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    Surviving On 99-Cent-Store Food For A Week In NYC

    Henry Alford of the New York Times writes that sometimes he will "plop a can of chicken broth down on the checkout counter and think, '$2.19? For someone to boil chicken bones? I want that job,'" so he decided to try going a week with food from 99 cent stores in New York City. For NYC that means shopping at Jack's, the Filene's Basement of dollar stores in Manhattan. The weird nature of Jacks (five aisles of food! freezer cases!) makes his experiment a little hard to duplicate across the country, and after last year's safety issues we'd be a little worried about antifreeze in everything, but we were still interested to see what he could come up with for a week of dinners. More »

    3:07 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
    By Chris Walters
    12,279 views, 33 comments

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