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Pottsgrove Students Will Pay More For Cafeteria Meals

The price of cafeteria lunches in the elementary schools will increase 10 cents daily, and 15 cents daily in the secondary schools. That’s because students are being required to take a fruit or vegetable. But will they eat it or waste it?

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Dine Out Thursday In Sanatoga To Battle Alzheimer’s

The disease that robs so many people of their memories gets kicked in the stomach with this fund-raising meal in Sanatoga Court.

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Pantries Get Help From Limerick, Phoenixville, Pottstown

Latest news in the local war against hunger: a well-known Limerick banker throws open the doors of his business as a food drop-off point; the blogging Queen of Frugality enlists plenty of food drive help in Phoenixville, and a Pottstown women’s group plans food item collections through June.

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Notebook Worthy: How Hoagies Add To Our Prosperity

An army of 2,000 represents a lot of hungry mouths in Lower Pottsgrove and Limerick, accompanied by wallets. And while we’re talking about money, Pottstown’s Tri-County Performing Arts Center wants to help your group of students save some next week.

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Posted in Arts, Business, Food, Limerick, Lower Pottsgrove, Pottstown, Recreation, Safety, Sanatoga, Social1 Comment

Better Hurry, Bunny. Ringing Hill’s Candies Going Fast

The 36th year of Easter candy egg sales at Ringing Hill Fire Company is under way in Lower Pottsgrove Township. More than a ton are available, but a sell-out is expected.

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Fill Up! Italian Meals Benefit Helped Pottsgrove Marchers

A Wednesday night fund-raiser at a Pottstown Italian restaurant served up donations to the Pottsgrove High School Marching Band. It’s raising money to participate in the 100th anniversary of the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade next month in Washington D.C.

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Sanatoga’s Zuber Realty Joins The Food Pantries’ Fight

The real estate brokerage volunteered Tuesday to serve as a drop-off point for individuals and organizations who donate items in the “Fill The Media Lab” food drive to benefit local pantries and other charities. The Post is one of several drive sponsors.

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Got Goodies For The Food Pantries? Drop ‘Em Off Here

The “Fill The Media Lab” food drive to benefit local pantries is only five days old, but it’s off to a roaring start. Twenty different locations have been enlisted as drop-off sites. Pet food and supplies, as well as laundry detergent, are being collected too. And Post readers have so far donated 60 food items.

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Good Thing, Small Package: Food Drive Gets $50 Start

A cash contribution left in an envelope kicked off The Post’s participation in the “Fill The Media Lab” campaign to help stock local food pantries by April 7 with 20,000 food items. We’ve asked our readers for help. They’re already responding!

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Posts, Mercury, Bloggers Unite To Fight Local Hunger

More than ever, food pantries across our area are in desperate need of help in assisting those less fortunate to put a meal on their families’ tables. The Mercury newspaper, The Posts, and other local news sites and bloggers are working together to meet that need. And we’re asking for readers’ help.

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    Dear Slashfood readers, You may have noticed things are a little quieter over here lately. What's happening? Slashfood has a new home: HuffPost Food. When AOL acquired the Huffington Post, it was clear that certain sites overlapped. Instead of running two separate sites covering the same food news and stories, we decided to join forces at HuffPost Food. […]
  • Delivery Man Publicly Shames Bad Tippers On Blog May 2, 2011
    Filed under: On the Blogs, Food News Photo: Ed Yourdon, Flickr Perhaps to prove that what's goes around really does come around, a Williamsburg, Brooklyn delivery man has taken to the blogosphere to broadcast all the bad tippers he comes in contact with. His blog, 15%, chronicles the tight purse strings tendencies of certain customers, in an effort to p […]
  • FDA Still Struggling to Define "Gluten-Free" May 2, 2011
    Filed under: Health & Medical, Food News Photo: LizLemonCooks, Flickr In 2004, Congress gave the FDA until 2008 to create a definition for what a gluten-free product actually means. Three years after that deadline, we're still waiting. The Washington Post reports that as celiac disease rates are rising, the government still has no set definition for […]
  • Thieves Prey on Starbucks Customers May 2, 2011
    Filed under: Coffee Shops, Chain Stores / Restaurants Photo: Andrew*, Flickr Starbucks has done just about everything it can to make you as comfortable as possible and to turn its ubiquitous coffee shops into your home away from home--but maybe it's made you too comfortable. One important difference between your living room and your local Starbucks is ( […]
  • 'Top Chef' to Become a Broadway Musical? May 2, 2011
    Filed under: Television/Film, Chefs Photo: Valerie Macon / Getty Images "Cats." "The Lion King." "Top Chef?" While you might not be able to picture the Bravo reality show in marquee lights, restaurateur (and Top Chef judge) Tom Colicchio reportedly thinks the program is a natural fit for the Great White Way. Bravo's program […]
  • How Much Sugar Do Americans Consume Daily? (Hint: Way Too Much) May 2, 2011
    Filed under: Health & Medical, Food News Photo: NYC.gov In a country where candy displays are perched next to cash registers at every retail outlet imaginable and drinking soda is a birthright, it can hardly be surprising that Americans consume a large amount of sugar. But 22 teaspoons a day? That's hard to swallow. Yet the statistic is true. U.S. a […]
  • Alien Invasion Cupcakes: Recipe of the Day May 2, 2011
    Filed under: Recipes Photo: Seth Smoot Whether your house is full of sci-fi lovers or you want to bake out-of-this-world desserts for a kids' birthday party, these Alien Invasion cupcakes are sure to be a hit. Encased in a 'spaceship' made out of cups, these aliens are ever ready for transport. Get the recipe for Alien Invasion Cupcakes. Perma […]
  • This Omelet Recipe Is Written On the Egg Itself April 29, 2011
    Filed under: Food News, Online Photo: dnewman, Thingiverse.com Yes, it's a gimmick. But it's a pretty cool one. Who wouldn't like an omelet recipe printed right on their egg? (Never mind that almost everyone knows how to make an omelet.) What's cool here is that artist Dnewman came up with a clever use for the Egg-Bot, a 3D printer that c […]
  • Starbucks To Help Pinkberry Achieve Global Frozen Yogurt Domination April 29, 2011
    Filed under: Business, Chain Stores / Restaurants Photo: 1derbread Media, Flickr If you have plans to vacation in Britain, Turkey, Morocco, and the Philippines this year, you might just find a tart, cold reminder of home. By the end of 2011, Pinkberry is planning to to be in 17 different international markets, according to Nation's Restaurant News. The […]
  • Behold: The Royal Wedding Cake [PHOTOS] April 29, 2011
    Photo: John Stillwell, AFP / Getty Images You've probably seen some breathtaking wedding cakes in your lifetime, but we doubt you've encountered anything like this. The cake for Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was an eight-tiered ivory showpiece decorated with 900 delicate sugar-paste flowers. The cake was showcased at this afte […]