Quaker Breakfast Flats … A Healthy Breakfast or a Breakfast Cookie?
Breakfast can be one of the hardest meals of the day, especially if you’re not a morning person. Yes, that “not a morning person” comment needs a big arrow pointing at me. 🙂 So marketing healthy, convenient breakfast foods is literally a goldmine for food companies. But are most of these products really healthy? Let’s take a […]
Winning at All Costs. The Problem with Taste Tests
Many people think that choosing a taste test winning brand makes a lot of sense. After all, don’t we all want better tasting food? But after learning what it takes to be crowned a winner, you may want to think twice before choosing foods that have “won” a taste test. Why are taste tests so popular in the […]
Recipe: Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Canned cranberry sauce was a mainstay on my mom’s Thanksgiving table. Refrigerated and cut into slices, it was exceptionally easy and popular—even us picky kids ate it up! But somewhere along the line a good friend of my mom’s introduced us to REAL cranberry sauce. Over the years hearing the “pop” of cranberries on the […]
Sweetmyx: A New Sweetener That’s Sneaking Into Our Food
Reducing the amount of sugar in our diet undoubtedly improves our health. Reducing sugar intake could help people lose weight, have more hydrated skin and have a healthier mouth. Teeth are the first part of the body to come into contact with sugar, therefore taking the brunt of the sugar’s impact. This can have a […]