This is kind of bittersweet — the third in the Austin Food Deals series. Thanks to everyone that shared their tips in the cocktail throwdown post. Thank you again to Moriah Butler for the research assistance.
Random Tips
This one is from Adam — If you get a meal at Wendy’s you can upgrade from a soda to a Frostee for 15 cents.

If you happen upon a farmers market about an hour before they close, there may be discounts on over-ripe or slightly imperfect fruit and veggies that are perfectly good. David …

A couple weeks ago, I met Laura, co-creator of Dishola, at the Taste No Evil Muffin Company — the crazy trolley set up outside of Maria’s Taco Xpress on South Lamar. Having been reading recently reading about the history of food carts in Austin Texas, I was interested to learn that Maria, and her neighbor, Matt of Matt’s El Rancho, each began with a cart before saving up enough to open their own restaurants.

The two muffins I tried were AMAZING. Laura and I shared the blackberry peach (a daily special) …

If you live in the United States, you can feed a needy family in Austin without walking away from your computer.
1. Go to: http://www.dishola.com/dishfordish
2. Become a new member (it’s SUPER easy)
3. Review one dish at your fave restaurant – or 20 – it’s easy and each review feeds a family.
The deadline has been moved to Jan. 15 – next Thursday. As of this posting, dishola needs 650 reviews to reach the total of 1,000 meals that Whole Foods will donate.
We can do this guys!
Here’s an example of one …