What's the catch? No catch, just a hardy hat’s off to Trader Joe’s former president, Doug Rauch! He recently founded a nonprofit grocery store called the Daily Table to help alleviate food waste and offer low-cost healthy food options to residents of Dorchester, near Boston. The store stocks foods donated from wholesalers and markets that…
The current controversy about labeling foods as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) has been a hot topic for a very long time. Biotech and food industries have spent millions of dollars opposing labeling initiatives and are fighting tooth and nail to block a state's rights to label GMOs. However, in a recent survey, nearly 90% of…
Food manufacturer, General Mills, issued a recall on October 5, 2015 of 1.8 million boxes of GF labeled Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios, produced at their Lodi, California facility. During a specific 4 days of production of Cheerios and 13 days of production of Honey Nut Cheerios, wheat flour was inadvertently introduced into their gluten-free…
Trying to eat healthier and watch your waistline? Here’s a trick to use at the grocery store: eat a piece of fruit before you go. The healthy snack helps keep you away from freshly baked sweets or colorfully packaged goodies. It also gets you into a health conscious frame of mind. A study conducted by…
It’s that time of year when thoughts go to “spring clean up”. Whether it’s your house, your yard or life in general. This is also a good time to take a second glance specifically at your kitchen. What should stay and what can GO? There’s an article in GFP that offers strategies to create a…
The holidays are over and so is the dispensation we allow ourselves to eat sweets. However, some of us may extend our sugary ways just a bit longer to try Pillsbury’s new gluten-free chocolate chip cookie dough, for that quick fix. The tubs are bright blue and white and will be found in the same…
For those of us who must read labels to check for wheat and its by-products, life just got a little easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration started enforcing a rule last week that requires all products claiming to be gluten-free to contain no more than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten. Gluten is…
Always a dilemma… Do I pay twice as much for organic produce or hope that the lesser expensive non-organic produce isn’t really diminishing my health? A recent review of the benefits of organic produce over non-organic foods found that “Organic produce and grains contain more protective antioxidants, less pesticide residue and lower levels of the…
You may think you’re doing your body a favor when you switch cow’s milk for a plant-based version, but think again. The latest versions of soy, rice, coconut and almond milk are highly processed and can be full of a nutritional bogeyman far worse than dairy – sugar. There’s a reason for that, of course.…
What I have learned to be most difficult for our family becoming gluten-free and swearing off wheat products forever is that the number of options available to us have narrowed substantially; especially since we live in an area that I would say is not as “forward-thinking” when it comes to food as other areas of…