Living on the Edge: Search for solutions Nov 7, 2009
Recent changes to the voucher packets decreased the amount of peanut butter, milk, cheese, and eggs available for purchase, while adding more fruits and vegetables to the list. This has been a major thing to offer, Schiess said. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Keynotes for Nov. 5 Nov 6, 2009
Suggested items are canned goods, peanut butter, jelly, rice, baked beans, toiletries. All food collected will be delivered to Hudson Food Pantry, 28 Houghton St. According to Town Clerk Joan Wordell, who is coordinating the collection effort, last year 9,200 pounds of food was collected. (Hudson Sun, MA)
Friends of the library book sale is next week Oct 17, 2009
Items most needed are cereal, canned meat (spam), canned fruit, hamburger helper, peanut butter, rice, pinto beans, body soap and toilet paper. Donations will be taken until Saturday, Oct 31. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)
Continue reading Oct 1, 2009
The nonperishable foods like peanut butter, cereal, rice, beans and canned fruits, vegetables and juices were distributed by hundreds of volunteers. Community Food Bank Agency Relations Coordinator Maria Ramirez was the lead director at the giveaway Sept. 24 on Golden State Boulevard. (Selma Enterprise, CA)
Events: the week ahead Sep 3, 2009
Peanut butter and jelly. Tom Cruise and motorcycles. (Boston Globe)
Knox County Fair Open Class Results 2009 Aug 9, 2009
Published: Saturday, August 8, 2009 6:47 PM EDT Antiques. Grand Champion Donna Kramer. (Vincennes Sun Commercial, IN)
Guilty pleasures Jul 25, 2009
"Shoes and handbags because it's about the only thing I can go in and I'm the same size everywhere. Handbags --- you don't have to try them on.And Oreos and peanut butter. It's the best of both comfort junk foods.". Helen Smith, Waterloo. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Puzzlings Review Jul 20, 2009
There are hats, shirts, horns, smouths, eyes, peanut butter jars, and more to accumulate -- and a handy screen shows you which items in each world you've banked ... I dig the pop art style and like the silliness of some of the items you collect, such as the peanut butter jar that your puzzling's hand gets stuck in and is forced to walk with. (IGN Wireless Games)
Fudge shop moving to Princeton Depot Jun 18, 2009
Diller made 30 different flavors of fudge or about 1,800 pounds of fudge last year to sell at the Covered Bridge Festival in Indiana, with about one-third of that being peanut butter fudge. Her other big sellers in Indiana are chocolate and chocolate walnut. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
On The Road? Don't Miss These 50 Top Shops May 2, 2009
International Spy Museum; Washington, D.C.: Visit this awesome museum store for walkie-talkie watches, silk houseplants that have hidden cameras, or safes that look like peanut butter jars. 41. (Click2Houston, TX)
Senate bill plans food contamination tests Feb 19, 2009
Senate Bill 80, which passed 50-0, was introduced in response to the nationwide salmonella outbreak traced to tainted peanut butter linked to the Peanut Corp. of America processing plant in Blakely. The outbreak has sickened more than 600 people and may have been responsible for nine deaths. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Peanut firm linked to salmonella closes Va. plant Feb 18, 2009
closed in January after its peanut butter and other products were found to be the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 600 people and been linked to nine deaths. A second plant in Plainview, Texas, was closed last week after preliminary tests showed possible salmonella contamination. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Peanut fear overtakes its comfort Feb 18, 2009
Gwinnett schools stop serving peanut butter, peanut products ... Peanut butter, once the great American comfort food, makes us uncomfortable ... Since news of Georgia s tainted peanuts broke in mid-January, sales of peanut butter have dropped by 23 percent, according to Information Resources Inc., even though many of the jarred brands are not on the recall list. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Officials driven to take closer look at food safety Feb 17, 2009
About one in four in the poll mistakenly thought that national peanut butter brands have been recalled. Fewer than half are worrying about products that actually have been recalled. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Girl Scouts hit booths to sell trademark treats Feb 17, 2009
Feeman doesn't think the decline in preorder sales has anything to do with anxiety over the safety of the peanut butter in Girl Scout's Tagalongs, which were not manufactured by Peanut Corp. of America, the company blamed for the salmonella outbreak that's sickened more than 500 people. And cookie-buyers Sunday didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that a $3. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Peanut butter scare changes lunchboxes Feb 17, 2009
Peanut butter scare changes lunchbox rituals ... CONCORD, N.H. The nationwide salmonella outbreak has left many parents in a situation as sticky as peanut butter itself: Should they pack their kids lunches with PBtay away from the old standby ... Jarred peanut butter sales were down significantly last month compared to the previous year, suggesting that many children are going without their favorite sandwiches even though leading brands of jarred peanut butter have not been recalled. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Children's author with local ties to visit next week Feb 8, 2009
Honey's Peanut Butter Adventure is about an experience most children can identify with. Honey knows which cabinet the peanut butter is kept in and she develops a plan to get what she wants ... You can have fun making some fresh peanut butter. (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
