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July 4th lands on a Saturday this year — a full-day cookout if there ever was one. Before you make six trips to the store, here's how to stock the snack table out of one box. The grill gets all the attention on the 4th. But the snack table is what people actually graze on for six straight hours — before the burgers are ready, between rounds of cornhole, and long after the grill's gone cold and the fireworks start. Run out of chips at hour two and you're making a store run during your …

School's out, the tank's full, and the only thing standing between you and the highway is the snack run. Here's how to skip it entirely — pack one box, not a cart full of gas-station impulse buys. The math on road-trip snacks is brutal. A single bag of chips at a highway gas station runs $3 to $5. A family of four grazing across a six-hour drive can spend more on snacks than on gas. And you still end up with three half-eaten bags rolling around the floor mats. The fix is boring and it work …