Supersized nanny state
"...never passing a chance for a good press release, [California Attorney General Bill] Lockyer filed a lawsuit against a number of fast-food chains and junk-food producers because their french fries and potato chips contain trace amounts of acrylamide -- a chemical also found in asparagus and olives, it is a natural byproduct of cooking certain starchy foods." Posted at 9:59 PM Central Time

AisleGuide will help get the groceries
"The electronic information age may have finally caught up with a vital human task - grocery shopping. A software program developed by User Shoes, based in Kittery, Maine, enables shoppers to generate grocery lists from an online store directory to reduce shopping time." Posted at 8:10 AM Central Time

Meal Planning: Once a month cooking
"Once a month cooking, or 'OAMC,' is a wonderful tool you can use and modify to suit your needs. Frugal mom Kim Tilley guides you through planning and shopping for your first OAMC ventures." Here's more information to get you started: Seven days to a full freezer. Posted at 9:47 AM Central Time

Grocery CEO is on list of overpaid execs
"Larry Johnston, chief executive officer of Boise-based Albertsons Inc. supermarket chain, was named one of the five 'most outrageously overpaid CEOs' in an article Wednesday on the MSN Web site." Posted at 7:02 AM Central Time

How the produce manager at my grocery store broke his arm
"Here is a story: One day I got it in my head to make me some guacamole. Simple enough I thought, I'll just head over to my local grocery store, with its assortment of produce, and pick up what I need. My stomach sent messages to my brain indicating its approval of the aforementioned plan. Flash forward fifteen minutes and I'm standing in the middle of the produce section incensed with anger. Why? you ask.What is the primary ingredient of guacamole? It is the infamous hass avocado, of course. Problem is my grocery store is all out of hass avocados, how unfortunate. But what is this interesting item resting next to the empty hass avocado display. It looks vaguely like a 'normal' avocado and it is called a California avocado. Could work, I think. Grasping it and giving it a closer inspection, as I read its label, I quickly realize how wrong I am. At this point my memory becomes blurry. The only thing I can remember is the blind rage I felt at the time..." Posted at 7:29 AM Central Time

Yay! Our first hate mail!
It took years and years, but we finally got email from someone who actually doesn't like the GLC: "You need to stop butting into other people's lives and you need to really get a live." --Boo. They dislike it so much they wrote twice! "You need to stop butting inton other people's lives and get our own life!" --Bobo the Clown. Thanks Boo and Bobo. You're both idiots! Posted at 7:28 AM Central Time

Forsaking a beloved list for element of mystery
"it is not uncommon for me to spend a great deal of time constructing the perfect grocery list, arranging items in order of farthest away from the freezer section and eventually working my way up to the front of the store so that my frozen foods spend as little time outside of the freezer as possible and other impressively logical arrangements, but then misplacing it somewhere between the front door and my car." Posted at 7:13 AM Central Time

Shop for food in market not in laboratory
"One can avoid most Trans fats simply by eating the least-processed items on the shelves. Hydrogenated fats are used by the producers of processed and convenience foods because they extend the shelf life of baked goods, snack foods and margarines, among other products... The solution is simple, to eat real food." Posted at 7:14 AM Central Time

Once, twice, three times the nutmeg
"The memory fades as quickly as an open bottle of dried oregano, it seems. That must be why I have so many doubles and triples of pricey spices. When I am at the store, I can't remember what I have. So I buy again. Five years ago, I started dating my newly purchased spices to help me keep track of their age. How shocked I was last week to see I still had some from 11/00." Posted at 7:10 AM Central Time

Shoppers get intimate experience at market
"Sandy Nauman can tell you the name of the grower responsible for planting and harvesting almost every item for sale in her farm market. She can say where it was raised, what fertilizers were used, what variety it is and when it was picked. This degree of intimacy with food is important to her -- and to the customers who come to her Country Lane Farm Market, several miles east of Bucyrus on Ohio 19." Posted at 7:51 AM Central Time

Trainer X: Clean out the cupboards
"My girlfriend Beth was busy, so I took it upon myself to do the weekly planning and executing of the fabled 'St. George Grocery List.' Now, I work two minutes from Roche Brothers supermarket in Natick, so if she needs something for dinner, I get the 'baby, can you pick up the...?' phone call from her before I head home." Posted at 2:05 PM Central Time

Back-to-school shopping tips
"Put your kid in charge of back-to-school shopping. It will reduce the nag factor and teach valuable financial lessons, says Nathan Dungan, president and founder of Share Save Spend LLC, a Minneapolis organization that helps people develop and maintain healthy financial habits. Here are his tips..." Posted at 1:54 PM Central Time

Fresh groceries delivered at home
"Alice Sanders remembers the days when grocery stores used to send delivery boys to carry food from the stores to customer's homes. The orders weren't always accurate, she said, but customers were glad to have some way to get their groceries." Posted at 8:04 AM Central Time

SFGate: Culture Blog!
I like that we're permanently linked up in the right column of the SFGate's Culture Blog! Posted at 7:42 AM Central Time

The Grocery Game
"The Grocery Game recently became available in Chicago and residents are saving hundreds of dollars a month on grocery bills! By using The Grocery Game you can have their pantry stocked without putting a large dent in their wallet." Posted at 8:26 AM Central Time

Examining the Urge to Pig Out in Bad Times as Well as Good
"When George Neville was installed as Archbishop of York in 1465, the occasion called for a festive meal. The grocery list survives, so we know that the lucky guests consumed, among many other things, 1,000 sheep, 7,000 capons, 1,000 egrets, 400 peacocks and 103 cold venison pasties. In all, 42,833 items of meat and poultry were served, with a dozen porpoises and seals thrown in to prevent palate fatigue. Presumably, a good time was had by all." Posted at 8:06 AM Central Time

The 'proxy shopper'
"'Kroger is more likely to be more convenient, and while people traditionally think of grocery shopping as a mom with a big cart and going once a week, we are finding out that today's hectic lifestyle means more trips with a five-item list.'That shopper is increasingly a man, Rist said, 'a proxy shopper' who may be on his way home from work. Once the proxy shopper is in the store, chances are he picks up another couple of items. So traditional groceries with multiple local stores, such as Kroger, bigg's and Meijer, may have an edge on Wal-Mart." Posted at 8:40 AM Central Time

Central Florida's food fight
"As consumers demand -- and get -- more shopping options, an in-depth report shows the future of the grocery industry isn't in the bag... The age of one-stop grocery shopping is fading away as consumers jump from store to store in search of low prices, greater convenience and broader selection." Posted at 5:50 PM Central Time

The evolution of a grocery shopper
"...then, junior year, I moved into an apartment, and grocery shopping jumped way up on my priority list. My roommate and I survived on frozen pot pies. Marriage tossed me abruptly into the world of real cooking..." Posted at 8:55 AM Central Time

Supermarket tills ring changes over years
BBC NEWS: "I am old enough to remember the coming of the first supermarket to the small Lincolnshire town where I lived in the east of England in the late 1950s." Posted at 8:30 AM Central Time

Oops.
After just one week, I forgot to do the GLC Podcasts. I suck! Posted at 6:09 PM Central Time