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If You Love a Meal… Dish More of It!

Relax-the-max on most Let’s Dish! meals

Due to popular demand (i.e., yours!) we have relaxed our limits on the maximum quantity of any individual meal you can order at a session. 

For many meals, we have set the max at 4 (or 8 splits).  A few meals have lower maximums, either because they take longer to dish or have excessively high cost-of-ingredients (as much as we’d love to offer 8 salmons, we have to pay rent!). 

So check out our new menus, and (for the most part) dish as much as you want of any meal! 

Happy dishing!

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We Recommend: Fruits and Veggies

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)!

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By Christine McKinney, M.S., R.D., C.D.E

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> Fruit juice vs. whole fruit: which should I choose?
> Pop Quiz: Test your knowledge of nutrients?

Make every day a heart-healthy day.

Dish from the HeartAs 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 as well. You can always reread this month’s posts and find new articles to read by visiting our Heart Health and Healthy Living categories.

We will continue this discussion on our blog as we believe one of the core benefits of Let’s Dish! is that you can always have a freezer full of healthy, convenient meals.

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Superfoods: what are they?

Green tea, a “superfood”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 higher amounts of antioxidants as well as phytochemicals that provide more health benefits than the run-of-the-mill food. 

  • Antioxidants are molecules that help remove free radicals (things in our system that cause damage to the cells in our body) from our bodies by binding with them, thus reducing the damage that would have originally taken place.
  • Phytochemicals are found in all plants and do not qualify as vitamins or minerals, yet, they play an essential role in reducing the risk of chronic diseases.

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Fruit juice vs. whole fruit: which should I choose?

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:

QuestionsLisa, does fruit juice count as one of your dialy servings of fruit?
And, is drinking fruit juice just as hearth healthy as eating fruit?

AnswersFruit juice is only a serving of fruit IF it is 100% fruit juice.
So, be sure to read the label to make sure the juice is 100% fruit juice, not a fruit “cocktail” or juice “drink” as some of those only contain as little as 2% fruit juice.

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Do you know the warning signs of a heart attack?

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. 

For your own benefit and to change this “alarmingly low” statistic as described by the CDC, let’s all take a minute to read this article: “Only 1 in 4 knows heart attack warning signs“.  The AP article, released to the the news on February 21st, details the findings of this study and the symptoms we should know: 

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Associated Press; February 21, 2008 on MSNBC

We also recommend you see details on Heart Attack, Stroke and Cardiac Arrest Warning Signs from the American Heart Association.

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More on Sodium: Dora and Batman get a little healthier!

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 480 milligrams of sodium per serving - a reduction of 20% from its current levels.  And, the sodium levels in those same soups were previously reduced by 25% two years ago.  Hard to imagine the amount of sodium in one little Dora can of soup before!  

The company can now officially label the cans as “healthy” - and that can of soup will represent 20% of the recommended daily intake of sodium per day for children (2,400 mg of sodium for adults or children 4 and older, according to FDA daily values.)  It’s a step in the right direction, I suppose!

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Dish from the Heart: I went over the risk factors in my head.

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!

Dish from the HeartMy husband, Jim, and I went through a lot in 2007. Early in the year, I had an elective surgery that was painful and had some complications but all was cool by July. When I was well, Jim decided to take a vacation in order to visit with and say goodbye to our son, who was to be redeployed to Afghanistan.

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We Recommend: Let’s Dish! on FOX 45 Morning News

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 of our healthy Ready Made side dishes and dessert options - and voila! - a romantic and healthy Valentine’s Day dinner!

Here’s the video - there’s still time to dish this very meal for Valentine’s Day, so sign up for a session or drop by the store to pick one up today!

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We Recommend: Let’s Dish! on WBAL Sunday Brunch

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 case you missed it!

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February 3, 2008

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If you cannot see the embedded video above, you can also view it on the Food for Thought blog page by clicking here or on You Tube.

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Dish from the Heart: Four generations, One story of heart disease

Today’s post is actually written by my father, Rick Corcoran, Sr. When I sign my name, I use “Jr.” to distinguish myself from my dad, but I am actually “Richard J. Corcoran IV”, the fourth generation with the name. It’s an honor to be part of this lineage, but there is one downside: in addition to a proud name, I also inherited a health profile that unfortunately includes heart disease. In support of our efforts during American Heart Month, I asked my father to share his first-hand experience when his father, my grandfather, unexpectedly passed away from heart disease.

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February 1st is National Wear Red Day - Stop by Let’s Dish! for a Heart Healthy Dish and Go Red TODAY!

National Wear Red Day at Let’s Dish!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 heart health in your life and in your community.  Spread the word:

1)  Join the Go Red Campaign at a Let’s Dish! location near you.*

During the day on Friday, February 1st, you’ll see our staff in red instead of their trademark orange to show our support for heart health.  And, we are raffling off American Heart Association cookbooks to a lucky disher in each session!   You can fill out a quick card to sign up for the Go Red Campaign right in the store; you’ll receive your free red dress pin for doing so and can proudly display your commitment to heart health all day (or month!) long.

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Dish from the Heart: Sticking around to see her grandchildren grow up.

Today we share the first in a series called “Dish from the Heart” - personal stories about the impact heart disease can have on an individual and their family.  We hope these first-hand experiences will inspire you to join Let’s Dish! and the American Heart Association in the fight against heart disease and to live each day with your heart health in mind.  You can find more information on the AHA’s health efforts and the Go Red Campaign in our Let’s Dish! stores this February.

Dish from the HeartMy Mother’s Story by Nikki Dungee

Last year, while preparing for one of our morning dish sessions in Columbia, I received a terrifying call from my mother’s doctor who informed me that my mother might be having a heart attack.

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Are you living a heart-healthy lifestyle? Three links to know for sure.

Heart Healthy!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 the American Heart Association (AHA) in the Mid-Atlantic to bring our healthy meals together with education and real-life tools. Plus, we challenged our menu development team to create the healthiest Let’s Dish! menu yet (kudos - our February menu has 13 heart healthy meals!). 

In doing so, we quickly realized that a commitment to heart health is more than looking for “low fat” labels. Sure, a heart graphic is easy to spot, but what exactly does ”heart healthy” mean?

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Here’s to your heart: A preview of heart health month at Let’s Dish!

February is American Heart Month. It’s an important time at Let’s Dish!, and of course, an important time at Food For Thought, the Let’s Dish! blog.

Heart Health Post IconHeart disease is this country’s #1 killer, claiming over 900,000 American lives annually. Fortunately, and thanks in a large part to the great work of the American Heart Association (AHA), US heart disease death rates are down around 20% versus a decade ago. But millions of Americans live every day with heart disease. And who among us hasn’t been touched by the disease, through a relative, colleague, neighbor or friend?

Sadly, heart disease will never go away entirely.

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