Now that bikini season is officially over, it's time to treat yourself to some much-needed bacon. Sure you can just have the standard strip with breakfast…or you can go all out with your tastebuds and try these decadent and truly amazing recipes. From jam to salty-sweet concoctions, edible bowls, and more, your mouth will thank me (your jeans…well, they'll get over it)… - By Macki West

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Have a homemade Halloween by whipping up some of the most beloved candies in your own kitchenWhat are your favorite Halloween candies? With the celebrated candy-filled holiday just around the corner, the editors at The Daily Meal mused on what sugary classics our Halloweens wouldn't be complete without. While many were oohed and aahed over, the TWIX bar kept coming up as one we loved the most during our trick-or-treating years.

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The TWIX bar was introduced in the U.S. in 1979. Although very little is recorded about the TWIX bar's history, few can argue about its loveable traits - a crunchy, shortbread cookie topped with caramel and slathered in chocolate is hard to resist. Though each serving has 12 grams of fat and 250 calories, TWIX is an unmistakable favorite because you get not one but two candy bars with each purchase.

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This candy, while enjoyed all year long, defines the Halloween season for

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By Ashleigh Schmitz

Who doesn't love Olive Garden salad? It's a scientific fact that no one can get enough of it (thank goodness for their unlimited portions). And that dressing? Yum!

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Luckily for our cravings Olive Garden is one of the kinder restaurants, posting recipes for many of its beloved dishes online (including the Venetian Apricot Chicken from the new Lighter Italian Fare menu, which has less than 575 calories). But noticeably absent is everyone's favorite pre-entrée salad (or in my case sometimes entrée). Bummer!

Thankfully the salad is easy to make at home. And while there are several copy-cat recipes for their famous Italian salad dressing on the interwebs, you can get rid of the trial and error chef-ery because their salad dressing is available by the bottle at Sam's Club. And honestly, I could eat cardboard if it was covered in that salad dressing.

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The head might react to statistics, but our hearts respond to stories. Rather than spread awareness for World Food Day, a global initiative established by the U.N in 1979 to end hunger, by reciting the statistic that 1 in 7 people suffer from undernourishment worldwide, we sought out the story of a woman who suffered from homelessness and hunger in the US.

Diana JohnsonMeet Diana Johnson. Just a few weeks following September 11th, after being laid off from her tourism job in Hawaii, Diana moved out of her apartment and into her car. She had about $100 in her bank account. "The only food I bought for an entire month was a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread'" Diana writes on her blog, Eating Richly. She attended potlucks at her church and picked lychees and grapefruits outside after services. "I knew all the different places around the island where there were mango, papaya, guava, banana or other trees I could pick fruit from," she said.

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By Hilary Meyer, Associate Food Editor, EatingWell Magazine

When I was in culinary school we learned a lot about how to develop flavors. These methods usually involved high-end ingredients, a lot of prep time and sometimes following complicated procedures to get good results. Little did I know a much easier path to culinary greatness was sitting in my pantry the whole time I was sweating in a restaurant kitchen. That would be my slow cooker.

The humble slow cooker can turn out some pretty mean food if you know a few tricks. Not to mention it's convenient, relatively inexpensive and very easy to use. (Dinner practically cooks itself!) Take EatingWell's recipe for Flemish Beef Stew (see full recipe below), for example. In culinary school I would have been meticulously trimming an expensive cut of meat, tournéing vegetables and bathing them all in veal stock.

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Cooking VegPeople try to avoid eating vegetables simply because of their bland taste. Parents keep running after their children trying to convince them into consuming vegetables that are supposed to be nutritious and essential for growth. But kids keep running because boiled or raw vegetables just don't agree with their taste buds.

Vegetables are indeed an important source of nutrition. To consume these foods without having to deal with a tasteless meal, two things need to be done. The first, selecting an appropriate way for cooking these vegetables and the second, adding seasoning for flavor.

It has been said that before you start cooking, vegetables cultivated over ground must be used through cold water while vegetables cultivated underneath the ground must be boiled at first.

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Cabbages are usually boiled in water as a part of