Variety of factors getting food from farm to market makes predicting prices difficult
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Matt McKinney, Star Tribune
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Forecasting food prices at the grocery store is a lot like predicting the flood stages of the Red River of the North. A lot of data feeds into the equation, and the numbers are constantly changing. Recent surveys have found that farmers, reeling from high ...
Fiends for beans
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Andrea Weigl
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Laurel and John Wetzork of Wendell, N.C., have figured out how to save money by cooking dried beans and stockpiling their freezer with the meal staple. Laurel Wetzork shared how they process dried beans. A pound of dried beans generally costs less than $1 and produces ...
Gale Gand is sweet on ‘Brunch'
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Pastry queen Gale Gand has just come out with "Brunch! 100 Fantastic Recipes for the Weekend's Best Meal" (Clarkson Potter, $27.50), written with Christie Matheson. Gand, executive pastry chef and partner at Tru restaurant, hosted the cooking show "Sweet Dreams" on the Food ...
Toting ones lunch becoming a cheap, hip, healthy trend
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Gina Kim
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Frugality is the new black. Throw in the terms "eco-friendly" and "healthier," and the result is a trifecta of hip. Who knew packing a lunch could symbolize so much?
"It's every penny counts," says Kevin Wehr, an assistant professor of sociology at California State ...
Ham, the all-purpose leftover
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Susan M. Selasky
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - You can eat it here and there; say! you can eat it anywhere I grew up in a Polish-Catholic household, and ham was an Easter mainstay. It graced our table as well as our Easter baskets. It was put on a plate, wrapped in plastic and nestled in the basket with other foods, ...
Buying a rain barrel: 5 things you ought to know
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Beth Botts
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - A rain barrel is an easy, accessible way to get on the water-cherishing bandwagon. Use rainwater for your plants and it will replenish groundwater without a detour through the sewer and sewage plant. New designs make barrels fit more attractively into patios and next to ...
Growing through phases
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Beverly Fortune
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Before Martha Buckner plants her back-yard vegetable garden, she will consult the chart in "The Old Farmer's Almanac" showing the best planting dates. "In the almanac, it tells you what to plant and the dates to plant them," said Buckner, who lives in Harrodsburg, Ky. ...
Shoppers will consume lots of Easter treats, as usual
McClatchy Newspapers
4/11/2009, by Joyce Smith
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) - The kids may get fewer eggs in the Easter baskets this year, but with holiday spending approaching $13 billion, are they really going to notice? Easter typically kicks off spring and gives retailers a buoyant surge between Valentine's Day and Mother's Day _ sales much ...
Shop owner sees beauty where others see junk
McClatchy Newspapers
4/11/2009, by Kim Yeager
Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS (MCT)- Teresa DeJarlais sees beauty where others see junk. French flea-market finds populate her home-furnishings and decor shop in Buffalo, Minn. But she unearthed many of her pieces much closer to home _ from musty estate sales and curbside junk piles. If DeJarlais had a ...
‘Victory Gardens' return as more growing their own patch of produce
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Kathy Van Mullekom
Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) (MCT) - Some call them "recession gardens." Others label them revivals of the Victory Gardens, an early 1940s campaign that helped people put more food on the table during hard economic times.
Whatever the label, one fact is known _ people are growing more of their ...
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