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Update: GIVEAWAY Tyson Grilled & Ready Chicken

May 13, 2010 By

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the five winners!

#16 Amy
#22 Cynthia R
#42 Betty
#84 Storm
#152 Shelly

Tyson introduces a new way to enjoy chicken with their fully cooked, 98% fat free Grilled & Ready Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Fillets and Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Strips. My family loves chicken breasts and there are SO MANY ways to use them! You can serve the whole breast fillets just as they are with a salad or veggie and some rice or noodles on the side for a super fast dinner. The Chicken Breast Strips take just a few minutes to warm up to use  for sandwiches, fajitas,  or on top of a salad.

Thanks to Tyson and Collective Bias, I got a Visa gift card to use to buy Grilled and Ready Chicken for review.  At Walmart, I asked a grocery employee where to look and he pointed me to a freezer case near the front of the grocery section by the bulk meats.  Tyson is packaging the Grilled and Ready line two ways;  frozen and refrigerated.  The frozen chicken doesn’t require thawing before cooking. I’m guessing the difference is that the refrigerated chicken would need to be used up faster, once the package is open I think the shelf life in the fridge is around 2-3 days. With the freezer products, you can take out what you need, seal the bag back up and reuse it.

Anyway, I bought the Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Fillets and the Chicken Breast Strips.  Both are super-easy to cook:  the breast fillets take a few minutes in the microwave or 18-20 minutes in the oven. The strips take three minutes either in the microwave or in the oven. You’ve gotta love that!   I cooked the breast fillets in the oven, they have a mildly seasoned flavor and are juicy inside.  We dipped bites into barbecue sauce which was so good!

WIN IT: Thanks to Tyson and Collective Bias, I have ten coupons for a free (up to $6.99) Tyson Grilled & Ready product!  I’m going to pick five winners in this giveaway to each receive two of the coupons.  For your main entry,visit Tyson’s Grilled and Ready page to learn more about all the products, then come back here and tell me which ones you want to try!

ENTRY DEADLINE: Enter by Friday, May 21 at 6:00 PM EST. Open to U.S. only, please.

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Spruce up your home with a new mailbox!

May 11, 2010 By

All over my neighborhood, my neighbors are sprucing up their yards now that it’s Spring. They are planting flowers, resurfacing their sidewalks and driveways, spreading woodchips around their bushes and trees, but you know what they are missing?  Exchanging their battered, rusty mailboxes for new ones!  Mailboxixchange is an online marketplace for all kinds of mail boxes, and they want to let MomReviews readers know more about their products.

In my neighborhood, which was built in the 50s, the older houses each have a wall-mounted mailbox next to the front door. While those are generally more protected from the elements, the lid hinges get rusty, and the lids themselves can get bent out of shape from having heavy packages leaned up against them (ahem, MomReviews’ mail carrier, lol).  Mailboxixchange has a bunch of great ones, some even have hooks underneath to hold a rolled-up newspaper.

The site also has dozens of styles of traditional driveway mailboxes, with personalization plaques included. If it’s been a while since you bought a new mail box and yours is looking worse for the wear, check out the options available at Mailboxixchange!

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The Essential Carole King CD Set

May 9, 2010 By

The Essential Carole King CD Set is now available from Ode/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.  If you were a kid in the 70s  like I was, the music of Carole King is ingrained in your childhood memories. Carole King’s album “Tapestry” was released in 1971 and quickly became a cornerstone of ’70s pop, an industry phenomenon, and introduced us to songs we’ve heard over and over again ever since- “It’s Too Late”, “I Feel the Earth Move,” “So Far Away”,“Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman,” “You’ve Got A Friend”.

At the 14th annual Grammy Awards ceremonies in March 1972, Carole King became the first woman to win the “grand slam” – Record Of the Year (“It’s Too Late”), Album Of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal (both for Tapestry), and Song Of the Year (James Taylor’s version of “You’ve Got a Friend,” for which he won Best Male Pop Vocal). She held that record until 1995 when Alanis Morrisette became the second woman to win all of those honors in one year.

When asked to comment about the impact of Tapestry, Carole King said, “I feel honored that Tapestry has made a difference in small ways and large ways in people’s lives around the world. It’s been a major part of my life, too,” she adds. “As a songwriter, I’m so happy that the songs have held up for all of these years. As a performer, I’m still enjoying playing them live, most recently on my Living Room Tour.”

What many people, even Carole King fans, might not know is that in addition to writing her own music, King wrote some of the most famous pop songs on the charts, like Little Eva’s “The Loco-Motion” and The Chiffons’ “One Fine Day”.  Disc One of The Essential Carole King is King singing her own songs, and Disc Two is some of the songs King wrote for others.  I’m trying to educate my kids on these classic songs that have been part of American culture for so long!

You can learn more about Carole King and what she’s doing now (including her Reunion Tour with James Taylor!) on her personal website http://www.caroleking.com and on her Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/CaroleKing. And if you’ve ever heard your Mom listening to Carole King songs, buy her The Essential Carole King CD Set for Mother’s Day. She’ll love it!

DISC ONE/THE SINGER
1. It Might As Well Rain Until September
2. Child Of Mine
3. I Feel The Earth
4. So Far Away
5. It’s Too Late
6. You’ve Got A Friend
7. Sweet Seasons
8. Been To Canaan
9. Corazón
10. Jazzman
11. Nightingale
12. Only Love Is Real
13. Medley w/James Taylor: Will You Love Tomorrow/Some Kind Of Wonderful/Up On The Roof
14. Really Rosie
15. Pierre
16. You Can Do Anything w/Babyface
17. The Reason w/Celine Dion
18. Now And Forever

DISC TWO/THE SONGWRITER
1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow – The Shirelles
2. Take Good Care Of My Baby – Bobby Vee
3. Every Breath I Take – Gene Pitney
4. Crying In the Rain – Everly Brothers
5. The Loco-Motion – Little Eva
6. Up On the Roof – The Drifters
7. Chains – The Cookies
8. One Fine Day – The Chiffons
9. Oh No Not My Baby – Maxine Brown
10. Just Once In My Life – The Righteous Brothers
11. Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees
12. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
13. No Easy Way Down – Dusty Springfield
14. Wasn’t Born To Follow – The Byrds
15. Hey Girl – Billy Joel

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