A pool party should be all fun and games, but hosts with the most know a lot of careful planning goes into a good one. A memorable bash looks like a pool filled with noodles and floats and neat piles of colorful towels. It smells like sunscreen, as it’s always smart to stock up and reapply often. And it tastes like refreshingly crunchy salads, sticky wings no one can pass up, and lots of ice cream.
So often, that last part takes party hosts away from the action—stuck in the kitchen, chopping carrot sticks and fiddling with dips. But not when you have DashPass by DoorDash. This special DoorDash membership gets you access to all of DoorDash’s restaurants, grocery stores, and more with members-only offers and reduced delivery fees (in some cases it’s exactly $0!). All year long there are too-good-to-be-true promotions that make DoorDash your 24/7 assistant, but now is the time to join DashPass to unlock all its summer-hosting perks. Here’s just a taste of what we’re making for our next pool party during the Summer of Dash:
1. Choose Your Own Saucy Wings
Instead of camping out in front of a hot fryer or baking lackluster wings, leave it to the pros. Popeyes’ signature craggy fried chicken wings are perfect for nibbling in between jumps in and out of the pool. Bonus: Get 50% off a 6- or 12-piece combo with boneless or bone-in wing orders at Popeyes between July 4 and 9. They’re great on their own, of course, but you can up the ante by making your own lineup of fun sauces so your guests can dip to their hearts’ content: traditional Buffalo and ketchup, sweet and spicy barbecue, all sorts of hot sauces, and some cooling ranch or blue cheese.
2. Never-Ending Salad
There are much more creative (and delicious) ways to get in some greens than dry vegetable sticks. Start with a pre-made salad base and build it out with add-ins like halved grape tomatoes for sweetness, thinly sliced red onions for zip, celery for extra crunch, and your favorite bottled dressings. Or leave it all to Sweetgreen and receive $10 off orders $30+ between July 18 and 24. Order a few of each of your favorites and mix them up in large bowls with the dressing—you’ll look like a salad pro with almost no effort.
3. Fancy Lemonade
On a hot day by the pool, not much is more refreshing than a glass of icy lemonade. But why not jazz it up with some fruit-filled ice cubes? Order everything you need from a local grocery store like Stop & Shop: a bottle of zippy lemonade, your choice of berries (blueberries, small or quartered strawberries, raspberries), and some ice cube trays. The night before the big party, wash the fruit, distribute it evenly in the trays, cover with water, and freeze overnight. The next day, all you need to do is pop them out into glasses of lemonade—where they’ll do double duty, whimsically keeping the drink cold and also adding a pop of fruity flavor. To sweeten this deal: Get 40% off orders $40+ (max $20) for new customers and 30% off orders $50+ (max $20) for existing customers at Stop & Shop between July 18 and 24. Or, check out the DoorDash app to see where you can get groceries delivered quickly and easily to your door.
4. Build Your Own Ice Cream Bar
Why settle for one kind of dessert when it’s so easy to give your guests choices? Fill a big cooler with ice and pack it with the crowd favorites: pints of Ben & Jerry’s, chocolate-covered Magnum bars, Klondike squares, and cups of classic vanilla Breyers. (If you buy two items from any of these brands between July 18 and 24, you’ll get $6 off.) And don’t forget bamboo bowls and spoons, as well as sprinkles, fudge sauce, and extra fruit, so folks can craft their own sundaes from the treasure trove in the cooler. (But no worries if you miss the window: DashPass members still save every day with bonuses like reduced service fees.)
