Seattle Times in 60 seconds: Savvy shopping, scratch cooking, and stretching food dollars

Posted Apr 30th 2008 3:20PM by Sarah J. Gim
Filed under: Midwest Cities, Recipes, Newspapers, Lists, America, in sixty seconds, Food News

This week, the Seattle Times devotes the entire food section to stretching your food dollars in anticipation of tight financial times:

An excerpt from Nancy Leson's blog, All You Can Eat, with a bulleted list of tips
Tips for savvy shopping at the grocery store
How to figure out which is better: cooking from scratch or buying prepared
Save with bargain wines

And one of the better ways to save when cooking at home is to use less expensive chicken over more expensive ingredients:

Tags: chicken, recession, seattle

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