‘Tis the season to be giving — but how? If you’re thinking about volunteering your time on a regular basis, start with these five tips for finding the right opportunity for you. If you’re looking to do something charitable over the holidays without committing, your local food bank is a great place to start.

But don’t go rushing to the grocery store to stock up on canned goods just yet! We asked SuperFood Drive, a nonprofit committed to improving the health of the hungry, about what they really want. Their answers might surprise you.

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Bring some festive cheer to your table with a delicious winter salad or two. From a vibrant roasted red cabbage slaw to a garlicky kale salad with grilled bread, these salads will complement any main dish and enliven your holiday dinner.

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Kolaches are a simple fruit-filled pastry. They are one of my husband’s favorite foods from both his childhood and his Czech heritage. Made with a simple yeast dough and a filling made from dried fruit, they taste like a much-less-sweet version of a classic breakfast pastry. They pair amazingly well with strong coffee and early holiday mornings.

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Bubbly makes everything better: a night becomes an evening, and lunch becomes a rendezvous; a gathering is a celebration, and an intimate dinner for two becomes a pronouncement of intention. Bubbly is, in all its forms (Prosecco, Cava and Champagne), magical in its ability to enliven and uplift every occasion — but never quite as much as when the bubbly is Champagne.

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This time of the year, down in the Caribbean island of Jamaica, the locals are pulling out their pitchers and punch bowls to make the traditional holiday drink called sorrel punch. What’s sorrel, you ask? Don’t confuse it with the leafy spring green, as I did when I first heard of the punch made with it. They may share the same name, but they’re quite different.

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From Apartment Therapy → Seven Kitchen Design Trends That are Here to Stay

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Meal planning. It’s one of those things you know you should do, but don’t. Until you finally give up all your resistance and you do. And then you go on to quickly discover that meal planning is saving your butt, each and every week. So if you don’t meal plan, check out these tips and get on board. And if you do meal plan, check out these tips to help you do it better.

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Having a few kitchen tricks up your sleeve can make all the difference, whether you’re cooking a dinner party for 20 or just trying to get Wednesday supper on the table. Some tricks, like the one for vegan whipped cream, are magical. Others are as simple as snapping an ear of corn in half. All are fun, doable, and will have your friends exclaiming, “How did you know that?”

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A cook is only as good as her ingredients — and her tools. Here are 10 of our most popular kitchen finds from 2016. From the best peelers to a uni-tasker machine that has a 200,000-person waitlist, we found the best, most interesting, and most perfect tools — just for you.

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