In short: Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo is an entertaining read that is refreshing in its simplicity. 
 Who knew I could be kept so entertained with a book in which nothing much happens? Love and Other Perishable Items is a book about the day-to-day life of 15-year-old Amelia working part-time as a cashier in a grocery store and crushing on her 21-year-old coworker, Chris. Sometimes it's perfectly nice and refreshing to read something so normal and inconsequential - especially since I read Love and Other Perishable Items right after finishing a particularly intense and heavy book. 
 Laura Buzo has created a vibrant cast of fun characters in Love and Other Perishable Items. I found Amelia to be incredibly endearing and quite sensible for her age. And it was not hard to see why she falls so hard for the charming Chris, who treats her as no guy has ever treated her before - but is interested in girls who are completely different from her. I could totally relate to Amelia's frustrations that Chris only ever seems interested in girls who either have no substance or who don't return his interest. But despite Chris' sometimes douchey moments and despite their age difference, I still found that I was rooting for Amelia and Chris to work out some way to be together. Laura Buzo handles the situation expertly and I thought the ending was perfect in its realism. 
 Love and Other Perishable Items is told through a dual narrative - a sort of he-said she-said manner of storytelling in which Amelia gets her side of the story told and then we hear the same exact events again, but told through Chris' journal entries this time. So not only does nothing remarkable ever happen in the plot, but we get to hear these unremarkable plot points told twice - and it was somehow still entertaining! I thought that was impressive. Laura Buzo has a sort of subtle humour in her writing that is fun to read and makes Love and Other Perishable Items compulsively readable. 
 Overall, though there was nothing particularly profound about Love and Other Perishable Items, that's okay because there doesn't need to be and it was still an enjoyable read anyway.