Resolution Revolution

Make 2023 the year you start eating healthy with Snap Kitchen

Go into the New Year feeling good about what goes into your body, where it comes from, and how it tastes. Snap Kitchen is bringing the "Resolution Revolution" into 2023, where eating healthy doesn’t have to be tasteless and New Year's resolutions don’t need to be abrupt, restrictive, or short-term.

Snap’s Resolution Revolution gives you the freedom to eat what you crave and still feel amazing. Resolve to indulge with Snap Kitchen’s newest meals, inspired by your favorite homestyle classics.

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Snap Kitchen gives you the freedom to eat what you crave and still feel amazing.

Snap’s January menu is full of comforting dishes, including Southern meatloaf, pot roast chicken, Salisbury steak, Parmesan roasted broccoli, brownie batter chia pudding, and more that you can feel good about eating.

All of Snap Kitchen’s meals are accompanied by a nutrition profile that shows protein, carbs, and fat, so you can easily track your dietary needs. Snap Kitchen also offers fully customizable, dietitian-curated meal plans and meals subscriptions that range from low-carb to high-protein and beyond. Find Snap Kitchen’s full menu and nutritional information here.

Snap Kitchen makes ordering easy with Snap Pass, a membership program that offers customers even more flexibility and convenient ways to enjoy Snap’s delicious chef-prepared meals.

Snap Pass members can set up a flexible weekly recurring order from Snap Kitchen’s broad assortment of ready-to-eat meals, drinks, snacks, and more. They also automatically receive a 5 percent discount on every order, plus other benefits, all with no membership fees. New members can sign up for Snap Pass on their Snap Kitchen mobile app (iOS), online, and in any Snap Kitchen store.

Along with providing nutritious meals, Snap Kitchen also partners with local Texas vendors to ensure it uses sustainably sourced, local ingredients where it can. Local partners include 44 Farms and Pederson’s Farms.

Additionally, Snap Kitchen recently rolled out its Texas Direct Program, which ensures that all Snap delivery orders are hand-delivered fresh to your door in insulated reusable bags. Once delivered, you can either keep the bags and reuse them, or leave the bags in the location where they were delivered to be picked up the following week. The new insulated bags keep your items cold for up to 24 hours with less packaging — no liners, no boxes, and fewer ice packs. Join Snap’s Texas Direct Program and start getting fresh, nutrient-packed meals delivered to your doorstep by signing up here .

Go into 2023 feeling confident about the food you eat and where it comes from. Snap Kitchen is making it easier than ever to switch up your habits in ways that don’t feel dull and short-lived. This is the year to resolve to eat delicious food that nourishes your body and provides you with energy to conquer your goals.

Learn more about Snap Kitchen’s menu and nutritional information, Texas Direct Program, and Snap Pass program at SnapKitchen.com.

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Dumpling News

Asian soup dumpling chain Ugly Dumpling to open location in Allen

Ugly Dumpling

Colorful dumplings from Ugly Dumpling

A new dumpling concept is coming to Dallas-Fort Worth: Called Ugly Dumpling, it's a chain specializing in Chinese soup dumplings, and it's opening its first DFW location in Allen, at 213 N. Central Expy., near the intersection of McDermott Road, where it will debut in early fall.

Ugly Dumpling is from Vertex Hospitality Group, a national restaurant franchise organization whose portfolio includes two other Asian chains, KPOT Hot Pot & Korean BBQ (which has a location in Arlington and another coming to Fort Worth), and Kinya Ramen.

Buoyed by the success of those two brands, Vertex launched Ugly Dumpling in 2023, opening the first location in Edison, New Jersey. They now list 26 locations on their website, in Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and Texas, although 14 are "coming soon," including one in Austin that's been in the works since 2024.

Soup dumplings — official name, xiao long bao — are a dish of Shanghai origin that are popular due to their unique combination of a delicate dough wrapper enclosing a tender filling and savory broth, which releases when you take a bite — making for an indelible comfort food experience.

Ugly Dumpling's menu includes six varieties of dumplings, accompanied by a savory soup broth, as follows:

chicken
pork
pork & crab
pork & truffle
pork, shrimp, & spinach
Szechuan pork

Porky! They can be ordered in a dumpling sampler, one of each variety, for about $14. No vegetarian options, although they do have a couple of vegan dishes such as vegan wonton soup.

There are also Chinese classics like spring rolls, cream cheese wontons, hot & sour soup, salt & pepper popcorn chicken, garlic green beans, orange chicken, beef & broccoli, Mongolian beef, Kung pao chicken, and fried rice; plus tempting Asian favorites like edamame and bao buns, and even chicken wings.

They also serve boba tea and other beverages.

Bringing the concept to DFW is Grace Zhao, who previously owned Zhao Star Chinese Bistro in Frisco, which she sold. She's all in on Ugly Dumpling — "we're hoping to open more than one location, but Allen comes first," she says.

A statement from marketing head Margaret Farrell says that "when we created Ugly Dumpling, we wanted to tap into the historical Shanghai street food movement but do so in a way that caters to the modern palette. [Surely she means 'palate'?] Our menu respects Shanghai's centuries-old cooking techniques while cultivating an exciting experience for today's restaurant goer."

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