What’s New in Food This Month? Fibermaxxed Snacks, Free Ice Cream & Butterbeer-Flavored Everything

The chain that made you look forward to having a salad is expanding its offerings with a new trio of wraps. Right now, they’re only available in select areas (namely, participating restaurants in New York, the Midwest and Los Angeles), but with any luck, they’ll go nationwide soon, because they are outrageous. Everything is chopped into bite-sized pieces and mixed before being rolled into a tortilla that’s then pressed, so you get variety in every bite and a soft, pliant tortilla to boot. (These sound like small things, but anyone who’s taken three bites of lettuce and cardboard tortilla, hoping to eventually get to other fillings understands where I’m coming from.)

The flavor combinations are elevated takes on crowd-pleasers too: Classic Chicken Caesar, featuring roasted chicken, Parm crisps, shaved parmesan, garlic breadcrumbs, chopped romaine, Caesar and lemon; Chicken Jalapeño Ranch, a more burrito-like blend of blackened chicken, corn salsa, white cheddar, pickled onions, tortilla chips, white rice and charred jalapeño ranch; and Chicken Salad Bacon Club, a mix of green goddess chicken salad, bacon, avocado, garlic breadcrumbs, tomatoes, chopped romaine and garlic aioli. The wrap fillings are tossed in their sauces and served with extra for dipping, and they each feature an excellent range of textures and flavor.

Of the three, I recommend trying the Chicken Salad Bacon Club (and I’m not even a chicken salad person). It’s the ideal blend of smoky, savory, creamy and garlicky.

You deserve a little treat—why not one that matches your manicure? You only have until March 23 to take advantage of this collab, which reimagines Essie’s Gourmet Grocery line as three cupcake flavors. Taste testers were divided over their favorite flavor—kids tended to love Unsalted, a vanilla cake with Bavarian Cream filling, sugar cookie icing and a butter cookie piece on top.

Adults were divided over their favorite, with the other two edging out the buttery Unsalted cupcake. Berry Naughty looks red velvet-esque but is much more like a chocolate-covered raspberry, featuring a berry vanilla cake stuffed with dark chocolate raspberry ganache and topped with dark chocolate icing and a freeze-dried raspberry (providing just the right tangy flourish). My favorite was Marshmallow, a vanilla cake loaded with Marshmallow Fluff and crowned with vanilla icing and a mini marshmallow. It truly lived up to its name, though I almost wanted to sprinkle a little flaky sea salt on top to really make it sing.

If you don’t get a chance to order these by the 23^rd, don’t fret—the Spring Fling pack features a range of Easter-y treats (including a chocolate crème egg flavor) that you can serve just in time for April 5^th.

There are two dates you need to put big, bold alerts on your calendar for (and no, not just your mom and your dog’s birthdays)—I’m talking about Free Cone Days. First up is March 19, when Dairy Queen will be offering one free small vanilla soft-serve cone per person. (You also have now through that day to download the DQ app and enter for your chance to win free cones for a year, if you’re really into soft serve.)

Then, on April 14, you can snag free ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops. You can choose from any flavor, all day long, and the company has set a goal to break its own record, serving up 1 million and one scoops this year. Won’t you help them do that?

Take a peek inside the Starbucks app and you may notice an interesting notification—a secret menu drink made especially for you. Or rather, your Rewards member status. To celebrate the program’s revamp, the brand has launched a special drink for each tier for a limited time. Green level members can snag an iced matcha latte with strawberry puree and banana cream cold foam. Gold can order an iced caramel macchiato with toasted coconut cream cold foam and caramel crunch topping, and Reserve members can score an ube shaken espresso with mocha drizzle, ube powder and chocolate crème cold foam.

Now, could you request a drink outside of your status level, simply by customizing the brand’s offerings? Yes. Is it as easy as one click? No, but honestly, adapting the drink in the app or in person is pretty simple, so go with the drink that speaks to your heart.

And know that if you try the Gold drink, as I did, you won’t be disappointed. It’s like a liquid Samoa, though in hindsight, I was tempted to add a shot of espresso to cut down on the sweetness.

You can check out my full review here, but what you need to know is: You can now add banana flavoring or banana cold foam to any iced drink, and I highly suggest you do (namely atop a butter pecan iced latte, a combo known as the Monkey Business).

The indecisive among us (*raises hand*) have always appreciated Panera’s You Pick Two option, but now, the brand is offering an even more affordable way to sample multiple dishes at once: the Mix & Match Menu. It’s a more tightly curated menu (ten items total, with one being a rotating seasonal option), and when you order two or more from the lineup, each item costs $4.99 (though that price can increase, should you customize the dish). At the moment, Panera offers four half-sandwiches, three half-salads and three cups of soup. I recommend trying the Bacon Turkey Bravo with Creamy Tomato Soup for dipping.

While you're at it, wash it down with a Strawberry Basil Lemonade Fresca (pictured above). It's delightfully sweet-tart, with a little herbaceousness from the basil. The flavor is intense enough that you could easily cut it with water, stretching your drink a bit further.

Kudos to the Harry Potter licensing team, because they’re making Butterbeer the hot honey of 2026. The flavor is everywhere, it seems, especially when it comes to spring treats: Find them in Hershey’s Kisses (a bold gold crème confection stuffed with a butterscotch-y filling), as a graham-cracker-based twist on Goldfish, in marshmallow Peeps and—perhaps best for dunking with your morning coffee—Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookies.

Whether you never miss an episode of Call Her Daddy or are simply looking for an energy drink that’s relatively low in sugar and doesn’t contain artificial sweeteners, look no further. The Alex Cooper-founded Unwell beverages launched its latest flavor, a just-right-for-spring peach sorbet that’s juicy and bright. It packs 150 mg of caffeine (roughly the same as two shots of espresso), as well as biotin to support hair and skin health and B vitamins.

Salty-sweet fans, there’s a new snack to keep an eye out for on grocery store aisles. Smartfood has launched two new popcorn flavors that strike that balance and pack 6 grams of fiber per serving (so about 24 percent of your daily recommended intake). You can choose between the Sweet & Salty, more of a classic kettle corn flavor, or my pick, Toffee & Sea Salt, which has more buttery notes.

As its name suggests, Butter Chardonnay is known for its creamy take on the classic white wine. Now, it’s expanding its reach to the sober curious with the launch of ButterZero, featuring four non-alcoholic wine varietals: sparkling rosé, sauvignon blanc, pinot noir and chardonnay. Of the four, the chardonnay is my top pick. It has the smoothness and creamy quality you’d expect from a chardonnay without skewing too sweet, though there's a nice pineapple note that feels just right as we head into spring and summer.

Want cookies that taste homemade without having to cream butter and sugar? Featuring all ingredients you’d use in your own home? Keep an eye out for Love & Cookies, which features pre-portioned cookie dough in resealable bags, with instructions for baking in an oven or air fryer. I was impressed with the brand’s chewy-gooey consistency and strong caramel and brown sugar notes in the dough, though I’ll be honest: I devoured the bag at an alarmingly fast rate. 

Calling all ‘90s babies: Your latest dose of nostalgia is here. Jell-O is bringing back its Jiggler molds, so you can remake the classic wobbling eggs just in time for Easter. They’re available on Walmart.com while supplies last, so you better make moves fast.

If you’re counting down the days until Jack Black’s next version of “Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, Peeeeaches” gets stuck in your head—because you know there’s got to be a follow-up to that song—you can quell your thirst with a sip of one of three new Super Mario Galaxy Movie-inspired drinks. The movie teamed up with Bubly to launch special edition themed drink packs, as well as three new riffs on seltzer. There’s Meteor Melon, aka watermelon lime; Cosmic Swirl, a vanilla-berry blend and the flavor taste testers loved most, Dragonfruit Stardust—a fruity-sweet mix of pineapple and dragonfruit.

Perhaps the coolest part? The cans change color when chilled.