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A member of the Let’s Dish! team has recently hit the 100 pound weight loss mark (congrats to you!) and looks simply amazing. When people ask her the secret, her response is “I almost always make the better choice.” We live in a world of crazy fad diets, unrealistic workout programs and thousand of “self-help” [...]
Exactly how much healthier are Let’s Dish! meals versus family-favorite casual dining restaurants? We did a little research… and even we were shocked! Replacing four casual dining dinners with the dinners from Let’s Dish! can save your family an astonishing: 962 grams of fat, 16,188 calories and 60,222 grams of sodium!
You know about DishRewards. That’s the program we launched this spring, where you earn DishPoints (good as cash on www.letsdish.com) for doing all the things you love: dishing, recommending Let’s Dish! to friends, hosting parties, dishing some more, etc. DishPoints stack up quickly (we’ve already given away well over a million of them!). Real customers [...]
How do we create such fantastic menus? Well, our talented food team is always cooking up the best recipes months in advance. But did you know our customers play a big role as well? Through the “My Orders” link once you log in to letsdish.com, customers can rate the meals they’ve dished [1 star (not [...]
Many customers use Let’s Dish! as part of a plan for attaining (or maintaining!) a healthy weight. And we’re making it easier than ever. Complete nutritional information (including ingredients, calories, fat, etc., as well as Weight Watchers® POINTS®) for an entire menu can now be downloaded on a single document from the Let’s Dish! website. [...]
Here’s a different take on “Fresh Ideas” – a great article on that issue of which type of fruits and veggies you should choose. We’ve discussed this before on Food for Thought but it never hurts to get a fresh reminder (sorry – couldn’t help the pun)! Fruits and Veggies: Fresh, Canned, or Frozen? By [...]
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 for us [...]
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 that counts, [...]
The idea of ”good” and “bad” fats in food is quite confusing.  At Let’s Dish!, our commitment to our customers is that our monthly menu of dinners will always be trans fat free and contain at least four heart-healthy meals. (During American Heart Month, we had thirteen!)  We can offer such heathful choices because of work by our menu development team as well the fact you prepare [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
We have all heard of superfoods. Everyone is talking about them. If they paid me a dollar for every time I saw them on a talk show, I’d be rich! So what are they? Superfoods range from various types of fruits and vegetables to spices to nuts to herbal supplements. They are believed to have [...]
When Alexa and I went on WBAL for Sunday Brunch, one of the topics we discussed was fruit vs. fruit juice. In today’s post, Lisa follows up on the issue with some quick guidance on the difference in healthfulness between fruit and fruit juice: Lisa, does fruit juice count as one of your dialy servings of fruit? [...]
I heard about RealAge from Newt Gingrich. Seriously, I did! Back in 2006, we won a US Chamber of Commerce Award for our Let’s Dish! stores in the mid-Atlantic and were named one of the top small businesses in the country. (We won again in 2007- how’s that for patting ourselves on the back!). Anyway, in 2006, Newt [...]
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 [...]
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!. My husband, Jim, and I went [...]
Here’s a little pop quiz that will help you make the grade when it comes to good nutrition! We’ve tried to be sneaky, so you’ll first see the three questions. Then, you can scr…o…ll… down for the answers!     POP QUIZ: 1) Which of the following foods contains the most fiber? A) ½ cup baked beans [...]
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 [...]
Most of us think that fat is the enemy of heart health, but did you know that sodium – yes, salt – can be seriously harmful to your health? A recent USA Today article by Heather Terwilliger, “Salt intake brings new levels of alarm” (Feb 10, 2008), emphasizes just how dangerous salt can be. At [...]
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 [...]
Living a heart healthy lifestyle involves several factors, including diet, exercise, weight management, smoking cessation, and being knowledgeable of your risk factors…just to name a few. Let’s briefly look at some of these factors: Balancing calories taken in with calories burned is a sure recipe for weight management. A healthy diet is based on fruits, [...]
Show your support for the fight against heart disease and the American Heart Association by wearing RED today! You’ll join millions of other men, women and children (even cities!) who will support the cause by wearing red on National Wear Red Day.  And, if you only have a few spare minutes on February 1st, here are two quick ways to encourage [...]
One more expert to recommend today: This week, Jane Brody – the New York Times award-winning Personal Health columnist – is taking questions online about diet and nutrition. Brody, reporter for The Times and author of several books on medicine and science, is a great resource to answer any questions you may have about healthy eating. [...]
It would be hard to miss all the heart icons in our stores and on the Let’s Dish! website as we “Go Red” in February. As Jeremy wrote yesterday, we’ve pledged to learn more about healthy living and do all we can to prevent heart disease. And, we can do a lot – nutritious meals and heart-health awareness to thousands of families to start. We partnered with [...]
