Budget Gift Guide

Finds for $15 and under.

A Better Bottled Coffee Drink

This week’s mission: fancy frozen pasta and bottled milky-coffee treats.

Cookies, Crazy-Ass and Classic

This week’s mission: a health freak treat that delivers, and Pepperidge Farms doin' raspberry.

Your Order Is Politically Incorrect

How to address ethically challenged eaters.

Snack Time for Lazarus

This week’s mission: superfood bars and stovetop comfort-food kits.

Surprise Dinner Parties

None of the planning, all of the fun.

Does It Matter Whether You Use a Glass or Metal Baking Dish?

It depends on what you’re making.

Injectable Marinades and 100-Calorie Snacks

This week’s mission: marinade you squirt into meat with a syringe, and tinier snack cakes.

You Break It, You Replace It

What to do if you bust your friend’s china.

Steppin' Up Your Cheese Game

This week’s mission: frozen diet dinners featuring fruit, and classy cheese vehicles.

Special Moments with Grim Gruel

This week’s mission: personality-based soft drinks and microwave baked desserts.

Venial Vegetable Trickery

This week’s mission: a snack mix with Cheerios, and frozen vegetables with health claims.

What Should I Drink?

Food and drink go well together. Or do they?

Whole Grains 101

How to cook them and why they’re worth the wait.

Your Computer Can't Roast a Chicken

Food-related desktop widgets, from egg timers to tail dictionaries.