My Web Site is Back Up and Running

I had to change hosts to my web site so please share with others - www.mynight2cook.com.
As fall approaches, it is a great time for the Slow-Cooker Brunswick Stew on the recipe tab.
And I have a new e-mail @ gcbowie@comcast.net.  Let me know your thoughts and questions.
Many thanks for your patience in getting my web site back up to speed.

What's Your Plan for Higher Food Prices?

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article last week and here are some of the excerpts: " Helen Li is helping fuel apple fever in China, and it isn't of the iPhone variety.  The 30-year-old administrative assistant said she has been buying more apples since she moved from a small eastern Chinese city two years ago to Shanghai to work for a U.S. company.  "Chinese people are eating more and more fruit...as our lives get better"...Fresh apple consumption in China, which produces more than half of the global supply of the fruit, has soared 80% from the 2007-2008 crop year to the crop year ending in June 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture...The U.S. imports about two-thirds of its supply from China."  Who knew that China supplies most of the apples in this country?  Our apple and other food costs are rising due to people in Asia having more money to eat more in quantity and quality. In fact the WSJ says the average price of Chinese apple-juice concentrate in August was $10.25 a gallon.  I know this first hand because I went and paid $7.25 for Fuji apples on Friday (about $1.25 each) and even the check out clerk questioned if that was right.  We all need to rethink and come up with a plan to keep our food costs down.  The reasons that cooking co-op works is by cooking in quantity, you save time, lower your purchase costs because you can buy in  bulk, and you save more money with fewer trips to the grocery store(fuel costs) and you save money since your weekly meals are more planned and have less waste.  You save also by having less temptation to eat out or grab expensive fast food since you have a cooking co-op answer to what's for dinner and ready to eat in 5 minutes.  If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, cooking co-op can be an answer to how to manage higher food costs.  So "what's in your wallet?"  It could be more money.