Careful What You Stick In Your Mouth

Put down the hamburger: Trader Joe's is recalling some ground beef and onions. Generally we love Joe's food, but listeria monocytogenes? Ick! In fairness to TJ's, all supermarkets go through recalls now and then, and it could be far worse -- at the Safeway in the Mission, we've seen them changing ceiling tiles above the uncovered produce.

Frequent TJ shoppers can get alerts whenever the company issues a recall, but it's slightly hard to set up. The TJ website itself doesn't offer any easy way to sign up for alerts, so you have to use ChangeNotes to create an alert for http://www.traderjoes.com/action_issues.asp -- any time that info is added or deleted from the page, you'll get an email.