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What's the last thing you impulse-cooked from a Facebook recipe?

Please tell me I'm not the only one who gets sucked in by some of the pretty recipes that get shared on Facebook? So last night I may have made up a batch of these cinnamon roll cheesecake bars. Yup, these are good. Not quite as good as I envisioned when I was drooling over the …

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Simply Ground peanut butter -- Not so simple

So I'll preface this by saying that this peanut butter is no worse than (with about the same ingredients as) the Jif I last bought, and I did know the ingredients before purchasing and bought it anyway. But... quick: When you hear Simply Ground peanut butter, what's your first assumption? A friend stopped by before I'd put …

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Added Sugar will soon be listed on nutrition labels!

New nutrition labels are coming to most packaged foods near you this July, and the FDA has posted the above preview of what they're going to look like. On the left above, an example of a current nutrition label. On the right, an example of the revamped nutrition label. One big change: These new nutrition …

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Labels labels labels -- No HFCS... but lots of other stuff!

I bought these cheap Quaker chewy girl scouts granola bars at Target the other day. Note the front: NO high fructose corn syrup. OK, good, we're all down with that. Now, let's look at what IS in these. Play "count the sugars," but start with this line alone: Corn syrup, sugar, corn syrup solids, invert …

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Three kinds of sugar in Swanson broth... oops

Today I stopped by the Villa Park Dollar Tree for papers (decided on three, plus the delivered on tomorrow will make four) and found Swanson Tuscan chicken broth on the shelf. Bought four of those with two $1.00/2 printables, three Curad bandages (used $1.00/1 from the 5/10 SS, which didn't scan but they punched it …

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