Foodness Gracious - Week 67

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Recipes

As we are still technically in early 2025, we have been putting a lot of focus on salads and lighter fare to help everyone achieve their health goals and get a great start to a healthy year.

However, there’s always room for a treat in moderation! Right?

If you agree, we have the treat for you with our Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

My mouth started watering just typing that sentence. If yours did as well just by reading it, then you simply must give these a try. The sweetness from the brown sugar and chocolate chunks are balanced perfectly with the caramel and touch of salt.

Trust me. These won’t last long in your kitchen. Set some aside. Take some to a neighbor. Do whatever you can to hang onto these cookies as long as possible.

Celebrate the small wins with a sugary, chocolatey, salty, caramely treat!

Reviews

Maybe you’re like me and you struggle to figure out which foods should be stored in the various ways available to us as home chefs - baggies, containers, etc.

If you’re thinking about storing the Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk Cookies for the long term in the freezer, we have a really cool and fun option for you that is better than baggies and better than the bundle of aluminum foil.

Check out our reviews on vacuum sealers. These are a really fun way to keep your food for the long term! The kids will be excited to help as well.

You can see all of our home kitchen product reviews too!

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Responsibility

One of our latest Food Responsibility articles just might help you have healthier eyes!

As someone who is starting to see my eyes fail me (maybe fail is too harsh, but I am finding myself struggling to read my watch without my “cheaters”!), eye health is absolutely front and center in my mind.

We offer you Five Organic Ingredients That Can Nourish Your Eyes. I will give you a hint…one of them is green, found in salads, and was a favorite of Popeye!

Learn more online at Foodness Gracious in our Responsibility section.

Foodness Fun - Poll Results!

Last week we asked you to tell us your favorite pasta noodle. There were so many options from which to choose, but we all seem to have our favorite go-to noodle.

We offered you some standard options (Spaghetti, Penne, Fettuccine, Rotini), but also allowed you the opportunity to share your favorite outside of the poll.

This much we do know from the poll results…Spaghetti is the favorite of no one!

As expected, the results were mixed and calling this a “clear winner” is a bit of a stretch. However, with 42% of the vote, the winner of best pasta noodle is…..

Rotini