What is One Awesome Product You Buy at the Grocery Store?

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I buy three bags of chocolate chips every week. I eat those three bags in the course of a week - I eat them straight out of the freezer. Yum! I alos sprinkle them in cereal (for dessert every evening), and I make PB sandwiches and sprinkle the frozen chips on top. Outstanding.

88d8a wrote:

I buy three bags of chocolate chips every week. I eat those three bags in the course of a week - I eat them straight out of the freezer. Yum! I alos sprinkle them in cereal (for dessert every evening), and I make PB sandwiches and sprinkle the frozen chips on top. Outstanding.

I feel like I'm always reading someone going on about frozen chocolate chips whenever a food/nutrition thread pops up on this site. Are all these posts you, or is eating chocolate chips straight from the bag a "thing"?

The other night I found a chocolate chip on the kitchen floor. We haven't had any in the house, to my knowledge. Is my girlfriend hiding food somewhere? Is she reading LetsRun? Questions abound.

Oke-Doke cheese popcorn

One of life's finest pleasures.

Perhaps your girlfriend has invited me over?

Or maybe it's a rat turd.

Most awesome thing I buy at the grocery store: condoms.

But for serious suggestions:

Feta cheese (soooo good on salad etc)

Nature Valley 'Oats 'n Dark Chocolate' Bars (great dessert)

Otherwise find some delicious looking recipes and start cooking. Steaks, fish, tacos, there's plenty out there.

Haagen Daz White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Ice Cream.

EOT

Some faves at Trader Joes

grass-fed beef from NZ

raw cheddar cheese

Two Buck Chuck (decent wine for $2/bottle)

Coconut milk

precooked bacon

red potatoes

almond butter

Pork Shoulder Boston Butt Roast

Cook slow, add bbq sauce

Mayo. I eat that shit straight out of the jar. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but I do love the taste!

Refried Beans.

Fresh fruit.

Whatever is ripe and/or cheap and still looks good.

Junk foods exist today for only one reason: they are highly profitable. Because they can be marked up so heavily over the costs of production, junk foods put millions of dollars into the pockets of manufacturers.

It's a fact that the lowest-profit item in most grocery stores is the produce—the fresh fruits and vegetables—and that the highest mark-up comes from packaged, processed and junk foods.

Natural and traditional foods, like fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, are rarely advertised because they cannot be given a brand name or identity by a manufacturer. After all, a potato is just a potato, and worth only a few cents a pound. But if you slice that potato, boil it in oil, add a large dose of salt and preservatives, and package it a bright bag with a catchy name, then you have potato chips that can be sold for ten to twenty times the cost of the original potato.

Even twenty years ago, it was discovered that for every dollar spent on breakfast cereals (a sugary junk food), only a fraction went for the cost of the raw materials. Consider where the average junk food dollar goes:

For Each Dollar Spent On Junk Food...

* 12 cents goes for packaging

* 17 cents pays for the advertising and promotion

* 55 cents goes for processing and profit-markup

* 6 cents is for additives, preservatives and colorings

* 10 cents is for the actual food in the product

In contrast, for every dollar spent on produce and natural foods (like whole grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruits), about 65 cents goes for the actual food cost and the remaining for transportation and retail markup.

Not only does the consumer of junk and processed foods pay in terms of health and well-being, he is also spending 5 to 20 times as much as he should for the actual food.

Here's another example: a popular "food" developed a few years ago was called "Shake 'n Bake." It was a food crust or covering put on chicken, fish and so on. It sold for $2.63 per pound. It was mostly wheat flour, with a few artificial spices and coloring, that could be purchased for 15 cents a pound for its raw ingredients. The consumer was paying the extra $2.48 for television advertising and promotion.

It's the advertising and packaging that make junk foods so expensive and so profitable. In fact, without mass advertising, there would probably be no junk foods. An understanding of the junk food problem, then, requires an understanding of the advertising and promotion of this food.

Bolthouse Farms' Mocha Capuccino

Funyuns

Frozen pasties (PASS-teez), the savory meat pies, from The Pasty Oven. An adequate version of a boyhood comfort food available in the Minneapolis-St Paul metro. Memories over-ride the creepy mascot on the label:

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/pasty/oven.html

Jose Ole frozen Chimichanga.

It costs about two bucks. It takes 2 minutes to heat up in the microwave.

Grab some chips and salsa with it.