The New HaagenDazs single serving ice creams are perfect for one, not only are these little guys economical, they are also waist-friendly. For $1.50 one serving of chocolate ice cream has 18g of fat, 11g of saturated fat, 21g of sugars, and 5g protein, this is portion control at it’s best. I know if I get the pint, half of it is going into my belly in one sitting. Definitely, if that chocolate craving is kicking in, head to your nearest bodega for a little one on one.

**spoon inside, an added bonus!

 

 

Date: 10/12/2008
Location: New York, NY
Discipline: Famous Famiglia Pizza
Total Prizes: $14,000

Hot of the Presses, this is one recession special that everyone needs keep an eye on. As of September 15 at 12:00pm EST registration for Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship will open on Monday, September 15 at 12:00pm EST. The prize money is a whopping $10 grand to the winner who can ingest the most pies. Here are the rules and regulations: *All applicants must be 18 years of age or older and fully acknowledge and understand the inherent dangers and risks associated with participating in an eating contest. The applicant further acknowledges and understands that the MLE/IFOCE coordinates with event sponsor(s) to select and approve eligible participants, and that the MLE/IFOCE shall decide, at its sole discretion, whether an applicant is eligible to participate in any eating event, and/or related activities. The MLE/IFOCE may revoke an applicant’s eligibility to participate in the eating contest, or related activities, at any time, for any reason, at its sole discretion. The MLE/IFOCE and the event sponsors reserve the right, at any time, to change any and all details concerning the event, including, e.g., time, duration, location and prize structure.

 
Farmers Markets are moving with the times, as families rely on food stamps more and more. The Farmers' Market Federation of NY states “that food stamp sales have grown to $90,000 in 2007 from $3,000 in 2002 (helped in part by wireless technology that allows the farmers to accept payments by food stamp debit card)” gothamist.com  

46 states have at least one farmer's market accepting EBT cards, NY offers “Fresh Checks”, giving food stamp families $5 coupon incentives for spending a minimum of $5. And things are looking even better for New Yorkers, 40 markets accepted food stamps in 2007, and  2008 to 87 markets,  approximately 400 markets are equipped to sell food to families using the EBT cards.

US Airways announced that they will charge coach passengers $2 for soft drinks, bottled water and $1 for coffee or tea on all its domestic flights. As if ticket hicks weren’t bad enough now they are charging for water, what’s next tokens for the restrooms?!!    
As New York Times reports, “The other major carriers have yet to follow US Airways’ lead — though it may just be a matter of time. But some airlines are finding creative ways to up the ante, by adding new nonalcoholic beverages to their offerings, like Monster Energy drinks and Vitaminwater, and charging for them. Meanwhile, all domestic airlines but Continental have replaced free meals in coach on flights in the United States with at least some food sales.” MICHELLE HIGGINS NYT

Lucky for us the NYTimes puts it all in perspective:

American

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; beer, wine and cocktails are $6.

Snacks: Nuts, cookies or cheese and crackers on flights of two hours or more are $3 or $4; chips are offered after 10 a.m. for $3.

Meals: Light meals — like a turkey bagel sandwich, Italian wrap or turkey-and-cheese ciabatta sandwich — are available for $6 on flights of three hours or longer. Boar’s Head sandwiches with chips are $10 on flights to and from Hawaii and on transcontinental flights.

Mealtimes: No specific times.

 

Continental

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; for beer, wine and cocktails, $5.

Snacks: Free peanuts or pretzels, after 10 a.m., on one-to-two-hour flights.

Meals: Free on flights of two hours or more, including a muffin for breakfast, turkey sandwich with carrot sticks or chips and candy for lunch, or a meatloaf sandwich, a salad and sweets for dinner.

Mealtimes: Breakfast, 7 to 9 a.m.; lunch, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; dinner, 5 to 7 p.m.

 

Delta

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; $3 for Vitaminwater; $7 for alcoholic beverages, including margaritas and pomegranate martinis.

Snacks: Free peanuts, cookies or peanut butter crackers. Chocolate bars, potato chips and other snacks are available for $2 or $3 on flights of an hour and a half to two hours.

Meals: From $4 on flights of more than two hours, including a strawberry cream cheese crepe ($4), mushroom pea orzo ($8), and grilled shrimp Caesar salad ($10).

Mealtimes: 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.

 

JetBlue

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water and Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and tea; $3 for Vitaminwater; $5 for beer, wine and cocktails.

Snacks: Free Terra Blues chips, Frito-Lay Munchies, cookies, cashews, biscotti or animal crackers.

Meals: None.

 

Northwest

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; $5 for alcoholic beverages.

Snacks: Pringles, M & M’s, Twizzlers or trail mix are $3; snack boxes with crackers, cheese, cookies, trail mix and either beef sausage, chicken salad or tuna are $5. Fruit and cheese or vegetables with ranch dip, $7.

Meals: $10 for a breakfast sandwich and fruit salad with a breakfast cookie, or for a deli meat sandwich and salad with a chocolate bar.

Mealtimes: Meals are available only on “select flights” like those from its hubs to Alaska, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Mexico. Fresh snacks are offered only on such flights as well.

 

Southwest

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; $3 for Lo-Carb Monster Energy; $4 for beer, wine and cocktails.

Snacks: Free peanuts or pretzels on flights about two hours long. Honey Maid Snack Bars and Cheese Nips on flights three hours or longer; Oreos, Wheat Thins or Ritz Real Cheese crackers on the longest flights.

Meals: None.

 

Spirit

Drinks: $2 for water, coffee or tea; $3 for soda or juice; $5 for alcohol.

Snacks: $2 to $4 for Pringles, animal crackers, M & M’s, and other snacks.

Meals: None.

 

United

Drinks: Free soda, juice, water, coffee and tea; $6 for beer, wine and cocktails.

Snacks: $5 for snack boxes with bagel chips, vegetable cheese spread, granola, diced pears, cinnamon twist pastry, toffee and mints, or other assortments.

Meals: $7 for salads and sandwiches like a smoked turkey chipotle wrap or a Santa Fe chicken salad.

Mealtimes: Breakfast is available on flights departing before 10 a.m. Lunch and dinner, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

 

US Airways

Drinks: Coffee and tea, $1; bottled water, juices, and soda, $2; beer, wine and cocktails, $7.

Snacks: $5 for boxes of chicken salad, crackers, trail mix, a fruit bar and cookies on flights over two and a half hours.

Meals: From $7 on select flights over three and a half hours, including a turkey croissant and yogurt, chef salad or chicken Caesar sandwich.

Mealtimes: From 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.

 

 

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"Cash-strapped tennis fans can catch the first week of the US Open for free. Over the course of four days, hundreds of men and women who didn't automatically qualify for the Open vie for the remaining 32 spots (16 men and 16 women) in the famed tournament. With such high stakes, the emerging athletes give it their all, making for exciting matches. Many players who gain entry through the qualifying event have done well in the Open, and some even go on to stardom — Anna Kournikova started her career here as a qualifier." Chris Kompanek

Midtownlunch.com reports that Golden Krust  is celebrating Jamaica’s Independence Day by selling their jerk chicken patties for 99 cents the entire month of August. here are the  3 locations in Midtown 

3 Locations in Midtown:

• 33rd btw. Mad+5th
• 8th Ave. btw. 39+40th
• 3rd Ave. btw. 43+44th
• 91 Worth St
  New York, NY 10013
  
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  * approximate times

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8coupons.com celebrates its 1st birthday on 8.8.08 and will present 8-cent OCHO LOCO deals throughout the month of August. The first will take place on Tuesday, July 29th at the famous Supermac in NYC (348 Seventh Avenue - between 29th and 30th). Simply visit 8coupons.com, send yourself a text message coupon and redeem it with the cashier. It's an easy way to enjoy Supermac's delicious mac and cheese for only 8 cents!

In addition, we'll celebrate on 8. 8.08 with 8-cent Miller beers at Wicked Willy's (149 Bleecker at Laguardia Street) and will feature other OCHO LOCO deals such as $8 haircuts ($55 value) and 8-cent American Apparel T-shirts. Savvy New Yorkers can sign up for more of these yet-to-be announced deal alerts on 8coupons.com.

"We are extremely excited to celebrate our first birthday with some great new OCHO LOCO promotions." says Landy Ung, Co-founder and CEO of 8coupons. "Our easy-to-use text messaging based coupons help New Yorkers save time, and money on great products by using a medium they are very familiar with."

These "Crazy 8" promotions are just one aspect of 8coupons' viral marketing campaign. To help spread the word, 8coupons is also leveraging social networking site Facebook, through their "me coupons" Facebook application.

About 8coupons:

8coupons is the latest way New Yorkers are saving time, money, and trees by getting up-to-the-minute deals in their neighborhoods for restaurants, bars, beauty & spas, entertainment, shopping, and services delivered straight to their cell phones. Coupons can be sent to your cell phone from 8coupons.com or you can sign up for exclusive merchant deal alerts and receive them real-time. You simply show the cashier your phone to redeem the coupon. 8coupons offers can also be accessed via RSS, the 8coupons widget, and on Facebook.

The Brooklyn Paper reported that the “beloved Latino food stalls of Red Hook Park will return to their traditional haunt this weekend — and the grand re-opening couldn’t come a moment too soon for vendors, who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt to comply with tightened city regulations.”

After months of retrofitting the carts and upgrading some vendors have big expenses, some as high as $35,00-$50,000, leaving the entrepreneur in debt. Following last year battle with the Health Department, vendors won the permits back allowing them to sell in the Red Hook Park. It seems like a up hill battle with endless fees and restrictions, “The losses are major,” said Marcos Lainez, who runs a Salvadoran papusa cart. “It’s going to take at least two and a half years to recover all the money we have lost.”

Anyway you say it is a downer indeed, so why not take your ass out and drink the night away, especially when its an open bar. Recently while slumming away at the CAF headquarters aka studio, I found my self-wanting to do something new and fun. But everything has a price tag on it, so I google the word Recession and found a great little site that offers open bars in major metropolitan areas in the US of A. It’s definitely worth checking out, if not for the free drinks at least for the air-conditioned ambiance.

 

http://nyc.myopenbar.com/ 

When I was in Delhi India for business a while back and I was very lucky to stay in Oberoi- the best hotel in town. In the lounge my friend Caroline and I discovered that they serve an Indian wine called SULA. Upon curiosity and stick to my motto of drink locally we ordered that and we both instantly fell in love with it. I think that night two of us probably drank 3 bottles altogether and we had the greatest time chatting until we got kicked out from the fancy bar.

A year and a half past and all of a sudden Caroline pulls out a SULA bottle from her cubicle and surprise me so much I am jumping up and down. Yes, they sell it in NYC now at 111 Lex Liquors and Wine in Murray Hill!
    
Taste:
-    Ripe cherry and plum fruit
-    Peppery notes
-    Full body
-    Smooth with strong Oak finish

According to their website this wine is great to pair with tandoori dishes and mildly spiced curries. Wow! An Indian wine that go well with Indian food! Frankly, this $13.99 bottle taste better than most $30 bucks ones I have had and of course different peeps have different taste :-)

Here are some history from their site:

Situated 180 km northeast of Mumbai, Nashik is India’s largest grape-growing region, but traditionally never grew wine grapes. Wondering why, Rajeev Samant an enterprising, Stanford-trained engineer quit his hi-tech Silicon Valley job in 1993 to do some investigating.

A little research quickly showed that the Nashik climate was not only perfect for wine grapes, but was also on par with winegrowing regions in Spain, California, and Australia. His determination doubled, Rajeev returned to California in search of a winemaker. In Sonoma County he found Kerry Damskey, an eminent Californian winemaker, who enthusiastically agreed to help start a winery on Rajeev’s 30 acre family estate.

Read more at:
http://www.sulawines.com/

Where to buy in NYC:
111 lexington avenue (btw 27 & 28 st)
New York, NY 10016 USA
Tel: 212-213-2288
http://www.111lexliquors.com

Also online:
http://www.winedelight.com/wine_store/product_info.php?products_id=1442

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