Categories: Shopping

• What Bottled Water Really Costs Us and How to Affordably Kick the Habit!

  I drink a lot of water. Actually, I don’t drink a whole lot of anything else. I like juice, milk and tea, but mostly, I’m drinking cool water all day long. Living in Houston, I know for SURE that my water is full of all kinds of crap. Of course I want to drink clean, fresh water, but I’ve never really been into buying it bottled. I hate the idea of spending lots of additional [...]

• De-mystifying the Ice Cream Aisle

  Ice Cream. Summer’s not summer without it, but chances are, your family eats it year round like mine does. You probably have a favorite brand and flavor, but if you’re like us, you’re all about trying new stuff when you see it in the freezer section! Buying ice cream is getting more complicated because of the terms on the box. Like… what does “Superpremium” mean? A good guess is “really super awesome”, but unfortunately, that’s [...]

• Need to eat Fish on Fridays? How to get the Freshest Catch!

  So I know that this time of year, folks are looking for fish recipes so that they can follow common Lent traditions. This is an older article, but I wanted to re-post it because I think that a lot of people may be looking for this kind of information right now. Buying fresh fish is crucial. Bad fish is a terrible experience all around, and you can avoid it all together.
  A lot of us are [...]

• OveGlove Review

  Do you like oven mitts? I’m not really a fan. My hands are really small, and oven mitts always seem to be so huge! The tips of the mitts always dip into my casserole dishes. They seem to have a spot where the seam is that lets heat in quickly, and I burn myself often. I guess it’s be more appropriate to say that I hate my oven mitts.
  I know you guys know [...]

• An Arguement for Reusable Grocery Bags- Kick the Plastic Habit!

  I got to the grocery store this morning without my reusable bags. SUPER bummed! I love to use my bags possibly even more than I HATE plastic bags. Wow. Is that possible? We all know how obnoxious the little plastic bags they shove everything into at the grocery store are. They break ALL the time, and you wind up coming home with so MANY! They are hard to carry when you have a [...]