Why You Should Never Buy Fish From Walmart
Walmart can be hard to avoid. However, Consumer Reports found that Walmart was "by far the most complained-about purveyor of groceries."
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Stories By Karen Miner
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The Ingenious Way This Grocery Store Is Repurposing Its Salad Bar
In the age of the pandemic, plenty of things have changed, and even mundane tasks like grocery shopping look a lot different than they used to. Grocery store salad bars are likely empty under new safety protocols, but one grocer got creative with repurposing theirs.
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Specialty's Cafe Just Announced Sad News For Fans
Speciality's Cafe & Bakery wasn't a nationwide operation, but for folks in California, Washington, and Illinois, it quickly became a go-to lunch spot. But the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed yet another victim in the restaurant industry, and this time it's Specialty's Cafe & Bakery.
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Celebs React To Popeyes' Chicken Sandwich
It's been a week since Popeyes' chicken sandwich returned to menus. For the last seven days, Popeyes has been dominating headlines, with news outlets dissecting every ingredient, reporting on the stabbing death of a customer who cut in line, and revealing what Justin Bieber really thinks of it.
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OutDaughtered: The Busby Quints Reveal Their Favorite Foods
The Busbys have been charming viewers of TLC's OutDaughtered since its debut in 2016, and the masses can't get enough of the family of eight. We happily tune in each week to watch Adam and Danielle wrangle their 8-year-old. and 4-year-old quintuplets.
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The One Thing In Vanderpump Rules' Jax Taylor's Costco Cart
When Jax Taylor goes grocery shopping, he doesn't mess around. The Vanderpump Rules star recently shared snaps of his Costco cart on Instagram, and its contents will be fairly unsurprising to anyone who's ever seen the show's cast in action.
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Kim Zolciak-Biermann Reveals Her Surprising Eating Habits
Kim Zolciak-Biermann, reality TV star and matriarch of Bravo's Don't Be Tardy, isn't what we'd call an adventurous eater. Fans of the show know that personal chef Tracey Bloom has sometimes struggled to get the Zolciak-Biermann family to think outside the box when it comes to food.
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How To Crack An Egg Perfectly Every Time
You might feel a bit sheepish Googling something as simple as "the best way to crack an egg," but you shouldn't. In this day and age, thanks to the Food Network, the Cooking Channel, and the rise of the celebrity chef, you've probably seen a dozen different egg-cracking methods.
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The Costco Pizza Hack You Need To Know
When it comes to Costco pizza we can all agree that it is not only incredibly delicious, but also incredibly cheap. For just $9.95 — basically the cost of two Starbucks lattes — you are the recipient of a ginormous 18-inch pie.
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Below Deck Med's Captain Sandy Can't Get Enough Of This Walmart Treat
Captain Sandy Yawn, head honcho of the mega-yacht Sirocco, which is currently trolling the south of France on season four of Below Deck Mediterranean, knows a few things about good — make that great — food.
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The Chick-Fil-A Hack Brielle Biermann Swears By
Brielle Biermann, reality TV star and daughter of Don't Be Tardy's Kim Zolciak-Biermann, really loves Chick-fil-A. In fact, she says CFA is responsible for her rockin' bod. Biermann took to Instagram Stories in June to explain this fried chicken weight loss phenomenon.
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How To Prevent Watery Coleslaw
Maybe you like vinegar-based coleslaw, maybe you like mayonnaise-based, but no matter what your preference of dressings, nobody likes soggy, watery coleslaw — and nothing ruins a batch of the classic side dish faster than that dreaded puddle of diluted dressing at the bottom of your bowl.
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Trader Joe's Is Making Big Changes To Its Produce Department
If there's one knock on Trader Joe's, it's the chain's use of plastic in its produce department. But that's all about to change.
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The Best Aldi Finds For August 2019
It's the most wonderful time of the year... nope, it's not Christmas, but it might as well be, because Aldi just announced their Finds for the month of August, and while there are dozens of items you won't want to miss out on, we think these are the best of the best.
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Costco's Latest Membership Feature Is A Total Lifesaver
Smartphone addicted Costco shoppers, get ready to rejoice: No longer will you have to dig through your purse, wallet, diaper bag, or pockets in search of that elusive Costco card. All you have to do now is flash your phone to gain entrance to the warehouse store.
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Unfortunate Walmart Cake Fail Accidentally Insults Toddler
When you place an order at the Walmart bakery for your toddler's birthday cake, you probably agonize over the perfect choice — should you get dinosaurs or clowns, unicorns or rainbows, cats or dogs? You probably agonize over the perfect message to emblazon the cake with, too.
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The Fastest And Easiest Way To Peel Tomatoes
We've all been there — a recipe calls for fresh peeled tomatoes, and rather than using whatever method the directions suggest, you decide that it would be so much easier to just pick away at the skin with your fingernails.
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The Everything But The Bagel Seasoning Hack You Need To Know
Trader Joe's Everything But The Bagel Seasoning hit shelves in early 2017, and it didn't take long for the unassuming jar of seeds and spices to reach cult status. The masses immediately recognized how versatile this seasoning blend was, and commenced adding it to every dish they could think of.
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How To Get Free Refills At Starbucks
Over the years we've learned different ways to get our hands on free Starbucks drinks, but not all of them are completely above board — remember the guy that bought 365 Starbucks cards and registered each one with a different birthday so he could get his free birthday drink every day of the year?
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You've Been Storing Ice Cream Wrong Your Entire Life
Let's say that you've got a brand spanking new carton of ice cream in your freezer, and by some miracle, you don't actually polish the entire thing off in one sitting. Stranger things have happened, right?
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How To Tell If A Watermelon Is Good
What do you do when you're faced with the task of choosing a good watermelon? If you just close your eyes, pick blindly, and hope for the best, chances are you've cut into your fair share of flavorless and unripe or mushy and mealy fruit.
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The Taco Bell Hotel: Here's What's On The Menu At The Pop-Up Resort
In May 2019, Taco Bell got the Internet buzzing with its announcement that The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort would be popping up in Palm Springs, California. The press release promised that everything from guest rooms to breakfast and poolside cocktails will be infused with a Taco Bell twist.
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The Real Reason Costco Will Never Have Express Checkout Lines
In a perfect world, you could hit Costco on your way home from work, find a parking spot right next to the door, run in, grab a rotisserie chicken for dinner.
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KFC Cheetos Sandwich: What You Need To Know Before You Order One
In the game of "which fast food chain can create the most ridiculous menu item yet," KFC may have just taken the title, and that's no small feat considering Arby's recently introduced the meat carrot (er, marrot), Burger King started selling tacos, and Jack in the Box made burgers into french fries.
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Khloe Kardashian's Go-To Starbucks Order Will Surprise You
We all have our super-specific Starbucks order that's been perfected over countless visits to the ubiquitous coffeehouse. Whether your preference is a Grande drip black or a Venti triple mocha with three pumps caramel and extra whip, you fancy your drink the most delicious.
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The Trick To Ripening Avocado Faster
Is there anything worse than the disappointment you feel when a guacamole craving hits and you realize that your fruit bowl is full of nothing but unripe avocados? You know that it can take up to seven long days for those rock-hard avocados to soften on their own, and you need your fix fast.
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You've Been Storing Peanut Butter Wrong Your Entire Life
If you're still living that elementary school cafeteria lunch life with your jars of Skippy and Jif in the cabinet solely because natural peanut butter is such a pain to deal with, we've got good news for you: You've just been storing it wrong your whole life.
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