Cherries complement just about any salad, from plain greens to salads with blue cheese or goat cheese to chicken and tuna salad. Combine dried cherries along with the raisins in curried chicken salad for a show-stopper.

• Speaking of which, try this recipe for curried chicken salad wraps—with dried tart cherries, of course!
• What’s for dinner? Here’s a recipe for pork chops with orange cherry sauce.

Add dried cherries to chicken salad—or any
salad. Photo courtesy Cherry Marketing Institute.

A great, 200-calorie pizza fix. Photo by
Evan Dempsey | THE NIBBLE.

DiGiorno has a solution you’re sure to love:

New DiGiornio 200 Calorie Portions are individually-wrapped pizza slices that go from the freezer to the microwave when desire calls. Calorie (and carb) watchers know exactly what they’re getting…and everyone gets to eat truly delicious home-cooked pizza.

Unlike warmed-over microwave pizza, these DiGiorno slices emerge with a crisp crust, not to mention fragrant and delicious.

More than 12,000 products are introduced into supermarkets each year. Most don’t sell enough and disappear from the shelf (brown sugar Sweet ’n Low, to recall an oldie).

DiGiornio 200 Calorie Portions deserve to stick around forever! Pick some up on your next shopping trip. (If they’re not in your store’s pizza freezer, ask the store manager to order them.)

• Read the history of pizza, plus 12 gourmet pizza recipes and pizza-making tips.

• It takes about 4 cups of tart cherries to make one 9″ pie.
• There are about 3 cups of frozen cherries in a pound.

Using a cherry pie filling?

• There are about 2 cups of filling in a 16-ounce can.

Try this recipe for pulled pork in a tart cherry sauce.

Montmorency (tart) cherries. Photo courtesy
Cherry Marketing Institute.

Chukar Cherrie’s Triple Cherry Cobbler & Pie
Filling. Photo by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE.

You can make a much more flavorful cherry pie with frozen tart cherries, or with a specialty brand of cherry pie filling.

Keep in mind: Sweet cherries like the Bing and Royal Anne are snacking cherries. Tart cherries like the Montmorency yield the best results in cooking and baking.

• Click here for our review of Chukar Cherries pie fillings, our favorites. (They’re certified kosher by KOF-K.)
• Learn about the different types of cherries.

Many people just don’t like plain oatmeal, although they buy into its health benefits. That’s why the best-sellers include the fruit-flavored, sugary instant oatmeals.

Alas, those packets do not contain healthy food. They’re full of sugar, and many of the nutrients have been stripped in the processing.

Mad Hectic Oatmeal provides a solution. Improving on the concept of those instant oatmeals, Mad Hectic Oatmeal is flavored and alluring. But it’s also organic oatmeal mixed with nutritious whey protein powder and flaxseed meal with Omega-3 fatty acids and lignans (which have antioxidants and fiber).

Antioxidant, nutritious and heart-healthy sesame seeds are also added, topped off with whole freeze-dried berries, nuts and some cane sugar. It emerges hot from the microwave in just 60 seconds. That’s fast and tasty oat nutrition for your mad hectic life (and for you folks who have it easy, too).

Mad Hectic Oatmeal is more like hot pudding (think Indian pudding) than hot cereal. With fruit and nut combinations—and chocolate oatmeal—you’ll be feeling your oats soon after (translation: you’ll be energetic and playful).

Strawberry Pecan Oatmeal lets you feel your
oats in a delicious new way. Photo by
Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

• Read the full review to see how we enjoyed the flavors, and discover the health benefits of oatmeal.