Occasionally I see lists of the “top 10” most nutritious fruits and vegetables, but they’re never quite the same as each other. How much should I pay attention to these kinds of lists? Trying to list the “best” fruits and vegetables is always going to vary depending on the criteria used. Sometimes those lists rank [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer The U.S. Postal Service wants its customers to lend a hand to needy people. On Saturday, residents should set non-perishable foods out by their mailboxes for pick up by letter carriers. It is the day of the Help Stamp Out Hunger campaign. “It’s the biggest, single-day food collection in the [...]
What’s the best thing to do when you hear a food that you’ve recently purchased is being recalled? First, find out why the product is being recalled. If it’s due to an undeclared food allergen, for example, and no one in your household suffers from that allergy, you don’t have to worry about it. However, [...]
Tastes in foods go in cycles. If you look back by decades it might surprise you to realize how appetites for different foods evolve over time. So does their preparation. In the 1950s, the average American family ate three meals per day, on a more-or-less set schedule. Breakfast for many of us consisted of meat [...]
No, it’s nothing new to me. I’ve been here in varying degrees many times before. I have seen some of my friends run into the same situation. In some extreme cases it is referred to as burn-out. I’m not sure this is an accurate definition. It gives the connotation that one was once on fire [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer Simply put, the food pantry of the Mt. Sterling Community Center needs canned vegetables and a few other staples. The shortage was shared with The Madison Press on Tuesday. A volunteer showed this reporter the shelving allocated for canned vegetables and it was nearly bare. On the shelf below, [...]
When I was little, my parents hid my Easter basket before they went to bed so I could hunt for it Easter morning. The basket always contained at least one hard-boiled egg. Now we’re told we shouldn’t leave hard-boiled eggs out overnight. There was never a problem before. Why the change? First, let’s be clear: [...]
It’s Easter. It’s hard to believe there are just two more months of school before summer break (especially hard to believe when a little snow’s been flying nearly every day). Old Man Winter is especially stubborn this year. This time every year we emerge from the “other side” of winter into more daylight and warmer [...]
