Food and Drink

Man, I have to get me one of these:

Should we feel good about ourselves when our standing is improved only when others do even worse than we do?

Although adults in Indiana continue to gain weight, they're not doing so as quickly as many other states, an annual ranking of obesity across the nation finds.

This news from Hoosier Ag Today requires a celebration, I think:

After some very tough years, the beef business in Indiana is coming back. According to Purdue, Indiana has seen a 50% decline in cattle operations in the state over the past 20 years.

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Exciting news on the "So you think you have free will?" front. A new study shows that kids respond to sneaky sales pitches:

Popular cartoon characters are influencing the taste preferences of very young children, and not in a positive way, a new study suggests.

The mayor of Indianapolis is urging that city's yoots to just say no to sloth:

"I will be active 60 minutes a day and eat healthy foods"

Those words are on the pledge card that Indianapolis youths can sign as part of a new, citywide Get Fit Indy! wellness initiative, launched Wednesday by Mayor Greg Ballard and 17 community partners.

If the gubmint keeps pushing to get the salt out, who knows what damage will be done to our cherished American diet?

At the company's laboratories in Battle Creek, Mich., a Kellogg vice president and food scientist, John Kepplinger, ticked off the ways salt makes its little square cracker work.

Anybody want to buy a few hundred cookbooks? I'm not much of a collector, but I began buying cookbooks about 25 years ago when I took a baking class at Ivy Tech and started spending a lot more time in the kitchen. But, as I may have mentioned before, I hardly ever use them. They're still fun to browse through, but it's pain to actually find a recipe you want to make in them. If you want a good bean soup recipe, for example, you can spend a couple of hours looking through the books to find one that interests you.

I'm one of those 40 percent of all U.S. households with a Kroger "loyalty card," though I didn't know it was called that. You let them scan it everytime you check out, and it usually knocks at least a few bucks off the total. But, wait, there's more:

Millions of Kroger customers across the nation get Loyal Customer Mailings at their homes all over the United States as well

The Indianapolis Star tries to have it both ways over the news that the American College of Sports Medicine has judged its city's residents among the most unhealthy in the nation:

Food in the news today. It's bad at a bakery:

Aunt Millie's confirmed Thursday the company will lay off 33 people from its Fort Wayne plant effective May 14.

According to Melissa Dunning at Perfection Bakeries, two shifts are also being eliminated.  Dunning said the layoff is due to a decline in bread sales.