According to Fooducate, 91% of fast-food meals marketed to children do not meet the restaurant industry's own standards for child nutrition.
Marion Nestle, at Food Politics, has an interesting collection of information about menu nutrition labels (“Remember them?”). Apparently they do work, especially when accompanied by traffic-light labeling (green light for foods under 400 calories, red for those over 800 calories, yellow for things in between). But the restaurant and food industries are frantically lobbying for any exemption they can get. And the New York Times has a very good editorial about that city's short-lived ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces: “After all, people can still get as much soda as they want. This isn’t Prohibition. It’s just that getting it would take slightly more effort. So, why is this such a big deal?” Good question.
Recipes! Chow.com has a collection of recipes using spring ingredients, long on early veggies and fruits; “29 Unexpected Ways to Eat More Whole Grains” including a spinach-feta-and-quinoa chowder that might be tasty; things to do with that huge slab of leftover Easter ham/lamb/you name it; and how to make something very like soft-serve ice-cream out of a banana. Simply Recipes has baked asparagus with Parmesan, which I shall try as soon as there is some decent non-sprue asparagus to be had, and salmon with a hoisin glaze. Smitten Kitchen has a salad of lentils and chickpeas that sounds uninspiring but which the blogger alleges to be “one of the most intense and complexly flavored salad experiences I’ve ever made at home”. And Snack Girl explores the making of real maple syrup – a truly natural sweetener which ranges from distressingly expensive to shudderingly expensive, but as she points out, this helps you to use it in moderation – a reasonably convincing but healthier take on a cheese danish, and a wonderfully mean-spirited review of Lunchables. (“The truth is that they have gotten worse than when I checked them out two years ago.... Oreos, weird chicken things, ketchup, and a fruit smoothie. Does that look like food to you?”)
Welcome to April, National BLT Month which you apparently should make with Florida tomatoes as it's also National Florida Tomato Month although you can get locally grown ones for a good price. It's also National Garden Month. This Saturday, April 6th, is the 59th birthday of the TV dinner – first released in 1954, turkey, dressing, and peas-and-sweet-potatoes. And the 7th, Sunday, is National Beer Day – the 70th anniversary of the first beer sales anticipating repeal of Prohibition.
April 3rd: National Chocolate Mousse Day (or National Chocolate Moose Day)
April 4th: Chocolate Milk Powder Day, National Cordon Bleu Day
April 5th: Dandelion Day (Dandelion greens are good, as is dandelion wine), National Caramel Day
April 6th: Fresh Tomato Day, TV Dinner Day
April 7th: National Coffee Cake Day, National Beer Day
April 8th: National Empanada Day
April 9th: National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
April 10th: Cinnamon Crescent Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye OR New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/eye round/London broil roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb (any size package)
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast OR thighs, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.29/lb
Tilapia OR swai fillets, farm raised, $2.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, 15 oz tubs, $1.99
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Deli: Dietz & Watson chicken breast varieties, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian roast beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature baked or double-honey ham, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 28 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 99¢ ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowl, $5.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Live Gourmet butter lettuce, root on, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 5 oz, $2.99
Bashas':
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, boneless, $9.88/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $8.88/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.49/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
King salmon fillets, farm raised, $14.99/lb
Bashas' cottage cheese, 24 oz tubs, $2.29
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Nature's Own honey wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
PictSweet frozen veggies, 14-16 oz bags, 2/$3
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, 2/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Seedless green grapes, 97¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 2/$5
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef crossrib roast, 50% off
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
80/20 ground beef patties, 10/$10
Pork loin back ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.29/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.66/lb (3 lb pkg)
Corvina fillets, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
California mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, 97¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 5-12 oz, 10/$10
Safeway:
Beef round tip roast, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb (steaks 30¢/lb higher)
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless $1/lb higher)
Beef London broil, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef cube steaks, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb (regular packs, 50¢/lb higher)
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Rockfish OR mahi mahi OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$5
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 2/$3
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39.lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
O Organics grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.99
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.99/lb
Organic red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 2/$3
Sprouts:
Beef sirloin tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken-breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, $6.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb boxes, 4/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Organic apples: Braeburn, Fuji, Red Delicious, 4 lbs/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, $1.88 ea
Beefsteak tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Asparagus, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
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