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    <description>The warehouse is full of snacks kids like. A much shorter list survives a backpack, opens without a grown-up, and still gets eaten at 11:40. Here&#39;s what makes the cut.</description>
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    <description>The per-unit price on the shelf tag isn&#39;t what a snack costs you. Here&#39;s the arithmetic that includes the part your kid throws away, and why the cheap box is sometimes the expensive one.</description>
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    <description>A shopping list that turns into a week of packed lunches without a second trip: what to put in the cart, how the five boxes come out of it, and what to do on Sunday so nobody decides anything at 7am.</description>
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