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A new trans-fat label law is going now in effect to force all food companies to list the trans fat content right on the nutrition facts label.

Highlights

Recently, NYC bans trans-fat as a first city but it sparks food fight.

Girl Scouts should not sell cookies with trans-fat.

More info on trans-fat will be in next upcoming issue.

Spinach Squares
Cheese, eggs, onion and vegetables

4 Tablespoons Butter

3 Eggs

1 Cup Flour

1 Cup Milk

1 Teaspoon baking powder

1 lb mild cheddar cheese, shredded

20 oz. cooked Spinach

1 Tablespoon chopped Onion

Seasoned Salt

Preheat oven to 350 F. Melt butter in 9 X 13 baking dish in oven and remove. In another dish, beat eggs well. Add flour, milk, and baking powder. Mix well. Add cheese, spinach, and onion. Mix well. Spoon into baking dish. Sprinkle on seasoned salt.

Bake at 350 F for 35 minutes. Cool about 45 minutes before cutting. Best served warm.

"These can be frozen - then thawed and reheated when you want them. Still delicious! Double or triple the recipe for a big batch!, " by Liz Cote.

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Woman walking in leaves

How About a Salad With These Fries

What do you think is typical "girl food" and "guy food"? Maybe salads and steak? Not even close. Harry Balzer, vice president of tthe NPD Group research firm, looked at 30 years of data on what Americans eat.

"Every day, since 1976, we have asked 3,500 people if they have gone to a restaurant and what they ordered." The most common thing women order? French fries. Women order fries more often than any other food. Here's another surprise: The second-most-ordered food by women is burgers, followed by pizza. A main-dish salad comes in 7th. For men the most-ordered item is burgers, followed by French fries and pizza. A main-dish salad is No. 10. These are some differences in eating choices though:

"Men want to eat the same thing over and over, but women will try new things. They're more experimental. They like all those breads that men can't pronounce, like ciabatta and focaccia." (That's ch-BATT-uh and fo-KATCH-uh, fellas.) Balzer says it's not surprising that some fast-food chains are promoting double and triple burgers in ads aimed at men.

"Men figure if one is good, two's a lot better. It's why we have razors with five blades."

Thanks to Alice, above taken from The Washington Post