{"id":3791,"date":"2016-08-01T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2018-01-18T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:30:07","slug":"college-grocery-shopping-made-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/2016\/08\/01\/college-grocery-shopping-made-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"College Grocery Shopping Made Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Aneshansley<br \/>\nSenior Health Sciences Student, SAR &#8217;17<\/p>\n<p>I moved into a Stuvi1 apartment my junior year. Like most other students leaving the typical dorms for the first time, I was excited to have my own room and to be granted the new degree of freedom of being able to cook for myself. Luckily I had plenty of practice in the kitchen at home, where I often cooked every meal for myself. The biggest complication that I faced was the expense of buying groceries. Who knew that one trip to Trader Joe\u2019s would leave me with $75 less in my bank account? On top of that, I didn\u2019t have time to cook half of the vegetables I bought and found them wilted and rotten two weeks later in my fridge. After speaking with some of my friends about my dilemma, I found that over-shopping is much more common than I previously thought and that I wasn\u2019t the only one who had no idea how to properly grocery shop.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some simple tips I found that made buying groceries simple and economic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to build in a time once or even twice a week to purchase a few items you know you need and will use. It\u2019s easy to go overboard when you go grocery shopping once a month and know you have an empty kitchen back home. For example, Sweet potatoes are great because they can be stored for about 1 month if they are in a cool, dark place. They are also super easy to make.<\/li>\n<li>Try to avoid grocery shopping on an empty stomach! You will find yourself with a cart full of items that appear appetizing in the moment. However, you may not end up using them and it usually means that you spend more money.<\/li>\n<li>Frozen foods tend to come at low costs, which is ideal for college students who are trying to save time and money.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the sales! I sometimes prefer Star Market because they always have sales and deals whereas Trader Joe\u2019s may not. Whenever I have a difficult time picking out which fruits or veggies to buy, I go with whatever is on sale.<\/li>\n<li>Bring in a list of things you need to stock up on. Think about accumulating ingredients for meals that will last a few days. I once spent an hour and a half cooking eggplant parmesan but I froze it and ate over the course of an entire week!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Aneshansley Senior Health Sciences Student, SAR &#8217;17 I moved into a Stuvi1 apartment my junior year. Like most other students leaving the typical dorms for the first time, I was excited to have my own room and to be granted the new degree of freedom of being able to cook for myself. Luckily I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[530,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/scnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}