Sometimes the food you eat is trying to kill you. Not in the traditional sense, with saturated fat, refined sugars and cholesterol. There are a few foods out there that can literally end your life if improperly prepared, or at the very least make you terribly sick. While you probably won’t encounter most of the items on this list during the normal course of your life, a few of them are surprisingly common.
September 13, 2012 Inspired by the recent epsisode of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,' where the family enjoys a meal of spaghetti with a sauce made from melted butter and ketchup, I decided to make the dish.
In a bold move on Wednesday, McDonald's announced that it will post calorie counts for all of its food items on menu boards and drive-thrus across their 14,000 restaurants in the US.
So, what spurred this Big Mac of a decision?
September 13, 2012 On a recent episode of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,' the family sat down for a meal of spaghetti, or sketti in the local parlance, with a sauce made of butter and ketchup. Odd? Turns out that is a popular way to prepare the pasta.
Coca-Cola plans to take a squirt on its competition, as the company recently announced a new product that will require only a few drops to get a thirsty population on the fast track to flavor town
You can call them by their proper name, “Waffle Chip Dippers,” all you want. Those, friends, are ice cream nachos. Baskin-Robbins is selling them at select locations for $2.99, which is significantly less than the cost of nachos that aren’t made out of ice cream, last we checked.
Some of you may not believe this, but Mountain Dew was not intended to be consumed for breakfast – that is, until now.
September 1, 2012 State Fairs, are of course, known for junk food - everything is fried and on a stick, or served with a doughnut as a bun. Can you find anything healthy to eat at the state fair? Surprisingly, yes - and they're some of the most economical choices at the fair as well.
August 20, 2012 Today is National Lemonade Day and I'm happy to celebrate it since lemonade is one of my favorite drinks. I'll take a glass of lemonade any day of the year, but please, not that watered down stuff pretending to be lemonade. Give me the real deal like when I was a kid.
While an apple a day may keep the doctor away, it looks as if fast food apple slices could have you racing for the emergency room.
If you’re a student who’s investigating colleges and you’re also a big fan of bacon and sausage, you can go ahead and mark Paul Quinn College off your list — the school has just banned all pork products from its campus.
August 14, 2012 Pens, backpacks, notebooks. All stuff students need for back to school. Something else they need is good nutrition to keep their brains sharp for all that studying. The challenge for parents is to find stuff kids will eat but that's also healthy too.
