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Workers Share The Strangest Food Orders They’ve Taken

Restaurant Workers Are Sharing The Strangest Food Orders They’ve Ever Taken, And I Think I’ve Officially Lost Faith In All Of Humanity

We all know people can be, well… strange, but no one knows this better than restaurant workers. So Redditor u/Graceful_Swan_Ronson asked, “Waiters/Waitresses of Reddit, what’s the most ridiculous request you’ve gotten from a customer at your restaurant?…


8 Things You’ll Never See at Costco Ever Again

When you’re a Costco devotee, it can be absolutely devastating to see your favorite products get removed from the shelves. The beloved warehouse is constantly changing its stock, which means there are often product casualties to make space for new items. Some discontinued items hit shoppers harder than others and they’ll talk about it forever, but some items simply slip under the radar, never to be discussed again…


This Meal Prep Trick Makes Eating My Greens So Easy

When I get home from the farmer’s market—weighed down with bags brimming with yardstick-length leeks, carrot tops wafting in the wind, and bunches of Swiss chard the size of shrubs—I often find myself playing an elaborate game of Tetris trying to fit everything into my fridge. But one trick that helps me every time is setting all of the hearty greens aside, wilting them, and marinating them lightly before they ever pass the fridge door threshold. Not only does it drastically reduce the amount of real estate they take up, but it arms me with an important building block for the rest of the week’s cooking…


Plant-Based Meal Kits Could Be the Next Big Thing in Food

Recently, Nestlé’s Freshly, a prepared meal service, boosted its chef-prepared meal kits by introducing its first-ever plant-based meals product line. To understand why the Swiss food giant made this move – and indeed, to understand why one year ago it acquired Freshly – we need to zoom in on the two trends that are increasingly shaping the food industry: the home kitchen’s downfall and the rise of plant-based foods…


McDonald’s Is Releasing These 50 Nostalgic Happy Meal Toys

To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World, McDonald’s will soon be offering Disney toys in Happy Meals…


Eat Right for Better Hearing, Vision, and Teeth

You’re probably aware that, for better or worse, what you eat can affect your risk for conditions like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. But the same kind of diet that’s good for your brain, heart, and lungs—rich in fruits, veggies, lean protein, grains, and healthy fats—also helps hearing, vision, and dental health, says Libby Mills, MS, RD, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “This type of eating pattern is not just rich in antioxidants that can help keep ears, eyes, and teeth healthy,” she says, “it also reduces inflammation in the body that can worsen gum disease and vision and hearing problems.” Adding certain foods into an overall healthy diet may be even more beneficial. Here’s what the research suggests…


5 Tips for Packing A+ School Meals Your Kids Will Eat — and Enjoy

MY OLDEST KID isn’t a picky eater. Still, it took only two weeks into the school year for me to break his one lunch box request: “Please, Mom — no sandwiches!”…