Cereal
Cereals are among the most popular breakfast items out there. However, when bought from the supermarket, you could end up paying for a retail markup of up to 30% for brand-name cereals while for generic brands, the price could go up per ounce.
Try: If you want to buy brand-name cereals at reasonable prices, head over to Costco for the best deals and forget about the supermarket.
Shredded cheese
Shredded cheese is pretty convenient when you want to prepare something easy to eat. But is convenient also healthy? Not by a long shot.
First of all, pre-shredded cheese includes additives such as potato starch, natamycin (which prevents mold) and cellulose (a stabilizer from wood pulp) that make the product last longer but also lose its freshness, compared to freshly shredded cheese. In addition, the shredded cheese you find in supermarkets is two times less in volume than the amount you would get by shredding it on your own.
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important things I never thought about when purchasing certain items at the dollar stores