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As gas prices go up, so do food prices. It’s tough on pretty much everyone. Food is universal. You could maybe spend less on gas, but it’s harder to eat less, even when it’s for a diet.

Angel Food Ministries is the best thing I’ve heard of in a long time. It’s like a CSA, where you get a box of fresh veggies and other goodies from a farmer. However, Angel Food Ministries gives you a big box of food that will feed you for a month, from meats to veggies to dessert. It’ll feed a family for a week.

Each month, you get different food, all for $30. If you want more meat, you can buy an additional pack. According to the program, it’ll cost you anywhere from $42 to $78 to get the same amount of food in a grocery store.

Anybody can get food, it doesn’t matter who you are. There are no forms, no qualifications. There are centers all over the United States, just head over to the site and check it out.

FInd out more about Angel Food Ministries

(Via Tipnut.)

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I’m a little wiped from taking the boy to the airport at 3 a.m. and then driving the 1.5 hours home, so I’ll get you guys back tomorrow, but until then, these wonderful things.

You Bars. I’ve eaten Lara Bars, Powerbars and a number of other things when I’m working long hours and don’t have time to stop for a “real” meal. While they work, I’m kinda picky. I like the general feel of Lara Bars, but I wish they were less date-y. I with Powerbars had less stuff in them, etc.

Enter the You Bar. I design my own bar, with different bases, nuts, additives and treats. I get a box of 12 for $40 (custom is never cheap). I eat.

Get it at You Bar 

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Since I’m finally hosting Thanksgiving for more than one person at my house, and the new person is my brother’s new girl, I want to impress. That means I have to cook serious, not just throwing a turkey in the oven and hoping for the best, which is what my brother would normally get.

So, to be sure, I made a menu and I invited some discriminating friends over for dinner. Instead of turkey, I made chicken, but everything else was the same. It all turned out well, minus some bird timing issues. (keep scrolling for photos of the event)

All in all, no complaints were had.

The menu:

Champagne turkey (recipe)

Sweet potato, goat cheese and parmesan galette (recipe)

Cranberry spread (recipe)

Wild mushroom stuffing (recipe)

Mashed potatoes and gravy (I wing this all the time, no recipe needed)

I meant to take photos of the prepared food, except this is as close as I got.

I learned that none of my friends know how to carve a bird.

But we sure do know how to clean our plates.

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Have you seen Waitress? You haven’t? It’s by Adrienne Shelly (she wrote, directed and even played a part in the movie). Tragically, she was murdered earlier this year, before the movie came out. It’s really sad, because the movie is fantastic and she had a great career before her.

Go see the movie, and then donate to Shelly’s foundation, which helps young female directors. Then, bake some of the pies in the movie.

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Elise over at Simply Recipes has the msot gorgeous photos in general, but today I saw her post on Apricots and I have just fallen in love with them. Weird that I’m discovering fresh apricots at 24, since I’ve been eating the dried kind for years, but the Farmer’s Market makes me adventurous.

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Don’t want a Barbie or Star Wars lunch box? Need to take your PBJ to work? Check out the Wrap n Mat. For $5 you have a reusable mat and sandwich wrap that probably beats any Ziploc bag out there.

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I was reading waiterrants, a cool blog about a water and his observations on…life and food more or less. But I read this entry on dessert and it made me kind of sad.

I don’t typically order desserts at restaurants, but that’s more because I grew up with a mom that made desserts better than most restaurants. But to know that wait staff will lie and tell you they’re made there makes me depressed. At least the blog’s author is honest.

It’s true that desserts can be very time-intensive, but that’s part of the love of cooking. Any good restaurant should, in my opinion, understand that people go to restaurants to taste someone else’s creation, not some factory creation. If I’m going to a nice place, I expect love to come with my meal. If I’m going to a chain, like Chili’s, of course it’ll be mostly frozen.

It just goes to show the loss of passion in consumerism, everything from bland clothing stores like Gap/Express to restaurants. *sigh*

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This is for my friend Charlee, who doesn’t like milk sitting, has milk-poachers at the office and loves cereal.

It’s cereal to go. But not soggy cereal. You’re not putting milk and cereal in the same bowl to get warm as you sit on the train. This cereal holder has gel that keeps the milk cold, and a separate chamber for the cereal. In the lid, a little spoon! ($9, from Brylane Home)

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There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about models. They’re too thin, and I’ll agree with that. Some are dying of anorexia and bulimia. One of the models was living on lettuce and Diet Coke.

So New York Magazine had two models, a producer and a fashion editor to keep a diary of what they ate during Spring Fashion Week. You’ll be surprised. I was. (Apparently, my morning pick-me up, Ermergen-C, is the same thing industry people use).

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So, I won’t miss milk, or cottage cheese or anything. But cheese, oh cheese. It’s one of my favorite foods. So, I decided soy cheese must be the way to go. I walked on over to Trader Joe’s and got some fake cheddar cheese, sliced. I made some simple comfort food. Rice with pepper and some cheese melted on top.

Stop.

Stomachache. Not too bad, just enough to make me unhappy. My subsequent thoughts were not nice. Soy? Could I really also be susceptible to soy? That really screws me over. I’ll be relegated to rice milk and maybe almond cheese, if I can find it. No more tofu and soy is more or less in anything that most people eat.

Ah, but then I look at the package. Casein. Great. I’m so allergic to milk that my stomach reacts to casein. One step at a time.

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