The Whole Grains Council Blog
February 5, 2010
Otherwise known as, We Interrupt The Last Hour Of Your Friday Workday… for the following random fun collected from around the interweb! As you know by now, I’m a bit off-the-wall, so I hope you’ll also enjoy these little tidbits ‘cause they certainly brightened my day.
February 4, 2010
No, not that kind of wing man! What I mean is, my man is a wing man. The Man loves chicken wings. Whether it’s making them at home or ordering them from various places when we go out, I think chicken wings might actually be one of his favorite foods. I can understand this, being a habitual French Toast eater myself – just about every time we head out for breakfast or brunch, that’s what ends up on my plate. But while I enjoy the fact that ordering French Toast somewhere means I don’t have to do the cooking and cleaning, I think The Man enjoys perfecting his wings almost as much as he enjoys eating the results.
January 25, 2010
Want to have some fun while helping to wipe out child hunger? Quaker’s Candace Mueller Medina, today’s Guest Blogger, is here to tell us how you can support Share Our Strength while celebrating Oatmeal Month on the Quaker website. Send an “Oatmail” to a friend today!
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Despite the fact that this maxim is by now conventional wisdom edging toward cliché, it’s possible that we still think less about breakfast than any other mealtime. Maybe our minds are too foggy in the morning to carefully consider all of our breakfast options, or we’d rather spend an extra 10 minutes in bed than in the kitchen. Whatever the reason, we often neglect breakfast as a legitimate meal in its own right.
January 20, 2010
Here we are, two-thirds of the way through Oats and Oatmeal Month, and my
favorite food holiday calendar over on TheNibble tells me it’s National Granola Bar Day.
I mentioned to a friend that I was making granola bars to honor the occasion and she said, “You can
make granola bars?”” It wasn’t that she was questioning my capabilities – it was more of a universal doubt, as in
“Real people can make granola bars? They don’t only come in a box?”It always amuses (and at the same time saddens) me to see how amazed many people are when they realize that it’s easy to make your own version of many store-bought foods. Sure they all know people can make cookies at home, and maybe cakes (if you buy a mix), but granola bars? Hamburger buns? English muffins? All of these are possible, but today, on January 20th, granola bars are the star of the show.
January 13, 2010
Every once in a while, I find myself in an interesting position – trying to explain something that I know is undeniably true, so much so that I don't often think about what makes it, well,
true. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You know something, let’s say it’s gravity. It exists, it’s real, you can’t deny it. But how do you explain what gravity is? Why do we have gravity? You can start with “Gravity is a force of attraction that exists between any two masses,” and maybe throw in the fact that gravity here on Earth is the force of attraction between the mass of the Earth and bodies near its surface. You could explain that gravity depends on both the mass of something and how close or far from that mass a secondary object is, which is why gravity on Earth can make us fall on our faces when we trip, but we don’t get yanked off the planet by the sun while we're briefly airborne.
January 6, 2010
Last September, the WGC invited people across the nation to send in photos that expressed their love of whole grains – and the response was awesome. One woman sent in a photo of herself as a six-armed goddess, each arm holding a different whole grain product. Another entrant posed her favorite cracker on a mountain-top, during a hiking trip. We received photos of cute kids, home-made bread, pantry-raiding pets, and so much more.
December 31, 2009
Happy New Year everyone!! As I write this final blog of 2009, I'm watching the last snow of 2009 falling outside our offices. I just finished my last lunch of 2009, and I'm really looking forward to the last commute of 2009, which ought to begin in just a few hours. It might sound a little corny, but there really is something fantastic about counting down the minutes of the old year while anticipating the first minutes of the new. There's so much anticipation, the new year seems so full of promise, and all of us here at the WGC are eager to roll out all the programs, plans, and surprises we've got in store for you in 2010.
December 24, 2009
Okay, now we know that whole grains are really, really HOT. Urban Outfitters is – no joke! – seliing this six ounce capacity stainless-steel flask on its website. Yes, it really says "Made from WHOLE GRAINS" on it. We did not PhotoShop the words on the image here. This flask can be yours for only $18.00, if you're still looking for a last-minute Christmas gift.
Now we also know (as if we didn't already) why the Whole Grain Stamp is so essential. Anyone, just anyone, can put "Made from Whole Grains" on any product, even one that doesn't have even a smidgeon of whole grains in it (yet... we're guessing the assumption is that you'll fill this with some adult, grain-based beverage).
December 22, 2009
Remember when you were a kid, and you couldn't figure out what frankincense and myrrh were, when you heard the story of the Wise Men bringing gifts to Bethlehem? Oh – you're a grown-up now, and you still can't figure it out?
You're not alone. So, in the spirit of the Christmas holiday, we have an update on these two mystery gifts. Both of them, it turns out, have been the subject of recent health studies.
December 17, 2009
According to William Dietz, Director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the CDC, the 10 least healthy cereals are – coincidentally? – also the top 10 marketed directly to kids on TV. We haven’t checked the math to see if this is true, and we won’t bother to, because it seems that the quality of the cereals is on the way up – and the quantity of marketing may be on the way down – thanks to two events that happened – coincidentally? – in the past week or so.
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