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U.S. Companies Shrink Packages as Food Prices Rise
4:30AM 4/04/2011
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As food prices continue to rise, many food companies are shrinking packages instead of raising item prices. But don't be fooled: You're definitely paying more for less.
Is Cap'n Crunch Easing Quietly Into Retirement?
10:00AM 3/07/2011
Quaker Oats, which manufactures the cereal, and parent company PepsiCo, appear to have distanced themselves from the highly sweetened brand. Indeed, Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries is tied for first on a Yale list of the least nutritional cereals marketed to children and families.
Global food prices are the highest in more than 20 years as rising oil prices stemming from civil unrest in the Middle East have caused the cost of items like cereal, dairy products and meat to increase, a United Nations agency said in a report released Thursday.
Biggest Grocery Store Markups: The Worst Deals in the Aisles
9:00AM 2/18/2011
With food prices expected to increase by 3% to 5% this year, grocery stores are going to be forced to pass some of the extra cost on to shoppers.
But what accounts for some of the highest markups in the grocery store aisles now? Perishables. Foods that easily spoil and must be thrown away before...
Pop-Tarts World to Open in Times Square
7:36AM 8/09/2010
Pop-Tarts are popping up in Manhattan. Kellogg (K), the maker of the familiar breakfast treats, is launching a marketing blitz that includes a new Pop-Tarts World store in New York's Times Square.
The center will feature a café selling everything from Pop-Tarts "sushi" (three kinds of...
Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Honey Smacks and Corn Pops cereals are among the 28 million boxes being recalled by Kellogg due to a "waxy" smell coming from the package liners. The company is voluntarily recalling the cereals, saying the smell could make people sick.
While the company says the...
Kellogg Co. voluntarily recalled certain packages of Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks cereals Friday due to a strange waxy-like taste and odor coming from the liner of the package.
The company said the likelihood for serious illness is low. However, those who eat these cereals...
Eating breakfast before facing the day is important, numerous research has found, making the stories of hungry job interviewees a perfect example of why fueling up is important.
Golden Grahams cereal -- which I'd normally associate as a breakfast cereal for children, but is apparently popular with...
Maybe you spotted the box labels claiming that Cocoa Krispies somehow "helps support your child's immunity." As you can probably guess, this isn't exactly true, and Oregon's attorney general has forced Kellogg's to stop saying that it is.
Kellogg's has officially settled with the Oregon Department...
Breakfast for dinner? Put away the cereal -- pancakes are cheaper
12:00PM 12/18/2009
When I was a kid, it was a treat to have breakfast for dinner. I've continued that tradition for my 5-year-old daughter, recently making blueberry pancakes and bacon for dinner.
Much of America is also having breakfast food for dinner, although not what I'd consider a once-in-awhile treat --...
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