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Getty Images, photo by Spencer Platt
Getty Images, photo by Spencer Platt

The Cost of Feeding a Family of Four

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the cost of feeding a family of four is between $146 and $289 a week. They used intake data and the cost of groceries (which we all know have been going up) to reach their results. They used four levels of grocery shopping for a family of four.

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Getty Images, photo by Scott Olson
Getty Images, photo by Scott Olson

Burger King is Test Marketing Home Delivery

Burger King is testing a delivery service for their customers in New York, Miami, Houston and Washington D.C and it seems to be working.

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Getty Images, photo by Charley Gallay
Getty Images, photo by Charley Gallay

The Gourmet Cupcake Fad May be Fading

It seems the gourmet cupcake fad is dying out after a terrific 10 years of selling elaborate and expensive cupcakes.

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Category: Business, Food, News Tags: , ,
Topical Press Agency, Getty Images
Topical Press Agency, Getty Images

What Do You Know About GMOs?

GMO. It stands for genetically modified organisms. These are used to help genetically modify foods. DNA is added to the plants original DNA to add certain attributes. For example, it can make plants resistant to certain diseases or a longer shelf life. A hearing at the Maine state house had over 100 people come out to speak out for and against the bill to make it mandatory food retailers to label products containing genetically modified seeds or ingredients.

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Category: Food, Lifestyle, Opinion
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Photo from facebook

Downeast Salmon Federation Smelt Fry This Friday In Columbia Falls

It's 'fry'day this Friday! The Downeast Salmon Federation's Annual Smelt Fry is set for this Friday with events starting at 4 p.m. at the Columbia Falls Fire Department. Here's what's going on!

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Cereal Kid
Getty Images, photo by Yayoi Sawada

Milk That Tastes Like the Bottom of Your Cereal Bowl

Milk that tastes like the bottom of your cereal bowl has made it to the market.  

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Category: Family, Food, Offbeat Tags: , ,
Mint finished
Photo by Sharon Buck

Sharon Made Betty Crocker’s After-Dinner Mint Bars

And oh my goodness, are they GOOD!!!

I like mint and this recipe was SO EASY!

Take a look and see how easy it is!

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Eating
Getty Images, photo by Streeter Lecja

Disgusting Ingredients That Aren’t on the Label

Here are some things you are eating but don’t know about because they are not on the ingredients panel on the items you buy. The ‘cochineal beetle’ is used to make red food dye, so if you ever ate tomato products, cherries or jams, you also ate beetles. ‘Beaver anal glands’ or ‘castoreum’, a mixture of anal secretion and urine, is used in vanilla and raspberry flavors and some perfumes.

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Category: Food, Health, Offbeat Tags: ,
white barn inn
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Kennebunk Restaurant Offering A $40,000 Cocktail!

You have heard of sticker shock, but this takes it to a whole different level! You and your significant other might have been in an upscale restaurant where you might have had to look twice at the prices on the menu, but have you ever seen a cocktail for $40,000? What makes this drink so expensive?

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Jordon Pond

‘Locavore Index’ Finds Mainers Like Our Local Foods

’Locavore’? Say what? It is like a local herbivore is a plant eater and a carnivore is a meat eater, a locavore is a local eater. Vermont was the top state in its commitment to growing and eating locally grown food, Maine was second.

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Category: Food, Offbeat

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