Because natural isn't always possible — or easy.
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Education, Food on Mar 18th, 2010
PepsiCo on Tuesday announced a new global policy on sweetened sodas in school: They’ve taken a withdrawal. Starting in 2012, you won’t be able to find a can of Mountain Dew — or any of its full sugar sodas — in any K-12 school across the world. (PepsiCo already pulled the trigger on the policy [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, Illness, Preventative medicine on Mar 9th, 2010
When my daughter was about 15-months-old I took her in for a well-check. “Whoa, she’s gained a lot this month,” my doctor told me. “What is she eating?” My answer was sort of complicated. Katelyn was a hungry kid and a good eater. This was a good thing, I thought, which is why I was [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Friendship, Health, Illness, Preventative medicine on Mar 3rd, 2010
I almost hate saying it, but I am surprised I am not hacking up a lung. Usually when I go away — and definitely after spending an afternoon in a kids’ ER — I get a cold. It’s been 48 hours now, and I am sniffle-free, but we’ll see what the week brings. I thought [...]
I got a press release the other day informing me that February is National Snack Food month, a distinction created by the Snack Food Association back in 1989 to build awareness during an otherwise slow sales month. As I sit here eating Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Hearts (yum!), I realize I am not one of [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Cool sites, Food, Shopping on Feb 3rd, 2010
Over the past 24 hours we’ve had three instances of customer service via Twitter and all I can say is WOW.
First, a little background: We own a Kenmore stainless steel refrigerator. It’s about eight years old, but it’s in nice condition. About a year ago it started running all the time. We have an extended [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health, Illness, Meditation, Organic on Jan 25th, 2010
Last August my husband started having medical issues. Intestinal issues. Sort of. He’s had three operations so far. The last one didn’t work, so he will be having his fourth operation soon. It’s been hard on all of us, although, to quote his doctor, “This is something that’s more a pain in the ass than [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food, Organic on Jan 15th, 2010
It seems like I keep writing about chicken. This time, I’m hot and bothered about Tyson’s antibiotic debacle. For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about: Tyson Foods, Inc., the company that manufactures all those chicken fingers and sells raw poultry in 2008 was sued for what some called questionable business [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Going Green, Health on Dec 29th, 2009
I hung up on my mother this weekend. Childish, wrong, silly, I know. On Christmas Day we had dinner at her house. On each of the kids’ plates there was a large — and I do mean LARGE — puke green Grinch lollipop. My mom’s neighbor is one of those holiday bakers that I can [...]
Posted in Eating Healthy, Food, Health on Dec 17th, 2009
This week the New York City health department launched what has become a popular YouTube clip. In it, a man gets ready to guzzle some soda. When he pours it into a glass, globs of fat drip out instead. He drinks it anyway, which makes for good video. The point, of course, is to gross [...]
Posted in Consumer Packaged Goods, Eating Healthy, Food on Nov 24th, 2009
Last night my husband stayed up until 2 a.m. baking brownies for my big girl’s school sharing feast. Apparently, the Native Americans gave the settlers chocolate as a gift, so we were assigned something chocolate. All the food at the feast has to be vegetarian — vegan preferred — but since we were baking we [...]