We loves us some junk food late at night, and now there's proof. An app called Massive Health tracked the eating habits of people all over the world to create maps showing what kinds of foods we eat at different times of day: Green dots for healthy food, orange and red for junk food. Guess what? The world is flooded in green dots first thing in the morning, and then later in the day and night, it gets orangier and junkier.

So ... at least we're staring out with a nutritious breakfast? But wow, things sure go downhill from there. By 1:00 a.m. it looks like we're all noshing on French fries and ice cream -- duh, because that's what you eat after a wild night out, right? Salad is not hangover food. Take a look.

Over the weekend the River Ranch Fresh Foods company announced a recall of their bagged salad for California and Colorado. But guess what, nation? That recall has been expanded nationally. Routine testing detected listeria contamination.

Dang, I hate it when this happens to bagged salad! And we just had another salad recall last month. But at least I've gotten back into the habit of washing my salad, even when the package reads "triple washed." Anyway, fortunately no illnesses have been reported so far. But here's the info you'll need to check and see if you're affected.

You've probably noticed -- there are literally thousands of cooking "shortcuts" living on those grocery store shelves. Everything from salad dressing to to stir-fry mixes are waiting to help you whip up dinner in a jiffy. But are they all worth it?

The May issue of Everyday Food has a list of time-savers that they think are -- or aren't -- worth it. They say skip the bottled lemon juice, pre-peeled garlic cloves, and shrink-wrapped stir-fry mixes. They're too expensive and lack flavor and freshness. But dried breadcrumb and chicken broth get the thumbs up. That got us thinking -- what other cooking shortcuts are worth it?

Just a few short months ago Kelli Kirkland was a lousy cook -- maybe even the worst cook in America. She was a busy student at UCLA and wasn't much interested in cooking. But her grandma always believed she had a great cook inside of her. So Kelli joined Food Network's reality show, Worst Cooks in America. Eight weeks of cooking boot camp and an intense competition later, she became the series champion!

Now Kelli has a 2-year-old son and is bringing her dazzling skills home so she can pass on her family's food traditions to the next generation.

Wouldn't we all love to get our own cooking boot camp with celebrity chefs? But since that's so not happening for most of us (hey, you never know!), Kelli has some super-simple tips for gettin' your chef on at home.

Bill Wisth has a beef with fish fry restaurant Chuck's Place. When he tried to take them up on their "all-you-can-eat" fried fish special, they cut him off after they ran out of fish. The restaurant says they fed Bill some 20 pieces, but Bill feels he had not truly eaten all he could eat. Now he's the lone protester, standing outside Chuck's with a sign reading "False Advertising."

Let me ask you something. When you see the phrase "All You Can Eat!" do you think to yourself, "Great, time to make an ass out of myself and literally shove as much food down my gullet as humanly possible!" Do you think that's what "All You Can Eat" really means?

Apparently Bill does. He took it literally. Way literally. And wait until you hear what else he did.

Well it's good to be a calico lobster. Last week a very stylish lobster was rescued from the clutches of hungry diners when restaurant owners noticed it scrabbling around the bottom of its tank. Jasper White, the owner of Cambridge, Massachussetts restaurant Summer Shack spotted the unusually-colored lobster from across the dining room one night. It had golden speckles! Now the so-called "calico lobster" is expected to live out the rest of its days in an aquarium, far away from melted butter and lemon slices.

Well good for that lobster. But what about the rest of these creatures? Can you think of any other animal we see alive right before we sit down and eat it? Is there something, oh I don't know, barbaric about eating lobster?

This is the greatest invention since sliced bread: A bag that lets you cook a grilled cheese sandwich in your toaster. Toastabags. At long last, my dream has come true!

Haven't you always wanted to be able to just pop a cheese sandwich in the toaster? But you can't, of course, because then the cheese would melt inside the toaster and wreck it. You just can't do that.

But now you can. Check it out. Toastabags are the answer to EVERYTHING, I tell you. Behold the genius.

Who else here is planning on making pasta tonight? It's hands down the easiest, most kid-friendly dish ever. Everyone has their list of favorite pasta dishes. For some people this list consists of one dish: Boiled pasta tossed with butter because that's how the two-year-old likes it. But maybe, moms, you'd like something a little more exciting that that?

There's the "fancy" version of that dish I used to make all the time in college: Buttered spaghetti with lots of lemon juice and pepper. Or you can toss with olive oil and add any of the ingredients we suggest below. The possibilities are endless, but sometimes you just need some fresh ideas. Have you tied these lately?

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