Dining For A Dollar

  • Dining For A Dollar The necessary 2011 return 

    For the first time since 2007, we ventured into our local dollar stores in search of the finest, most frightening, and especially cheapest foods we could find. 

    December 16, 2011 | 12:00am -

  • Dining For A Dollar Halloween horrors edition

    A seasonally appropriate look at the cheapest, scariest dollar-store consumables we could find.

    October 26, 2007 | 12:01am -

  • Dining For A Dollar The Sugar And Cheese Edition

    Sugar and cheese: Two great things that go great together? Maybe. And at these prices, who can say no?

    January 18, 2006 | 12:32pm -

  • Dining For A Dollar Summer Snack Edition

    Dollar stores offer plenty of cool summer refreshment for the thrifty and the daring.

    August 9, 2005 | 11:19am -

  • Dining For A Dollar Appetizers in name only

    Honestly, who hasn't thrown a party and regretted the money and prep time spent on nibble-ready hors d'oeuvres, canapés, or other snooty snacks?

    March 9, 2005 | 3:00pm -

  • Dining For A Dollar The holidays

    'Tis the season when the country's many dollar stores are flooded with cheap wrapping paper, cheap novelty gifts, and above all, cheap sugary...

    December 22, 2004 | 3:00pm -

  • Dining For A Dollar Discount-store desserts

    In a previous survey of dollar-store delights, The Onion A.V. Club discovered what off-brand confectioners have known for decades: Food...

    July 28, 2004 | 3:00pm -

  • Dining For A Dollar Dining for a dollar

    The shelves of America's dollar stores are packed with off-brand foodstuffs from netherworlds where Nabisco and Frito-Lay exist only as rumor. These weird little consumables sport odd names, curious mascots, unusual cooking suggestions, and...

    March 10, 2004 | 3:00pm -