Let's Keep It Real Healthy Snack Challenge from California Raisins

 

Did you know according to a study done by California Raisins, moms rank trans- and saturated- fats (52%), added sugars (47%) and artificial dyes and color (46%) among the top three attributes that would cause them to put a snack back on the shelf.

California Raisins is asking you to pledge to enjoy all-natural, no-added-sugar snacks – like California Raisins – for a week. Sign up for the Let’s Keep It Real Healthy Snack Challenge on Facebook and you can be automatically entered to win one of five prize packs that include $1,000 in cash and other goodies to get your healthy snacking on.

 

California Raisins are an all-natural, no-added-sugar snack you can feel good about giving your family!

 

What are your thoughts?

• Are California Raisins a part of your healthy snacking routine?
• Do you/your kids like raisins? What is your/your family’s favorite way to eat California Raisins?
• Do you have a go-to snack that you/your kids love?
• What are your house rules around snacking and added-sugar snacks?
• How do you incorporate real foods into your snacks while still trying to save time and keep it simple?
• Are there any snacks you thought were healthy, but then read the label and found out they were not as healthy as you thought?
• Any label reading tricks, tips, stories?

So do you want to join the Challenge – do so by going here!

Here is a sample of healthy snack ideas from California Raisins -

Disclosure:  I participated in this campaign as a member of One2One Network and am eligible for a prize drawing. All opinions stated in the post are my own.

Big G curvy straws

Its that time again, time to pick the winner of my latest giveaway. The winner of the Big G curvy Straws giveaway is comment # . Chosen as always by random.org.

pmj said...

yummy lucky charms
APRIL 20, 2012 8:39 PM

 

 

The winner will receive all the items pictured below. Congrats and remember to send me your contact info within 24 hours or I will have to choose a new winner.

Stanley Steemer Giveaway - CLOSED

Dirt is just like tooth decay - it never quits! Despite your best intentions for cleaning this spring, you should not have to do it alone. Cleaning more than 200 tons of dirt last year, Stanley Steemer knows dirt! Call the experts at Stanley Steemer and let them help you achieve that deeper level of clean in your home this season.

Despite their good intentions and best efforts, Americans doing their spring cleaning might make the home look or smell better on the surface, but vacuuming and cleaning machines only remove some of the dirt, dust and particulates that cause allergic reactions.  In a recent national poll commissioned by Stanley Steemer, the nation’s largest deep cleaning service, nearly half of respondents predicted spending less than four hours total on this year’s spring cleaning.  But only 19 percent reported having ever used a professional for cleaning. 
To combat this difficult allergy season this spring plus truly make your homes clean, consumers should consider a deeper cleaning twice a year by the professionals at Stanley Steemer.

• Not just for carpet cleaning, Stanley Steemer’s expertise extends to hardwood, tile, air ducts, water damage restoration, and more!
• Stanley Steemer’s proprietary equipment and cleaning processes remove more than 98% of dry soil from floors
• With over 70 branches  and 220 franchise locations in 48 states, Stanley Steemer services 95% of the country

Want to see Stanley Steemer in action? Check out the Stanley Steemer van and crew as they visited fellow blogger Corine Ingrassia’s home of Complicated Mama:

So what does all this information mean to you? Give it a try yourself, one of YOU can win a $100 Stanley Steemer gift certificate that you can put towards Stanley Steemer cleaning services for your home.
Want to know how to enter? Its simple! just,

1. Follow! my Blog - found on the left side of my blog.(+1 each)
   1. via Google Friend Connect
   2. via Network Blogs
2. Share it! – Link back here, use the share it button on the left (+1 EACH)
   1. via Facebook
   2. via Twitter
3. Subscribe! subscribe to my blog feed (+1)
4. Which room in your home would you most want to have professionally cleaned?

Giveaway ends 5.04.2012 at midnight EST. Good luck!! (remember to leave a way for me to contact you should you win.)
“Disclosure:  The prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by Stanley Steemer through MyBlogSpark.”

Bobble Bots Winner

This week has been very busy. With registering my soon to be kindergarten for school and a root canal (OUCH!)

But I haven’t forgotten I have a giveaway that ended! So here is goes – Congrats to #8 chosen by random.org

#8 said:

Anonymous said...

These are cute my cousin's would love them - Shannon R

APRIL 14, 2012 9:50 PM

I hope your cousins enjoy their Bobble Bot! I know my kiddos did!

 

You have won a Bobble Bot Starter Set like pictured. As always you have 48 hours to contact me with your shipping details before another winner is chosen.

 

 

 

DON’T FORGET – The Big G giveaway ends in 3 days. Share with your friends.

Bobble Moshi

I have extended the deadline for the Bobble Bots moshi monster giveaway. Please enter soon!

The Munchies

You came, you ate, and now it's time to vote! From world-class restaurants to food trucks, and everything in between, help decide who's truly the 'best of the best' across 20 categories in the world of food in the first everThe Munchies: People's Choice Food Awards.

General Mills' Tablespoon.com is honoring the most delicious food experiences America has to offer - from the most iconic burger, to the best local farmers market, to the best chef. Featuring some of their favorite food people from TV, blogs, books, restaurants and beyond, Andrew Zimmern, Chef & James Beard award-winning television personality, and a panel of celebrity chowhounds have developed the list of nominees across three groups:

• Terrific Tastemakers- the media and personalities that make the food world sizzle, from Favorite Food TV Personality to Favorite Food Blog
• Best Bites- the most delectable interpretations of our favorite foods, like Most Iconic Burger and Best Cookie
• Delicious Destinations- the establishments that keep us coming back for more; think Coolest Coffee Shop or Most Intriguing Cocktail Bar

The nominees were chosen by a panel of culinary celebs, but it's now up to the real experts out there - namely, you - to choose the winners! Vote for your faves once per day (even recast your whole ballot with just a click!) atTablespoon.com/themunchies now through April 30th. Encourage your readers, friends and family to do the same, and don't forget to check back in May to see who the winners are!

While celebrating food, they're also fighting hunger. On behalf of the expert panel and all of the voters, Tablespoon.com is donating $15,000 to Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. One good meal deserves another, so head on over to Tablespoon.com/themunchies to vote now!

Thin information has been provided to you by Tablespoon.com through MyBlogSpark.

Big G Curvy Straws Giveaway (ends 4/23) - CLOSED

Did you know that simply drinking the leftover milk from cereal bowls may help kids work towards fulfilling their body’s daily dairy, calcium, and Vitamin D needs? And what better way to slurp down to the bottom of the bowl than with the new Curvy Straws, available in-packs of specially marked boxes of Big G cereal! With these collectable, connectable Curvy Straws, children of all ages can enjoy mixing and matching to build bigger, colorful straws all while helping them work towards stronger bones and muscles through increased calcium intake!

• Be sure to collect all six different colorful straws featuring beloved Big G cereal characters
• Participating Big G cereals include:
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch® (17 oz.),
  • Lucky Charms®(16 oz.),
  • Reese’s® Puffs (18 oz.),
  • Honey Nut Cheerios® (17 oz.),
  • Trix®(14.8 oz) 
  • and Cocoa Puffs® (16.5 oz)
• Made with more whole grain than any other ingredient, Big G cereal, combined with a ½ cup of milk, can help provide a great start to your family’s day

Whether you use one or connect them all, the fun with Big G Curvy Straws doesn’t have to stop when you reach the end of the bowl. Simply grab another serving of ice cold milk, and slurp away! Need more cereal to go with your milk? You can visit this link to download a printable coupon for $1.25 off of the purchase of (2) boxes of participating Big G cereal today!
I was pretty excited to participate in this spark, as my kids get more active its hard to keep up with them and make sure they get enough milk. We don’t allow milk cups out of the Kitchen, because there is nothing more gross then finding a Sippy cup hidden inside the toy box with week old milk. TRUST me on that! We are also transitioning from the Sippy to big kid cups so straws have become our tool of choice. It seemed think this spark was made for me. My kids loved sipping the milk from their bowls with the straws as well as a big glass of milk. Now its your turn to try out some straw fun. My Blog Spark and big G cereals wants to share with one of you the same prize pack I received.

• 1 box of a participating Big G cereal
• 1 Curvy Straw
• 1 ‘spilt’ milk bowl (its silicone and pretty cool)
• 2 glow cups
• 2 tangle toys

Want to know how to enter? Its simple! just,

1. Follow! my Blog - found on the left side of my blog.(+1 each)
   1. via Google Friend Connect
   2. via Network Blogs
2. Share it! – Link back here, use the share it button on the left (+1 EACH)
   1. via Facebook
   2. via Twitter
3. Subscribe! subscribe to my blog feed (+1)
4. Which Big G cereal are you most looking forward to finding a Curvy Straw in? (+1)
5. What other creative ways do you drink milk after eating your Big G cereal? (+1)

Giveaway ends 4.23.2012 at midnight EST. Good luck!! (remember to leave a way for me to contact you should you win.)
“Disclosure:  The prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.”

Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters Giveaway - CLOSED

Meet  the new ‘IT’ toy craz -Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters from Innovation First Labs, the company behind everyone's favorite critters, HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures. Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters is an all-new buzzing, explorative and collectible line of bobble-head mini robotic pets and playsets that bring the hugely popular online world of MoshiMonsters.com to life for its 50 million fans worldwide. The cute and cuddly, battery-operated Moshlings use patented HEXBUG Nano vibration technology to buzz around their unique configurable 3-D "dollhouse" replicas of the same streets, yards, buildings and houses found online in Moshi Monsters' Monstro City.

My Children and I had the opportunity to check out Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters firsthand, and the little robotic cute monsters where a huge hit!

See them in action here!

My family received three products to try out
- one Bobble Bots Moshi Monster Moshling.  These each contain secret codes to unlock content at Moshi Monsters.com.

- a Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters Store, which also contains a Moshling, different decorations and codes for the online world.

- a Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters Starter Set, which is a smaller version of the store above.  This one also comes with a Moshling and codes.

My children got a HUGE kick out of watching the Moshlings scuttle around the sets.  And since there were three different ones to play with, we let them loose to see what they did with each other.  Both kiddies thought it was hysterical when they bumped into each other and fell over.
Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters are available online and at Toys ‘R Us, Target and Amazon.  Plus, one of you will win a Bobble Bots Moshi Monsters Starter Kit! 

Want to know how to enter? Its simple! just,

1. Follow! my Blog - found on the left side of my blog.(+1 each)
1. via Google Friend Connect
2. via Network Blogs
2. Share it! – Link back here, use the share it button on the left (+1 EACH)
1. via Facebook
2. via Twitter
3. Subscribe! subscribe to my blog feed (+1)
4. Think! What is your initial thoughts about this toy line (+1)

Its that easy!! Giveaway ends 4.17.2012 at midnight EST. Good luck!! (remember to leave a way for me to contact you should you win.
I received these free products as part of a promotional program with Innovation First Labs and MomSelect.