‘Respect the Rotisserie Chicken'
'Respect the rotisserie chicken.' A reader wrote to me last week with that gem of a sentence, and I want to put it on hats and tote bags.
I'd asked you all for your cost-saving strategies in these dizzyingly expensive times. You replied en masse, with fascinating emails that detailed your grocery-shopping and cooking habits and shared a glimpse into your lives, whether you're in Alaska or Australia (both represented) or, most likely, somewhere in between.
My colleagues Allison Jiang and Sharon Attia pulled your tips into this article, which is full of excellent advice. Take a look, leave comments, tell us more.
Some of you are buying in bulk and going to the store less often. But — counterintuitively! I like it! — some of you are doing the exact opposite, shopping more often and buying less in each go. That way, you buy only what you need in that moment and avoid food waste from ignored groceries — the most expensive choice of all.
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