meals

Our intrepid video editor Adam Kaufman and his girlfriend, Katie Lorah, are now deep into their six-month hiking adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, going from Mexico to Canada. Before they left for the hike, they showed us how to pack for the road for pennies a serving. Their latest video...

Let's face it, sometimes you have about 30 minutes to put dinner on the table. Pasta is a surefire crowd pleaser. Take that spaghetti and dress it up a bit, with bacon and eggs. Chef Maria Liberati has an easy carbonara recipe in her book "Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special...

Getting kids to eat their veggies is an everyday challenge. Jenna Norwood, raw food chef and producer of the documentary "Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw," has a fun way to get them to try. She's created a pasta dish made with zucchini noodles. This easy and quick recipe serves up to four. Use it as...

Americans, we have something of the caveman in us. We, like our furry forebears, regularly gather the family around an open fire, where we roast meat for ritual consumption. From flaming pit to flaming pit, fierce rivalries have developed between clans over the right way to prepare and devour the...

The food must be good in Taiwan's prisons.About four months after a jobless ex-con asked police to return him to prison so he could have a meal, another homeless and unemployed ex-con in Taiwan was recently arrested so he could have a prison lunch, according to a Reuters story.The man stole a box...

When I was growing up my parents could remember what kids meal specials were valid on any given day at local restaurants, which was no simple task given the varying age restrictions placed on these deals. Nowadays parents don't have to keep a Rolodex of specials in their heads thanks to the meal...

The other day I left a meeting that had lasted for hours and decided to stop for a late lunch before making the hour drive home. I chose one of those burger joints where they cook your food to order. As I waited for my lunch in the packed eatery, a family of four sat in the booth next to me and...

From the view of anyone looking for a free meal, it was the handiwork of a genius. When Frank Giuffrida sold his restaurant the Hilltop Steak House in Saugus, Mass. in 1988, he negotiated a deal that would give him and his family free meals -- for life. No waiting in the long lines at the popular...

Did you ever think we'd see the day when people would beg for airline food? Yet here we are. In mid-August, United announced it would start forcing coach passengers on international flights to pay for their meals. Customers went ballistic. First U.S. Airways makes people pay $2 for so much as...

Meijer has a cool new site they recently launched called Meijer Mealbox, which wraps recipes, meal planning and coupons into one slick easy to use package. Mealbox is currently in beta but anyone can use it to get a better handle on meal preparation and grocery shopping. The service revolves around...