Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome. Just write up a story about burnt toast, take a picture of an odd-shaped potato chip, or tell us where you love to eat out.
In other words, the Food on Fridays parameters are not narrow. It’s like a pitch-in, where everyone just brings something to share, and we enjoy sampling each dish.
Anyway, when your Food on Fridays contribution is ready, just grab the broccoli button to paste at the top of your post and link up through Mr. Linky.
Here’s a Mr. Linky tutorial:
Write up a post, publish, then return here and click on Mr. Linky below. A screen will pop up where you can type in your blog name and paste in the url to your own Food on Fridays post (give us the exact link to your Food on Fridays page, not just the link to your blog).
You can also visit other people’s posts by clicking on Mr. Linky and then clicking participants’ names–you should be taken straight to their posts.
Food on Fridays Participants
- Cooking During Stolen Moments (Ground Beef “Wellington”)
- Newlyweds (Crock-pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots)
- My Practically Perfect Life (Buttermilk Bread)
- Stretch Mark Mama (Spinach Salad)
- The Goat (BLT)
- The Mom Trap (Simple Salisbury Steak)
- mominapocket (Strawberry Bread)
- Glimpse of Sonshine (Mexican Lasagna)
- It’s Frugal Being Green (30 Quick, Green and Frugal Meal Planning Resources)
Food on Fridays with Ann
So sorry for the delay in getting this published.
The other day I bought filet mignon on sale at the store. We were so excited, eating like rich people at the cost of hamburger meat!
I complimented the Belgian Wonder’s grilling, because the meat was delicious.
“Well,” he said, “they added a lot to it.”
“What?”
“I read the packaging while I was out there,” he said. “They added ‘natural’ flavors. It said up to 15 percent added natural flavors.”
“They added flavor? To meat?”
He shrugged.
I was disgusted.
So, like last week’s cottage cheese label surprise, I am reminded to read all labels and all packaging.
Even those of meats.
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Those good old labels- I certainly don’t read them enough.
It was funny last week, after your post I went and read my cottage cheese and sour cream. I have some good ‘ole enriched stuff. I mean bad stuff, enriched with lots of additives. I buy the loss leaders, sales and cheapest brands I can, and I need to be ‘buyer beware’. I will say that not all the cheapest stuff has additives, so WE really NEED to read the labels and not prejudge.
Thanks again, I appreciate your reminder on this important item.
Shari
Well my post for today is full of additives, but I can’t resist. I think I posted about food all week, so look for my other posts on Pork products and Broccoli salad as well as the one I linked to Mr. Linky. It was a food fest over at The Goat lately!
Have a fabulous weekend!
Kristin
Yuck….
Trying to make a habit of reading food labels. After annual at Mayo Clinic, I am trying to follow their food pryamid you can find on their website. Amazing how much sodium and sugar is in processed foods!
Have you read the bok Fast Food Nation? That is what got me a little obsessed about my labels. I try and follow this guide, Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Thanks for linking me up Ann!
I always wonder what exactly those “natural flavors” consist of. I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know though. Reading food labels is such an enlightening experience. I started really focusing on that a few years ago and it has become an obsession. Fortunately after awhile, you learn which brands and products to just stay away from.
Here’s the shocking thing. The FDA allows MSG and aspertame to be labeled as “natural flavors”!!
Ever wonder why a label will say something like “garlic, parsley, salt, pepper, natural flavor”???
The other ones are natural…but they are not MSG!
And do you further know that one of the biggest side-effects of MSG is depression?
Kind of makes you think, huh?
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