Denise has an important Public Service Announcement regarding online privacy and the people-search website Spokeo.

You’ll probably want to get your listing taken out of there. I know I did. The amount of information that was provided was kind of scary–and in some cases, appallingly inaccurate.

For example, my profile reported that I live in a $1 million+ home. Yeah, RIGHT! I’m not even sure there are homes valued at that much in this three-town zip code!

The website is exceedingly slow to use, but it’s worth the time to get your private information out of there. Yes, someone could find it all in other places, but it wouldn’t be as easy as typing in ONE search term.

I just had to throw away a brand-new carton of ice cream.

I found it listed on the FDA’s peanut-recall list.

That is one BIG list and getting bigger all the time.

Unfortunately, the only advice for the consumer is to throw away the affected product in a safe manner.

However, I will choose to be grateful that my family hadn’t opened and eaten this ice cream yet. No one here has gotten sick from eating contaminated peanut products. So I wasted $2 worth of ice cream (I got it on sale!)

I think I got off cheap.

Now please go and check your pantries.

H/T to Milehimama, where I read this first:

The FDA is asking consumers to destroy Peter Pan brand and Great Value brand peanut butter, because it is contaminated with Salmonella. Destroy any jars that begin with product code 2111.

Here’s the official news release from Con Agra, the manufacturers of Peter Pan peanut butter.

I found one of these jars in my pantry, and am just feeling lucky that we hadn’t opened it yet.