Tag: food safety

TidBit of the Day: Food That Never Sleeps

TidBit of the Day: Food That Never Sleeps

| September 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

Source: Morgan Clendaniel. Day 137 of the Happy Meal Project. Check out the progression here.

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Label Thursday – Sept 23

Label Thursday – Sept 23

| September 23, 2010 | 4 Comments

This week’s mystery food label of the week. What is it? Thanks for your great guesses last week! Elyssa, you are pretty spot one! Of course, you’re a baker…I would not have been able to guess this one. Last week’s mystery label was… drum roll… A “dairy-free cake” from a standard supermarket. It was a cake [...]

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Label Thursday – Sept 16

Label Thursday – Sept 16

| September 23, 2010 | 5 Comments

Mystery food label of the week. What do you think it is? And thanks for all of you who guessed last week – great guesses! Sprinkled with Flour – you totally hit the nail on the head. Last week’s mystery label was… FUZE Peach Mango. It is labeled as a “Healthy Infuzion,” a “naturally flavored [...]

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Label Thursday

Label Thursday

| September 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

What’s the mystery label this week? Thanks for guessing. Last week’s mystery label was… Little Debbie’s Chocolate Cake! Who knew such a little girl on a little box could use so many ingredients with such complicated names?

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Label Thursday – Sept 9

Label Thursday – Sept 9

| September 15, 2010 | 10 Comments

If you’ve been reading us, you know that we at Zomppa are trying to raise awareness about our food. So today, we are launching a new feature: Label Thursday. Every Thursday, you will see a “mystery” food label. You have one week to guess what this item might be…some may surprise you, others may not. [...]

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Guest/Harmburger

Guest/Harmburger

| September 10, 2010 | 13 Comments

We are excited to introduce our newest guest, Leva, who hails from the Land Down Under (Melbourne, Australia). We might even be able to convince her to become a regular contributor! Leva is a nutritionist. She’s also kind of vegetarian. Kind of, in that on the day she decided to become vegetarian she ate a huge [...]

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Photo of the Day: Revolutionary Gift

Photo of the Day: Revolutionary Gift

| June 4, 2010 | 6 Comments

A gift from dear foodie blogger friend Mardi of eattravelwrite. If you haven’t signed Jamie Oliver’s petition to revolutionize school food, you can do so here.

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Got (Drugstore Cow) Milk?

Got (Drugstore Cow) Milk?

| June 2, 2010 | 16 Comments

Got milk? While there is debate out there (i.e. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study – good read if you haven’t yet) about cow’s milk and its benefits and dangers, a lot of us drink milk or at least give it to our children. But do you know where your milk comes from? If you [...]

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Canned…Good?

Canned…Good?

| January 24, 2010 | 8 Comments

Many of you probably have heard about BPA and its potential harmful effects on humans. If BPA is so bad for you, why did it take the FDA 80 years to say something? WTF? BPA, or Bisphenol A, is an organic compound, a chemical that is used in many food packages, such as the lining [...]

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World Food Day 2009!

World Food Day 2009!

| October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

Today is World Food Day! Topic for the 26th annual day is: Global Food Crisis: Opportunities, Responsibilities and Solutions. Join a live Teleconference information for today from noon to 3:00PM EST.

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