{"id":87,"date":"2008-10-01T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-10-01T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T19:15:50","slug":"pantry-stocking-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/pantry-stocking-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantry Stocking on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wudda thunk?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thunk when Denver&#8217;s Fox 31 producer contacted me in August with a novel proposition:\u00a0 Join anchor Ken Clark on a grocery shopping trip to the dollar store and see how much money we can save.\u00a0 I had no idea that dollar stores stocked food items beyond bags of snack foods and potato chips.\u00a0 But I was open to a TV adventure to find out otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple false starts that took us winding around south Denver we finally located the Dollar Tree store in Westminster.\u00a0 It actually has quite a supply of canned and frozen items that make good pantry staples.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89\" title=\"dollarfilming16\" src=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Mary and the Dollar Tree Crew\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dollarfilming16-1200x903.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll be on Fox 31 Good Day Colorado tomorrow at the 9:00 hour.\u00a0 Watch for tips on how to stock the pantry economically, but also with a little flair and fun.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Mary, Ken (on the left) and the fantastic Dollar Tree Crew<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wudda thunk? That&#8217;s what I thunk when Denver&#8217;s Fox 31 producer contacted me in August with a novel proposition:\u00a0 Join anchor Ken Clark on a grocery shopping trip to the dollar store and see how much money we can save.\u00a0 I had no idea that dollar stores stocked food items beyond bags of snack &#8230; <a title=\"Pantry Stocking on the Cheap\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/pantry-stocking-on-the-cheap\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}