Archive for May 2011
Palm Oil, Peanut Butter, and Popcorn
May 24, 2011 | Author admin
The Popcorn
I’m not a big fan of microwave popcorn but I noticed that several major brands had come out with “all natural” versions. Only one of the three I bought actually tasted good Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in The Truch About..., Weird Ingredients | 
Tags: all natural, Jif, Laura Scudders, monounsaturated fat, Newman's Own, Orville Redenbacher, palm oil, peanut butter, polyunsatruated fat, popcorn, saturated fat, Skippy, Wild Harvest | 
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Hot Pockets: Warning – Objects May be Smaller than they Appear on the Package
May 16, 2011 | Author admin
They forgot to put the disclaimer on the package: “photo enlarged to show detail and actual product may have been substituted for an imaginary one.” Read the rest of this entry »
Feeling Sauce-y: 6 All Natural Spaghetti Sauces Compared
May 12, 2011 | Author admin
Woo hoo! I have enough spaghetti sauce to last me a REALLY long time – all 6 of them are now in little freezer containers, packaged with some homemade meatballs. The added meatballs were required because in order to get 6 spaghetti sauces that were similar I had to buy all the plain marinara ones. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Taste Tests, Weird Ingredients | Tags: Barilla Marinara, Calcium Chloride, Canola oil, Classico Sweet Basil, Emeril’s Chunky Marinara, Newman’s Own Marinara, Prego Traditional, Rao’s Marinara sauce, soybean oil | Comments Closed
For all the Do-Gooders: Charitable Food
May 9, 2011 | Author admin
I picked up a box of Triscuits last week and noticed an unusual graphic on the front – someone appeared to be farming. They were actually promoting a “Plant a Seed Grow a Movement” campaign with a nonprofit called Urban Farming. Intrigued, we looked for other similar cause marketing campaigns around the grocery store (on food items) to see what we would find. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in The Truch About... | Tags: Banquet Chicken Pot Pie, Betty Crocker, Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-ups, Betty Crocker Roasted Garlic Potatoes, Box Tops for Education, cause marketing, charity, Child Hunger Ends Here, Frigo Cheesehead, Keebler, Keebler Chips Deluxe Cookies Rainbow, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, Newman's Own Frozen Pizza, One Laptop Per Child, Terracycle, Triscuit, Urban Farming, World Wildlife Fund | Comments Closed
Restaurants on Ice – T.G.I. Friday’s Loaded Potato Skins
May 4, 2011 | Author admin
It scares me a little bit when the FROZEN version tastes better than the REAL version at the restaurant; is it because we are so used to the added chemicals in processed food that we’re starting to like them? Or maybe for this challenge we just enjoyed the ginormous amount of cheese on the frozen T.G.I. Firdays loaded potato skins compared to the real restaurant version. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Hazardous Chemicals, Taste Tests | Tags: loaded potato skins, sodium nitrate, T.G.I. Fridays | Comments Closed
