I get tons of emails with tips for this and that. Normally I put most of them in the virtual trash bin pretty quickly. However, one caught my eye the other week. Having worked my way through college behind an ice cream counter, I’ve made my share of banana splits. I even remember the way we [...]
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Finding a good name for a company and/or website has got to be one of the hardest things. We’ve been through the process several times. One Smart Shopper remembers one high tech company he worked for a long time ago, had to come up with a name for a new generation of an old product. So [...]
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The origin of the Caesar Salad is probably the most discussed and controversial of any other salad. (Well, we don’t argue as to where the Caprese salad originated, right?) For this salad, all roads lead to Tijuana, Mexico — and a lesson on how family and community shape our food.
Julia Child helped to substantiate where [...]
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Following our community philosophy that shopping, product and food information should come from a variety of good and reliable sources. We read, partner and admire several blogs and web sites available on the Internet today. So we’ve created Wiz Way which highlights several of these sites so you can benefit from them too.
We open with [...]
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We generally are an up-beat group of folks here at SmartshopIt so it’s not like us to begin an article by espousing the bad news that comes with the bad news. Yet, one of the unfortunate side effects of bad news is that we get inundated with more news, articles and editorials detailing every little aspect of [...]
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We were discussing the chicken and egg paradigm the other day in a planning meeting and I thought, wouldn’t it be fitting if our first grocery food article was about this little oval miracle? Eggs are one of God’s great inventions; the first self-packaged food. Yep, the inception of the grocery store! So, what are some things to [...]
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It is sort of fitting that we are choosing this Independence Day weekend to launch this new blog. This blog is dedicated to help us become less dependent on the high prices at the stores when buying our every day grocery and sundry items. Visit the “About SmartShopIt” page for more information about our mission.
Boy! We’re smarting at the size [...]
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