We all are surrounded by convenience stores, such as 7-Eleven, but those do not provide real food. They have been implanted for professional microwavers or stopgap solutions. As students or young active workers, those places are great for a gallon of milk with a pack of cereal, not to prepare a real dinner. If you shop smart, two hours every ten days are enough to fill your fridge with healthy and tasty food at affordable price without ordering once.
Spread out nationally, different brands of supermarkets have been established in most American cities. On the East Coast, Shaws Supermarkets prevail. Customers can get anything they want rather cheaply. However, fruits and vegetables stay expensive.
Whole Foods is amazing for its selection of foreign products, cheese, all sorts of fresh bread, meat, and a variety of specific products, but it remains one of the most expensive supermarket. Trader Joes is the perfect mix between the previous two. It combines good products at great prices and for the most part is organic. When the three above are close enough to the place you live, excuses not to feed properly one’s self become hard to find.
Peapod.com has established itself as one of America’s leading Internet grocers. With a few clicks, your food gets delivered almost in your bed.
In a city like Boston, the Hay Market, close to Government Center is a fresh market where you can find great deals for fruits and vegetables. $1.50 for three avocados, or two pounds of oranges. And if you have a car, use it. Russo’s farmer’s market in Watertown, M.A., has a large selection of fresh food; anything from that goes from fruits and vegetables to cheese, soups and a variety of olive oils.
Also, we do not always think about restaurants that have “Fine Fast Food” corners, such as the Italian Restaurant Bottega Fiorentina on Newbury Street in Boston where you can ask for half a pound a thinly sliced prosciuto that will cost less than $5.
Small delicatessens are great places to bring fancy restaurant food home at a lower cost.
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