Evette is joined by Lindsay from Makeover in Aisle 5 and Get Growing to throw a Labor Day party that will give summer the send-off it deserves. Get tips from the ladies on creating a delicious patriotic spread for your outdoor BBQ, plus learn how to make Mediterranean burgers with lettuce wraps.

Beef Up Your Backyard BBQ Spread for Labor Day

Seven-layer dip is nothing new, but in this episode of Holiday How-To's, Evette will show you how to make each layer, including homemade refried beans, pico de gallo, and guacamole, shine. You'll be able to taste the difference, and so will all of your 4th of July party guests!

Seven Layer Flag Dip

Is it even the 4th of July if you haven't had a grilled hot dog? They're the perfect party food﻿—portable, fun, and a crowd favorite. Evette will show you some fun ways to dress them up for Independence Day.

Patriotic Hot Dog Ideas

You probably grew up lighting sparklers on the 4th of July. They're a kid-friendly favorite! Here are some great guidelines for using them safely.

Safe Sparkler Fun

For Evette's family, watermelon (or sandia) is synonymous with 4th of July celebrations. Watch how to dress up watermelon in 4 exciting new ways: Agua Fresca or Agua de Sandia, Watermelon Keg, Watermelon Star Garnishes, and Spicy Watermelon Slices.

Watermelon 4 Ways

Dad deserves the best this Father's Day! Watch how to make a bacon breakfast sandwich using Lemon-Squeezed Old-Fashioned Donuts instead of bread. Then, follow along as Evette makes a ﻿Maple Bourbon and Bacon cocktail from scratch. Your dad is going to love it.

Easy Father's Day Brunch Ideas

Your mom deserves to be pampered on Mother's Day! Get Evette's tips on serving breakfast in bed (complete with a "momosa"), choosing the perfect bouquet, and putting together a spa day gift basket.

Mother's Day DIY Ideas

Neon, glitter, foam--who knew dyeing Easter eggs could be so eggs-citing? Try Evette's clever tips for decorating eggs with a kit or DIY. Plus, she shows you how to make cascarones that the kids will love playing with!

Dyeing Eggs & Cascarones Fun

Grazing boards take charcuterie boards to the next level! For an easy Easter spread, simply pair produce that's in season with your favorite sweet, salty and savory foods.

Grazing Board

Let the Easter holiday inspire festive food like deviled bunnies and chicks – treats everyone is sure to love.

Bunnies & Chicks

Easter egg hunts are a fun family tradition! Make them even better with Evette's tips, and turn the celebration into one that works for all ages–from kids to adults.

Egg Hunt Ideas

Happy Valentine's Day from Evette and her kids! Watch to see how they create three sweet holiday how-to's. The whole family can be involved in making fortune cookies, scratch-off coupons and more! Find the templates at Hy-Vee.com/DIYProjects.

Kids Valentine's Day How-To's

Make waking up during the holidays even sweeter! Evette's candy cane breakfast braid makes for a great treat. Plus, no one has to know about the short cut that makes this recipe super easy.

Candy Cane Breakfast Braid

Want to spend more time with family and less time in the kitchen? Evette has a few ideas up her sleeve to make hosting easier with a hot cocoa bar. This festive addition can easily be set up in advance to serve kids or adults.

Hot Cocoa Bar

Finding the perfect holiday gift for everyone on your list isn't always easy, but everyone will love receiving these white chocolate peppermint potato chips. Check out Evette's quick seasonal snack that is sweet and salty.

White Chocolate Peppermint Potato Chips

Chocolate bark is such a simple holiday dessert and a great gift to drop off to a loved one! Learn from Evette on how to top it with cranberries and pistachios, create a swirl design or make a melted snowman.

Chocolate Bark Box

Pie may no longer be your favorite fall treat once you try Evette's recipes for pumpkin hummus and apple salsa! All that seasonal goodness takes just a few ingredients to make.

Pumpkin Hummus & Apple Salsa

It's red, white and blue and extra tasty, too. This delicious stars 'n' stipes caprese salad is full of fresh flavor and will be the star of your Fourth of July party.

Stars and Stripes Caprese Salad

This is the most refreshing cake you've ever tasted! Top off a warm summer holiday with layers of fresh fruit. It's perfect for celebrating America's birthday – and it's even good for you too!

Watermelon Layer Cake

Give your charcuterie board a patriotic twist and celebrate the Fourth of July with this red, white and blue meat and cheese board. Your guests will love to see this sweet and savory flag "flying" at your party!

Flag Charcuterie Board

Spend more time celebrating with family and friends and less time in the kitchen making dessert this Fourth of July. Assemble an easy grab-n-go dessert flag using skewers, angel food cake and fruit!

Fruit Flag

Using fresh ingredients such as cucumbers and berries or orange peels, learn how to dress up traditional cocktails for festive occasions with these three holiday cocktail garnishes.

How To Make Holiday Cocktail Garnishes

The holidays are not complete without an array of easy appetizers to serve and enjoy. Learn how to make these three easy, festive apps including shrimp starters, sprout kabobs and cranberry cheese bites!

How To Make Easy Appetizers

Spend less of your Christmas morning in the kitchen by trying these three make-ahead breakfast dishes, including egg muffins, a raspberry-almond French toast bake and a citrus cinnamon roll fix-up!

How To Make Christmas Breakfast

With a mix of cheeses, fruit, crackers, dry meats, nuts, olives and garnishes, you can design an impressive charcuterie board for your friends and family to enjoy this holiday season!

How To Make Charcuterie Boards

Let it snow with this Snowball Martini. Made with vanilla vodka, coconut rum and cream of coconut, this cocktail is sure to please any coconut lover.

How To Make a Snowball Martini

From traditional spiced eggnog to peppermint white chocolate and fizzy orange eggnog, you'll find yourself sipping on this holiday treat all winter long with these three delicious recipes.

How To Make Eggnog

Modernize your holiday decorations by incorporating food items. Gather fresh fruits to make an apple wreath, cranberry lime centerpiece and fruit garland!

How To Decorate With Fruit

Sweeten up (and pretty up) your favorite holiday food and drinks with these sugared garnishes. Using cranberries, rosemary or grapes and superfine sugar, these simple upgrades will help make your table merry and bright.

How To Make Sugared Garnishes

Whip up a warm side dish everyone will delight in with these three, mmm-worthy mashed potato recipes — pesto, cheesy chipotle and sautéed onion.

How To Make Mashed Potatoes

Dad deserves the best this Father's Day! Moms and kids, watch how to make a bacon breakfast sandwich using donuts instead of bread. Then, follow along with lifestyle expert Evette Ríos's Maple Bourbon and Bacon cocktail recipe.

Easy Father's Day Brunch

Dad’s favorite day is nearly here. Short on inspiration? Holiday How-To’s host Evette has the guide to making the dad in your life feel special with the experiential gift ideas for a Father’s Day adventure.

Father's Day Gifts for Dad

Moms deserve to be pampered on Mother's Day! Lifestyle expert Evette Ríos gives tips to dads and kids on serving breakfast in bed with a "momosa" and putting together a spa day gift basket.

Skip breakfast in bed and host a Mother's Day mimosas, mules, and mocktails mixer with fun cocktail garnish ideas to make Mom feel special.

Mother's Day Cocktail Recipes

Create a festive margarita bar for everyone's favorite day to celebrate Mexico! Plus, get Evette's go-to guacamole recipe.

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

Choose your own Easter brunch adventure! Select the meal you want to make, the tablescape you want to create, and the centerpiece that will highlight your brunch spread.

Best Easter Brunch Ever (Interactive Episode)

Who says the Easter Bunny has to bring a basket? Share special gifts in even more unique ways with these fun ideas from lifestyle expert Evette Ríos.

Alternative Easter Basket Ideas

Easter egg hunts are a fun family tradition! Make them even better with Evette's tips, and turn the celebration into one that works for all ages ﻿— from kids to adults.

Easter Egg Hunt Ideas

Neon, glitter, foam ﻿— who knew dyeing Easter eggs could be so eggs-citing? Try Evette's clever tips for decorating eggs with a kit or DIY, and learn to make cascarones.

Dyeing Easter Eggs + Confetti Cascarones

Grazing boards take charcuterie boards to the next level! For an easy Easter spread, pair seasonal produce with your favorite sweet, salty, and savory foods.

Easter Grazing Board

This Easter, ﻿level-up your crispy rice cereal treats with Peeps! This recipe and how-to is so easy, you can get the kids in the kitchen.

Peeps Three Ways

Dress up your deviled eggs with a few easy twists on the classic recipe. These ideas are perfect for Easter or any time of the year!

Egg-ceptional Deviled Eggs

Celebrate Valentine's Day family-style with these easy ideas for a popcorn and candy-loaded movie night, complete with heart-shaped personal pizzas.

Family Movie Night Ideas for Valentine's Day

Don't forget to celebrate your best friends this Valentine's Day! Take a break from romance and throw a pretty-in-pink Galentine's Day party.

Celebrate Galentine's Day with Your Favorite Ladies

Get the whole family involved in your Valentine's Day celebration with fun crafts for the kids!

Valentine's Kids Crafts

Steal these quick, easy, and inexpensive ways to make Valentine's Day extra special this year!

Valentine's Romantic Dinner

Love hosting a party but hate being stuck in the kitchen? Get our tips for an instantly perfect game day watch party with easy Instant Pot how-to's.

Instant Pot Game Day Recipes

Celebrate New Year's Eve with one of Evette's five yummy champagne cocktail recipes in hand.﻿

NYE Champagne Countdown

Don't leave Santa hanging! Leave him a plate of Christmas cookies you can make with your kids.

Christmas Milk & Cookies for Santa

Spice up your hosting duties with some savory snacks, shrimp cocktails, and dirty spicy martinis for your next holiday cocktail party.

Spicy Cocktail Recipes for Your Christmas Party

Make easy, inexpensive, personalized Christmas gifts for everyone on your list!

Personalized Christmas Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your List

Take your favorite comfort drink to the next level with these trendy hot cocoa bomb ideas that make great holiday gifts.

Homemade Hot Chocolate Cocoa Bomb Ideas

Create a new Christmas breakfast tradition with plaid pajamas and a breakfast grazing board featuring gingerbread pancakes.

Build a Christmas Breakfast Board

What's more festive than a snowman made out of cheese? Check out Evette's tips on creating the perfect snack table showstopper. ﻿

Snowman Ranch Cheeseball

Looking for a clever holiday snack? Avo very merry Christmas with Evette's clever take on avocado toast.﻿

Avocado Merry Christmas Tree

This is the kind of tree everyone will want to gather around (and pull apart)!﻿

Mozzarella Ball Tree

Large, small, and just right ﻿— watch how to make all sizes of Thanksgiving pies. Plus, add a fun twist with pie dip.

Best-Ever Thanksgiving Pie Ideas

Make your Thanksgiving tablescape a true showstopper with these rustic yet elegant decor ideas.

How to Set a Thanksgiving Table

Keep your Friendsgiving celebration casual with a soup buffet.﻿

Hosting Friendsgiving: Soup Buffet Edition

Making pumpkin pie in your pressure cooker is easy as pie with Evette's tutorial. ﻿

Instant Pot Pumpkin Pie

It only takes a little bit of prep to make Evette's tasty Thanksgiving appetizers. ﻿

Perfect Thanksgiving Appetizers

Save baking for another day! Evette's mini pumpkin pies can all be made from a single premade pie.﻿



Mini Pumpkin Pies

Turn a Thanksgiving staple into something extra special with the help of a bundt pan. ﻿

Thanksgiving Bundt Pan Stuffing

Don't let your Thanksgiving leftovers go to waste! Give them new life with Evette's simple, easy and delicious turkey sliders recipe. ﻿

Leftover Turkey Sliders

Love candy corn? Get two ideas for creating sweet candy corn treats.﻿

Candy Corn Sweet Treats 2 Ways

Dig up some ghoulish ideas for a grown-up Halloween table spread.﻿

Grown-Up Halloween Party Spread

Watch how to embrace the traditions of Día de los Muertos with your family!

Día de los Muertos Celebration

Evette goes all out for Halloween breakfast with spiderweb pancakes, friendly ghosts, and yummy sausage mummies.

How to Make Your Own Breakfast Boo-fet

Evette's Jack-o-Lantern Pizza Dip and Chips recipe is a delightful Halloween snack, with no carving necessary!

Festive  Jack-o-Lantern Chips and Dip

Whether you love or hate candy corn, you'll totally dig this cheesy twist on the iconic Halloween treat.﻿

How to Make a Candy Corn Cheeseball

Fall is the perfect season to spice up your fall snacks! Roast pumpkin seeds for a great topping or snack.

3 Ways to Season Pumpkin Seeds

Transform your porch with a bewitching bunch of Halloween decorating ideas.

Spooktastic Halloween Porch Decorating Ideas

Make your caramel apples into snack-size treats.

Spooktastic Caramel Apple Slices

Get the best of Hy-Vee anywhere, anytime! Helpful Smiles TV offers a huge selection of fresh content to complement your lifestyle. Tune in to be inspired and entertained from more than 50 original shows.

About HSTV

Customers love the fitness tips, recipes and celebrity features in Hy-Vee’s Balance magazine, and now we’re bringing the best of these articles to the screen for all of our fans. We can’t wait for you to tune in and watch the best of Balance! 

Balance

Learn the flower know-how from the pros! Watch as our Hy-Vee Floral experts guide you through simple how-to’s for creating your own unique floral arrangements and give you tips and tricks for using flowers to freshen up any room or occasion. Their tips make adding a fresh pop of color to your day easy, so you can stop and smell the roses.

Blooms

Hy-Vee cake designers let their imaginations run wild to create tasty masterpieces for unique occasions. Feast your eyes as they give a behind-the-icing look at their processes for whipping up exquisite cakes layer by layer. 

Cake This! 

Join our resident funny girl, Chelsea, as she takes you on adventures through Hy-Vee’s aisles. With funny quips and quirky bits, she brings sweet savings to life by exploring seasonal foods, awesome discounts and tasty inspirations.

Check It Out With Chelsea

Celebrity Chef Fabio Viviani's Italian cuisine﻿ brings a taste ﻿of Italy to your home. Learn to cook authentic dishes that'll have you saying “va bene, buon appetito" in no time!

Cin Cin to Italian

There's a science behind all the popular packaged foods we eat! Follow along as our host, Suzet, attempts to copycat the packaged magic from scratch, and see which version comes out on top during the taste test. 

Copycat Cuisine

Tamara Day is here to show you how to make ﻿mansion-worthy meals at budget-friendly prices ﻿— ﻿because everyone should be able to afford ﻿good taste! Watch how to level up everyday family﻿ meals and host a perfect party.

Decadent Dishes on a Dime

If you don’t like to wash dishes, then this is the show for you! You’ll only dirty one pan, pot or skillet with these delicious recipe ideas.

Done in One

Chef Edi from Positano, Italy, demonstrates the best of Italian cuisine as he prepares authentic foods and brings a taste of Italy to your home.

EDItalian

Who doesn't want to save time on meal preparation? We share simple breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas using just a few ingredients. Feed your family in 30 minutes or less with these easy meals!

EZ PZ Meals

Fall in love with Brim, the 175-pound English Mastiff who's known for his gentle spirit and tender heart. While he can sometimes be found sticking his nose into something new, he's the kind of furry friend you'll never get tired of watching. See what he's up to now!

Filled To The Brim

Food & Entertaining

Have you ever tried to do something new for a week straight? Watch as our volunteers learn exactly what it's like to challenge themselves by committing to a new feat for seven days. Their dedication is tested, but they learn a thing or two to share along the way. 

For a Week

Taking care of an animal is no small job, but we’ve got insights and education to help. We talk to pet experts who share a wealth of information about four-legged family members. Topics include pet health, grooming, training, animal rescues and so much more.

Four Legs & Fur

Your favorite day of the week just got better! Head into the weekend with your sleeves rolled up, because it’s frying time with Chef Beau. His deep-fried cooking style has led him to uncover recipes for just about anything. What do you say? Let’s get frying!

Your favorite day of the week just got better! Let’s get frying!

FryDay

If your yard is in need of a makeover, you've come to the right place! Find all the inspiration and tips you need to get growing and refresh your curb appeal or create a backyard oasis. With fresh insight from homeowners like you and help from professionals like landscape designers and the Hy-Vee Lawn and Garden Center, you'll learn how to show your landscape some love. 

Get Growing with Hy-Vee

Feel good about how you fuel  your body! Our expert registered dietitians are passionate about helping you achieve your health and wellness goals, so stick around to learn how you can incorporate healthy recipes and nutritional tips into your daily routine. 

Healthy You

Want to learn tricks of the trade from our team of Hy-Vee experts? Each episode is an invitation to learn something new, so you can grow your DIY skills and whip up some amazing creations. It doesn’t get better than this.

Helpful Smiles Live

Lifestyle expert Evette Ríos is here to help you host the perfect party, plan the best event, and create memorable celebrations for family and friends.

Holiday How-To's

Are you and your kids craving new ways to get crafty in the kitchen? It’s time to get creative and put the “sweet” in home sweet home with help from Hy-Vee cake designer, Stephanie, and her daughter. Learn how to turn sweet treats into fun, edible crafts for the entire family!

Home Sweet Home with Hy-Vee

Homepage Hero 

Can the world's worst cooks learn some cooking basics and master a few recipes with the help of James Beard Award-winning﻿ chef Mike Brown?

Hot Mess 

Football game days are like national holidays. Everyone has their own routine for prepping for the big game — especially Kansas City Chiefs players. On each episode of How Do You Game Day, get an insider's look at how your favorite players gear up for victory. Plus, they'll share an epic game day recipe that will make you the star of your next tailgate. 

How Do You Game Day

Calling all penny pinchers and savvy shoppers! Hy-Vee Haul is your chance to find big savings for everyday and special occasions. Watch as Hy-Vee customers take us with them on their journey through the aisles to stretch their budgets and leave with a haul that meets their needs.

Hy-Vee Haul

Start your day with quick, kid-friendly at-home workouts developed by Hy-Vee certified personal trainer, Daira Driftmier, and the rest of the Hy-Vee KidsFit crew. Created to help keep families fit and healthy, it's a perfect way to add structure to your everyday routine with new workouts and exercises. 

Hy-Vee KidsFit

The world's problems can't be solved in a day, but we can all work toward a better world together. Follow along as we share the good work local organizations are doing to serve their communities and how you can join the change. 

Hy-Vee One Step Stories

What's in-store at Hy-Vee? Get the inside scoop by wandering Hy-Vee's aisles with Mike as he vlogs his way through the store. With a cart full of insights for your next trip to Hy-Vee, Hy-Vlog Mike is sure to become your ultimate shopping buddy!

Hy-Vlog

Our guest host on this cooking show doesn't know the first thing about cooking. Through trial, error and online instruction, she tackles new techniques and recipes. Let's see how her efforts turn out!

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