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Jamie Oliver is wrong about flavored milk
Relics of the past: Chocolate milk cartons await plucking at the Belmont Senior High cafeteria in Los Angeles in May. AP Photo by Damian Dovarganes. Is Jamie Oliver the most powerful star on reality...
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Healthier vending machines coming to O.C.
The top two rows on the new Fresh Healthy Vending machines are reserved for items like veggie chips and protein bars, while the bottom three rows are refrigerated. Photos courtesy of Fresh Healthy...
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Organic fruits: Are you in or not?
Organic strawberries were a big seller at the O.C. Fairgrounds farmer's market last Thursday. The first time I went to an Orange County supermarket, I thought I’d get some organic apples. They were in...
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What’s the best low-calorie ice cream?
My refrigerator knows when it’s the start of summer. It begins stocking up on boxes and cartons of ice cream. They just appear out of nowhere, and the fridge has a system in place, because the one...
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Natural chicken back in all local Chipotles
In April the Fast Food Maven reported that Chipotle Mexican Grill was enduring a supply-chain issue that left many Southern California restaurants without the naturally raised chickens that have...
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Gym gets O.C.’s first ‘healthy’ vending machine
Healthy vending machines, as a business venture and as a movement, are officially up and running in Orange County. Even if there are a few kinks to be ironed out. Last month we told you about the San...
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What’s the fast-food capital of America?
Downtown Plano, Texas (cue "Good Bad and the Ugly" theme). Photo posted to Flickr by Bill Hammond. The money blog Bundle.com crunched some spending numbers for the 100 largest cities in the U.S. to...
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You make the call: Is it blueberry or mold?
I’m cleaning out the pantry, and this package of blueberry bagels, which I bought for the kid, has me puzzled. I never expected the doughy treats to be bursting with real blueberry juiciness, but these...
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L.A. stands by school flavored-milk ban
A student at a San Francisco elementary school drinks a bottle of Nesquik chocolate milk during lunch last November. Photo by Justin Sullivan, Getty Images. The Los Angeles Unified School District is...
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Denny’s brings the cheese with 1,690-calorie dish
Notice the salt shaker is empty. All of it went into this sandwich, which has 3,330 milligrams of sodium. Photo from Denny's. Now this is more like it, Denny’s. Nearly 13 months ago, I mocked the...
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