Nosh pit

[Food Network Fan]

Nosh pit

By Sean Daly and Stephanie Hayes, Times Staff Writers

Published Friday, August 22, 2008 1:00 PM

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Gargantuan grocery receipts got you down? Sick of snarfing ramen? We feel your pain. With the price of gas, housing, movies, clothes, and especially food skyrocketing up, up, up, what we need are imaginative dining solutions, budgetary sustenance to get us through these tough times.
Boy, do we have a fairy tale feast for you.
On a recent Tuesday, this pair of cherubic journalists — so full of life, so empty of morsels — frolicked forth to find free food in Tampa Bay.
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[Food Network Fan]

So if you are ever in Tampa, now you know how to live the life of a sample bum.

[BerryBaby]

Oh, you can do this anywhere. Even the local drugstore, which has a fresh candy counter, offers samples everyday.

Costco, the major grocery stores, all have samples. If none are offered, you can go to the deli and ask to try any coldcut they have! Free food is everywhere...you just have to ask.