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Everything in life is better when someone else does it for you, such as brushing teeth, mowing the lawn, or taking an eye exam to qualify for NASA's astronaut-training program. Similarly delegate dining with today's Groupon: for $21, you get three prepared Lite Bites dinners from Healthy Bites (a $43 value). Delivery charges ($20) are not included in this deal, but free pickup is available.
Healthy Bites assembles meals that are healthy, organic, and made from local farm-fresh ingredients, and its Lite Bites meals keep fat-burning hormones revving. The selection of available fare changes weekly based on seasonal ingredients; the Sept. 8–13 Lite Bites menu, for example, showcases dinners such as a salmon filet blanketed in a horseradish-almond crust and mango compote, accompanied by a mixed-green side salad topped with ginger dressing. While meaty morsels do appear throughout the dinner options, Healthy Bites specializes in veggie-centric meals to help your heart cross the finish line at another birthday-celebration race. Flavorful and fitness-bolstering concoctions on the Sept. 8–13 menu include spiced black-bean cakes with corn radish salad and lime Greek yogurt, or the chicken-and-broccoli stir fry. Be sure to check out the weekly menu before ordering your dinners via phone call or flare-gun signal.
All orders placed by 6 p.m. on Thursdays will be available for pickup or delivery by 6:30 p.m. on the next Monday, while all orders received after 6 p.m. on Thursdays will be processed the following week and ready for pickup or delivery the following Monday. Allow yourself the time to send "reply all" emails and go swimming in the local reservoir by cutting out prep time for three dinners with the help of Healthy Bites.
Due to Labor Day, the first delivery of meals placed by 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 2, will be made on Tuesday, September 7, rather than Monday, September 6.
Reviews
Healthy Bites received four-star reviews from three Sustain Laners:
- Here’s where we finally got to satisfy our cheese addiction, a generous fillet of cod topped with golden Parmesan. This was our favorite dish. The light flaky cod with a crispy Parmesan coating gave us that true “full” feeling that can sometimes be missing in healthy meals. – Half Baked C.
- Healthy, organic, local ingredients, and a convenient delivery option makes this meal service fantastic for those of us in DC who are busy and don't want to compromise health. – N C.
Reader Challenge (Win $20!)
Converse with your Clan
Family dinners are a sacred time in America, when the entire clan gathers to talk and eat with each other. What are some topics to keep the family dinner conversation going?
- Reintroduce yourself to every family member at the table
- Familial debate about who is the ugliest
- Ask the kids how school is going—specifically, have they found that secret room full of pirate gold yet?
- How many ghosts do you think will visit this Thanksgiving?
- The hilarious story about why Dad can't be a cop anymore
Reader Challenge: What's another topic to keep the conversation flowing at family dinner?
Our panel will publish the funniest response and award a $20 Groupon gift card to its author. Read our tips to win before you enter the contest and double your chances.
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How about the Fount/Font of Knowledge. I am pretty sure it's Comic Sans.
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