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See this happy-looking guy? You can hardly tell that he reared two girls (his “two lovely daughters,” he calls us) and has been the target of many, “but, Dad…(insert angst-ridden sigh)” comments since the mid-1980’s, many of which I now wish I could take back.
Yup that’s my dad, and he’s enjoying Fusion Pork Tenderloin (and […]
January 15, 2009 – 6:00 am
Way back in ‘07 when we talked about the idea of launching a blog for our Let’s Dish! stores, it seemed like an intimidating task. Heck, most of us didn’t even know what a “blog” really was … or did… or something. But as we investigated our options, we learned that a blog would not […]
November 17, 2008 – 4:00 am
October is over but the Pink Dish! giving has just begun! Thanks to the support and participation of all of you - dishers, friends, family, the Let’s Dish! team and the community - the Pink Dish! Campaign achieved its goal once again.
We are proud to announce that this year’s contributions enabled us to fund all […]
September 28, 2008 – 11:59 pm
As we at Let’s Dish! began the planning for the 2008 Pink Dish! Campaign, I found it hard to believe that it had already been a year since our first initiative. Then again, a year can mean so much in the fight against breast cancer - and the same is true for Pink Dish!.
Lisa […]
It’s simple: New moms get FREE delivery from Let’s Dish!
If you became a mom (or became a mom again) in the last 3 months, congratulations! Not only do you have a new bundle of joy, you can get FREE delivery on healthy, convenient meals from Let’s Dish! Just email newmoms@letsdish.net and and we’ll set […]
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Tagged delivery, dinner, DishDelivery, easy meal prep association, family, health, home, kids, letsdish, meal assembly, meal preparation, mom, mother, Offer, quick easy meals, savings, summer vacation, www.letsdish.com
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Want to keep your kids happy, healthy and full for less than $4 a serving? WUSA9 in Washington DC shares how you can do just that with a little help from Let’s Dish!. Today, reporter Lesli Foster features our store as the one-stop shop for kid-friendly meals for you and your […]
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Tagged cooking, dinner, DishDelivery, easy meal prep association, easy meals, elizabeth marcotte, family, health, healthy dinners, jeremy kugel, kids, Let's Dish!, meal preparation, Offer, recipe, recipes, www.letsdish.com
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As we head into summer, Let’s Dish! offers a delicious menu of meals perfect for the pool, beach or backyard BBQ. Each month, you’ll find great family meals that are perfect for taking on vacation or grilling up with friends and family at home.
No time to come in and prepare your meals? No […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, beach, delivery, dinner, Dish-n-Dash, DishDelivery, family, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, mom, summer vacation, www.letsdish.com
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As summer approaches, you find more and more fantastic produce in the grocery store, including vegetables that will pair perfectly with meals on the Let’s Dish! menu. But, what’s the best way to prepare vegetables to get the best flavor and retain all the important vitamins and nutrients?
We recommend this New York Times Health […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, fruit, fruits, health, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, new york times, superfoods, tara parker-pope, vegetables, We Recommend, www.letsdish.com
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So many of you said you didn’t know all the perks of being a Let’s Dish! fan on Facebook until our recent post, “You’ve got a Friend (on Facebook),” that we decided to EXTEND our Facebook Fan offer to all Food for Thought readers.Â
Become a fan on Let’s Dish! on Facebook through MONDAY, May 19th, and you can […]
Hey Let’s Dish! customers, if you haven’t already become a Let’s Dish! fan on Facebook, here are a few reasons to join our fan base now. This past month we:
Gave all fans a preview of the new month’s menu one week before it hit the website and two weeks before in the store
Surprised one lucky […]
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Tagged DishPoints, DishRewards, facebook, fundraising, Gift, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, Offer, The Dish On, www.letsdish.com
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We’ve enjoyed meeting and seeing a lot of new moms in all our Let’s Dish! stores this week thanks to our special FREE Meals for New Moms promotion. Here’s one funny story from a new mom’s “freezer experience” in our Gaithersburg, MD, store. Thanks for sending it in, Dawn!
A mom stopped by today […]
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Tagged dawn brown, dinner, dream dinners, easy meals, gaithersburg, Gift, gift card, heatlhy meals, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal planning, meal preparation, mom, mother, mother's day, pick up meals, www.letsdish.com
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Let’s Dish! was featured on Beltway Gourmet this morning as WBAL’s Doug Roberts talked with us about preparing meals for vacation. Roberts asks the question: “While the rest of your gang is having lots of summer vacation fun, how much time are you going to spend planning and shopping and preparing all those meals?”
Our […]
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Tagged baltimore, beach, delivery, delivery service, Dish-n-Dash, DishDelivery, health, home, julie linz, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, pick up meals, planning, quick easy meals, rick corcoran, salmon, summer vacation, vacation meals, www.letsdish.com
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In case you missed it, our own Lisa Hardiman and Jeremy Kugel hosted Sunday Brunch on WBAL-TV on Sunday, May 4th. Lisa and Jeremy shared a few ways Let’s Dish! can help you make your Mother’s Day celebration special this year and dished up our popular French Toast Peach Cobbler. It’s the perfect for brunch […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, brunch, children, cook, cooking, DishDelivery, easy recipe, family, family dinner, family dinners, Family Matters, french toast, gift card, jeremy kugel, kitchen, Let's Dish!, letsdish, lisa hardiman, meal assembly, meal preparation, mom, mother, Offer, parenting, recipes, The Dish On, wbal-tv, www.letsdish.com
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Consumer Reports is a valuable resource for so many savvy shoppers out there. But did you know they give advice on more than cars and electronics?!
Follow the link to read their “Tip of the Day” on how to keep food fresh, posted on the Consumer Reports Home and Garden blog. And, don’t […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, consumer reports, cooking, fresh ideas, garden, home, kitchen, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, storage, tip, www.letsdish.com
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It’s a fact that food is more expensive than ever these days. Yet, a Let’s Dish! meal comes in as low as $3.25 a serving when you dish yourself and make a bunch of healthy, delicious dinners to spare. And you make ‘em just the way you like ‘em. It’s a freezerful of convenience AND […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, cost savings, dinner, fresh ideas, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, restaurant-quality meals, rising food costs, savings, value, www.letsdish.com
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Valerie Harding, our new chef and Director of Food Services, was profiled today in The Examiner (Baltimore, MD; March 31, 2008). We thought all you “dishers” out there would enjoy reading the article, since Valerie and our food team are the part-time chefs in your kitchen as well!
MORE “THE DISH ON…” POSTS:
> Meet Valerie Harding, […]
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Tagged baltimore examiner, cooking, Culinary Inspiration, jessica novak, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, recipes, valerie harding, www.letsdish.com
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We absolutely love Real Simple Magazine. It’s a good day when it arrives in the mail at my house each month. I suspect if I asked a random sampling of our Let’s Dish! customers and Food for Thought readers out there, thousands of you would say the same.
Just last week Real Simple […]
Posted in Culinary Inspiration
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Tagged cooking, culinary adventures, Culinary Inspiration, family dinners, international cuisine, kim o'donnel, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, real simple, recipes, simply stated, www.letsdish.com
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As American Heart Month draws to a close, we want to encourage everyone to remember that focusing on your heart health should be a year-round, every day effort.
We hope you found the articles posted this month on Food for Thought helpful towards your own personal heart health. It’s been educational and inspirational […]
In a recent Morning Edition segment on NPR, reporter Alix Spiegal explores the research that seeks to expand on the issue of family dinner and its benefits in a story called, “The Family Dinner Deconstructed.” According to Spiegal, researchers are now pushing further to ask: “Is it the mere act of eating together […]
Posted in Family Matters
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Tagged alexa corcoran, alix spiegal, diet, family, family dinner, Let's Dish!, meal assembly, meal preparation, NPR, nutrition, parenting, www.letsdish.com
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February 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
This month, Lisa (co-owner of Let’s Dish! stores in MD and Northern VA)Â had her skills as the “woman behind the Let’s Dish! menu” put to the test by The Baltimore Sun. Though she has been putting dinner on the table for tens of thousands of families in the mid-Atlantic as our head of menu devlopment, […]
Posted in Culinary Inspiration, Healthy Living
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Tagged baltimore sun, cooking, diet, dinner, family dinner, Let's Dish!, lisa hardiman, meal assembly, meal preparation, meredith cohn, nutrition, recipes, salmon, www.letsdish.com
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February 26, 2008 – 6:00 am
While studies have shown that a healthier choice is to eat wholesome, home-cooked meals, preferably ones prepared at Let’s Dish!, the reality is that every once in a while, you go out to eat. And, sometimes it’s even fun to go out with your family. But that plaguing guilt, confusion and paralysis that takes over when you […]
February 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
If you don’t - or aren’t sure - you are not alone.  Just 1 in 4 Americans know the early physical warnings of a heart attack - and what to do next, according to a new goverment report.Â
For your own benefit and to change this “alarmingly low” statistic as described by the CDC, let’s all take a minute […]
February 21, 2008 – 6:00 am
Here’s a postscript to last week’s post on sodium and heart health. On Monday, ABC Health News reported that those cute cans of Campbell’s soup - you know, the ones with the kids’ characters on the can - are getting a little healthier: “Campbell’s Lowering Sodium in Kids Soups” (by Geoff Mulvihill, Feb 18, 2008).
Now these 12 Campbell’s soups will have […]
Posted in Healthy Living, Heart Health
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Tagged alexa corcoran, american heart association, Campbell Soup Company, diet, health, Healthy Living, Heart Health, Let's Dish!, nutrition, obesity, sodium, www.letsdish.com
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February 19, 2008 – 6:00 am
Sheila Ferrell is a social worker on the open heart surgery unit at Union Memorial Hospital. Last year, her husband went through open heart surgery and was treated on her very floor at Union Memorial.  We thank Sheila for sharing her first-hand and very personal perspective on heart disease with Let’s Dish!.Â
My husband, Jim, and I went through […]
February 18, 2008 – 6:00 am
Let’s Dish! was named the 2007 Small Business “Product of the Year” by the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce! Here’s the feature from the Chamber’s February newsletter:
We are very proud of our Loudoun County stores - Ashburn and Leesburg - and applaud the entire Let’s Dish! team that helped to make us a winner, especially Elizabeth […]
February 14, 2008 – 1:20 pm
With all the talk about heart health, today is a reminder that the heart doesn’t just pump the blood… it’s also a symbol of our emotion.
So, on this day of heartfelt expression (and chocolate indulgence), we’d like to thank you - our customers - for making the Let’s Dish! dream a reality. We have great […]
February 12, 2008 – 7:15 pm
Lisa and I dropped by the FOX 45 Morning News (WBFF-TV, Baltimore MD) on Monday, February 11th, to continue our mission during American Heart Month.
During the Morning Recipes segment, we gave a demonstration of a heart healthy dish on the Let’s Dish! menu in February, Roasted Pork Tenderloins with Red Currant Sauce. We added some […]
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Tagged alexa corcoran, baltimore, cooking, diet, fox 45, Healthy Living, heart, Heart Health, Let's Dish!, lisa hardiman, nutrition, recipes, wbff-tv, www.letsdish.com
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February 9, 2008 – 6:00 am
Looking for something to do this weekend? We recommend you head to to the Maryland Science Center for some hands-on fun with your kids as they absorb important information about their body and how to keep it healthy!
Several fantastic new exhibits on the human body have just opened for a limited time in the mid-Atlantic. […]
Posted in Healthy Living, We Recommend
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Tagged alexa corcoran, baltimore, body, diet, health, Healthy Living, heart healthy, IMAX, Let's Dish!, Maryland Science Center, nutrition, science, www.letsdish.com
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February 7, 2008 – 6:00 am
Lisa and I put on our Let’s Dish! aprons this past weekend to prepare a heart healthy dish from February’s menu for the Sunday Brunch segment on WBAL-TV (Baltimore, MD). During our three minutes, we tried to share as many tips as we could on how to identify heart healthy ingredients and integrate these nutritious foods into your diet.
Here’s the video in […]
Posted in Healthy Living, Most Popular Posts, We Recommend
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Tagged alexa corcoran, baltimore, cooking, diet, Healthy Living, heart, Heart Health, Let's Dish!, lisa hardiman, nutrition, recipes, wbal-tv, www.letsdish.com
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