Here are some fun food tips I got in an email recently.

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster..

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
Spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
Of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.

Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such
As peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

The Worst Foods for your Cholesterol in America

Trans-Fattiest Soup
Schlotzky's Wisconsin Cheese Soup Bowl
5 g trans fat 460 calories 33 g fat (14 g saturated) 1,821 mg sodium
Schlotzky's Web site proudly claims "our soups are made with the highest quality ingredients and freshly cooked every day for optimum flavor." In the Bizzaro World of fast-food marketing, "high quality" translates into nearly a day's worth of sodium and twice your daily limit of trans fat. This dish has the dubious distinction of being one of the only soups we've ever seen with a significant trans-fat load. Even if you switched from the oversize bowl to a cup, you'd still take in 4 grams of the stuff. Our suspicion is that a decidedly low-quality cheese is to blame. Cheese has fat, of course, but only the cheap imitation stuff contains partially hydrogenated oil.
Eat This Instead!
Hearty Vegetable Beef Soup Cup
109 calories 5 g fat (2 g saturated, 0 g trans) 1,029 mg sodium

Trans-Fattiest Cold Treat
Dairy Queen Chocolate Xtreme Blizzard (large)
6.5 g trans fat 1,440 calories 67 g fat (33 g saturated) 165 g sugars
Not a single Blizzard, shake, or malt at Dairy Queen comes without trans fat - which is ridiculous, because most other ice cream and smoothie places manage to leave it out of their products. This Chocolate Xtreme Blizzard is terrifying on every nutritional level: It's the sugar equivalent of 6 packs of peanut M&Ms, the caloric equivalent of nearly 6 McDonald's hamburgers, and more than three times your daily limit of trans fat. Seek out relatives safety in DQ's line of soft serve sundaes.
Eat This Instead!
Hot Fudge Sundae (small)
300 calories 10 g fat (7 g saturated, 0 g trans) 37 g sugars

Here are some tips from the monthly wellness calendar from work!

• Don't eat in front of the TV today.
• Intentionally park in the farthest spot from the door while running errands today.
• Say "hello" to five people today.
• Remember to get three 8 oz servings of low fat dairy everyday.
• Visualize one medium fruit serving equal to a tennis ball.
• When you go out to lunch, choose a selection from the appetizer menu as your main dish.
• Mix one packet regular oatmeal with 1/2 sliced banana and a 1/2 cup strawberries for a breakfast under 200 calories.
• Wear hearing and eye protection while mowing the lawn.
• Cut up fruits and veggies right away and keep in containers that can be easily transported.
• Add some core strengthening exercises to your current exercise routine.
• Save more, spend less. Distinguish between your wants and needs.
• Make a vegetable you've never tried before for dinner tonight.
• Air-popped popcorn has 31 calories per cup. Reward yourself with a movie and low-fat popcorn tonight.
• Keep a calendar of the days you exercise. Try to fill up most of the week.
• Try eating foods today only found in a garden.