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Time for dinner - $3 goes a lot further than you ever imagined

Secretary of Agriculture shows us how to eat right and eat cheap

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Bob Dunning
Apr 03, 2026
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Because I tend to go absolutely berserk when I enter a grocery store, I’m overwhelmingly grateful to United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins for stepping up to the plate - literally - and telling me how to successfully navigate those tempting food-packed aisles.

Especially the ones stocked with 16 varieties of Cheetos.

Nowadays there is so much luscious grab-and-go stuff in the deli case that it’s simply impossible not to indulge.

Forget vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, ice cream flavors are now over the top, with Tillamook Mudslide the runaway winner of which treat you’d like to feel sliding down your throat.

If you want to sprinkle some Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds over that mudslide, who’s to stop you?

Of course, it may be difficult to purchase all these wonderful edibles, even if the president is correct that grocery prices are plummeting. (Apparently everywhere except in my favorite grocery store.)

That’s where Brooke Rollins comes in, with an assist from her partner in healthy, affordable food, Dr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He is a medical doctor, isn’t he?

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