Whether I am making a quick trip to pick up a few dinner ingredients . . . or tackling a week’s worth of grocery shopping all at once, there are a few steps that I need to follow to ensure the food I bring home will arrive safely. And I know that those steps begin at the store.
When I am at the store I follow some simple guidelines:
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Select cold foods LAST
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Read the label for expiration and sell by dates
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Egg Safety IS All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Salmonella is a word that cooks do not want to hear. With the recent outbreak, eggs could get a bad name. Interesting enough—the sale of eggs have actually risen since the outbreak. That’s OK! Eggs are the perfect source of protein, and should be a healthy part of everyone’s diet. As far as safety goes, only 1 in 20,000 eggs might contain Salmonella. They say that equals the chances of you getting it once every 85 years! Still—you should handle
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Bloggers Hit Up Local Dairy Farm
"Do you know where your milk comes from?" Reads a brochure I picked up after I toured Prairieland Dairy in Firth, Nebraska, with a group of my coworkers. To be honest, I haven't really thought about it other than, from a cow. Ultimately, I trust the system that brings the milk I buy to the grocery store. The tour of the operating dairy farm, helped me understand more about the process. Most of the milk that we buy in the
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