If you haven’t heard of the The Marlboro Cookbook that is not surprising – the cookbook was part of Marlboro Miles Catalog in 2002. Marlboro cigarettes have “miles” on each pack and you save them up and can trade them for items out of their catalog when you have saved up enough of these miles.
You can’t buy the cookbook in stores but you can find it at flea markets, in secondhand bookstores and used on Amazon.com. It is well worth the effort to find this cookbook. And it is cheap …

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January

Fruit & Vegetables – Avocados, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, collards, endive, grapefruit, kale, forced rhubarb, leeks, oranges, parsnips, rutabagas, shallots, squash, tangerines, turnip
Fish & Meat – Goose, lobster, scallops

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February

Fruit & Vegetables – Avocados, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac, chard, celery, chicory, endive, forced rhubarb, grapefruit, kohlrabi, leeks, oranges, parsnips, rutabagas, spinach, swede, turnip
Fish & Meat – Mussels, halibut, guinea fowl, lobster

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March

Fruit & Vegetables – Artichokes, avocados, bananas, beans (green & wax), beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, endive, grapefruit, leeks, mint, mooli, nectarines, parsley, pineapples, onions (bermuda), oranges, radishes, rhubarb, rutabagas, …

Even though corn is now selling for less than half of its June price, the Thanksgiving turkey that feeds on that corn costs 8% more per pound. The wheat baked into the dinner rolls is down 60%, but the rolls are up 16%. And the soybeans in all those holiday pie crusts? Down 47% since summer, but cost is 9% more, the CBS study found.
Experts say it’s because grocery pricing is about more than just commodities.
“Raw commodity costs represent about 20% of the total food bill at the grocery store. …

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Whole Foods Market invites shoppers to check out The Whole Deal, available now in stores and at www.wholefoodsmarket.com/wholedeal. The latest quarterly value guide shares tried-and-true ways to cut costs but not corners when shopping for natural and organic groceries. It also delivers healthy ideas to help ensure New Year’s resolutions become long-term solutions. The Whole Deal recommends to those who are watching their wallets, waistlines and overall wellness to:

The nonprofit Environmental Working Group studied 47 fruits and vegetables and ranked them according to contamination.
You can get the iphone app of this list or a .pdf at their web site.
Use the list when you shop to determine which organic produce you should be buying.