Take the Rodelle Challlenge and Win a Year Long Supply of Baking Essentials!

Rodelle Vanilla adds a little friendly competition to the 2011 Holiday Season. Share your baking stories on their facebook page, and enter to win 1 of 3 grand prizes.

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Grocery Stores Using Big Quantities to Entice Shoppers

Grocers are using a new technique in an effort to promote shoppers to buy more than their shopping list would normally dictate. Like, most retailers they are feeling the pinch as people spend less these days. Instead of the old gimmick "buy one, get one free" many grocery chains have expanded beyond this to offering multiple items at a lower rate if purchased together. Buying patterns found through loyalty cards, receipts and other research are some stragtegies grocers are using to pin point just the right multiples that will get customers to spend a little higher than their typical rate.

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"Ugandan Stove Project"- Rodelle, Inc.

Rodelle, Inc., announced the launch of its "Ugandan Stove Project" to celebrate their 75th year in business with a network of 9,000 Ugandan farmers.

This project will be a collaboration with the nonprofit organization Trees Water People, that will support farmers, the environment, and the local people of Uganda.

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in.gredients

in.gredients is the first "packaging free" supermarket in the country.

expected to launch late in 2011, in Austin, TX, this supermarket has a zero waste policy and will not sell anything in packaging. You are free to bring your own containers, or use the compostable containers they can provide for you.

See the article on in.gredients on SupermarketNews.

For a more comprehensive explanation of in.gredients, please see this short explanatory video from their website.

Costco Stops Selling Unsustainable Seafood

"Changing the industrialized food system oftentimes starts in grocery store aisles. No situation makes this fact more evident than Costco's agreement to stop selling threatened species of fish and implement a seafood sustainability program."

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Kodiak Cakes featured on Martha Stewart Living

Kodiak Cakes was featured on Martha Stewart Living, stating, “the all‐natural Big Bear brownie mix yields moist, fudgy, just‐like‐Mom‐used‐to‐make‐from‐scratch brownies.”

Please see the Full Article here on from Specialty Food News

And the Press Release from Kodiak Cakes here.