennie Phipps
Labor Day is a big sale day for meat producers, which is a win for anyone who plans to barbecue the ever-popular hamburger on the holiday. Ground beef is averaging $5.72 a pound, up 5.9% compared to Labor Day a year ago, according to marketing company Food Market. If you find it for less, you’re …
Amazon Prime will begin delivering Whole Foods’ 365 branded products. That includes more than 3,500 items, most of them pantry staples. The company boasts, “365 products that go the extra mile when it comes to sourcing, worker and animal welfare and supply chain transparency.” As you can see from the chart below, the prices aren’t …
Beef prices are higher than they have ever been and are expected to rise more in the next couple of years. The reason is prolonged drought in many areas, which make cattle costlier to raise. By 2024, beef production will drop by 2 billion pounds, according to the Agriculture Department, because ranchers can’t make a …
If you get help paying for food at the grocery store, you’re not alone. More than 13% of Florida residents receive food assistance via the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). About 60% of them are people older than 55; another 47% are families with children. (It adds up to more than 100% because some …
Two years ago, Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain in terms of revenue, took on Publix, Florida’s top grocer. Yes, many Floridians are loyal to Publix, but according to Kroger, about half of them were Kroger shoppers before they moved here. Kroger has launched the assault without opening a single store. It’s all about delivery. …
Hello, I’m Jennie Phipps, a wife, mother of two grown sons who I raised as a single mom, and now the grandmother of three. I’ve done a lot of grocery shopping in my life. My memory is clear of the days shortly after my grocery run when my sons stood in front of the fridge …
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