The High-Protein Boxed Mac and Cheese I’m Eating on Repeat for Dinner


Boxed macaroni and cheese has been an easy, dependable dinner my whole life. But when Goodles entered the chat when I was in college, its mac and cheese became a weekly (if not more frequent) meal for me. Not only are all the flavors delicious, but they also have fiber and protein in them. So it checks all my boxes. Since the convenient microwavable cups came out, they have been my main method of Goodles consumption.
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The Most Popular Soda Brand in the U.S. Is Seriously Surprising (No, It’s Not Coke)


When you’re in the mood to crack open a cold pop, which one are you choosing? For me, no flight is complete without a crispy ginger ale, while Lindsay, our editor-in-chief, is currently in her Diet Coke era. Naturally, we were curious about what the rest of America is sipping on and how that varies state by state, so we reached out to Instacart to give us the scoop.
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cucumber salad with sesame and rice vinegar

It is an error that needs correcting that in the near-20 years of plugging recipes into this url, only a few truly star cucumbers — and highly unrepresentative too, given that we are probably eating some format of cucumbers at half the nights of the week with dinner, and snacking on them throughout all of the other days. Crunchy, cold, hydrating, inexpensive, and taking well to any region of ingredients you wish to apply, I don’t need to sell you on their appeal, especially as we slog through our nth heat wave of the summer. I suspect that the lack of cucumber representation in the archives has more to do with the fact that little about cucumber salads brings out my inner obsessive recipe finetuner; usually I’m just throwing it together.

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