Eat your leafy greens

So, we're supposed to be eating at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, but we keep getting hit by the E. coli bug. First spinach, and now lettuce. L. and I spent almost an hour last night trying to figure out if the lettuce that I'd bought the night before was part of the recall of the Foxy brand of lettuce. Of course, when you buy the lettuce and put it in it's own bag, the only identification on it is the little band around the lettuce, and all that read was the Safeway logo. Not too helpful. And a quick check on the Safeway Web site didn't lead to any information about the recall, so we still don't know whether Safeway sells that brand of lettuce. Also not very helpful. At the very least, stores could post something on the Web sites when there are recalls to address whether or not they sell that product.

I definitely think there needs to be more work put into the safety of the food that we eat. I had two friends who got sick from the Jack In the Box outbreak in 1993. They shared a hamburger and ended up getting sick. One of them was in the hospital for awhile. I definitely don't want to end up in a similar situation because of something I ate.