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TIP OF THE DAY: Fresh-Squeezed—Almost

So many things taste better with a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime…but you don’t always have a fresh one at hand. Plan ahead by freezing fresh wedges. When you need a squeeze, microwave a wedge for 20 seconds. The juice will taste as fresh as the day you put the citrus in the freezer. Squeeze the juice on salads or seafood, in your Margarita, anywhere. While the frozen wedge doesn’t look as pretty as fresh, the juice tastes great. Freezing wedges is also a trick for saving unused portions of lemons and limes that might otherwise deteriorate in the refrigerator.

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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Peeled Snacks Organic Dried Fruits

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway is a healthy gift box of Peeled Snacks organic dried fruit and dry-roasted nuts. Peeled Snacks grab-and-go, single-serve dried fruit packs and nut packs include organic and natural options:

  • Almond-daze, natural almonds
  • Apple-2-the-core, organic dried apples
  • Apricot-a-lot, organic dried apricots
  • Banan-a-peel, organic dried bananas
  • Cashew later, organic dry-roasted cashews, lightly salted
  • Cherry-go-round, natural bing cherries
  • go-Mango-man-go, organic dried mangos
  • pine-4-Pineapple, organic dried pineapple rings

Peeled Snacks also makes grab-and-go bags of mixed fruit and nuts, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. Read the review.

There’s also another Smucker’s gift basket up for grabs in this week’s Gourmet Giveaway.

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Peeled Snacks Mango-man-go makes delicious snacking healthy, too.

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TIP OF THE DAY: Kids’ Kabobs

Make cheese and fruit kabobs for the kids by using thin pretzel sticks instead of toothpicks or skewers. Use an ice pick to pierce a hole in cheese cubes and fruit (melon balls, grapes, berries) and alternate cheese and fruit on the pretzel stick. Show older kids how to assemble them: It makes a fun project as well as a tempting alternative to less nutritious snacks. Serve the kabobs plain or with with a fat-free yogurt dip. Greek yogurt is less tangy and more like sour cream. You can mix chopped pretzels into it along with healthy sesame and flax seed; the dip goes with both the cheese and the sweet fruit. Of course, grown-ups can enjoy these kabobs, too.

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FREEBIE: Free Starbucks Pastry Tomorrow

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Mmmm–free donuts (and more).

On Tuesday, July 21, Starbucks is handing out free pastry, IF:

  • You purchase a handcrafted beverage (brewed, whether hot or iced)
  • Before 10:30 a.m.
  • At participating locations

Pastries included in the offer are: apple fritter, bagel, bread, cheese danish, coffeecake, croissant, doughnut, gluten free orange valencia cake, morning bun, muffins, pie, pound cake, roll, scone, tart and tropical paradise bar. Hey, someone calm down Homer Simpson—remember, you only get one free pasty per customer!

Print your invitation.

Or open this page in a mobile device and show your barista.

The offer is valid between opening and 10:30 a.m. or until pastries are gone, whichever comes first. So, don’t wander in to Starbucks at 10:35 tomorrow morning looking to buy a pastry—there won’t be anything but crumbs left on those shelves!

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NEW PRODUCT: Adult-Flavored Lollipops

Yearning for a lollipop, but saddled with a sophisticated palate? Katie Das understands. Maker of Das Caramelini fabulously flavored salt caramels (a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week), Katie has put her flavor skills to work on suckers. Now appearing at the end of a stick are:

  • Caramel Me Happy (Salty Caramel). Inspired by the magnificent Das Caramelini lavender salt caramel, this lollipop is made with caramelized cane sugar, real lavender extract and tiny crystals of Fleur de Sel sea salt. A sweet, salty and superb sucker.
  • Fab-O-Pom (Blood Orange & Pomegranate). A sweet and tangy fusion of real pomegranate extract and fragrant orange oil with tiny bits of orange zest.
  • Man Bait (Maple Syrup & Bacon). Yes, there are real, smoky bacon bits in this one, and the flavor is truly a smoky bacon lollipop, sweetened with maple syrup.
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The bacon lollipop, “Man Bait,” has real bits
of bacon and is sweetened with real maple syrup.

  • Naughty Ginger (Ginger & Lemon). Sweet, tangy and spicy, bits of candied ginger are complemented by puckery lemon. One extra benefit: ginger can help soothe an upset stomach. Buy a bunch for your favorite mom-to-be!

And what better time to order a batch than today, National Lollipop Day? The lollys are available in single flavors or an assortment at DasFoods.com.

The lollipops are all natural, made with fruit, herb and spice extracts, no corn syrup. Each .3-ounce lollipop is 30 calories and 50 cents.

  • More Lovely Lollipops: Try delicious organic lollipops for the kiddies, hard candies for the grownups. Read our review of organic lollipop pioneer Yummy Earth.

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