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Did you pledge for you and your Valentine to eat healthy in the new year but you crave all those new dill pickle snack flavors? What if your tuna lunch came “pickled?” Catch a break on your lunch break with a host of new flavors from Safe Catch. Citrus dill after pickleball? Rosemary Dijon when you have just a minute? Garlic herb on an English muffin for a quick breakfast? Okay, well, maybe that’s just me, but garlic is often part of my healthy breakfast.

Safe Catch has pouches of Wild Elite Pure Tuna and Wild Pacific Pink Salmon that is skinless and boneless. Low in calories and high in flavor, this is easy, quick good stuff with the lowest mercury limit of any brand. It’s sooo easy to keep on hand. www.safecatch.com

We get around! – Birds of Port Arthur checklists, postcards and other Southeast Texas souvenirs are in the hands of some appreciative Japanese children.

Jim Richardson, longtime Port Arthur resident, met with one of his language exchange partners, Saori, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in Japan, to dine on the city’s famous cuisine.

“The children were very happy to receive Port Arthur gifts,” Richardson said.

               While Richardson told them about gumbo in the Cajun Capital of Texas, he said he was enjoying sweet, succulent lamb, grilled at the table in broth with onions, carrots and greens.

               “The area also has incredible sashimi, sushi, and ramen, to please anyone’s taste buds,” he said.

Richardson took souvenirs for Saori’s elder son Sota and younger son Kanta, both of whom are becoming fluent in English by taking after-school classes.

Cooper Street Snacks

– Did you ever fall asleep imagining you would wake up to a sweet, crispy bar of flax, chia, buckwheat, quinoa and oats? I didn’t. But the women of women-owned Cooper Street Snacks have created a “wholesome” and “perfectly-balanced anytime snack” that I’ve found myself craving. Those quotes are simply to say that the company put those phrases on the box, along with calling those ingredients “go-get-em grains and fruit.” Now my words in quotes would include “look-forward-to” and “actually really good.” Granola Bakes in Oatmeal Cranberry, Blueberry Pomegranate and Cherry Chocolate are just part of this sweet line.

This story of good taste and quality started in Birmingham, Michigan and continues across America. www.cooperstreet.com
Darragh Doiron is a Port Arthur area foodie resolving to try nearly every new flavor that comes her way in 2025. darraghcastillo@icloud.com