Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | March 15, 2012

  While there may no longer be anything remotely like a free lunch during this dismal economy, you can still get something free with your lunch, even if it is just a serving of French fries with “festive green dipping sauce” on St. Patrick’s Day. Through the weekend in honor of the beloved Irish day, [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | March 13, 2012

  Last week, I wrote about the revolting 7 million pounds of “pink slime” that Barack Obama’s USDA bought from Beef Products Inc. (BPI) to include in the lunches of millions of American students. Turns out the ammonia-doused sinew and tendons and other “mystery cow” by-product scraps that used to be destined just for dog [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | March 6, 2012

  Rather than First Lady Michelle Obama strong-arming cold cereal companies to change their recipes, trying to ban pizza in schools while trying to force students in Los Angeles schools to eat her Nanny State lentil and brown rice cutlets, perhaps she can turn her meddling food obsessions and power-grabbing and stick her nose into [...]

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