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ANNOUNCEMENT: New Impulsive Buy Reviewer Sarah

Sarah 7 Comments

I love grocery shopping and grocery stores. When traveling, I always make an excuse to pop into a grocery store to see what’s on the shelves. Even with kids.

I’m a mom to two young kids and grocery delivery services are often hawked to my demographic as the magic remedy to make you forget the snotty noses, the whining, the sibling bickering, the “Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!” and all the other things that make grocery shopping with kids not so enjoyable. But, you know what my magic remedy is?

Junk food.

Nooooo, not for them. For me.

I love discovering new products and squirreling them away to enjoy later.

For the most part, I’m into healthy food and preparing nourishing food for my family. I cook most meals from scratch, making a roux for casseroles instead of using canned mushroom soup or my own pizza dough. We have a garden where we grow turmeric for our smoothies and shiitake mushrooms for our stir-fry.

Growing up, though, my parents didn’t cook meals from scratch or garden or do anything like that. They were masters of the microwave. But, while we always had food on the table, it’s never what I pine away for these days. Instead, it’s grocery store junk food that brings back all those warm and fuzzy childhood memories. It’s my comfort food.

So, tucked away on the top right corner shelf of my pantry, above the organic rye flour, local sorghum syrup, chia seeds, and the tub of organic cold-pressed coconut oil is my junk food stash. Sometimes the limited edition Oreo cookies don’t even make it inside, but rather stay under the front seat of the car, even though I’m the only one who eats them.

My husband is a food snob and most of my friends are the type who have barely finished their Halloween candy by the time Cadbury Creme Eggs come out. They don’t understand my affinity for odd flavor combinations nor my fascination with reading nutrition and ingredient labels (it’s my party trick — read me a label and I can tell you the product).

Thank goodness I found The Impulsive Buy and my tribe of fellow junk food lovers who are not turned off by Peach Cobbler or Brazilian steak-flavored potato chips, Gingerbread Spice M&M’s, and Cotton Candy Oreos.

So, if you’re ever at my house for a locally sourced dinner of pan-fried free-range rabbit, stone-ground polenta cakes, salad made with foraged greens, and bottle-conditioned craft beer, remember that the top right shelf in my pantry is where you can find the good stuff. Help yourself. 😉

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hello, My Name is Louis Fowler. I’m Your New Impulsive Buy Reviewer

Louis 5 Comments

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always enjoyed eating food. From my time as a helpless baby to now as a less-helpless man, eating has always been an important daily goal of mine, aiming for at least three meals a day not only for the taste, mind you, but for the fact that it provides things like nutrients and whatnot that help to keep me alive which, at the current moment, is kind of important.

Over the past few years I have been able to parlay this necessitous hobby into a moneymaking scheme minor career as a food critic for various newspapers and magazines including most recently The Hungover Gourmet, Red Dirt Report, and The Lost Ogle, almost completely against doctor’s orders mind you. From tales of culinary nostalgia to reviews of places where even the hungriest angels fear to tread, I have earned my fair share of death threats from angry hipsters who have on more than one occasion referred to my palate as a “garbage can.”

I can’t argue with this because, yes, there have been various points in my life I have eaten from a garbage can. And I liked it.

If you’re ever in Oklahoma City, chances are you can find me hanging out on the Southside, downing milanesa tortas from El Chavo Supertorta, menudo from Berta’s or imbibing on virgin chuviduvis from Croodoolandia. If you’re paying, I’d be more than happy to take you on a fully guided edible diversion the tourists don’t often get to see unless they take a wrong turn.

If I’m paying, however, we’re doing the Taco Bell Dollar Menu, holmes. Thanks for reading. ¡Cómpralo ya!

TIB’S SEASON OF GIVING 2017 (DAY 11): Target Gift Card

Marvo 241 Comments

Target 2017

It’s the last day of The Impulsive Buy’s Season of Giving 2017 and we’re ending it with a $10 Target gift card.

Thanks to all of you for reading, emailing Spotted photos, commenting, letting us know about test fast food items, sharing on Facebook, sharing on Twitter, listening to The Nosh Show (which is no more), getting on my case about the fleeting phases I go through with creating videos, liking our Instagram photos, participating in our prize drawings, pointing out typos, subscribing to our super basic daily and weekly emails, and/or sending me stuff I can’t get my hands on. Thank you!

Happy New Year!

RULES:

To enter this prize drawing for a $10 Target Gift Card, leave a comment with THIS post. You can write whatever you want, but please don’t forget to fill out the email field because we’ll be emailing the randomly selected winner for his or her mailing address.

We will stop accepting entries on January 1, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (2:00 a.m. Pacific, 5:00 a.m. Eastern). Only one comment allowed per person, and it’s only open to U.S. residents 18 years old or older.

Good luck!

FINE PRINT: The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you emails about 10 Interesting facts about Capricorn. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you Crate & Barrel catalogs. Bribes will not be accepted. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail or damaged mail.

TIB’S SEASON OF GIVING 2017 (DAY 10): Mystery Gift Card

Marvo 220 Comments

Mystery 2017

For this prize drawing, I’m not going to tell you what store or restaurant the gift card is for or how much is on it.

Is it a gift card for a big grocery chain or a small, regional fast food chain?

Is it from one of the places we already covered during this year’s Season of Giving?

Is it a used card sitting in my wallet with a balance of 42 cents that I’m too embarrassed to use?

You’ll have to enter to have a chance at finding out.

RULES:

To enter this prize drawing for a Mystery Gift Card, leave a comment with THIS post. You can write whatever you want, but please don’t forget to fill out the email field because we’ll be emailing the randomly selected winner for his or her mailing address.

We will stop accepting entries on December 31, 2017 at 12:00 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (2:00 a.m. Pacific, 5:00 a.m. Eastern). Only one comment allowed per person, and it’s only open to U.S. residents 18 years old or older.

Good luck!

FINE PRINT: The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you emails about how you can get car insurance for as low as $7.25/wk. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you Bed Bath & Beyond mailers with the coupon already cut out. Bribes will not be accepted. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail or damaged mail.

TIB’S SEASON OF GIVING 2017 (DAY 9): Panda Express Gift Card

Marvo 167 Comments

Panda 2017

Panda Express introduced two dishes this year — Five Flavor Shrimp and Peking Pork.

While I didn’t try the shrimp dish because shellfish makes me break out in hives and/or pass out, I’ve had the Peking Pork several times. It’s great for those times when you don’t want to wait five minutes for the Orange Chicken to be replenished.

We’re giving away a $10 Panda Express gift card because that is the lowest denomination possible. If you think about it, that makes sense since a two entree plate goes for around $8.

RULES:

To enter this prize drawing for a $10 Panda Express Gift Card, leave a comment with THIS post. You can write whatever you want, but please don’t forget to fill out the email field because we’ll be emailing the randomly selected winner for his or her mailing address.

We will stop accepting entries on December 30, 2017 at 12:00 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time (2:00 a.m. Pacific, 5:00 a.m. Eastern). Only one comment allowed per person, and it’s only open to U.S. residents 18 years old or older.

Good luck and don’t forget to come back tomorrow to find out what we’re giving away next!

FINE PRINT: The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you emails with “Smack that thang and TAKE IT TO A NEW LEVEL” in the subject line. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you sprinkles or sprinklers. Bribes will not be accepted. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail or damaged mail.