Earlier this week, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) a Washington, D.C.-based environmentalist organization, published an article entitled “Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?“, which argues that unsafe levels of weed killer can be found in a number of oat cereals and granola bars. The herbicide, glyphosate, is manufactured by Monsanto under…
UPDATE (4/26/18): Added new information from our local Aldi. On April 10, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control issued a press release related to an outbreak of E. coli bacteria in romaine lettuce. Specifically, the outbreak stems from romaine from the Yuma, Arizona, region. Since then, the CDC has expanded…
If you shop at both Aldi and Trader Joe’s, you may notice that the stores carry many similar products. This could be due in part to the fact that they are related (but not identical) businesses. It could also be because they both follow food trends and offer products they…
EDITOR’S NOTE: To learn more about the relationship between Trader Joe’s and Aldi, click here. I have a problem. I’m vain and love to try new beauty products … but I’m also a cheapskate. I cringe when I read articles about the latest Must Have serum or cream that *only*…
A lot of people have some vague idea that Aldi and Trader Joe’s are related. “They’re both Aldi,” they say. Is that right? Is it indeed true that both companies are Aldi? The answer is: yes … but not in the way most people think. To explain, let’s step back…
