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DealDash Recipes: Autumnal Beef Stew

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As the weather is cooling slightly, it’s a wonderful time to start thinking about fall recipes. Beef stew is one of my favorites.

There is just something to me that says “Winter is coming” with a big hearty bowl of beef stew. It’s delicious, has healthy ingredients, and you can even make a huge batch of it, and freeze it for later use for a night that you don’t feel like cooking this upcoming winter. Pairing beef stew with a delicious home-baked (yes, buying frozen dough and baking it counts as home-baked!) bread makes the perfect meal for a long,  — Read full post

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DealDash Cooks: Boba (Bubble) Tea

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Bubble Tea is one of my favorite drinks. I crave it. Luckily, it’s easy to make at home.

Bubble tea is originally from Taiwan, it was created in the 1980s. Eventually it’s popularity spread throughout Asia, then across the world. My favorite bubble tea is the type with boba tapioca pearls, but bubble tea can also be made with small cubes of jelly, or you can even just make the regular Thai iced tea without any sort of bubbles.

You can add the boba bubbles to just about any drink, but they are typically added to either Thai iced tea  — Read full post

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DealDash Cooks: Sweet Potato Fries

Image result for sweet potato friesSweet potato fries that are made in the oven taste great and are a lot healthier for you than regular fries. Luckily, they are easy to make as well.

Have you ever had sweet potato fries? I first tried them a few years ago, and I was hooked. When I learned how easy and quick they are to make at home they became a regular staple around our house. Here is a fast recipe, but of course you can add any other seasoning that you would like to them such as truffle oil, Himalayan salt, etc.

Ingredients:

  • 1 large or
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Bento Lessons with DealDash

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Now that the kids are back in school and I need to make lunches for two kids daily instead of one, I thought it would be fun to explore some “easy” bento designs.

Are you familiar with the concept of “bento”? If you were to look up the definition in the dictionary it would say “Bento is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento holds rice, fish or meat, with pickled or cooked vegetables, usually in a box-shaped container.” However, to many moms (and some dads) bento is more than that – bento is  — Read full post

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DealDash Makes: Home Made Energy Drinks

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If you’re the kind of person who loves energy drinks, I’m sure that you realize that they are quite bad for your health.

Here are a few alternatives for you to get the energy you crave from a drink, without all of the chemicals that are terrible for you. They might not have fancy cans with fun designs, but they are better for your health, and taste great, too!

Lemon-Honey Energy

Ingredients:

  • hot water
  • 1 1/2 – 2 tsp honey (to taste)
  • Juice from 1/2 a lemon
  • 1 inch of fresh ginger root
  • 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
  • 1/4 tsp tumeric
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