Eat cheap.Think eating fruits and vegetables is too expensive? In 1999 researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture systematically priced 154 different types of produce. They found that more than half cost less than 25 cents per serving, and 127 cost less than 50 cents per serving. "That's 127 different ways to eat a serving of produce for less than the price of a 3-ounce candy bar," the report concludes. The cost spread is in the same ballpark today. Americans spend about 15 cents out of every food dollar on fruits and vegetables; as well as 19 cents on bakery items, soda pop, candy, gum, and mints. There's room in any for spinach, apples, baby carrots In North America the term baby carrot is commonly applied to either miniature carrots harvested before their roots develop or adult carrots chopped into smaller pieces. Taking fully grown carrots and chopping them into smaller pieces was the idea of California farmer Mike Yurosek. , watermelon watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia. , broccoli broccoli (brŏk`əlē) [Ital.,=sprouts], variety of cabbage grown for the edible immature flower panicles. It is the same variety (Brassica oleracea botrytis) as the cauliflower and is similarly cultivated. , and Romaine lettuce, all of which cost less than 25 cents per serving. Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in Health & Nutritional Letter |
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