food labels

Claims to Fame

By fame, I mean products making way into the home by making health claims. Many recent questions arising from health claims on products, including cereals, beverages and most recently, POM Wonderful.  The issue isn’t any particular product that is making health claims, but a trend towards companies using health claims on packaging and advertising to [...]

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Pasta Monster

My daughter loves pasta, and if you offer her pasta, everything else on the plate gets ignored.  Check out my video and tell me about the comparisons you make at the grocery store.  This video is a great segue into the topic we’re talking about this week.  Stay tuned for the next video!

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Analyzing Nutrition Facts

This week’s nutrition topic is about nutrition facts and how to read them.  Katia made a really great video analyzing two different nutrition labels.   We tried to get this out on Friday, but we had a few hitches.   Anyway, check it out, and let us know what you think, and we encourage any [...]

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Confused By Food Labels

A BBC article shines light on food labels and how they confuse mothers when in the grocery store.  I’ve written about food labels before, but I do have to admit this article raises some alarms about certain items that I’ve chosen in the past while in a hurry at the grocery store.” An astonishing 9 [...]

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Grocery Store Labels

When it comes down to it, when I’m shopping at the grocery store, I don’t usually take a look at the labels of the things that I’m putting in the cart.  I try not to get any processed foods, but sometimes quick meals are a rescue plan when daddy and mommy are just too tired [...]

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