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75+ Military Discounts Available Year-Round

75+ Military Discounts Available Year-Round

Thank you for your service.  May is Military Appreciation Month, but these discounts are available year-round to active and retired military, and some deals include family members, reservists and Gold Star families.  Military discounts include food, clothing, travel, technology and even engagement rings. Discounts are not always posted in stores, and sometimes they are even
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Fun Facts About Germany’s Beer Culture & History Plus a Recipe

Fun Facts About Germany’s Beer Culture & History Plus a Recipe

Here are some fun facts about Germany’s beer culture and history plus a recipe for a favorite main dish to pair with a helles or dunkel – light or dark – beer.

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New Orleans Mardi Gras is Virtual in 2021

New Orleans Mardi Gras is Virtual in 2021

The parades may be cancelled this year but the spirit of Mardi Gras in New Orleans will be in full swing online Feb 12-15 with music including by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, virtual tours of famous restaurants including Antoine’s and Dookie Chase, and more.

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Hotel Chain Goes 100% Vegetarian

Hotel Chain Goes 100% Vegetarian

Ovolo Hotels, which operates hotels, restaurants and bars across Australia and Hong Kong, is going completely vegetarian.  It’s not permanent – just for one year, except for the hotel restaurants already permanently vegan or vegetarian. The company is calling it an “initiative”, but that is corporate-speak for a trial run.  If guests love it, it
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Healthy Foods for All Ages

Healthy Foods for All Ages

Ageless Adventurer: Although regular exercise and a balanced diet with healthy foods is the best way to stay healthy at any age, there are some tweaks you should be making as you age, including to your daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Here’s some healthy advice about what to eat in every decade of your life,
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Restaurants Open Thanksgiving Day 2017

Restaurants Open Thanksgiving Day 2017

If you aren’t preparing your own meal, or visiting friends or family, national restaurant chains are ready to serve you on Thanksgiving Day. “Eat, drink and be thankful” is the way one  chain restaurant is promoting its Thanksgiving Day feast. Here’s a list of chain restaurants planning to be open on Thanksgiving Day 2017, some
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Veterans Day 2017 Freebies and Deals

Veterans Day 2017 Freebies and Deals

Once again this year, national chain restaurants and other businesses are thanking our veterans and active military members on Veterans Day with FREE or discounted food or services on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Some deals are available for veterans only, while others are valid for both vetarans and active military personnel, and some deals are valid the day
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Scam alert: restaurant upselling tactics

Scam alert: restaurant upselling tactics

Scam alert: restaurant upselling. Ever wonder why your restaurant bill is so much more than you expected?  It’s probably because restaurant employees are trained to lure you to ordering more, and higher priced menu items, than you planned. What used to be called “bait-and-switch” is now called upselling, and restaurants are not alone in the
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Free cookbook from DoubleTree Hotels

Free cookbook from DoubleTree Hotels

Few things beat the smell and taste of a warm, freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. It has become the signature welcome greeting at DoubleTree Hotels around the world, the chain is celebrating  the opening of its 500th hotel by publishing a FREE cookbook with cookie recipes, and more, to download. Although the original chocolate chip
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5 Reasons to Visit Bowling Green, Ky.

5 Reasons to Visit Bowling Green, Ky.

Any time is a good time to plan a visit to the city where every Chevrolet Corvette in the world is produced. Tour the National Corvette Museum and Mammoth Caves, one of the largest national parks in the USA.

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