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Large food manufacturers maintain some of the best menu and
recipe planning web sites on the internet. Loaded with ideas
and information, you'll find abundant photos of the entire
preparation process along with tips and suggestions to make
your cooking better.
These sites promote the manufacturer's products, of
course, and specialize in easy, fast cooking. Web site
offerings serve up massive, free recipe databases. Easily
searchable and updated regularly, harried cooks are
presented with a treasure trove of resources.
www.kraftfoods.com
Freebies include: Sign up for a free, full-color glossy
magazine sent to your home Recipe Box to store your own
recipes Make your own Meal and Fitness Plan Logs and
journals for tracking exercise and weight loss Food
calculators for carbohydrates, calcium, body mass index
The parent company for many other brands, including Oscar
Mayer, Minute Rice, and Jell-O, Kraft lists those brands at
www.kraftfoods.com. Each brand links to its own web site
with recipes and cooking tips.
www.campbellsoup.com From here you can go to many of
Campbell's other web sites, including Pepperidge Farms and
Pace. Sign up for a daily recipe email, get an on-line
recipe box, lots of recipes with ratings by consumers (good
AND bad). Categories include Homemade in 20 minutes and
Favorite Family Meals.
Try out their own diet plan, Soup for Life, a 1,200
calorie per day plan with 30 days of breakfast, lunch,
dinner, and snacks, provided in a downloadable PDF file.
www.hersheys.com
Click on the Hersheys Kitchen link. Find baking tips,
recipes and recipe box, a grocery list builder, monthly
recipe newsletter, games, crafts, sweepstakes. Need a quick,
no-calorie chocolate fix? Check out the opening screen at
their site.
www.generalmills.com Click on recipes. General Mills
includes Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, and Bisquick. Find all
their brands at www.generalmills.com. From there you can
click to each specific brand's web site.
www.mccormick.com
The seasoning company. Click on recipes, message boards, a
comprehensive spice encyclopedia, and A Taste for Health,
which includes low-sodium recipes.
www.starkist.com
The tunafish people. Lots of recipes and ways to eat tuna so
you don't end up with the same old tuna sandwich. Try
appetizers, wraps, salads, and pasta dishes. You can even
download a Charlie the Tuna screensaver.
www.greengiant.com
Lots of recipes in categories like Rush Hour Recipes.
Download Jolly Green Giant wallpaper.
www.kelloggs.com
You know them as the breakfast cereal company, but their web
site boasts a wealth of recipes, such as Busy Day Meatloaf
using Kellogg's Stuffing Mix, and Cheese and Spinach Pie
made with Special K cereal.
Features include a recipe box and a recipe club, and you
can print 3x5 or 4x6 recipe cards.
www.hormel.com Hormel
makes a number of food brands, listed on their web site.
Sign up for the weekly newsletter, Your Personal Chef,
packed with fresh snack and meal solutions, tips and ideas
and special offers.
Neat feautures: Extensive recipe database Articles on
wine and making flavored butters Printable Family Dinner
Magic Weekly Meal and Activity Planner with icons you glue
onto magnets
www.tyson.com Get lots
of information on Tyson chicken, beef, and pork products.
Along with the usual recipe database, visit the Foodwise
Learning Center for tips on food handling safety, buying
meat, and meat cooking.
Tyson's provides Five Days of Dinner, a weekly list of
menus, each one with full-color photos, nutrition
information, cooking instructions, and serving suggestions.
Get it e-mailed to you or print in receipe card fashion.
With all of these great web sites, you may never need to
buy another cook book again. |