You may or may not have noticed your food packages getting smaller and smaller – with prices staying the same or going up. Boxes are getting shorter and narrower, plastic containers are getting curvy and lots of new marketing ploys are trying to convince us that it’s all to our benefit, to make the package easier to store or hold or some other alleged convenience. And it all seems very sneaky. READ MORE

I thought it would be interesting to see how a food packaged as “on the go” would compare with its traditional more-work-to-prepare counterpart. So when I saw these Quaker Oats cereal options I thought this would be the perfect example. And it was. They had a similar flavor focused around “brown sugar”. READ MORE

Bacon Bacon Everywhere

My entire house still smells like bacon. And by “entire” I mean including the TOWELS in my bathroom. And I have no desire to eat bacon again for a really long time, although there are 8 partially scavenged bags of bacon still in my freezer. READ MORE

Nobody Does It Better
I knew if I asked my mom to help me with this taste test that at least one comment would be made about “MY lasagna…” Fill in the blank with “tastes better” “doesn’t need flavor enhancers” “has a lot more ricotta cheese”. But that’s alright – she’s correct on all accounts. We tasted 4 frozen lasagna dinners: READ MORE

The Controversy

Last Fall Dr. Oz sparked some controversy when he talked about the levels of arsenic in apple juice. The FDA and some other experts claimed that he didn’t do the right tests and that the apple juice didn’t exceed allowable amounts of arsenic. READ MORE