27 Foods You Should Never Buy Again

People buy what they buy because the world has made it possible to do so. Just like going to a restaurant instead of cooking. It taste better and it’s convenient. Advertisement make all of these thing irresistible. venzulla@yahoo.com

People buy what they buy because the world has made it possible to do so. Just like going to a restaurant instead of cooking. It taste better and it’s convenient. Advertisement make all of these thing irresistible. venzulla@yahoo.com

Good article. I buy packaged salad mixes when they go on sale 2 for 1 which seems to happen every few weeks. Also, I would say that premade/frozen hamburger patties contain a lot less beef than if you make the burgers yourself. I also agree with the other commentor; you can easily get a good jar of spaghetti sauce for around $2. Making sauce from scratch isn’t worth it unless you simply enjoy doing that.

I had bought some of thes to make popsicles myself and I’ve never bought another store bought popsicle. The combinations are endless and are great for someone who wants to avoid all the sugar and calories.

I love the idea of this stove top sauce. I made a list of ingredients, plan to try this the next time i make pasta.

What about Crystal light flavored tea mixes that are low in calories and sugar free?

Maybe we should never buy Reader’s Digest again. They have no clue of the modern world, just the world my mother read back in the 1950″S

I have made meatballs and sauce for fifty year or more. I use sauteed chopped onions and garlic in crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce and season with worcestershire sauce ( it contains all kinds of spices, even anchovies). Mix ground meat, italian bread crumbs and eggs, form meatballs and brown.  Brown about a pound of italian sausage.   Put meatballs and sausage in sauce and simmer 1 hour or more.  Serve over cooked  spagetti or any pasta.  Enjoy

Most ice cream is sold in 1.5 Qt carton, which means that you need to buy 3 to get a gallon.  Even on sale for 4/$10, that about $7/gallon.  Making your own isn’t cheap either,

thank you for the warnings and making me aware of what I should not do and all the great things I do do  unconsicously.  loved this article as I love to cook healthfully for my family.  Thanks and keep all the great info coming.  Mary Williams   mackeandmary@yahoo.com

Easy to get info.  Very user friendly

I disagree with portioning out your own chips, etc. I buy the smaller bags because once the big bag is open, there’s no turning back. Plus, sealed individual things last longer.

Very right.  On my side I boil my own water and put in my water bottle instead of buying.  Very expensive and people do not realize it.

It’s “painful” to watch someone pay $6.00 for a gallon of ice cream???  Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, $6.00 is a terrific bargain for a gallon of ice cream.  Our sale prices are usually much higher than that.

Designer ice cream for 6 dollars a GALLON?   Where?    Most ice cream now is sold in half-gallon containers (well, it used to be half gallons, but they have cut that down by about 1/4).    Most designer ice cream is a lot more than $6 per GALLON.  

I’m a cook, and I can vouch that oven-roasted tomatoes are delicious, especially using halved Romas.

I think if you make the sandwich yourself it tastes a lot better!!! Some of the premade sandwiches don’t seem to taste very good at all.

I like to make a lunchable myself for my daughter. I get the mini cookie cutters and use them to cut off different shapes of cheese and meat. Then add some Ritz crackers and there you go. It takes a little time but it puts a little personal touch on her lunch.

Ah, such a perfect example of the utter stupidity of Yahoo’s writers.  Yes, great idea.  List each point separately so we have to wait for each page to load, which with Yahoo, usually takes about two minutes.  God, please give us back the printed page where writers and journalists actually had some brains and education. These lists are such contrived filler it is beyond belief.   

This is all written by a reporter, not a working mom or single parent.  IF YOU HAVE THE TIME, then fine.  But it would be better to never by chips again, and get a good water purifier for your tap.

Many of the tips you have included in this section are helpful, however frozen vegetables have been proven to have more vitamins and nutritious value than fresh, because many fresh veggies sit around losing those precious minerals and vitamins one desires in them.

Oh and as for homemade stuff, look into getting a Donvier pot for ice cream.  I use one and it’s awesome–it only takes a few minutes to make the ice cream!  Found it at Goodwill but I can’t imagine they’re that expensive.  There are no electrical parts.

We have a well and our well water filtration system adds quite a bit of salt to the water. We bought a home distiller many years ago. A great alternative to jugs of distilled water.

But…this is real life!  You’ve got two overworked, stressed adults coming off hectic days at work, two tired children picked up from an after school program or daycare, dinner, homework, some quality time together, baths, stories, bed, clean up the kitchen, probably throw a load of laundry in.  Come on!  Grab the jar of tomato sauce, sweetie, and don’t think twice. I was a stay at home Mom…so not an option for my daughters or most women these days.  You’re juggling the world these days, so give yourselves lots of slack!

We have so many choices these day.  For me an older person (76) it is mind boggling.  It used to be when you went grocery shopping you didn’t have so many choices.  For example: if I wanted a can of sliced peaches there might have been two brands. Now there are six or seven brands, plus if you want them in their own juice, sugar free, or thick syrup, etc.   Everything choice is a big production. Now I read that you should not buy foods in cans because they are plastic lined.  If you don’t want a plastic lined can then you have to pay extra for a regular one.  Where does it end?  It’s almost as if I don’t want to eat anything.

please understand that these tips are not for anyone.
I always prided myself on cooking and preparing everything from scratch.  Now I am disabled, standing more than 1 min. causes excrutiating pain. And so, to my disappointment but great relief I find myself looking for pre-combined and prepared foods – not without the knowledge that I am spending more but grateful for not having to stand, even a minute longer..
Please be tolerant of the disabled – people who can read labels for nutrition but must make choices for their particular needs.

Yeah. I’ll remember your stellar advice to always drink tap water when our water becomes, according to health officials, undrinkable some time in the next two weeks due to Missouri River flooding impacting the water treatment facility. Bottled water serves a purpose and we can never completely get rid of it. 

its all about priorities. Just how important is it to grow your own produce and cook together at home. My kids are young and soon they will have their own lives so I enjoy them as much as I can now and they learn by what we do. 

Frankly, I don’t agree with these findings completely. I don’t pay anywhere near the prices listed by shopping smart and using coupons. Plus, we use pre-made burgers because they don’t fall apart on the grill, and my teenage son can make a quick lunch or dinner meal without having to work with the meat, and make a mess. All of these products are not necessary, but some times saving a few minutes time is totally worth it,,,at least in the world that I work in.

Most of the stuff here makes sense, and actually I never bought most of this in the first place. But to take the time to make pasta sauce and trail mix, really? If you guys want to save a dollar or two every now and then by making your own sauces, by all means go right ahead. I buy 99 cent cans of sauce, I can buy Ragu for about a buck and a half at Winco, and I like it, as well or even better than ANY homemade, restaurant made or other wise sauce. I’m sure not going to spend my time in the kitchen making it from scratch. Cannot convince me it is any better.
I will concur that many of the premade “gourmet” sauces are priced pretty high, and I think they are terrible tasting compared to the cheap stuff! So if you have been buying the pricey awful tasting stuff, making your own sauce might indeed be a smart thing to do.

Whatever crap you’re putting on your nnThings … pages that lock up IE when using tabbed browsing have convinced me to never access such pages in the future.  I suspect this is true for many others as well.  Hope your advertisers appreciate the reduced hits resulting from your poor programming.

What I get from this article is that one should not buy “gourmet” or single serving packs of food or frozen meat patties. 

I never buy tomato sauce or iced  tea;  its so easy to make my own.  I have a great recipe for marinara sauce using fresh or canned tomatoes that takes about 20 mnutes to cook.   I also have a recipe for mac and cheese that takes about ten minutes;  as long as it takes to boil the macaroni.  

I never buy bottled water;  I have a pitcher that has a filter.  A full pitcher is the amount of water that I need to drink daily.  I keep it in the fridge and add a slice of lemon when I drink a glass.

Indian housewife know and implement them all !!

Great tips.  But you don’t take the time saving aspects into consideration Time is money, too, and making tomato sauce is a 15-20 minute deal under the best of circumstances, and sometimes there is just not enough time.  Ditto for a lot of your other suggestions.

im 12 years old i weigh 119.1 lbs HELPPP

Making meals from scratch is good if you can afford all the ingredients. Remember, Pasta is a side dish for Italians. Though many eat it everyday they do not become fat from it as it is not the main course of the meal.

Bottled water: check with your water provider to see just what chemicals are in the water and at what amounts, some such as fluoride can do a lot of damage to your body if it is excessively high, children with teeth that look like they do not brush with marks on them are usually getting too high a dose of fluoride to the effect that it is poisoning them. Not all water filters take out all chemicals.

Anything I can make at home, I do – it’s cheaper, tastes better, saves on gas, and I don’t have to deal with down town.  I make artisan bread  – it’s so fast, so easy – smoothies, popsicles and pupsicles from homemade yoghurt. Yes, I use a starter, so plenty of probiotics, steralise the container, use a thermometer – safe and good – to me, the best fast food on the go is a banana, it even comes in its own handy dandy pre packaged single serving size.

I like these tips. My family knows  nothing but pre-formed, quick and easy food.  And it’s just nice to know that fresh food is better for your health and your wallet.

Cheap ice-cream tastes cheap. Expensive, 6-dollars-a-tub ice-cream tastes like expensive, 6-dollars-a-tub ice-cream. In that case, at least, you do in fact get what you pay for.

And adding chocolate chips and fudge to cheap ice-cream just makes it taste more sickly sweet.

They left out the most important tip — Never buy ANYTHING that isn’t on sale. With VERY few exceptions, it’s possible to stock your freezer/pantry with things that are on sale … and they’ll hold you until the next sale cycle roles around. And plan your weekly menus around what’s on sale or already in the freezer.  Sure, we all need milk every week, and you may not realize that  your kid ate the last 3 eggs for lunch — but especially if you’re flexible about brands, you should NEVER have to pay full price for anything in a can or anything that can be frozen. And pasta, flour, sweets, fresh produce, rice — SOMETHING is always on sale, if not this week, then next week. And check the day-old baked goods rack, and the discount meat that’s close to its sell-by date.  I’ve picked up a gallon of milk for 25 cents when it was 2-3 days from expiration — our family will drink it up LONG before it goes bad.

What idiotic advice.  The idea that because the unit cost is much higher for smaller servings, therefore you should always scale up (which really is the reoccurring theme here) as a foundation for advice is poor.  Ironically, the article was probably written by the same people who caution you that Costco/Sam Clubs are not as good value as you seem.  Yes, you can lower you unit cost if you scale up (and DYI means you will be scaling up), but if that leads to either waste or increased consumption (or as I like to  say “leads to waist”), then you will fail to realize the savings you think you are getting.  Surely there are times when it makes sense, but to suggest “never again” is idiotic.  Maybe an article teaching people how to differentiate between when it is and is not appropriate instead.

FRESH FOOD  IS STILL THE BEST….SO MAKED ONE NOW…M/

useful tip !!

I usually make my pasta sauce on the stove top, but the best one I have ever made was from the giant crushed tomatoes can I got from Sam’s club, put it to the slow cooker with spices on low…. Then froze the single portions.

I think they missed the point of why these items exist.  Who cans anything.  Average in the time it takes to “cook down” the liquid in tomatoes and I think the canned prepacked version comes close when youthink how long that burner is on to make the sauce.  Also if you don’t properly seal the can and what a waste when it goes bad.  Don’t get me wrong I have canned before but the point the whole reason these things exist is choice.

I don’t know about the rest of the world but after a 60 hr work week, if it wasn’t for convenience meals, probably wouldn’t eat.

I have been seen same fast food places that, even sale the skin of the chichen for lower prices. that is one of the reason that people are getting fat. the skin of the chicken it’s the worst. even do a lot of people loved. my husband liked it, but when I cook I prefered to remove all the fatty skin from the chicken or meat. my diet and my family health are the number one, when I have to cook for them. And since I started to stay awey from fast food I lost almost twelve pounds, I only have to watch what I eat.

You forgot the 5 gal commercial jugs that can also be refilled @ .about .30 cents a gallon. And when the jugs are no longer serviceable the bottoms can be cut off and then used as mini green houses for tender plants in the spring. The caps can be removed on warm days and replaced when it is colder.

Yeah, these people (those that wrote the article) have no clue how to add. They also don’t seem to know that not everybody knows what proportions of one ingredient or another it takes to make a finished product that tastes half as good as premade stuff nor just how few people have that kind of time.

If both parents in a full family (two parents and two kids) work as is pretty much standard nowadays and they both get off work at 5 from their jobs that leaves them two hours to prepare anything in time to serve their children before those children have to go to bed. Remember that it is highly unhealthy to eat within an hour before bedtime for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is weight gain.

So I ask you this: How many of these items could one mother and one father (Or mix thereof) prepare in time? It takes time to thaw/buy ground beef, form into patties, look up recipe for barbaque seasoning, mix said seasoning, and then cook the meal.

What if there’s a long line at the grocery store? What if the parent accidentally forgot to pick up salt? What if they got off work late? How do you suggest these people find the time to prepare all these ingredients?

Now let me ask you this: Of the types of parents that would actually spend the time to make everything from scratch for their kids, how many do you think would have their kids enrolled in extra curricular activities like soccer, music, or dance? How do the parents make time to pick their children up AND make time to make all this food AND finish before the children must go to bed?

When I clicked the link to this article I honestly thought it would consist of only things that were both a waste of money and unhealthy to the extreme, due to the article’s use of an absolute (Never). But instead it just contained pointless and impractical “penny saving” tips and a few reasonable suggestions.

And for the record, drink mix is bought to replace expensive cartons of juice, not actual iced tea. In such a position, it is quite the bargain, yeilding 40+/- quarts of juice for roughly the same price as one gallon of “100% Juice” juice.

whoever made this post is a moron. maybe if everyone has 18 hours a day to spend preparing food. make your own salad dressing? where does he buy his gourmet trail mix? i get it for 2.99 lb. moron. must be an unemployed moron

whoever made this post is a moron. maybe if everyone has 18 hours a day to spend preparing food. make your own salad dressing? where does he buy his gourmet trail mix? i get it for 2.99 lb. moron. must be an unemployed moron

I dont know who wrote this article but someone needs to take you shopping

Reader’s DIgest, along with Yahoo and Consumer’s report are wrong about bottled water. What they should have focus is on “flavored’ bottled waters, juices and sugared drinks, which I usually don’t buy. They are also wrong about ‘filters’ being inexpensive. Filters are a huge waste of money and it doesn’t really remove impurities. Also tap water contains harmful contaminants during transition from the sources and most pipes contain corrosive materials. I buy unflavored bottled water because the tap water is usually dirty due to continuous maintenance issues where the water is being turned off. When the water is turned on, it contains an oily substances usually from the pipes and filters don’t do the job of riding water of the oily substances including other form of parasites that thrives in tap water. And filters tend to break easily so increase awareness is needed on how to instal it. I save a trifle more on bottled water, including distilled water to help clear up  the sinus problems which I have had for a long time.  Also filters have short life spans so reusing filters that are often unreliable is more wasteful than just getting a simple bottled water. Why not focus on people buying flavored water??

To all of you on both sides — either we are lazy and nobody “forces” us to eat junk, or we are hypnotized by big-time advertising. You are both right. But those who see the power of advertising, coupled with all the chaos, confusion, and uncertainty of modern society, are more right. Start researching “psychological operations” (PsyOps) on the internet. It is amazing how much truth one can discover if one is trying to better themselves and their loved ones. God bless.

Some good ideas, but i buy jars of pasta sauce because they can sit for 6 months and still be used. If I want to do that with my sauce, I have to freeze it and take up valuable freezer room.  Canning is also too expensive for just the three of us. 

As a busy mom of two, I often think of jarred sauce as a welcomed shortcut.  I often mix in fresh spinach and cheese to add in extra nutrition.  I agree about the bottled water…but like most people it is a convenience item that is easy to stash in your purse on your way out the door.  My son has a water bottle for school that is washed every night that his school mandated to save the environment.  The fancy frozen veggies are overpriced, but on occasion it’s nice to have something premade that steams in the bag to seal in vitamans and nutrients that could be lost in the saute process. As for tea, a good recipe for guests is 8 bags black tea brewed and chilled, in a large punch bowl add 4 cups OJ & 4 cups pineapple juice.  Premade burgers are better for serving larger crowds becuase they cook more evenly, but for a quiet dinner I often mix in cheese and mushrooms to make hand pressed patties.  Rice seasoned sides are cheap and easy…why try to re-invent the wheel here? Over 60% of americans are considered obese by their BMI (body mass index.)  This has significantly risen over the past 50 years due to many changing conditions: the size of the dinner plate has actually increased by 2″ in circumfrence, we tend to eat faux diet food instead of just healthy food in moderation, most households are dual income and no one wants to cook after a hard days work, going out to eat used to be a special occasion but now in this instant gratification society where everything is more accessible to the masses crossing economic/class boundries…so fast food that offers mcrib sandwiches to other dining options that offer a rack of ribs for $10.99 only adds to the temptation that is the “American dream” peddled to us by sly advertising and celebrity endorsements.  Diet has become a pill, instead of a healthy walk around the neighborhood.

Make your own fresh tomato sauce throw into freezer bags ,add what ever when you defrost and save lots of $ plus the flavor will knock your socks off.

Some of these things don’t take into account certain reasons for buying something. I don’t buy canned anything because of the BPA in the liners of the cans, and tomato products are the worst for absorbing that. So it’s either fresh or jar. Ice cream is another one, I buy the brands that are made with antibiotic and hormone free milk which is usually more expensive. However, I get the point of the article.

worst list ever.

I do like to cook. And yes i like to know what is in the food. Making food is like making love. No effort,, no reward. think about that.

The author thinks Hagen das tastes the same as bargain brands? Author has no credibility.

Time is money thats why we cut the corners

Salads in a bag: no waste! Buying all the ingredients separately can be pricey, and buying a head of iceberg is always a gamble. Maybe half of the iceberg I have bought meets my standards.

First off let me start by saying Micky D’s was never meant to be a way of life, but as an occasional break. I just want to set the record straight. Wealthy and upper class people tend to eat more unhealthy junk food then the lower class. Mostly because they can and it’s a luxury.

 She suggested buying “Nursery Water” for your baby to drink in the bottle.  Does anyone realize that they put flouride in nursery water?? In every other civilized country, they treat flouride the way it should be treated… as a poison….which it definitely is.

“It’s painful to watch someone actually pay $6 for a gallon of designer brand ice cream.”  Really????  I think you mean $6 a pint, right?  I wish it was $6/gal.

If you eat canned tomatoes, you eat BPA, an endocrine disruptor.  To avoid this, eat either Eden Organic canned tomatoes (the only canned food company at this point that makes BPA-free cans), continue buying sauce in glass, or make your own from scratch.  Good article otherwise.

Duh, make everything from scratch.  What a ridiculous non-informative piece of fluff.

As for Ice Cream there is only certain brands I can eat. Kemps and other cheaper brands so kill my stomach. But Blue Bunny doesn’t hurt my stomach at all. I do look for sales though and it may still be more expensive but I feel good after eating it.

As for Ice Cream there is only certain brands I can eat. Kemps and other cheaper brands so kill my stomach. But Blue Bunny doesn’t hurt my stomach at all. I do look for sales though and it may still be more expensive but I feel good after eating it.

“Individual servings of anything” help with portion control. Of course, you’re paying for packaging.

I don’t trust drinking tap water, even with a water softener.  You never know how much and how many chemicals are being used to treat the water, especially if it’s city water.  I will continue to buy bottled water, and recycle the bottles, as I have been.  

Pasta sauce is the only one I’d argue against on this list, too.

First of all, let’s look at quantity. A can of tomatoes may cost between $0.60 and $1.20 depending on brand for approximately 14 – 15 ounces of tomato product (including very runny juice). A jar of pasta sauce will cost between $1.75 and $7.00 for 25 ounces of product, with the “high end” price being for the really fancy-pants stuff. So, taking into account the difference in size (15 oz. vs. 25 oz.), the difference in price isn’t that great. Now, remember that crushed tomatoes are THINNER. To make a decent sauce, you’ll need to cook it down. You lose volume. Or you’ll need to add tomato paste.

On sale, you can get most common name brands for less than $2.00, easily. Doctor them up with some extra spices and a splash of cheap red wine, and voila!

Second, if you’re going to use up fresh tomatoes to make sauce, please note how much THOSE cook down. I make fresh pasta sauce (delicious!) in the summer when my tomato plants produce more than I can eat, and I freeze it for the winter, but any other time of year? Even the cheapest tomatoes on sale in the winter (roma tomatoes) are at least $1 per pound. Expect those to cook down at least 50% volume to get a decent sauce, maybe more. So we’re looking at a minimum of $2 per 16 ounces of sauce, and that’s before you add any seasonings. And honestly, if you’ve made pasta sauce, you know how much it cooks down.

And third is a major health concern. I’m a biologist, and I’ve been studying this sort of thing for years. The thin plastic linings of food cans contains bisphenol-A (BPA), which is being regarded more and more as unsafe for human consumption. It’s an endocrine disrupter, interfering with the hormone balance in the human body, mimicking estrogen, and interfering with many hormone pathways. There’s evidence to show that it may contribute to obesity, cause certain types of cancer, cause neurological problems, cause problems in developing fetuses, interfere with thyroid hormone function, and possibly even contribute to heart disease. To put it into common terminology, it REALLY messes up your hormones. And hormones mess with EVERYTHING. (Go look it up for yourself.) Tomatoes are really acidic, and are amongst the worst foods for causing the BPA to leech out of the plastic and into the food.

The problem with BPA and tomatoes ONLY happens in CANNED tomatoes. A glass jar has no plastic lining. Therefore, pasta sauces in JARS and fresh tomatoes won’t have this chemical in them. Is avoiding this chemical worth an extra $0.25 per plate of pasta? I think so. I used to love canned tomatoes. I put them in everything. Cheap and very tasty. No fat. And you can get salt-free ones. I thought it was a win-win. Now… forget it. I won’t continue doing that to my body.

So… decide for yourself, but I don’t think pasta sauce belongs on this list.

Bottled water: I just picked up a 35 bottle pack of purified water at Costco, 16.9 oz each, for $3.75. That works out to about eleven cents per bottle. I usually don’t buy bottled water, but I find it is a ready and helpful alternative to calorie and sugar laden soft drinks, and at these prices it’s not expensive at all.

Yes, I have water bottles for filling up from the filtered and chilled refrigerator door dispenser, but too often I don’t have one handy when I need a quick bit of hydration.

But no, I don’t buy bottled water from a vending machine. Then you really can pay $1 or more for something you can get for 1/10th the cost if you plan ahead.
 

I love how people blame Mcdonalds and other fast food places. Nobody is forced to go to fast food places you make a choice to go. Common sense people, dont take your kids out to eat everyday once in a while is fine. My kids eat fast food sometimes a couple times a week other times not for a few weeks. People are just freakin lazy and let their kids eat junk all the time then they wonder why their kids are so fat

#8: Tap water as good as bottled water??…depends on the brand.

I’ve went to my city’s homepage and examined the tap water quality report…it’s outrageous! About 20-30 different cancer causing chemicals in significant quantities like benzene and toluene. I can barely drink half a glass it tastes terrible…I buy a 4L bottle of spring water that last me 2 days…50 cents per day for clean healthy drinking water big deal…I’ll pay it…

Six dollars a gallon for ice cream is not overly expensive.  It takes nearly three of the most common size containers (48 ounces) to make a gallon.  Even the least expensive store brands cost over $2 a carton or about $6 a gallon.

These are time-based cheapeners.  If you have the TIME, then these are cheaper. If you don’t, then they’re more expensive and less likely to occur because they take TIME to make. 

There’s also quantity. 

On that list: trail mix.  I don’t want to try to buy a bag of almonds AND a bag of raisins AND a bag of chocolate AND a bag of banana chips AND mango AND AND AND.  To get them to even out and be worth eating is $30 of big bags of stuff that makes a TON of trail mix. 

I just want… a bag of trail mix.  So what if it’s $6?  My $30 cheaper-by-the-pound stuff ‘ll go bad before I can eat it!

Same with croutons and salad. Same with a couple other things on there.  $30 trail mix is more expensive for a single person than $6 trail mix that happens to be more expensive by the pound.  :) 

So, you say don’t buy canned veggies, except when you buy acidic canned tomatoes to make pasta sauce instead of buying jarred pasta sauce…the inconsistency and lack of science is maddening.

Right, don’t drink water from a bottle.  Drink it from the tap, where it’s poisoned with fluoride and a potpourri of prescription drugs that weren’t filtered out because local treatment centers have faced budget cuts for a decade so we can afford the “war on terror”. 

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

Why isn’t bottled soda on the list?…I mean, it is far better to buy bottled water than bottled soda..why attack water, at least it’s good for you :-)

No, canned tomatoes cost more than that, in the amount of a jar.  I know, because I make my own sauce all the time. (From my own tomatoes, if I can).  Other things on this list are ridiculous.  There is a difference in the quality of ice creams, for example.  

The local govt’s around here (NY and PA) are forcing kids to bring individually packaged snacks and food items to school if they pack their own lunches. I think all this is, is a way to force parents to give Big Business more $$$ and impinges on a person’s alleged “American Freedom”.

I think the convenience of well-made pasta sauce is worth the additional price.  Living in Minnesota, fresh tomatoes are often cardboard tasting because they were picked green and shipped here to turn red in transit.  There is a very short growing season.  I know from my travels in Italy, that Italians make a lot of their sauces from canned tomatoes.  If I find a pasta sauce that consistently tastes good, uses fresh ingredients, and is available quickly when I need it, I do not hesitate to spend the money.  Now, if you are talking something like cake mixes, that contain tons of unnecessary ingredients and save almost no time, then you have something to eliminate.  Once I made my own homemade angel food cake, I will never go back…

I buy spring water by the case (24). It’s 20 cents a bottle, than I go and buy the large pour spout containers and refill the empty bottle for easy transport. It tastes much better than filtered tap water, and if it was shipped in Humvee’s and packaged in 40 pounds of non-biodegradable plastics, I would buy it anyways.

Gotta love the “tomato-based pasta sauce” one…  Why bother paying $2 for that jar, when with only an investment of an hour or so (between cutting up items and simmering) you can save ONE WHOLE DOLLAR!!!!  This is especially true during the summer, when you could be outside playing or otherwise spending time with your family for that hour… all for a buck.

What an irresponsible article. Don’t buy bottled water? Seriously? Fracking is a huge issue in my area. Don’t buy power bars/energy bars? What about those that understand carbs and sugar and arent going to go overboard. A better statement would have been to say dont buy candy bars and learn how to read nutrition labels.  Individual servings of things are a necessity for people who actually pay attention to their health. Having a giant bag of chips infront of you makes you eat a giant bag of chips. Who, besides me, counts out a serving and then eats what the serving is without wanting more? Not to mention that the picture itself is misleading. People cant just store away junk food without eating it, its just not possible.

I’m no expert, but I don’t think you are supposed to drink distilled water all of the time. It strips the body of minerals and causes malabsorbtion of nutrients. Further, it can raise the acidity in ones body and cause other problems. Distilled water is only to be consumed for short periods of time to detox the body. Therefore, buy purified water not distilled.

I sure hope they don’t say stevia is now not good for ya any time soon. I use it in the tea that I make but find I don’t use as many tea bags as they say to use I either just dump the bags in there and bring to a slow boil or just get some water and put the bags in there a few hours no boiling, no sun. I figured if some people reuse the same tea bag twice when they make tea why am I starting out with double the amount of tea bags? Anyway, stevia is a natural sweetner for those that do not know. It does not taste like sugar and I find I use 1/2 packet per 16- 20 oz of water. Some people I know use a whole one. It takes getting used to like sugar substitutes but it’s suppose to be better for ya. Now if I only found a way to like running.

The stuff coming out of my tap clogged up my coffee maker. I refill gallon jugs at Wal-Mart and that doesn’t happen.

Some of the individual servings items are great for kids lunches & definite time savers. Here is why I started buying them.
For example: I bought nuts and fruits, then I got scissors and cut up the dried fruits (apricots, pears, pineapple & apples), then I used a knife and cut up the walnuts & pecans.  Time is precious as a single parent working two jobs, and that process took me too long.

Next I started purchasing trail mix and portioned it out in small baggies. I got tired of buying baggies since they never made it home in the lunch boxes. (yes I reuse baggies). When Trader Joe’s came out with portioned controlled trail mixes I found the price difference wasn’t all that much, and is so convenient
. (I still do portion out trail mixes every other ).

Making lunches consists of grabbing a trail mix, a bag of chips, fruit roll-up, protein bar, fresh fruit, then making a sandwich. The night before, reused water bottles, 2 per kid, go into the freezer with filtered water from the faucet. Because of the fuss over reusing water bottles, I only use them for a week before getting out the new ones.
I also buy frozen fruit bars on sale, protein bars for 15 yr old son on sale, individual salad kits (at Costco). Tomato pasta sauce for $1, not $2-6.

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The person who wrote this article should not advice giving distilled water to babies. Distilled water does not have any mineral which are of most important to the human body.Distilled water is good for the drug companies and good for batteries and to put in irons to avoid rust.

I don’t think people who go for fast food and quick mixes in the supermarket are lazy. I think they are tired. Everyone wants a quick fix because life is so hectic. 

I buy spaghetti sauce at around $1 a can or jar, and then add garlic and herbs to give it better flavor.  The crushed tomatoes version tastes great, but when I have hungry kids to feed, an hour of simmering is usually too long to wait!

Here’s why I get pre-made salads; I’m a single guy. Sure – I could buy a head of lettuce, a cucumber, a bunch of little roma tomatoes, etc… and most of it would go bad before I ate it.

Sometimes convenience is worth it.

making your own tomato sauce is cheap and easy.

can make large batches, and freeze.

way cheaper, way tasterier (especially if not frozen before eating).  and you might learn a thing or two about cooking.

time is the important thing here…

This is lame, I thought it would be more about health reasons to avoid foods. Saving 2 bucks on a grocery bill? How does that even matter?

Be careful about using distilled water. I heard that it takes the nutrients out of one’s body.

Drknight63 I NEVER go to McDonalds!  I can’t stand their “food”.   But I still weigh Too Much!   Don’t blame McDonalds.  You can eat too much at home, too.   And we don’t even go down the grocery store aisles that sell the boxed convenient foods.  We go around the perimeter of the aisles and buy fresh produce, meats, dairy, and cook everything from scratch.  We still got fat.   But we sure can’t blame boxed rice, or McDonalds for this!  McDonalds doesn’t come to your house and force-feed you!  LOL

‘Nother way of saying YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

It’s easy for you to say drink tap water, but here in Maryland my tap water literally smells like feces on occasion, I can’t even bring myself to brushing my teeth with it, let alone drink it.

While on the way for a long train trip to Chicago, a buddy purchased a sandwich from a vending machine in a hot train station in Fort Worth (the old one).  I told him to wait until we got to Dallas and buy one from Subway or on the Amtrak train.  I waited and when the Silver Eagle showed up, I made my way to the snack car.  I bought a freshly made ham sandwich.  So we made the overnight trip to Chicago and check into our hotel.  We went out to eat at a favorite restaurant on the Mile and returned to the room.  Around 3 AM my buddy told me to call 911 as he was very sick. Chicago FD showed up and took him to University ER.  I took my camcorder along because I had all kinds of neat shots of scenes from ER, Fugitive, and John Hughes movies.  So they found he had severe food poisoning and dehydration.  He spent a day in hospital and then they released him to finish out the week in the hotel bed.  Rule #1, don’t buy a sandwich from a machine.

Not accurate, the Japanese have always eaten white rice, earliest wood carvings depict it