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Twelve grocery and food savings tips to take with you on your next shopping trip

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Trae Bodge, smart shopping expert, shared her tips for saving on groceries with Good Morning America, to help consumers keep costs down at checkout.

Consumer prices on food experienced the largest annual increase in over four decades since February 1981, with costs skyrocketing 10.4% in the 12-month period ending June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Within the “food at home” category — grocery store food products purchased for cooking or eating at home — prices rose 12.2% over the last year, the largest increase since 1979.

Top tips to stay on a budget in the grocery store:

Eat vegetarian

“You might find that poultry, meats, and fish have increased more in price than vegetables and other items, like rice and pasta,” Bodge said. “If that’s the case in your area, you could save a bundle by eating [vegetarian meals] a couple of nights a week.”

Use coupon sites to save

“You might think of coupon sites for clothing and tech, but not for food, when in fact coupon sites like CouponCabin.com have offers for grocery delivery, like $25 off $35 or more at Instacart or $55 off $99 or more,” she said of the simple at-your-fingertips savings option.

Don’t buy pre-cut produce

Buy fruits and vegetables whole and prepare them at home. “You’re paying for labor when you buy pre-cut,” she explained.

Look low and high on store shelves

“You’re more likely to find better deals on the lowest and highest shelves. Brands pay for prime real estate at eye level, but there are hidden gems in less visible spots,” Bodge suggested.

Read between the price tags

“You can determine whether or not an item is a good deal by comparing the cost-per-unit rather than the actual price,” she said, explaining that the sticker price doesn’t always reflect the total value.

Look out for “shrinkflation”

“Many brands are shrinking the size or weight of their products and charging the same price,” Bodge said, adding that shoppers should always check the unit prices when selecting items.

Join loyalty programs

Bodge advised using rewards programs — sticking to the stores where you shop most often — which may “offer a free way to earn points towards future purchases.”

“They offer exclusive deals and some will even allow you to qualify for free things, like a free turkey at Thanksgiving or a free gas card,” she said.

Credit cards with grocery perks

“Using the right credit card to buy your groceries could earn you some serious cash back. Cards with annual fees typically have more generous cash-back [offers], like 4% or more on food from American Express Gold, but there are some fee-free cards that offer this, including the Bread Cashback American Express from Bread Financial, which offers 2% cashback on all purchases,” she said. “Another good fee-free card is the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa, which allows you to earn 5% on Amazon and Whole Foods purchases.”

Buy frozen

“In certain cases,” Bodge said, this tactic “can be a big money-saver.”

“I find this especially with fish and certain vegetables,” she added. “Plus, frozen has a longer shelf life.”

Buy generic

“You can save 20% or more by doing this and you’ll find that many of the ingredient listings match the brand name word for word,” Bodge said. “In fact, store brands or generics are often made in the same factories as the name brand.”

Buy seasonal produce

“You will do much better on price, versus buying things that need to be imported,” Bodge said. “Also, check out your local CSA — community-supported agriculture is a food system for farmers and producers to connect directly with consumers. This is a great way to support local farmers and the pricing is often very good.”

Bodge, however, recommended against “buying at farmers markets if you’re on a tight budget.”

Only buy in bulk on most-used items

“If there are certain items that you go through quickly, like toilet paper, pastas, canned goods or snacks for your kids’ lunches, buy them in bulk if you have a Costco or Sam’s Club membership,” Bodge suggested. “You can also often buy in bulk on Amazon and on a site like Boxed.com.”

Jason Aldean jokes the bus is a “disaster” when his kids are on tour with him

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Jason Aldean is currently in the midst of his Rock N’ Roll Cowboy tour and his two young children are along for the ride for some shows.

The singer explains that he and his wife, Brittany, bring 4-year-old Memphis and 3-year-old Navy out on the road about one weekend every month.

“They get a little worn out being on the bus,” the singer tells ET Online. “So we try to bring them out at least once a month for a weekend, and one week I’ll go out by myself, and then one week it’s just me and [Brittany].”

Jason — who is also dad to two teenage daughters, Keeley and Kendall, from a previous relationship — says anyone who steps on his bus can immediately tell whether or not his toddlers are out on tour with him that weekend.

“It usually looks like a disaster when they’re on the road with me,” he jokes. “There’s toys and stuff everywhere. But when they’re not on the bus, it’s actually pretty clean, I have to say.”

The Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour continues through the end of October.

Jackson Dean’s been on the ‘Yellowstone’ soundtrack, wouldn’t be opposed to an on-screen role either

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

There’s no question about it: Jackson Dean’s song “Don’t Come Lookin’” being featured on the Yellowstone soundtrack definitely gave him a leg up toward country music success.

“It played a massive, massive part in it,” the singer affirms, citing one recent appearance he made at Hwy 30 Fest in Idaho, when he was one of the only acts in the lineup who didn’t hail from Texas.

“We were, like, the black sheep,” he remembers, but adds that he had an in with the crowd. “Massive, massive Yellowstone fans at that festival. It was great. It was really awesome.”

Multiple fans who recognized him from the soundtrack for the TV series approached him at that show. “I had probably 30 people come up to me and be like, ‘Hey man, we know you from Yellowstone. And that’s how we found you.’”

Jackson’s already had a song feature in the hit TV series, and the singer says he’s not opposed to participating in the show in an on-screen capacity, too. After all, there’s plenty of precedent for country stars scoring acting gigs on Yellowstone: Lainey Wilson is on the upcoming season, and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are the co-stars of 1883, the recent Paramount+ prequel.

“You know, I mean, if Kevin Costner wants to shoot a bad guy — I mean, I can play a good bad guy,” the singer continues. “I am not opposed at all, in any way, shape or form.”

For now, Jackson is enjoying a career as a rapidly rising country star. “Don’t Come Lookin’” is currently nearing country radio’s top 10.

Trivium’s Matt Heafy performing at Gamescom for ’Metal: Hellsinger’ video game

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy is performing at the 2022 Gamescom video game convention.

The show will be promoting the upcoming game Metal: Hellsinger, a rhythm first-person shooter that finds players shooting enemies to the beat of original music sung by a variety of big-name metal artists, such as Heafy, System of a Down‘s Serj Tankian and Lamb of God‘s Randy Blythe.

Along with Heafy, Metal: Hellsinger contributors including Arch Enemy‘s Alissa White-Gluz and Refused‘s Dennis Lyxzén will perform during the Gamescom concert, as well.

You’ll be able to watch the show live online on August 25 at 1 p.m. ET via MetalHellsinger.com.

Metal: Hellsinger will be released September 15 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Here’s how much Adele is reportedly paying for her mansion’s mortgage

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

If you thought you were paying a lot for your mortgage, just wait until you hear how much Adele is paying!

According to documents obtained by The New York Post, the singer took out a $37.7 million mortgage for the Beverly Hills mansion she bought for $58 million earlier this year. She has the standard 30 years to repay the loan, the deed says. That means she’d be paying an estimated $227,000 per month, including property taxes and interest.

The estate was previously owned by Sylvester Stallone. It sits on 3.5 acres and measures a sprawling 18,500 square feet. It boasts eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, and includes a ton of amenities like a screening room, gym, cigar room, infinity pool, spa, eight-car garage and art studio.

Back in May, Adele posted a photo of her and boyfriend Rich Paul standing in front of the home with the keys, hinting that the two had moved in together.

Adele is set to kick off her rescheduled Las Vegas residency this November.

Young Money reunion show gets new date following Drake’s COVID-19 diagnosis

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

As promised, Drake has rescheduled the highly anticipated Young Money reunion show. The rapper, who was forced to cancel the initial concert following his COVID-19 diagnosis, has set the new date for Saturday, August 5.

“Negative test…positive outcome…,” Drake wrote on Instagram alongside an updated advertisement. “this was the only date available until the fall and because the family is so solid everybody is flying back in to make it happen for you all…SEE YOU SATURDAY…young moulaaa.”

The Young Money concert was originally slated to take place on August 1, the third day of his OVO Fest. After a successful start to the weekend, Drake tested positive and regretfully canceled the show, promising to reschedule to “the SOONEST date possible.”

The “Sticky” rapper has since kept his word; he’ll reunite onstage with Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne this weekend.

From “She’s Kerosene” to “I’m Kerosene”: The Interrupters go first-person on new album, ‘In the Wild’

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

Forget “She’s Kerosene”: on The Interrupters‘ new album, In the Wild, frontwoman Aimee Interrupter declares, “I’m Kerosene.”

As Aimee tells ABC Audio, In the Wild is a personal, first-person reflection of her “life story.”

“I’d never done that before for The Interrupters,” Aimee explains. “Any songs that I’d written before for The Interrupters about my life, I always wrote about somebody else.”

“I would say, like, ‘She did it,’ ‘That person’s story,'” she adds. “But this time, I wrote in first-person, like, ‘This is actually my story.'”

Aimee’s lyrical vulnerability on In the Wild then allowed the rest of the band — made up of guitarist Kevin Bivona and his twin brothers, bassist Justin and drummer Jesse Bivona — to experiment with and broaden their sound.

“We’re just trying to make each song be exactly what it wants to be,” Kevin shares. “That brought us into terrain we hadn’t necessarily been in before, but felt so authentically us.”

In the Wild features the lead single “In the Mirror,” which is among the most personal songs on the record. Aimee had the beginnings of what would become the track for some time — much longer than the “Took me two years to write this song” lyric would have you believe — but realized she needed to “come clean with myself and with others about my ugly truths” to finish it.

“I used to drink a lot, and I haven’t drank alcohol for seven years,” Aimee says. “But it took me a long time of being sober and taking my personal inventory, and looking at my life and looking at myself in the mirror, and finally making peace with who I saw in the mirror in order for me to share that with someone else.”

In the Wild is out now.

The Kinks’ Dave Davies on musical reunion with brother Ray: “I’m hopeful that we’ll get together”

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

About three years ago, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies told ABC Audio that he and his brother and band mate Ray had spent time working on material for a possible new album project, although none of that music has been released yet.

In a new ABC Audio interview, Dave says he feels there’s still a good chance that he and Ray will finish and release some new collaborative, songs and perhaps perform together as well.

“It’s possible,” Dave offers. “[I]t’d be nice, you know? I don’t know if it will [happen], but I’m hopeful that we’ll get together, and see where we can go.”

As for the possibility of performing again with his brother, Dave says, “[O]bviously, we’ll have to meet with Ray and think what sort of shows we can do and what makes sense…[We] can’t do elaborate rock shows like we did decades ago, but, you know, we should be able to do something fun.”

The only time Davies brothers have performed together in public since the final Kinks tour ended in 1996 was at a December 2015 solo show that Dave played in London, where Ray came out at the end of the concert and sang “You Really Got Me.”

Meanwhile, Dave candidly discusses his often-contentious relationship with Ray in his new memoir, Living on a Thin Line, which was published in digital formats globally last month and will be released in physically in the U.S. in January 2023.

“I tried to be as honest but as fair as possible, and I hope I achieved it,” Dave says with regard to writing about Ray. “I don’t want to be mean spirited. I want to make sure that he’s covered in a respectful, honest and inspiring way. And I hope that’s in there.”

Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg talk new Apple TV+ film ‘Luck’

August 5, 2022 by WDNY Radio

The new movie Luck is all about, well, Luck!

The Apple TV+ film hits the streamer Friday, and Jane Fonda stars as a dragon who is one of the creatures who controls all the luck in the world. While the premise seems simple enough, Fonda tells ABC Audio the film has a strong message.

“Good luck makes no sense without bad luck. The two, in a way, go together symbiotically, they’re the opposite sides of the same coin,” she explains. “Don’t reject bad luck. You can learn from it. It can turn into good luck if you’re willing to learn the lessons from it.”

Fonda adds, “You know, there’s a there’s an expression that I love – God doesn’t come into us through our successes and our awards…God comes into us through our wounds.”

So can you actually control your own luck?

“I think that if during your lifetime you are intentional about the way you live that you are creating your own luck,” the Academy Award winner shares, adding that wisdom doesn’t come from experiences alone, but from reflecting on those experiences.

Whoopi Goldberg also lends her voice to the film as a character who works at the place in the universe where all the luck is made and distributed. She believes luck isn’t permanently good or bad, it ebbs and flows.

“I think we sometimes just assume things are going to continue on the way that they are. You know, whether it’s bad or good. And you find yourself going, is the moon in retrograde? Is this ever going to get better? And then suddenly you wake up and you think, wait a minute, this is a pretty good day. Hey, this is all right. You know, and you live in that for a while.”

Monkeypox vaccine available for kids on case-by-case basis, FDA says

August 4, 2022 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — With over 6,000 cases of monkeypox confirmed in the United States, including five children, the demand for the monkeypox vaccine is high.

And while the current vaccine, JYNNEOS, is approved only for adults ages 18 and older, it has been administered to children in the U.S. on a case-by-case basis, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The FDA confirmed to ABC News that “numerous” children have been granted access to the vaccine through a special permission process.

If a doctor decides a person under 18 was exposed to monkeypox and the benefit of the vaccine is greater than any potential risk, they can submit a request to the FDA. Only children with direct exposure are granted access, and even then access is decided on a case-by-case basis

The FDA declined to state exactly how many children have received the vaccine to date through this special permission process.

The JYNNEOS vaccine, delivered in a two-dose regimen, has not been tested through clinical trials in children.

There have been no “adverse events to date” in delivering the vaccine to children in the U.S., and similar vaccines have been tested in children without serious safety concerns, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“JYNNEOS contains a non-replicating Vaccinia virus. While JYNNEOS has not been studied specifically for children or adolescents, the same non-replicating Vaccinia virus in the JYNNEOS vaccine has been used in studies as part of vaccines against other diseases including tuberculosis, measles, and Ebola,” the CDC said in a statement. “These studies included children as young as 5 months old, and no serious safety concerns were reported.”

Given the case-by-case basis of administering the monkeypox vaccine, there is no availability for mass vaccination of children at this time.

Children under the age of 8 are among those the CDC considers at “increased risk” for developing more severe illness if infected with monkeypox, along with pregnant people, people who are immunocompromised and those who have a history of atopic dermatitis or eczema.

Experts are not sure why children are at increased risk for severe illness, but it may be due to their immune systems and the fact that “younger children are sometimes more susceptible to some viral infections,” Dr. Richard Malley, senior physician in pediatrics, division of infectious diseases, at Boston Children’s Hospital and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, told ABC News.

Monkeypox, also known as MPX, is spread primarily through direct, skin-to-skin contact between someone who has the virus and someone who does not, according to the CDC.

Typically, the disease begins with a fever, headache, fatigue, chills and muscle aches. The disease is similar to smallpox, however, monkeypox also causes swollen lymph nodes.

Within one to three days of initial symptoms, those infected typically develop a rash either on their face or other parts of the body, according to the CDC.

Per the World Health Organization, the lesions — or rash — start out as dark spots on the skin before progressing to bumps that fill with fluid.

Antiviral medications such as Tecovirimat, which is available for children, are currently being used for treatment of monkeypox.

Officials in the U.S. and around the world have expressed concern that there are not enough monkeypox vaccines to address the emerging crisis. With demand increasing, U.S. health officials have reported that 1.1 million doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine will be allocated to states and jurisdictions across the country.

Moderna, the maker of a COVID-19 vaccine, said Wednesday they have initiated a research program to consider whether the company could create a monkeypox vaccine with mRNA technology.

Any new vaccine would still need to go through the regulatory authorization process, which can take weeks to months, even in special circumstances.

Now that the Biden administration has declared the current monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, the FDA could move to issue an emergency use authorization for the JYNNEOS vaccine for children under 18.

The FDA told ABC News it would still need to go through a process to evaluate if it would want to authorize the vaccine for a younger population.

ABC News’ Eric Strauss, Arielle Mitropoulos and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

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