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Yahoo Finance profiles several "extreme" savers, folks who call saving money a passion and go to unconventional lengths to stretch their dollars. For example, to save on rising food costs:Uber saver Mike Hegarty, a CPA in Des Moines, Iowa, says he saves $500 a year on meat by purchasing whole animals from local farms. In case you've never done it and you're having a hard time visualizing it in your garage, when you buy a quarter of a cow from a local farm, a butcher cuts it into the familiar hamburger, flank and sirloin steaks and packages it for you. An extra bonus: Local farms often raise all-natural or even organic beef, pork and chicken.The article highlights other unorthodox tips for saving money on retail, automobiles, charity, commuting and housing, phone service, and travel. If you've got an extreme saver tip of yo read more »
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Food blog Lunch in a Box has a brilliant, simple tip for freezing meat in small portions easily and without wasting too much plastic wrap. First put the food into a large freezer bag and press it out as flat as possible, eliminating air pockets. (Making it thin speeds up defrost time due to the increased surface area, and pressing out excess air guards against freezer burn.) Use a long chopstick or ruler to create divisions within the food, forming individual portions. This way when you freeze the entire bag, you'll be able to quickly break off just as much as you want to use, no more. If you don't have chopsticks handy, any straight edge will work, like a ruler.Speed tip: Make individua read more »
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With so many organic options available to shoppers, how do you know when it really matters? We've highlighted the top five foods worth buying organic, but the Greenopolis blog goes a step further. Increase your savings by checking out their food rankings from highest to lowest pesticide concentrations, and how to properly store your organic produce to minimize spoilage. For example, bananas are a bad organic buy, since the pesticide resides in the skin and we don't eat the skin. On the other hand organic meat is free from antibiotics, added hormones, and human growth hormones which from a health standpoint is a terrific buy. Photo by mckaysavage< read more »
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(Reuters) - Meat
found on grocery store shelves often contains high levels of bacteria,
with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of
antibiotics, a study released on Friday said.
The meat is still safe to eat
but consumers should take precautions especially in handling and
cooking, the chief researcher for the study said.
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Almost half the meat and poultry sold in the US is contaminated by
highly dangerous bacteria, according to new research published in the
scientific journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A reported 47 percent of the meat and poultry that research US
supermarket shelves is thought to contain staphylococcus aureus (Staph),
a bacteria that is not only linked to a number of human diseases, but
is also resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics.
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