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The song goes when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. You know what true amore is? Pizza pie. It's a stereotype that pizza is one of the staples of the college diet, but really, there's a lot of truth to that. Once you split the pie amongst friends, dinner's pretty cheap (a...

Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions to some, but to Store Brand Scorecard, the real breakfast of champions is a fat, doughy bagel. (That may explain why I look more like Jack Black than Michael Phelps.) No other breakfast item is so simple to make (toasted or not, either way it's easy) and...

Some weeks back, Store Brand Scorecard took on creamy peanut butter for its weekly taste/price grocery store brand challenge, to see, once and for all, if the enigmatic "Choosy Moms" were right in declaring The J.M Smucker Company's Jif creamy peanut butter the best (according, suspiciously, to the...

We're in August now people, the dog days of summer, typically the hottest month of the year. And to make matters worse, school starts up for many students in the next couple of weeks. Bummer circumstances all around. So take the sizzling heat off with a little frozen treat. And one of our favorite...

Up and at 'em kids. The heat is on, but soon enough, summer will be over and out for another year, and you'll busy with class once more. So no more sleeping in. Time to rise up and make the most of your final days of freedom. So if you're up, you might as well eat. And Store Brand Scorecard's...

Summer's the perfect season to enjoy nature's goodness by tossing up a fresh salad. Sure beats the campus food, if it tastes anything like the stuff I ate, so take advantage while you can. But, as much as I'd like to think it's the greens that make a salad great, for me the croutons are the best...

"How about peanut butter?," Karli Hannan suggested for Store Brand Scorecard. This request definitely got my attention, not only because Karli works for Big Papa Aol (parent to WalletPop), but also because I do enjoy some fine peanut butter. (Remember that Brad Pitt movie "Meet Joe Black," the one...

Independence Day is coming, kids, practically the halfway point of summer vacation before school starts up again. Bummer. But don't start mourning just yet, what with all the fireworks and parades and cookouts millions of Americans will take in to celebrate America's big 2-3-4. One of Store Brand...

McDonald's has launched a new line of Angus steak sandwiches which it hopes will strike the American public as a real value. This begs the question, what is value? And how well does McDonald's hit its mark?Luckily, I live in an area where the Angus Burger has been test marketed, so I've had a...

I write about 'The Latte Effect' often; the concept that, by eliminating Starbucks lattes from your budget, you can save thousands a year. Depending on the application of this concept (are you substituting with another chain's coffee, brewing your own, or giving up caffeine altogether?), it's...