Food News July 5th, 2009

• Subway announces they are cleaning up their standard subway build by removing pickles and olives from their standard build (what they use to list basic nutritional info). These two ingredients are higher in sodium and they felt that the sandwiches would be heart healthier without them. By removing them from the standard build, they hope to draw awareness for those watching their sodium intake due to high blood pressure or who are just concerned with overall heart health.  Subway’s Fresh Fit menu is approved by the American Heart Association and their children’s menu is approved by the National Institutes of Health.
• Hormel – also wants you to eat healthier and help you to figure out what all the labels are really telling you.  They have a downloadable “Shop Smart, Live Well: Value Without Compromise” guide that provides information on healthy, trusted and affordable options that people can feel good about eating and serving to their families. Specifically, the guide offers tips on how to:
  • Decipher various product claims;
  • Identify natural products in the supermarket
  • Make simple, smart shopping choices
  • Trade costly, unhealthy snacks for healthier, more affordable options
  • Live the “Shop Smart, Live Well” philosophy both in and out of the supermarket
  • Create delicious, all-natural recipes the whole family can enjoy
    • Go here to get Hormel Coupons.
• Cooking-Hits.com – Are you ready to be the next Giada, Rachel or Bobby? Cooking-Hits is a place to upload your cooking videos to share.  Besides uploading videos of your cooking your favorite recipes, you can also connect via Facebook,Twitter, MySpace or YouTube.  Cooking-Hits.com allows users to:

  · Have Fun – Interact with other food lovers by viewing, rating, commenting on or sharing original recipes via “home-cooked” short video

  · Get Solutions – Great ideas, helpful hints, tips on meal prep and ask questions

  · Find Time – Search and print recipes, ingredients and menu options

  · Save Money – Create shopping lists where ingredients from a recipe can be added one at a time

• Biokleen – To commemorate 20 years as a leading provider of earth-friendly cleaning supplies, Biokleen has pledged to plant one tree for every new fan the company receives on Facebook in the month of July with the help of EarthCorps. It only takes a minute, so become a fan. Each tree planted absorbs and removes one ton of harmful carbon dioxide out of the air over its lifetime, so do your part to preserve the environment and join the conversation!

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