Tillen Farms Natural Maraschino Cherries (Or Make Your Own)

The maraschino cherry is no longer a bad-tasting joke. Tillen Farms has created a delicious, all natural maraschino cherry—no artificial colors or flavors, no sulfites or preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup but real cane sugar. And to think: America has been feeding these “standard” maraschino cherries to kids, who gobble up all that bad…
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PRODUCT: Fancypants Decorated Shortbread Cookies (100% Nut Free)

Have some watermelon…cookie. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. Today is National Sugar Cookie Day. That’s O.K. for a start, but sugar cookies aren’t the most flavorable cookie around. Most of the large, fancifully decorated cookies are sugar cookies. They’re pretty, but they could be tastier. Sugar cookies tend not to have vanilla or…
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PRODUCT: Healthy Snacking With Olive Snack Packs

Lindsay Olives has made a welcome contribution to America’s need to eat healthier on-the-go. The company has debuted three varieties of Lindsay Snackers, small pitted ripe olives in a 1.25-ounce can (18 olives), in Original, Garlic and Italian. The cans have pull tops. Olives are full of olive oil, a heart-healthy fat. We tried the…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spinach Salad With Apples & Figs

Popeye ate spinach because it made him strong: It’s a very good source of dietary fiber and protein, lots of vitamins (A, B6, C, E [alpha tocopherol], K, folate, riboflavin, thiamin), calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and potassium…and a good source of niacin and zinc. On top of the nutrition, spinach makes a wonderful…
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NEW PRODUCT: Vosges Chocolate Bacon Pancakes

Instead of bacon with your pancakes, you can now have bacon in your pancakes—and chocolate, too. What’s new in pancakes? Chocolate chip’s been done, so how about chocolate with bacon? With a chocolate bacon craze sweeping the nation, it was only time before Vosges Haut Chocolat, the makers of Mo’s Bacon Bar (our favorite bacon…
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