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Quick Takes
News of note.
By LINDA COLE
Published February 21, 2007
Shelf life Look for these new items on your grocery store shelves. Brownies, mixed easy Pillsbury Refrigerated Brownie Batter, available in traditional chocolate fudge and triple chocolate chunk, provides a quick shortcut to make a fudgy treat for family and friends. Suggested retail price for a 16.5-ounce roll, available in the refrigerated section, is $2.89. Fitness water to go Propel Fitness Water, a lightly flavor-enhanced water developed by Gatorade, has introduced Propel Power Packets in three flavors: berry, lemon and kiwi-strawberry. Pour the powder into a bottle of water, shake and you've got a Propel drink. Suggested retail price for a box of 10 packets is $3.49; single packets (available at convenience stores) are 39 cents. New fruit strips Fruit leather takes a tender step forward with Stretch Island Fruit Co.'s new FruitaBu Organic Smooshed Fruit. Sold in five flavors (grape, strawberry, apple, raspberry and apricot), it's softer and less sticky than the usual stuff. The 4.4-ounce box of six twirls wrapped in parchment paper, about $3.79, and individual 0.4-ounce strips, 49 to 59 cents each, are available at some Wal-Marts. For more information, go to www.FruitaBu.com. Blue box goes organic If you doubted that organics would ever get really mainstream, doubt no more. Two flavors of Kraft blue-box organic macaroni and cheese dinner (elbows with Cheddar and shells with white Cheddar) are on the shelves. But at one discount supermarket, where Kraft's original 7 1/4-ounce box of macaroni and cheese is 84 cents, the organics (in 6-ounce boxes) are $1.72. Compiled by Linda Cole of the Times, with information from the Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers. Cooking on TV Everyday Food This week, the companion show to Martha Stewart's easy-cooking magazine focuses on light recipes. Demonstrations include Asian chicken and chili soup; fish tacos and creamy red slaw; and bulgur salad with grapes and feta cheese. 4 p.m. Sunday on WUSF-Ch. 16.
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