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Baskin Robbins Candy and Bee M.D. Throat Drops Giveaway

August 10, 2009 By

I recently had a chance to sample delicious ice cream-flavored hard candy from Baskin Robbins, and organic honey throat drops from Bee M.D., and I asked if I could do a giveaway so I could share these yummy and healthy treats with you!  How could I resist the chance to give two lucky readers two bags of Baskin Robbins ice cream flavored hard candy and throat drops made with honey? I couldn’t :)

The Baskin Robbins site really says it best:

Baskin-Robbins Smooth and Creamy Hard Candy brings the fun of your favorite ice cream treat to your pocket. Made with real cream, these delicious hard candies are the perfect way to enjoy classic Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors in a whole new way. Available in four flavors, and a sugar free line sweetened with Splenda® brand, these mouthwatering hard candies are the best way to satisfy any ice cream craving. Scoop some up today — your sweet tooth will thank you!

baskin robbins cookie 'n cream hard candies

baskin robbins cookie 'n cream hard candies

There are four flavors- Cookie ‘n Cream, Pralines ‘n Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Espresso ‘n Cream.  I received Cookie ‘n Cream and Mint Chocolate Chip.  Each bag contains individually wrapped candies so you can throw a few in your pocket or purse to enjoy anytime.  My kids were VERY enthusiastic testers for this review! We liked both flavors equally, although the Mint Chocolate Chip candies were eaten faster because my husband helped “test” those too :)  I like that there are sugar-free options as well.

Bee M.D. has a fantastic website and I hope you click one of the links in this post and pay them a visit. Bee M.D. throat drops are made with organicBee MDhoney, a natural healing and antibacterial product that has been in use for thousands of years. Studies are now showing that products made with honey are a better cough suppressant than over the counter medication! And they taste GREAT, too.  The drops come in Organic Honey and Organic Honey Lemon flavors.  Bee M.D. is concerned about the environment as well and uses recyled material in their packaging and store displays as well.

WIN IT: Two winners will each receive  two bags of Bee MD and two bags of Baskin Robbins hard candies! Open to U.S. 18 + only.  Enter by Monday August 17th at 4:00 PM EST.

MAIN ENTRY: Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite ice cream flavor AND your favorite way to enjoy honey. Your comment can NOT have keywords instead of a real name or blog name, if it does, I am deleting it. No entry for you! So please, follow the rules.

BONUS ENTRIES: I’ll give you one extra entry for each of the following that you do or have done. Leave a separate comment for each.

  • Subscribe to my feed in a reader or by email.
  • Follow me on Twitter or let me know if you already do. Tweet (or ReTweet) the giveaway link.
  • Mention this giveaway in a blog post and link to this post. Leave the URL in your comment in case Comment Luv misses it.
  • Visit the Baskin Robbins Candy site, then come back and tell me in a comment which of the four flavors you would enjoy the most.
  • Visit the Bee M.D. site and tell me one thing you learned (it’s packed with info!)

Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

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Häagen Dazs New Five Ingredient Ice Cream

April 17, 2009 By

Thanks to MomCentral, we had the opportunity to review four of the new flavors of  “five”, a new line of Ice Cream by Häagen Dazs.  Each of the seven flavors include only five ingredients (Milk, Cream, Sugar, Eggs), plus a unique fifth ingredient- Ginger, Passion Fruit, Coffee, Mint, Milk Chocolate, Vanilla Bean and Brown Sugar.

Now, I’ll be honest. If I could have picked four flavors to review, I would have picked Coffee, Mint, Milk Chocolate, and Vanilla Bean.  But MomCentral and Häagen Dazs shook things up here at MomReviews by sending us Mint, Passion Fruit, Ginger, and Brown Sugar.  The Mint was devoured immediately. The other three flavors took a little more encouragement on my part.

The Mint was a lovely pale green shade and the purest mint flavor I’ve ever had. I would have loved to have sprinkled it with dark chocolate chips but it didn’t last long enough :)   Half a cup has 220 calories, 12 grams of fat of which 7 grams are saturated, 23 grams of sugar and 5 grams of protein.

After the Mint, my favorite flavor was the Brown Sugar, which tasted, to me, like the ice cream part of Butter Pecan ice cream, if that makes sense.  If you like eating a bowl of oatmeal topped with brown sugar and milk, then you need to try a scoop of “five” Brown Sugar ice cream between two oatmeal cookies. TRUST ME.  Half a cup has 230 calories, 12 grams of fat (7 saturated), 23 grams of carbs and 5 grams protein.

The Ginger ice cream was surprisingly good.  You know what it tasted like to me? When I was a kid growing up in a suburb of Detroit, we used to get Vernor’s Ginger Ale flavored Ice cream in the summer. And every nearby ice cream parlor had Vernor’s Floats, which was scoops of vanilla ice cream in a glass full of Vernor’s Ginger Ale.  THAT’S what “five” Ginger Ice Cream tastes like to me. Half a cup has 230 calories, 12 grams of fat (7 saturated), 22 grams of carbs and 5 grams of protein.

Which brings us to Passion Fruit. In a word, ick.  It’s not that I don’t like fruit flavored ice cream- Strawberry and Black Cherry are Kaitlyn’s favorites, so I’ve had those. But Passion Fruit is a very strong tasting fruit, and it was just weird in ice cream. Just my opinion. Half a cup has 220 calories, 11 grams of fat of which 6 are saturated, 24 grams of carbs, and 4 grams of protein.

The site says “surprisingly lower in fat”, so I looked at the list of regular flavors.  Regular Häagen-Dazs® coffee ice cream also only has five ingredients, but half a cup has 270 calories and 18 grams of fat. So you do save a considerable amount of fat by choosing one of the “five” flavors.  Look for “five” in your grocer’s freezer.

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