Because we love cooking but hate paying so much at the grocery store, we love little tricks to save money. Be it by proper storage, preparations before cooking, efficient prep time, or repurposing of ingredients, you can save while still eating tasty, wholesome snacks.
Blow Into Your Bag Of Salad Greens
Wilting of greens, especially ones that are more delicate, can really ruin your salad. To prevent oxidation, the cause of wilting, breathe out into your bag of greens. After sealing the bag, you’ve done what many food transporters do to their products: placing a layer of carbon dioxide to keep oxygen away. Your greens may look silly in inflated bags, but their longer shelf life will pay itself back. Continue reading 6 Cheap Food Hacks: A Cheat Sheet for Frugal Cooking
It is a gentle reminder that pecan season is here when you begin to see the “We Buy Pecans” signs grace the front of many local businesses here in the Deep South. Typically the signs appear in front of small town feed stores, convenient shops or lumber yards. And typically it is the same businesses year-after-year who do the buying. Local residents get accustomed to bringing their daily pick to these locations, have their bag or bucket weighed and paid, cash, on the spot for a few hours’ worth of pecan picking. 
Whether it’s the golden-brown turkey of Thanksgiving or the lovingly shaped latkes of Hanukah, the end of the year brings a feast that will draw the whole family together. However, getting the components of a meal together can be an ordeal, one that’s compounded by the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. Don’t waste time sweating in the kitchen when you could be making memories with your loved ones. Follow these simple rules to get your holiday meal on the table in a snap and enjoy the free time under the mistletoe with your favorite dinner guests. 
One of the main reasons our pecan company has flourished over the past few decades is due in large part to our supportive community here in Acadiana and specifically our home town of New Iberia, Louisiana. We cannot begin to tell you how many of our customers are local and loyal and work as brand ambassadors for our products and services. We are sincerely humbled when we think of the local oil and gas companies, commercial banks, healthcare professionals, wealth advisors, contractors, engineers, law firms, insurance groups and more who patronize our company year in and year out to provide their clients, customers and employees with gourmet pecan gifts from our company. And of course we cannot begin to forget the scores of consumers who come to us for their pecan needs to include in every holiday dish imaginable or want the chance to ship a bit of “home” to every corner of this big world we live in. We are blessed and extremely thankful to our base of local customers. 
My family has been in the pecan industry for the past 45 years and never have we seen the escalating pecan prices that we have seen during the last few. Pecan prices are at an historic high. There have many national stories from Forbes to The Wall Street Journal that have covered the bewildering high pecan prices and how this will affect the common consumer. I feel compelled to weigh in and give my perspective since it is my livelihood. 
