I usually tend to stray away from many Paula Deen recipes. I mean, they look delicious and all, but do I really feel like getting a triple-bypass surgery at 25? On the other hand, I’m definitely cool with peanut butter and I found a great Paula Deen peanut butter cookie recipe off of foodnetwork.com. Funny thing is, it’s kind of your basic, classic peanut butter cookie recipe with her name slapped on top (featuring Hershey Kiss centers, which is not so original IMO)
I like the recipe because it really gives …

Ok, maybe I’m being a tad harsh — heck, I’ve never counted calories as part of a diet anyways. However, a recent study conducted by researchers at Tufts University found that the foods they studied (frozen foods and restaurant meals) contained waaay more calories than claimed. We’re talking 8% more for prepared foods, and 18% to 200% more on some restaurant items. Does that mean that 1,000 calorie hickory burger from Ruby’s can actually be 2000+ calories?!  Read the full article here.
My opinion: the fact that some (or many) restaurants lie …

You may have heard some buzz lately about a newly released book called Food Rules: An Eater’ s Manual, written by Michael Pollan. After watching his interview with John Stewart on the Daily Show, I became very intrigued on his thoughts on food.  Actually, Pollan is considered an expert on food-related issues and has also wrote two other very popular books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food.
“Don’t buy cereals that change the color of the milk,” (avoid foods with colors and additives) and “The whiter the bread, the …

Looks like it’s not just the generous amounts of sugar in soda that makes it bad for you. A recent investigation of 30 soda fountain machines in Roanoke Valley, Virginia found alarming amounts of bacteria spewing (or “squirting” as the article graphically describes) out of these fountains into our XXL plastic cups. Oh no, it’s not just your average, albeit dangerous, e. coli type, but a specific fecal kind called coliform bacteria. And lots of it too. 70% of the samples contained bacteria, which 48% contained the coliform type. YUMMY.
I …