It helps you plan meals and create shopping and grocery lists to gather all the items you need to prepare vegan recipes. As a recipe app with a …

7 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your First Bulk Shopping Experience

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many changes in our lives, and one of them has been how we eat and shop. Think about it: People who use to shop at multiple stores now embrace one-stop planning; people who used to shop daily are limiting to once a week. Former bread purchasers have gone all-in on homemade baking, and people who are […]

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Why Now Is the Right Time to Invest in a Chest Freezer

The day I married my husband—a Kentucky-bred man—I not only took on a Southern man, but also his need to own a chest freezer. I was a little surprised at first: After all, we are a childless couple, we neither hunt nor fish, and we live in downtown Chicago, so we are never more than a few blocks from a […]

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The Brilliant Secret to Making Better Mashed Potatoes

Mashed potatoes are one of my specialties. Years of Thanksgivings under my belt have made me something of an expert. I make extra-smooth and velvety butter-laden versions for fancy dinner parties, and rustic barely-smashed skin-on versions for more casual gatherings. Mashed potatoes are my top-tier comfort food, desert island dish, and the thing I crave most the moment the weather […]

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Where Have All the Dollar Menus Gone?

Fast-food restaurants have been engaged in burger wars since the first slab of seared meat came sizzling off a flat top grill. And we don’t just mean those Twitter fights over square patties and frozen meat.  No, restaurants have been trying to out-price and out-promote one another with outlandish deals, over-the-top menu items, and even absurd marketing gimmicks for decades. […]

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