Oh, boy how portion sizes have changed in the last 20 years. I never really realized it until I went to the website of the Department of Health and Human Services and looked over their Portion Distortion slide shows.
What really got me was the bagel. 20 years ago I would stop for double toasted bagel with a little butter and a slice of cheddar cheese on the way to work. The slice of cheese was the same size as a slice of that awful processed cheese I don’t use today. …

Serving Size: 1/8 of recipe
Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients:
1 cup rice, uncooked
1 package (10 ounce) broccoli, frozen
3 cups chicken, cooked

Have you ever wondered if you are cooking food the right way? Have you ever murdered a meal? Do you or someone you love need a good solid cooking resource guide? Then check out How to Boil Water.
How to Boil Water caught my eye at my local bookstore. I liked the attractive bright cover full of pictures of yummy food and the title was perfect in it’s simplicity so I picked it up just to have a look. Sigh… so many of my purchases start this way.
How to …

Do you love fresh delicious meals but don’t think you have the time to make them? Do you want to expand your vegetarian cooking while saving money? Then Fresh Food Fastis for you. If you haven’t eaten out of this cookbook you are in for a treat.

I first saw this cookbook on the old high school music stand that my friend Tina puts by the stove when she cooks. I must have eaten half a dozen fast, easy and cheap recipes out of it before I finally picked it up. …

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. …