Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks

Okay, everyone, lift your hands up if you think eating healthy is expensive? Just look at those bio protein bars that cost an arm or a leg or take a cleansing smoothie that’s basically a farewell to your weekly rent. With takeaway meals priced as low as $1, no wonder we think of legumes and stuff as somewhat of a modern world’s luxury.

But one pro chef who goes by the Reddit handle u/Aichliss has done everyone a public service and listed all the ways to hack the grocery store. Point by point, the chef listed game-changing things we should all know before and while shopping in order to eat cheap, healthy and well. As you suspect, there's no ready-made frozen chicken curry in there.

So get your notebooks, everyone, we are about to do groceries, but the smart way. Like proper adults.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Frozen fruit and veg is great, mostly. Maybe dodge the chopped carrots and corn a lot of us ate growing up or find in bad takeout Chinese food, but hey - grab that bag of frozen berries or peas and throw ‘em in anything that warrants it. Technology for frozen produce has improved dramatically in the last few decades, and we should capitalize on that.

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Final score:

118points

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Bill Evs 2 years ago

Couldn't agree more with this. There's absolutely nothing wrong with frozen fruit and veg. In fact a lot of the time the frozen varieties in supermarkets have a much higher nutritional value than the fresh stuff (as the "fresh" stuff is usually anything but), last longer and are much cheaper.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks I say this because in modern western culture eating meat every day is seen as normal. This is an oddity when we examine all of human history, and this notion should be abandoned if we’re trying to live more affordably. Meat is grossly overrepresented in most diets, and you should always ask if you could cut your portion of meat down in exchange for more vegetables and grains.

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Final score:

112points

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Bill Evs 2 years ago

I've never understood some peoples obsession with having meat for every meal. I'm not a vegetarian but my diet is "meat light" in that I'll have it a few times a week. I think it's a throw back to past generations who had to make do without it so meat became sort of a luxury item (especially in the post war years) and that ingrained belief has been passed down through each generation.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Not because they’re bad for you - just because of their jacked prices. Not to mention oftentimes the industries surrounding them are ethical nightmares. Don’t get me started on avocado cartels and the impact of quinoa farming on low-income South American communities. In reality, most grains and cereals have a lot of nutrients and minerals, and they’re often overlooked. Learn the nutrition facts, and make decisions accordingly. Google and online databases are your friends, here.

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Final score:

109points

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John Baker 2 years ago

There's no such thing as a "superfood." It's all a bunch of hype designed to get you to spend your money.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Buy these dried as often as possible. Keep a stock of beans, lentils, and dried chickpeas around if you can. They’re cheap, almost always available, and virtually imperishable. As such, assuming you don’t throw them out and keep them properly stored, buying these is a 100% return on your investment.

Legumes are one of the most versatile options in your kitchen. As long as you soak them and put them in the fridge before you go to bed they’ll be available the next day to cook quickly. These are the best thing to have if you’re looking to stretch a meal because of their nutrient density and the fact that they’re just damn delicious on their own.

Look into middle-eastern and African cuisine for creative ways to use these ingredients. Some really common examples are lentil curry, hummus, falafels, and putting chickpeas in a shakshuka. This isn’t a recipe post, so look up how to make them yourself - some grandma has a better (and probably even cheaper) recipe than I do.

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101points

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Lyone Fein 2 years ago

Lentils rule!

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks I know it’s cheap. I KNOW you like how easy it is. I don’t give one flying f**k. It’s awful for you, it isn’t cheaper than a bowl of rice with soy sauce, a fried egg, and some frozen peas, and it’ll kill you slowly. Just don’t, and ignore anyone’s advice about how it got them through college. Hell, if anyone’s advice involves doing what they did in college, take it with a grain of salt. There’s good advice sometimes, and a LOT of bad.

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90points

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F. H. 2 years ago

Tell that to the students without kitchens.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Good fresh and better canned. Use fresh tomatoes raw for whatever you want and use canned tomatoes for sauces. Buy canned tomatoes with as little added salt and sugar as possible.

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Final score:

88points

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Earl Grey 2 years ago (edited)

Grow your own if you can, even if all you have is a patio or balcony. There are hundreds of varieties to suit any circumstance or microclimate.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. There’s always a bin of some forgotten veggie no-one eats for some reason. In the west, at least, it seems to often be rutabagas/turnips. I’ve also seen apples in the fall, corn, and cabbages fall into this category. This is because of a good harvest, or because of a lack of consumer interest - any time this happens, capitalize on it. Everything is delicious if you cook it properly. Buy seasonally, and learn how to use the things you buy. You’ll eat like a king and pay like a pauper.

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77points

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Martha Meyer 2 years ago

I discovered turnips last year and wondered why I never knew them before. Delicious!

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks BARLEY, also, is amazing, but for other reasons. It’s high in protein and iron, and can help dramatically improve your nutrient intake for very little cost. In soups, roasted in tea (thanks Korea), and used in tandem with rice, it can go a very, very long way in making your diet a more sustainable one in times of austerity and plenty, alike.

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Final score:

75points

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Martha Meyer 2 years ago

I'll add millet and buckwheat here. Good relatively unknown grains.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks A chicken isn’t just 8 portions of meat - it’s also bones and carcass for a stock or soup, fat to be rendered out and used as a cooking oil (thanks, jewish folks!), and skin to be cooked down into delicious little chips. This same list can be used for pork, beef, and any other mammal you eat.

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Final score:

71points

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Robert T 2 years ago

By 8 portions, he means 2 drumsticks, 2 thighs, 2 wings and 2 breasts. See: https://youtu.be/_UyyLRqah3E

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks All of this information is fundamentally more useful if you know how to cook. Not knowing how to cook is a luxury afforded to those with the means to afford living in ignorance of this most basic human skill. You are living outside your means if you live in a well-off country, don’t make a least $60k a year, and can’t cook.

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71points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

It should be taught at school, just the basics.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Buy them fresh and store them in dry, enclosed spaces, and buy tomatoes canned and without salt added. Use onions in almost everything, they’re delicious, cheap, and nutritious.

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Final score:

68points

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JuJu 2 years ago

Onion soup, onion gratin, stuffed onions, onion relish, onion sauce...hmmmmm

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks I know Starbucks is delicious. Guess what? You can find a recipe for every drink they make online, and then make it better. Some restaurants literally survive because they can sell coffee at a nearly 2000% markup. Truck stop diners and high-end coffee shops do this. I recommend making cold brew the night before, since you literally just have to strain it in the morning rather than brewing a pot.

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68points

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Martha Meyer 2 years ago

Starbucks is "delicious"...? Erm...

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks If you want a drink, I recommend doing it less often and drinking the good stuff. If you like the cheap stuff that’s fine, “good stuff” is all relative anyway. Just drink less and focus on quality over quantity, whatever your preferences are.

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Final score:

67points

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Kay blue 2 years ago

Yeah the 3 litre bottle of white lightning cider will get you drunk but it won't be a pleasant experience.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Generally when you buy produce you should go, in order, to the discount rack, then the sales, and then everything else. Someone out there has a recipe for literally everything, and some of them are even good. A pepper with a blemish or tiny spot of mold is still fine, assuming you cut away the blemish or tiny spot of mold.

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Final score:

57points

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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

Unless you really hate the vegetable or fruit in question, in which case, don't force yourself to eat it b/c it's cheap. You won't like it any better. (Kohlrabi, looking at *you*.)

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks If you’re gonna buy it I recommend buying less of it less often, and buying the good stuff when you do. Kraft block cheese only costs as little as it does because it’s the by-product of the real money-maker: whey protein production. If you’re gonna buy cheese, please support a real cheesemaker. The cheese lover in you will be happier for it.

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Final score:

56points

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Laugh or not 2 years ago

Cheese is a luxury? I am sorry, but you are what you eat, and at this stage I am pretty sure I am 40% cheese. And as a French person, I assure you it is real, good cheese.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks RICE is amazing, as most know already, but seriously - it’s one of the most important crops in the world. It’s kept civilizations alive on its back for all of recorded history, and it’ll keep you alive, too. There is no better “fill me up” food I can think of. Wait for those huge sacks of rice to go on sale (it happens pretty frequently), then buy 2. They last forever. Ideally grab long-grain rice if you’re just looking for a side-dish or fried rice base, but in a pinch short grain’ll do; it’s just less forgiving and the starches don’t retrograde as fully so when you cool it it doesn’t keep as nicely.

KEEP IN MIND that rice is pure carbs. It’s a good base, but you need other stuff to go with it or else you’ll be deficient in nutrients and feel awful all the time. Trust me from experience - college me went through a raw-egg-on-rice phase, and it wasn’t pretty.

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Final score:

55points

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Who - me? 2 years ago (edited)

One word - bugs. I have on more than one occasion bought a 1 or 2 pound bag of rice at a regular chain grocery (not a discount outlet or dollar store) and opened it when I got home to find small "worms" inside. Followed by a trip to return it to the store. If you do buy rice in bulk, keep it in an airtight container.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Like, as an industry. Not many people know their fish, and fish processing companies know that and capitalize on it. I always tell people who like fish to buy fresh and whole, and to learn how to pick good fish. Buying cheap processed fish products is akin to asking to be ripped off, to harm the environment, and to accumulate toxins in your body, all at the same time. To not get completely F-ed over by what is maybe the worst food industry in the world you need to know your fish, know the company you’re buying from, and know who’s doing the fishing. Good luck, and please try not to contribute to the death of our water ecosystems. (A good trick is that if you can afford fish when you’re poor and you don’t live beside a large body of water, you almost certainly DON’T WANT IT.)

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Final score:

50points

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Robert T 2 years ago

If is smells, it isn't fresh. And buying it ready filleted at the supermarket is not a problem. However fresh fish is not cheap.

32points

Eucritta 2 years ago

I tell people, a shop with really fresh fish should just smell like green grass.

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lenka 2 years ago (edited)

Yes! There is a mobile fish market that comes to our local supermarket every Friday. There is always a huge line. Someone told me I was a food snob because I said I would NEVER eat fish from there, but you can seriously smell it from a mile away. I love fish, but not from there. Not ever.

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Allison Kerpash 2 years ago

The only way to get fresh fish in the flyover states is to catch it yourself. Fresh saltwater fish won't make the 14 hour drive from the coast to Missouri without being frozen.

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Tee Witt 2 years ago

I literally lived with 500 m. from the sea near a small village. I asked where fish could be bought and was told to get a rod and line. I could not believe they did not catch their own for sale.

2points

Pena Perkele 2 years ago

I'm poor and I will buy fish from the store when I want it. Also, I will eat fish sticks and other frozen fish things when I feel like it. We have really good quality foods here in Finland though.

2points

Trisec 2 years ago

Don't buy "fresh" fish unless you live within 25 miles of the coast. Otherwise, it was likely frozen somewhere along the way to your market.

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Katherine Heasley 2 years ago

Eh, freezing isn't a crime against fish. It's a method of keeping it fresh. I periodically buy frozen fish from a merchant here in the Midwest who shills good seafood, and it's still good.

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Eiram 2 years ago

As someone who knows the life cycles of the six different salmon in North America, I love fresh fish. I love it enough to say, if you can't get it from the water yourself, buy it CANNED! I still cry when I see the horrible conditions of "fresh" filets in stores. The taste/texture is gone. Canned/jarred is great for flavor retention, quality, sanitation, storage, and respectful to the animal because it limits waste.

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Grady'sRaider 2 years ago

Fresh Atlantic salmon is the best for me.

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ZAPanda 2 years ago

buy at the coast or catch your own. Anything in a box is going to be dodgy and smelly.

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Kathryn Nolan 4 months ago

I live on a river that runs into the Irish Sea and our fresh fish is beautiful. My sons grew up eating garlic mussels when their pals had sausages or chicken nuggets. Cockles, winkles, they'd eat a whole baked mackerel each, salt cod for Sunday breakfast, kedgeree and fish pie with squid and prawns. The elder boy was obsessed with smoked salmon and gulped oysters aged 5, whilst the younger preferred razor clams in tomato and garlic and would swallow a plate of 12" ones and ask for more.

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SelkieBlackfysh 2 years ago

I'm a fish freak so I can easily ID a lot of fish, even common game and feed fish from the sea. I'll get mad a lot of the time seeing fish listed as something they're not and sold at that price. Like the time and was at a Mexican market and they were trying to sell tilapia as mahi mahi.

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Bob K 2 years ago

I give a piece to my cat, if he walks away then so do I.

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Paul Beebe 2 years ago

If I walk in to a store and can smell the seafood department, I'm out. Fresh seafood doesn't stink.... Also, DON'T BUY ANY FROZEN SEAFOOD FROM CHINA.... SUper sketchy....

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Katherine Heasley 2 years ago

I'm a fish snob. I grew up in Alaska, and it spoils you for anything else. Now I'm living in the Midwest, and the fish here . . . *grumble*. Is Atlantic salmon that has to be dyed pink really salmon at all?

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Jaybird3939 2 years ago

Living on the Calif. coast, I've quite a bit of experience picking fish. NEVER buy krab or krab salad! I don't know what that stuff is, but even the canned crab is better than that! If you get fresh, it shouldn't smell fishy, it should smell like the ocean.

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Riley Quinn 2 years ago

Remember when we all thought farm-raised fish was the way to go only to find out it isn't?

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Grady'sRaider 2 years ago

No smell and clear eyes for best fresh fish.

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Miraculous Klutz 2 years ago

Fishing is great. If I ever eat fish, I (or the fam) catches it, or we go to the fish show with is across the road from the sea, who catch their own.

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cucumbermuffins 2 years ago (edited)

The human salmon fishing industry is directly causing the deaths of orca whales. It futher boggles the mind that any human would find it acceptable to not only eat an endangered animal but also that said endangered animal is a required food source for another endangered animal. If this was involving any of the "majest" land animals, none of this would be acceptable, but somehow it's ok when it's fish and whales.

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Katherine Boag 2 years ago

U: fresh fish isnt cheap Me: literally on an island

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My Name Is Mars 2 years ago

I'm so happy that I live so close to the ocean and in a place with plentiful lakes, rivers, and bays. Fish is one of my favorite things and my brother goes fishing and crabbing whenever he can. It saves us a lot of money.

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lucy dale 2 years ago

this is why all the fish i eat is from us fishing (i live in a place w/lots of water so this is possible) i only remember eating store bought like,, once?

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Martha Meyer 2 years ago

Most people live nowhere near a coast and can't buy fresh fish, so what to do?

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Out of chocolate 2 years ago

They might have access to a good fishmonger in their area. It’s a little pricey but the one near me (In Nebraska) gets his fish flown in three times a week right from his brother in Maine. I’m from Boston and fish/clams/etc has always been my go to protein so this was a lifesaver. That being said, I live in the city. Rural areas are screwed here.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks IF YOU EAT MEAT, buy the least processed cuts you can. Whole chickens, meat on the bone, and ground meats are your best friends. Go to butcher shops, if you can. Freezing meat is fine, but try to avoid buying pre-made frozen protein options. Get raw product and do the work yourself to save a LOT of cash and get better food out of it.

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Final score:

46points

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Robert T 2 years ago

My gf has taken this to the extreme and actually plucked chickens after someone else has dispatched them. I prefer it is mine is ready portioned.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Chips, sugar cereals, premade salad dressings, sweet juice/pop, and processed foods like KD or tv dinners are not the way to go if you’re looking to get the most out of your dollar at the grocery store. They’re bad for you, they’re expensive relative to the cost of production, and they put a burden on your body that you’ll pay for down the line. Exceptions to this are staple sauces like a good soy sauce and fish sauce, grains and legumes, and canned veggies.

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Final score:

45points

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Caro Caro 2 years ago

When making a tomato sauce make plenty and freeze in portions. Use for a quick meal. Same with lasagne and other meals, make more and pop it in the freezer. It saves time and money.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks FLOUR is an essential staple, unless you’re celiac or gluten free - a topic on which I won’t speak because I’m confident anyone who has to deal with those issues knows more than I do. I recommend grabbing all-purpose flour due to its gluten content being a middle ground between low-gluten pastry flour and high-gluten bread flour. You can still use it to make bread, and it has a myriad other uses as a binder or thickener for sauces.

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Final score:

43points

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Martha Meyer 2 years ago

Modern day commercial refined wheat flour is a nutritional nightmare actually. It's worth looking into whole grain flours, other grains than wheat and generally less refined flours if you can get your hands on those. They cost more but it's not expensive.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Go for it, these things are nutrient bombs and they’re delicious. Buy them seasonally for the best value and if you have a day to do so, preserve them if you ever see a huge sale. I’m still enjoying lacto-fermented blueberries from last year’s insane blueberry harvest where I could buy a pint for a dollar.

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39points

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Auntriarch 2 years ago

Fermented blueberries? Hmmm.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks I generally have a personal aversion to all canned veggies and fruits except tomatoes, but that’s just my privilege speaking. If you want to buy them or if fresh produce is hard to come by, avoid getting anything with added salt or sugar. Cross-reference the nutrient info on the can with info from a fresh counterpart to avoid buying filler garbage, and try to find somewhere to live with better food accessibility. Alternatively, save up and make a killing by opening a fruit and vegetable market to remove the need to read this very ling post any further. (This is a joke and I recognize the struggle of those in impoverished communities with awful food accessibility.)

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Final score:

37points

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Earl Grey 2 years ago

Except for tomatoes, I’ve never had a canned vegetable that wasn’t mouth-searingly salty.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks Treat these as a starch option similar to grains or cereals. Buy them unprocessed, in a sack. Store them in dry, enclosed spaces.

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32points

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JuJu 2 years ago

NO! Potatoes are totally different from the other popular starch options. They are healthy as f*uck! And there are endless options for potato based meals. Potatoes are your friend.

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Pro Chef Gives 24 Grocery Shopping Tips And Tricks All the rules for proteins apply. Fish bones and crustacean shells for stock, fat deposits on the occasional salmonid for whatever you want, and fish skin, if it’s your cup of tea, for a lovely snack. Hell, fish organs and salt make up the base for a fermented fish sauce, if you really want to go the extra mile. Rome survived off of fish sauce and bread for longer than our society has been around. The one big difference between fish and meat is that frozen fish tends to suck relative to fresh in a much bigger way - both in terms of quality and retained nutrients. Put frozen fish in soups or curries, to avoid nutrient drain from the water that inevitably will leak out of your fish.

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Final score:

17points

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Marianne Saiso 2 years ago

What? no. Fish comes frozen off the trawler, so you buy it frozen and defrost slowly. Same goes for fish sticks. They're mostly made on the damn boat. Freshest you can get. Unless you can get locally fished fish, frozen is fine.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

Not bad tips, but the tone this person is handing out their tips with sounds so aggressive and upset that i simply don't want to read any of this, neither change my eating habits. It sounds like this person would just blame everyone for the way they eat just because they can.

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Shane S 2 years ago

I also found it a bit preachy but it’s also coming from an expert. The average home chef looking after a family doesn’t always have this level of time and energy to devote to shopping, prepping, cooking, and after-prep. I can tear down a chicken or chop and cook up a bunch of veggies for dinner but I don’t have 4 hours after dinner to make the bones and scraps into stock.

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Sue Grigg 2 years ago

This is written by someone with no worries about the grocery bill.

26points

Becky Samuel 2 years ago

Most of these lists forget one vital thing - the power bills. It's great telling people to cook more, but if you're watching the electricity on your meter go down by the minute, that's not a lot of help.

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Don't Look 2 years ago

This started okay and then by a third of the way through it was repetitive, judge mental and had lost its point.

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Bill Evs 2 years ago (edited)

Some really good tips here. My personal ones are; use your freezer - if you've got fruit or veg that needs using up but you have no use for it right now then freeze it. Also if you have any leftovers (especially stews, soups, etc) put them in a container and freeze them, instant home cooked meal at a later date. Also spend some time in the international aisle in the supermarket. In the UK you can find things like rice, lentils, sauces, tinned coconut milk, etc, much cheaper than the other, more common brands but it's exactly the same thing and you often get more of it.

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Joey Marlin 2 years ago

I love the international aisle in supermarkets!!

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

My biggest money saver is soup lol. Use left over bone, narrow, bits of meat left on the bones, the root ends of onion, the core from cabbage, the leafy tops from celery ....etc... to make stock. Use that stock to cook pretty much any veggies you have in the fridge that you don't think you'll have time to eat before they turn. Add potatoes if you want to "bulk it up" so it's more filling. It freezes wonderfully so you can store it quite a while. Great way to reduce waste and save money. Big bonus is that homemade soup so better than canned from the store!

4points

Huddo's sister 2 years ago

I love making soup. When I was younger I couldn't understand how my mum made it out of what she had without a recipe. Now I have a foundation soup recipe as a starting point for ratios of ingredients but am able to work more instinctively about what flavours go together etc.

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)

The parents of a friend of mine has 35 acres of property. They allow a woman to grow a massive variety of fruits and veges. It's winter now, so....but her first veges and fruit start in May. It's 10 minutes up the road. Fresh picked while you're standing there except for the potatoes. A little more expensive than the grocery store but it's completely fresh nutritional. I can hardly wait for getting it all from her now. His mom also does fresh eggs. Laid yesterday or the day before at the latest. Actually cheaper than the store. Also fresh honey. Again, a little more expensive, but right from there. I got some last of the year carrots pulled while I was standing there. Wow! That's what a carrot really tasts like? Who knew?

3points

J. Normal 2 years ago

Note as you say... MORE EXPENSIVE.. oh it is just a bit - so when I am just a bit short on my rent the landlord will understand that I needed raw honey

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Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago

One of the advice which i think is great is go local and small. For example, in India, we prefer to buy flours like wheat, etc. from a local flour mill or local business. It will be healthier. Though flour mills are diminishing, we have them. Get your flours milled from them. Even grains like rice or legumes, etc, get the local grocer. He or she will have better ones. Plus all of this is cost effective. In India, we keeps legumes so that we can make them more than once a week. That saves the veggies too. Plus, if made on a larger scale, it lasts for a day or two..

3points

Nicholas Kramer 2 years ago

About half of the tips are about the same things over and over again. Also, not every has time to do all these things. However, what I do like and agree with is buying frozen veggies, buying meat whole or on the bone, and basic portion control. Some of the comments made in the post may conflict with what a doctor has told a patient. Please so not take this person's advice 100% to heart. Oh, and I worked in the food industry for a decade so my advise is just as valid as this article.

2points

Becky Woodley 2 years ago

So I actually downloaded this app to comment because this has pissed me off that much! When you work 100 hours a weeks on minimum wage, and your just f*****g exhausted, but still have house work to do, washing and ironing and kids that don't want to eat anything that week other than nuggets but mum needs to scrap off every trace of bread crumbs.... I'm the friend that will come round and look after the kids for an hour so mum can have power nap, I'm the friend that will sit for an hour painstakingly picking every bit of whatever it is tonight that their 3 year old is refusing to eat dinner for... what I'm not, is a judgmental arsehole that thinks they have a magic potion as to how everyone should live! Seriously people, stop being arseholes

1point

Fareena Mehmood 2 years ago

Loved it, useful

0points

Mary Launer 2 years ago

This is a little to judgemental to be tips. Ok, mom, I get it

0points

Yara Balabanova 2 years ago

He keeps on telling poor people what they should do and how they should cook, in order to save money, even though he is clearly very privileged. When you are poor you don't have the time to make broth from bones, cook beans from dried, go to the supermarket everyday to get the cheapest fruit and veg, or even to cook an entire well-balanced meal everyday. So stop shaming people for choosing easy dinner options like instant ramen, maybe that's all that they have time/energy to make

0points

Shane S 2 years ago

We love our meat in America but I think our real problem is our love of carbs, with sugar of course being a carb. Lots of the recommendations here really tout the nutrition of carbs which we need to cut down on. Less potatoes, less white rice, less lentils. Meat isn’t bad. Processed meat is. I will admit that this is written by a chef and not a nutritionist. I am also not a nutritionist so feel free to challenge me.

0points

Paula Marowsky 2 years ago

You know this is a scam, right? You will be loosing a lot of money soon. Don't cry you were not warned

0points

Johnnie 2 years ago

This list is by a wanna-be "pro-chef" who is proudly a f*****g idiot.

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Zedrapazia 2 years ago

32points

Shane S 2 years ago

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Sue Grigg 2 years ago

This is written by someone with no worries about the grocery bill.

26points

Becky Samuel 2 years ago

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Don't Look 2 years ago

This started okay and then by a third of the way through it was repetitive, judge mental and had lost its point.

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Bill Evs 2 years ago (edited)

7points

Joey Marlin 2 years ago

I love the international aisle in supermarkets!!

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Aisling Raye 2 years ago

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Huddo's sister 2 years ago

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Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)

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J. Normal 2 years ago

Note as you say... MORE EXPENSIVE.. oh it is just a bit - so when I am just a bit short on my rent the landlord will understand that I needed raw honey

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