It’s Giveaway Week on MomReviews AGAIN! double w00t!
Written by Elizabeth on June 23, 2008 – 1:26 pm -I still have so much great stuff to review and giveaway, that this week is Giveaway Week again! As with last week, you have two ways to be entered automaticallyinto every giveaway! The first is by displaying this banner on your site:
Copy this code to your website to display this banner!
For something a bit smaller, I made a new sidebar badge. If you have the old badge up, please replace it with this one:
Copy this code to your website to display this banner!
So what can you win in this week’s giveaways?
- Three winners will choose their favorite Family Talk game from Around the Table Games
- Five winners will each get THREE brand new hardback books from Harper Collins-”Blue Smoke and Murder” by Elizabeth Lowell, “Moose” by Stephanie Klein, and “Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me?” by Kevin Nealon.
- One winner will get the Disney DVD “Minutemen”.
- Five winners will each get the brand new, ADORABLE Fancy Nancy doll, sold exclusively at Target
- One winner will get a $25 gift card from Build A Bear Workshop, where they can make the new adorable Tropical Hello Kitty from Sanrio
- Five winners will each get two boxes of cereal from EnviroKidz, one in Leapin’ Lemurs (tastes like Reese’s Puffs cereal) and one in Penguin Puffs (tastes like Honey Smacks).
- One winner will get a personalized skin iD™ treatment set from new Neutrogena(R) Dermatologics
- One winner will get a copy of The HOT MOM TO BE Handbook
- One winner will get the new Diamond brand cutlery, drink umbrellas, straws and serving ware, perfect for summer entertaining!
Plus all the other giveaways currently running here and on Table for Five! Don’t forget to subscribe to my feed in a reader or by email so you don’t miss any giveaway opportunities! Let’s get it STARTED!
Edited to add: oh my gosh everybody, I am so sorry about the button fiasco! I was so excited to get the post up, I just copy/pasted the code and didn’t pay attention to what I was doing! note to self-have more coffee before blogging in the morning, lol. I’ve corrected the button code, thank you everyone who so kindly commented to let me know about the mistake!
Tags: blog giveaways, Contests, giveaways, product giveaways
Posted in Contests, Food, Health, Kids, Uncategorized, giveaways | 29 Comments »
How MomReviews Manages Morning Mayhem
Written by Elizabeth on June 15, 2008 – 1:16 pm -It was great timing that Parent Bloggers Network teamed up with Kraft Bagel-Fuls for this Blog Blast this weekend, because I just got two boxes of them and wanted to tell you how much I like them anyway!
Kraft Bagel-Fuls are the first bagel and Philadelphia cream cheese all in one. You know those mornings when you would really like to have some breakfast, but you’ve got a baby on your shoulder and a toddler purposely dumping Cheerios off of their highchair tray onto the floor for the dog to eat, and as much as you’d like to toast a bagel and spread some cream cheese on it, you just don’t have a free hand? Well, with Bagel-Fuls, it’s all rolled up into one!
But first, Parent Bloggers Network wants to know how I manage getting everyone fed in the morning. One thing that makes it really easy for me is the fact that my oldest son, who is 11.5, gets himself up in the morning and makes his own breakfast. School just got out for the year, but because his bus came at 6:45 AM, Ryan was actually out of the house before I even got up in the morning! So all I had to do was drag Nathan’s slow-to-wake-up heiney into the kitchen, put a bowl of cereal or some toast and milk in front of him, and then get Kaitlyn up and into her highchair for her own breakfast. So for me, mornings are generally mayhem-free, fortunately.
To give you an idea of size, here’s a Bagel-Ful sitting on a lunch-sized plate. It’s a good thing I have a wide-slot toaster, although I still had to push it down into the slot and it stuck up at the top.
Here’s the inside-it kind of looks like a Twinkie, doesn’t it? We’ve tried the original with plain cream cheese and the original with strawberry cream cheese, and both are delicious! It really does taste just like a bagel smeared with cream cheese, great job, Kraft! I plan to keep buying these for sure.
Now, what I’m really hoping and crossing my fingers for is that I get picked by Parent Bloggers Network to be one of the two winners of the Blog Blast “morning saver” prizes, each featuring coupons for free Bagel-Fuls, a Bagel-Fuls branded wide slot toaster, a Tassimo hot beverage system, commuter coffee cups and more. A toaster that specifically holds the Bagel-Fuls PLUS a Tassimo which makes coffee, lattes, and hot chocolate? Oooh, pick me!
So remember, don’t let mornings turn into mayhem in the kitchen! If you like eating bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, keep a box or two of Kraft Bagel-Fuls in your fridge for a quick meal or snack! This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as part of a contest sponsored by KRAFT BAGEL-FULS.
Tags: bagel-fuls, blog blast, kraft, PBN, philadelphia cream cheese, Tassimo, toaster
Posted in Food, PBN | 2 Comments »
Capri Sun 25% Less Sugar
Written by Elizabeth on June 4, 2008 – 10:46 am -My boys like to drink Capri Sun with their lunches, after school, pretty much any time of the day. I always keep a box of it in the fridge. Now original Capri Sun has 14 flavors with 25% less sugar and no artificial sweeteners. We received three flavors to try, Lemonade, Wild Cherry, and Strawberry Kiwi.
There are 14 flavors that have 25% less sugar:
-Fruit Punch
-Strawberry Kiwi
-Wild Cherry
-Tropical Punch
-Pacific Cooler
-Lemonade
-Mountain Cooler
-Grape
-Strawberry
-Red Berry
-Splash Cooler
-Orange
-Surfer Cooler
-Coastal Cool
You do need to be careful at the store to look for the words “25% Less Sugar” on the package, because other Capri Sun flavors are still made with high fructose corn syrup. There is approximately 28 grams of sugars in regular Capri Sun, and 18 grams in the Less Sugar variety, so if your kids are going to drink it, I definitely recommend the lower sugar flavors.
Plus, my son Nathan said he couldn’t taste the difference at all, and he’s pretty picky about stuff like that. So Capri Sun 25% Less Sugar gets the MomReviews Team’s approval!
Tags: drinks, Food
Posted in Food | 5 Comments »
MomCentral Review: Ragu Fresh and Simple Pouches
Written by Elizabeth on May 20, 2008 – 11:14 am -What combines servings of vegetables, microwave convenience, a just-right portion size, and a terrific taste that kids love? It’s Ragú’s® new Fresh and Simple All Natural sauce pouches! I received two pouches from MomCentral to sample, and for me, it’s a perfect way to serve pasta for lunch! The pouches come in three flavors-Traditional Tomato Basil, Garden Vegetable, and Tomato, Onion & Garlic. Like traditional Ragú® sauces, the Fresh and Simple sauces have no sugar, no artificial additives and no preservatives.
All you do is clip the corner of the pouch, pop it in the microwave for NINETY SECONDS, and pour the sauce over cooked pasta and voila, spaghetti for lunch! Since it’s just Kaitlyn and I having lunch at home during the week, it’s great to have a smaller amount, too. I’ve thrown away WAY too many opened jars of spaghetti sauce that got a little fuzzy around the edges.
Ragú® is committed to providing busy moms and dads with the tips, tools, and ideas they need to fuel their kids’ appetites and imaginations, so they created a website called Feed Our Kids Well. There you will find links to the Ragú® panel of experts including dieticians, nutritionists, fitness experts, and MomCentral’s own Stacy DeBroff (!), a link to the order form for a FREE 34 page Feed Our Kids Well recipe book, and a link to Ragu.com which has HUNDREDS of recipes and great meal ideas. I’ve used it myself!
Finally, the website has a video created to illustrate just why it is so important to Ragú® to provide wholesome, delicious products like the Fresh and Simple sauce pouches. They know how important our children are to us, how much love and joy they bring to our lives. They know we want to nourish both our children’s imaginations and their appetites. They know that our children are a Daily Gift.
Ragú® is a company that I am proud to support and recommend here on MomReviews. Thank you to MomCentral for providing the Fresh and Simple pouches, and thank you for making them, Ragú®.
Tags: cooking, food for kids, food reviews, lunch, MomCentral, pasta, ragu, spaghetti sauce
Posted in Food, Kids, MomCentral | 4 Comments »
Wish-Bone Bountifuls Giveaway
Written by Elizabeth on May 16, 2008 – 7:30 pm -
The traditional way to dress a salad is to make the salad first, then top it with a dressing. New Wish-Bone Bountifuls Salad Dressings want you to rethink that by choosing your dressing first, then designing a salad around it. There are four flavors to choose from:
- Tuscan Romano Basil — a delectable Mediterranean vinaigrette made with
aged Romano cheese, tomatoes and basil
- Hearty Italian — a luscious Italian vinaigrette filled with pieces of
sweet onions, red and green bell peppers and carrots
- Berry Delight — a sweet and tangy vinaigrette made with bits of
blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, perfect for a vegetable or
fruit salad
- Simply Santa Fe — a subtly spicy southwestern-inspired vinaigrette
brimming with corn, red peppers, tomatoes and cilantro
I received a full-size bottle of each dressing for this review, and I really wasn’t prepared for just how flavorful they are. The Wish-Bone website has recipes for each of the dressings, and I surprised to see that they recommend mixing the Berry Delight with fruit, yogurt and granola! For the Tuscan Romano Basil, the website has six delicious recipes for salads that use different meats and vegetables. It would be delicious over pasta salad. Hearty Italian Dressing is great to use to marinate or season veggies or brush on fish before broiling. The Simply Santa Fe Dressing is an ingredient in a Four-Cheese Enchilada Bake that looks really good.
As part of their “Go Greens! Eat Salad” Campaign, Wish-Bone has created a website that features a Digital Garden. Register for the site and try for some daily instant win prizes like a reusable Greenshopper Grocery Bag. See what people just like you are eating with Salad Connections. Store your favorite recipes in your own personalized Recipe Box.
Wish-Bone wants you to have a FREE bottle of new Wish-Bone Bountifuls salad dressings from May 30 to June 1. Purchase a bottle and download a rebate form on the site to send in with your receipt.
I want one lucky reader to win a set of all four Wish-Bone Bountifuls dressings in this giveaway! For one entry, leave a comment on this post with your name and valid email address.
For two entries, do one of the following: subscribe to my feed in a reader or by email, the links are in the middle column near the top. Or, add this blog to your Technorati Favorites by going to http://technorati.com/blogs/momreviews.net, signing in to your Technorati account and clicking Fave.
For three entries, write a post on your blog or site about this giveaway. The deadline to enter is Friday, May 30th at 9:00 Am EST. Good luck everybody!
Tags: Contests, food reviews, giveaways
Posted in Contests, Food | 22 Comments »
