About Us

Greetings! I'm Eric, the grocery nerd, produce hunter, teacher, and podcaster behind this rebel blog called Eat Like No One Else.

On this blog you will learn how to eat the season's best foods whether it's grapes that taste like Cotton Candy or apples that are red on the inside. You will explore different types of steaks you have never heard of like Teres Major or learn how to source cumin that was harvested in the wild in Afghanistan. I aim to show you how ingredients like clover and wildflower are different and that you can cook a ham in the Instant Pot.

A Little of My Background

Eric Samuelson holding a bunch of green Mysore bananas at Robert is Here Produce in Homestead, Florida.

This is me after a 4 hour drive down to Homestead, Florida in search of locally grown bananas at a produce stand. I was successful in finding these amazing Mysore bananas.

I am from the great agricultural state of Michigan, having lived a hour north of Detroit, a hour north of Lansing, and right near Ann Arbor, Michigan home of the Wolverines. Go Blue!

As a kid one of my favorite items of the week was going grocery shopping on Mondays. I loved to walk around the store looking for new products that I haven't tried and wanted my mom to get.

A family of 6 and a dog standing in front of Mt Rushmore.

I have worked in a wide aspect of the food business including a local wholesale bakery, mom & pop produce market, large grocery chain, and a small u-pick apple orchard. I packed baked goods to be shipped to local stores, stocked produce, did food weekly food demos, picked apples in the rain, sold them at the farmers market, and led tours of school children around the orchard. At every business I was always the one anyone turned to when they had a question about food.

Along the way, my wife, Donna and I had 4 children, 3 daughters and 1 son who says he is doomed since he is the only boy.

A couple years after this blog became my full time business and a world wide pandemic hit we longed for the open road. So when our landlord said she was selling our house at the end of our lease, we got ourselves a camper and took off on the open road.

A display of fresh vegetables at a farmer's market in Michigan next to a picture of fresh citrus at a farmer's market in California.

Since then I have been from California to Maine to Florida and lots of states in between (Maryland was my 48th state!) Along this journey have been to countless farmers market and every grocery store imaginable. My family has picked our own wild blueberries in Maine. SnapDragon apples in upstate New York, and Honeybell oranges in Florida. I have discovered new foods, recipes, and of course those bananas I talked of above!

A close up of wild Maine blueberries growing in a lowbush next to a picture of a basket of Honeybell oranges from Florida.

FAQ

I came up with the name after listening to Dave Ramsay talk about financial advice on the radio. I was looking to find a way to bring in extra money and heard about people starting blogs to bring in that additional income. Dave says "live like no one else, so that you can live like no one else". I wanted to share all the different things I was doing in my kitchen, the varieties of foods I was trying, and how I was looking to eat in a way that wasn't just what everyone else would do. Hence "Eat Like No One Else" was born.

I talk about all different varieties of fruit on the blog. Not all of them can be found at every grocery store. So I try to list on the bottom of each fruit variety review what stores you can look for that fruit in. I use the info I have from shopping at grocery stores all over the country.

This is the podcast I started up in August 2022. New episodes come out 3 times a week. I do a few different types of episodes including reading my most popular blog posts, interviews with producers, growers, and other bloggers, and I throw in unique content like my monthly fruit picks. The idea behind the podcast is to teach you about good food to EAT, where you can SHOP for that food, and how to reduce your grocery bill and how to keep your food form going bad so that you WASTE NOT.

I will admit it's not always easy, especially when the weather is bad and I can't cok outside. I have found ways to make recipes with what I have. I only have a couple plates for shooing recipes and a bag of textiles to add interest. My pictures are taken in natural light on our table, a picnic table outside, on top of a grill, or anywhere I can get a good background and good lighting.

We have a Ninji Foodi dual basket air fryer, Vesta immersion circulator for sous vide, Instant Pot Duo Plus (makes yogurt and does sous vide), Presto non-stick griddle, a Magic Bullet, and 3 Dash mini waffle makers. Our camper has a three ring propane burner and an oven that hasn't worked in a long time. I like to boil pasta outdoors using my induction cooktop my wife found on Amazon. Anything I would make in a house I can make in the camper. We are even learning how to bake more in our air fryer.

Absolutely! I love making pies, cobblers, and muffins with the fruit I find. If I can pick it myself at the orchard it's the best. I have a whole page on the blog dedicated to Baking with Fruit. Check that out to get some inspiration.

Hear about some of the companies I have collaborated with on this blog to educate my audience about and spread the word about the wonderful foods they produce.

A Little of My Background

FAQ

My Favorite Fruits

Fan Favorite Recipes