BetterReport.com really blew the lid off grocery shopping with this one! Here are the items they thing the store does not want you think about: Jars with popped lids, leaky meat, pre-cut veggies, unpasteurized milk, microwaveable meals, frozen food with ice crystals and the real shocker: Smelly fish! Captain Obvious strikes again with a “No, Duh” article to fill the massive void known as the internet.
What about less obvious items that aren’t readily available on the endcaps or eye level on the shelf? Here are a few more sinister items meant to lure the unsuspecting and inexperienced shopper:
- Gift Cards for invasive medical procedures like colonoscopies and lumbar punctures. (These are particularly heinous as they are at the checkout stand and usually come with triple shopper’s reward points!)
- Water in plastic bottles. Did you know that 4 out of every male tested has micro-plastics in their penile tissue? I suggest buying drinking water in concrete containers. That residual can have a positive results, especially as one ages.
- Little Debbie Christmas Trees: They only come once a year and are more addictive than opioids. Blink and they are gone for a year and we are left to subsist on Entenmann’s!
- Breakfast meats like bacon and sausage: Loaded with artery clogging fats, ankle bloating salt and system poisoning nitrites, nitrates, BHA, BHT and high-fructose corn syrup! No wonder they taste so good! I might rethink this one…
Keeping your wits about you at the supermarket is the key to frugality and healthy living!