Tag Archives: Grocery shopping

Now available, grocery shopping on Facebook

by Guarav De WHAT’S HAPPENING Grocery shopping while social networking is now possible with Aaraamshop.com (literally translates to ‘relaxed shopping’). Through their Facebook page, this web-based service has enabled shoppers to utilise social media to do their grocery shopping (AFaqs.com, 16 June 2011). The Facebook application, currently in early testing stages, allows shoppers to order […]

THE DAILY BEAST

by Charlotte Beal I love food, but I hate my lifestage when it comes to food. I have a job, a picky preschooler, a Bjorn-saddled infant and a husband who doesn’t get home from work until late evening. The dinner ritual pretty much consists of me doctoring something in a mad dash, only to find […]

Signature Dish: List Making

by Charlotte Beal A colleague recently alerted me to Real Simple’s online series, “Time-Saving Tips for Busy Parents,” specifically the Supermarket Strategies story. It’s a mix of fairly “duh” tips like digging back in the produce and dairy sections for the freshest items and stooping to notice that the cheaper items are shelved on the […]

Signature Dish: Store choice, pulled pork and inadequacy

by Charlotte Beal Today, a word about my shopping strategies, and how they inform my dinner decisions. I toggle between Trader Joe’s and Ralphs (a typical supermarket in Southern California) with a ratio of about 2 to 1 – two weeks straight at Trader Joe’s because I like the adventurous spirit and the quality at […]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 96 other followers