Packers then began selling vacuum-packed beef, the same large cuts sold at warehouse club stores.

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About 90 percent of American beef is sold as large vacuum-packed cuts.

CNN: How to buy the best beef

Food could potentially use up a lot of valuable weight too, so the sailors live exclusively on a diet of freeze-fried, vacuum-packed dinners.

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At fromagerie Androuet cheeses can be vacuum-packed to take home, while luscious macaroons in flavours such as raspberry and blackcurrant can be found at Mococha light, alongside divine chocolates.

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You must feed yourself with intensively nutritious vacuum-packed objects.

ECONOMIST: America��s great trek

Eight years ago, Texas resident Cynthia Ivie, a 43-year-old sales rep for Newsweek, struck out for Chicago with no more than a business idea and a 1989 Toyota Corolla packed with clothes, books, a vacuum cleaner, a stereo and a cocker spaniel named Buckley.

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