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Once upon a time, chicken choices were something like this: a fryer or a roaster, whole or cut up, kosher or not. Today, the market also offers an assortment of specialty chickens. Prices can range from $1.99 to $10.95 a pound, Chicago Tribune reporter Monica Eng recently discovered. For a specialty bird, a consumer may pay up to 10 times the cost of a regular chicken, Eng says.
As summer, 2010 all too quickly slips into the past, you (and everyone else except the skiers) are wishing you could savor summer all through winter. In a way, you can. All that delicious produce in your supermarket (or, better yet, in your garden) is just waiting to jump into jars and remain in suspended animation until some snowy day when you long for fresh-like fruit. Yes, truly fresh fruit appears in the supermarkets in winter, too but at exorbitant prices and with diminished taste. The long journey from who-knows-where to your supermarket jacks up the price and diminishes the flavor; the produce grows too old and tired to retain its just-grown taste. Canning is one inexpensive way to feed the year-round urge for produce that tastes great. Furthermore, you know your own canned goods won’t have preservatives, color additives, or other chemicals you may not want to consume. 
Brutal rainstorms, flooding, hurricanes, and (think ahead) snowstorms can all leave you with no electricity and a fridge and freezer full of food. All those “f”s and no electricity may cause you to think of another word beginning with “f,” but swearing won’t help. Instead, go to the link below for advice on what to do in either of these situations: 1) when you have some warning beforehand that a natural disaster is coming, and 2) when you don’t. These trustworthy tips from the USDA will help you salvage some of your perishable edibles and make the natural disaster a bit less of a financial disaster for your food budget. 
Food product dates encourage food waste—that’s what the creators of ShelfLifeAdvice.com hypothesized. To find out if they were right, they hired Harris Interactive to conduct a survey to test the theory.
Hard to believe the humble, ordinary little egg could become such big news. But August 13 was the start date of a nationwide recall involving more than 550 million shell eggs (out of a national production of some 90 billion). The recall has involved at least 14 states and has caused the illness of about 1,500 people. (That number is expected to increase as August figures come in.) 
If it has seemed to you that the most delicious edibles are the least healthy, it’s time to put that thought aside. The health benefits of nuts, chocolate, and blueberries have been known for awhile, but new studies add further evidence that these ever-popular snack foods can improve the circulatory system and lengthen life. 