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Mr. Food
"OOH IT'S SO GOOD!!®" Recipes

November 8, 1999

Mr. Food is here to share some of his "OOH IT'S SO GOOD!!®" recipes and to answer all of your cooking questions and needs.

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MrFood: How's everyone doing? It's Mr. Food here and I am so excited about today's chat. If any of you have any questions for me or want to share an idea or two, go ahead. I'm ready to share lots of "OOH IT'S SO GOOD!®"

Happymom: My kids collect so much candy every year when they go trick-or-treating, it seems like I am always throwing some away. Do you have any suggestions for what I can do with leftover Halloween candy?

MrFood: Happymom, I sure do! No problem with all those leftover Candies, they'll mean more Halloween stretching, more Halloween fun, more Halloween treats! First, go through all of those goodie bags and take out all the hard candy and save those for enjoying on their own, 'cause they hold up well. But all the things like chocolate bars and rolls and sweet cups -- you know, all that gooey, good stuff -- those we can break or chop up and then imagine it in any type of ice cream to make our very own flavors. Imagine those chunks as an extra ice cream treat, or maybe stir a cupful into our cake or our cheesecake batter. If we want to chop it up even more finely, we can sprinkle it over our cakes or cake mixes. We've all seen the ice cream stores where they mix in chopped up candies into whatever flavor ice cream we choose. Well, we're doing that now ourselves with our Halloween candy. And if there's a recipe around like ours -- say a Snicker's pie or a Milky Way pie -- then we're just going to use our chopped up assortment pie! Every bite is a double treat! Have fun!

Workoholic: Recently you did a show on breakfast ideas for busy people. I usually skip breakfast because I don't have time to sit and eat. Can you share some of those ideas again?

MrFood: Sure. I would love to. I have recently adhered to the fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gets us going. We get that energy surge. Food is our fuel, so what I make sure I do now is to certainly have the ready-to- go's always on hand, you know -- the ready-to-eat cereals and the juices and the milks -- which are all so easy because you just pour and eat. But we can use different breads each time to give us a different breakfast toast. That way, there's no ho-hum about having the same thing over, and over, and over again. Rye toast is good, white bread toast is good, a roll is good, whole wheat bread is good. Isn't that nice? We just had four different kinds of bread and no boredom! Any bread left over -- a little French toast, made the night before, put into the fridge -- and the next morning, with a couple of minutes in the toaster oven, we've got breakfast. One day, that French toast has strawberry preserves on it; the next day, apple butter; the next day, maple syrup; the next day, cut up fresh berries. Do you realize we haven't had the same thing any one morning? Variety, my friends, variety; it's the spice of life. Pretty soon, it becomes a game that you look forward to -- what treat am I going to have this morning? On the show that we did a couple of weeks ago all I did was take French toast and make it in sticks, where I just cut a slice of bread (or hot dog rolls -- anything) into strips and made them individual little thin pieces. Yes, even shape can give us variety. So go to it -- use your creativity! There are no rules. Have fun!

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