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Equip your children with good stomachs by giving them wholesome Crisco foods--foods which digest with ease They may eat the rich things they enjoy and find them just as digestible as many apparently simple foods, if Crisco be used properly They may eat Crisco doughnuts or pie without being chased by nightmares.

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  1. noun Material, usually of plant or animal origin, that contains or consists of essential body nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals, and is ingested and assimilated by an organism to produce energy, stimulate growth, and maintain life.
  2. noun A specified kind of nourishment: breakfast food; plant food.
  3. noun Nourishment eaten in solid form: food and drink.

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  • I live in about as urban a part of Halifax as you can get, and the animals, the crafts, the foods are the very reasons the four of us go every year to the Fall Fair. —  The Chronicle Herald - Front Page Stories
  • Because ALL the Purina foods are made out of junk foods -- with the primary animal protein being "poultry by-product meal" which, according to the AAFCO dictionary of terms means "heads, feet and intestines, including some manure." —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • Keep an eye out on coupons for brand name foods, always compare them with the prices of generic brands, they can be cheaper. —  Shaister Miester Do Da
  • Decorated rooms based on books include: Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast," with a banquet of French nibbles; Chitra Divakaruni's "The Mistress of Spices," with Indian food; Jorge Amado's "Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon," with Latin American foods; Fannie Flagg's
  • American Latinos and non-Latinos alike are driving a 'new wave' of authentic Latin American foods and flavors set to enter the mainstream in the US, according to a new report from Packaged Facts. —  MeatProcess RSS
 

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