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Recall recap: Smucker's chunky peanut butter, KEDS shoes, and GM vehicles

By Rita Colorito on November 23, 2011 in

Peanut butter in a jar with a spoon.

Possible salmonella contamination prompted Smucker's to recall limited jars of chunky peanut butter, while KEDS girls' shoes pose a laceration hazard to little feet and two GM vehicles have air bags that don't deploy properly. Here are the details you need to know. Read more

Aw, nuts: Peanut butter prices soaring

Kitchen & Food
By Rachel Coyne on October 12, 2011 in

Lunch money in coins next to a peanut butter sandwich.

Forget the crunchy or creamy debate; would you rather your peanut butter cost you an arm or a leg?

Just like many other crops, the peanut harvest was affected by the bizarre weather of this past summer. Due to the extremely high temperatures, the crop of Runner peanuts (the kind most used in peanut butter) has been devastated, causing the price of the raw peanuts to more than double. Which means consumers will soon be facing skyrocketing peanut butter prices at the supermarket. Read more

The jarring truth about peanut butter

Kitchen & Food
By Darcy Laszewski on August 29, 2011 in

Peanut butter on toast

There's no denying peanut butter has a lot of fat--typically 16 grams in a two-tablespoon serving. Thankfully, most of the fat is polyunsaturated, or "good" fat. Before you sit down and dig in a jar with a spoon, however, you may want to look a little closer at the label. Read more

Waistland: How restaurants get you to spend more money

Health & Beauty
By Sarah Burns on February 21, 2010 in

Woman ordering at a restaurant

Enjoy eating out? You're not alone. According to a recent survey, over 130 million Americans will stop by their favorite restaurant tonight. Seems innocent enough, right? Wrong. The truth is, eateries today will work every angle possible to capture your dining dollars, quietly nabbing as much cash as they can while you comfortably chow down. But savvy diners don't have to fall prey to these tactics. Here, a few of their sneaky strategies and how you can put a halt on overspending.

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A fresh look at the best peanut butter

Kitchen & Food
By Scott Nyerges on January 15, 2010 in

Peanut butter

We haven't updated our report on the best peanut butter in more than two years, so we decided to take another look at what the critics have to say. The top sources we consulted for our report in 2007-- Cook's Illustrated, Food and Wine magazine, ConsumerReports.org and SeriousEats.com -- haven't updated their reviews. But we found a couple of newer peanut butter reviews, among them Cooking Light and Real Simple magazines, Slashfood.com and the enthusiast website PeanutButterBoy.com. None of these sources are overly critical (although Slashfood.com does nominate a worst peanut butter), nor do they discuss testing methodology in detail. Instead, results seem to be based primarily on taste tests, which are highly subjective.

 

We haven't updated our report on the best peanut butter in more than two years, so we decided to take another look at what the critics have to say. The top sources we consulted for our report in 2007-- Cook's Illustrated, Food and Wine magazine, ConsumerReports.org and SeriousEats.com -- haven't updated their reviews. But we found a couple of newer peanut butter reviews, among them Cooking Light and Real Simple magazines, Slashfood.com and the enthusiast website PeanutButterBoy.com. None of these sources are overly critical (although Slashfood.com does nominate a worst peanut butter), nor do they discuss testing methodology in detail. Instead, results seem to be based primarily on taste tests, which are highly subjective.

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