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Blue Apron's meal plans can be adjusted to meet your nutritional needs.

9 Delicious Food Subscription Services That Help You Avoid the Grocery Store

If you don't want to brave the grocery store for a while, these subscription services can deliver meals, snacks, and wine right to your door.

Thanks to a pandemic, milk delivery is on the rise.

The Milkman Is Back to Making Dairy Deliveries

Once a cliché of 1950s sitcoms, milkmen have been out in force thanks to national shelter-in-place recommendations.

Keep that crispy, crunchy freshness inside the bag—no tools needed.

This Nifty Potato Chip Bag Hack Is Amazing the Internet

Clothespins, binder clips, and rubber bands all work in a pinch, but all you really need is the bag itself.

It's OK if you decide to ignore the recommended serving size on a box of these beauties.

You Can Now Order—and Donate—Girl Scout Cookies Online

The Girl Scouts are making sure you get your annual fix of Thin Mints and Tagalongs—and sharing the love with healthcare workers, too.

Can't Find Yeast? Grow Your Own at Home With a Sourdough Starter

Yeast has become hard to find at grocery stores, but as long as you have water, flour, and time, you can grow your own yeast to bake bread at home.

Queen Elizabeth II at an afternoon tea event in 1999.

How to Make Queen Elizabeth’s Beloved Chocolate Biscuit Cake at Home

The queen exercises an admirable amount of self-control by only eating one little sliver a day, but you don’t have to be so modest.

To Avoid Grocery Shopping, Quarantined Americans Are Reviving Wartime-Era Victory Gardens

Victory gardens were originally a way to supplement food supplies during World Wars I and II. Now, Americans are bringing them back in response to COVID-19 concerns.

Peeps are all out of cluck when it comes to confectionery popularity contests.

America’s 10 Most Hated Easter Candies

Apparently, many people are hoping the Easter bunny doesn’t bring them any Peeps or Cadbury Creme Eggs.

84-Year-Old Italian Nonna Is Live-Streaming Pasta-Making Classes From Her Home Outside Rome

If you're stuck inside, pass the time with a virtual pasta-making class taught by an Italian nonna outside Rome.

The popular cinema snack is helping fund employees' salaries.

A Virginia Cinema Owner Is Serving Movie Theater Popcorn Curbside to Keep Paying His Employees

University Mall and Cinema Arts in Fairfax, Virginia, are no longer screening films, but customers can still pick up movie theater popcorn curbside to take home with them.

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#WaffleHouseIndexRed: Waffle House Has Closed 365 Restaurants Across the Country

For people who use the Waffle House Index to gauge disasters, the novel coronavirus pandemic just got real.

A Little Free Library full of canned goods in Chicago.

People Are Stocking Their Little Free Libraries With Food and Toilet Paper to Help Neighbors

Now, Little Free Libraries across the map hold everything from peanut butter to toilet paper—and some books, too.

Slice Cherry Tomatoes In Seconds With This Brilliantly Simple Kitchen Hack

Sick of recipes that ask you to cut cherry tomatoes in half individually? If you have two storage container lids, you can slice a bunch of them at once in seconds.

At McDonald's, you could probably quench the thirst of a family of four for just $1.

The Reason Why McDonald’s Soft Drinks Are All $1—Regardless of Size

The $1 soft drinks and other items on the McDonald’s Dollar Menu are a clever way to get you in the door.

The common salad dressing has a contentious origin story.

The Mysterious Origins of Thousand Island Dressing

The ingredients in Thousand Island dressing are simple, but no one can agree who should lay claim to the famous recipe.

Hotels often offer a complimentary pastry and fruit breakfast.

What Makes a Hotel Breakfast 'Continental'?

Hotels offer pastries, fruit, and coffee as a guest perk. But what makes it a 'continental' breakfast?

Why the Size and Shape of Your Coffee Cup Matter, According to Science

Cappuccino is often served in a larger, wider mug, while espresso comes in a short, narrow mug. But even avid coffee drinkers may not know why.

From Inedible to Indispensable: When a Quack Doctor Touted Tomatoes as a Medical Cure-All

In the 1830s, Americans became obsessed with the idea that tomatoes could cure everything from cholera to diarrhea.

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Crepe and Punishment: Police in Surrey, England Are Using Pancakes to Share Wanted Posters

The police in Surrey, England used Pancake Day as an excuse to make pancake art wanted posters and flood their Twitter feed with breakfast puns.

Chocolate chip cookies have never tasted better.

How to Make Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies (And How to Substitute Ingredients)

This recipe balances savory and sweet and creates an addictive chocolate chip cookie that has some surprises in store.

Being a brewmaster is about more than just sampling beer and coming up with new recipes. Maintenance and sanitation also play a huge role in the job.

10 Secrets of Brewmasters

Brewing beer for a living sounds like a dream job. Mostly, it is. Unless you get beer sludge on your pants.

General Mills was confident Fingos would be a cereal smash.

Remembering Fingos, the Hybrid Cereal-Snack Disappointment of the '90s

In 1993, General Mills spent $34 million telling consumers they could eat their new cereal, Fingos, dry and right out of the box. Consumers already knew that.

McDonald’s Is Adding Two New Big Mac Sizes—Little Macs and Double Big Macs—to Its Menu

Two new Bic Mac sizes are coming to a McDonald's near you. And yes, these spin-offs will feature the Special Sauce and all your other favorite Big Mac ingredients.

Why We Eat Corned Beef and Cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day

Though it's the official dish of Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day in America, corned beef and cabbage was actually popularized in New York City.

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