Tricks to keep food costs down

We know every penny counts - and with rising food costs - these tricks from Self magazine may help you save on your next trip to the grocery store. - Why not break up those bananas! Fruits and vegetables often come in packages, but you don't have to buy the whole thing. You pay by the pound for most produce, so just buy what you know you'll eat.  Likewise if a store is advertising three of ...

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( Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ) MIT researchers have discovered that certain photosynthetic ocean bacteria need to beware of viruses bearing gifts. These viruses are really con artists carrying genetic material taken from their previous bacterial hosts that tricks the new host into using its own machinery to activate the genes, a ...

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