Little Food Stories That Changed Our Lives

DUMB IF YOU DON’T | Of course we stand behind every one of the 500-plus stories we’ve produced for this website since we launched in April 2010—we wouldn’t have done any one of them if we hadn’t thought that the information would be of value to Frugalbits readers. But some of these posts have had more impact on our own lives than others, altering irreversibly which products/brands we buy (or don’t buy) and how we prepare certain foods. The following three little pieces really have changed our lives. —Team Frugalbits

Tap This

We’d like to point out that anyone in Metro Vancouver who continues to drink bottled water at home or in restaurants is choosing to waste their money, simple as that. Also, there’s every reason to believe that by purchasing packaged water, which is so effectively hawked by celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, they’re actually saying yes to a seriously inferior product. CLICK HERE for our story.

Stone Me

No matter how you do pizza at home—from scratch, from half-scratch with premade dough and store-bought sauce or from take-and-bake—the taste and consistency of your pie will be infinitely improved if you bake it on an pizza stone. I was seriously shocked at how much better my frozen pie tasted a few months back when I baked it on an inexpensive no-name ceramic pizza stone. CLICK HERE for our story.

Mayo Clinic

There’s no replacing a handcrafted mayonnaise or aïoli when taste bud memories are the only ticket to a table in Provence on a rainy night. Small batches are no problem, but for everyday staples, Hellmann’s/Best Foods mayonnaise is consistent, accessible and well priced. While it is the go-to mayo for burgers, making a homey potato salad or doctoring with chipotle chiles for dipping, Hellmann’s/Best Foods but it isn’t the best store bought mayonnaise around, as Chef Glenys Morgan found out. CLICK HERE for our story.

Photos, top to bottom: Istock, Shutterstock, Williams-Sonoma, Casey Phaisalakani