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Breakfast & Dinner – Fun with Food Friday

Posted by Theresa, Owner on February 3, 2012
in Food and Treats, Photography

My daughter and I are still taking photos. Besides the children we like taking pictures of food. Due to a local Amazon deal, we are taking a 3-hour photography boot camp at the end of the month with a local photographer. We are looking forward to it and hoping to pick up a few new tips. Maybe you will see an improvement in our amateu pictures! Ha!

Drum roll please….for some breakfast and dinner shots taken by yours truly:

Pancakes for a Large Family

Sizzling Pancakes

A Golden Pile

Ready to Eat

Little Hands Peeling a Clementine

Soaking Pinto Beans

Pinto Beans and Rice

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Savory Summer Blog Hop Opportunity

Posted by Theresa, Owner on February 2, 2012
in Blog Stuff, Food and Treats, Giveaways

Thanks once again to Brande, I will be participating in a the Savory Summer Blog Hop from May 16-30.

Savory Summer will be featuring all things food and food-related that can be enjoyed during the summer. Basically, if it is something that a human being can eat, eat with, eat off of, cook, cook with, prepare food with…it belongs in this event!

Bloggers and food related companies have the opportunity to join me in the Savory Summer Blog Hop. Please let them know you heard about the event from me!

Thanks!

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Watch FRESH online for FREE – 1 week only!

Posted by Theresa, Owner on January 26, 2012
in DVDs & CDs, Food and Treats, Free Stuff, Guest Post, Movies

For today’s Thrifty Thursday post, we have a FREE movie! Those interested in our current food system you can now watch the movie FRESH online this week FREE! Here’s an email that I received from FRESH:

Here at FRESH, we’re always looking for ways to build the good food movement and reach a tipping point where sustainable food is the rule, not the exception. So, we’d like to continue spreading the word with an exciting new initiative: FRESH is available for viewing online for FREE! For a limited time (we do need to pay our bills after all), you can access the full-length film from your desktop. The movie will be available for one week, from Thursday, January 26th through Wednesday, February 1st, so don’t wait to watch! To access the movie, simply click below.

http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=6608

We hope that you will take the opportunity to enjoy the film and share it far and wide, with your friends, family, coworkers, school, baking club, gardening circle and more. After accessing the movie online, you’ll receive an exclusive link to purchase a FRESH DVD for home use for just $14.99, 50% off our regular price! Consider supporting FRESH and our work by buying or gifting a copy to someone you care about.

http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=6608

Cheers,

Ana and Crystal
The FRESH Team

P.S. Want to support good food and our work at FRESH? Consider adding to our tip jar.

Like this message? Forward it and pass it on!

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Or, copy and paste the following text into Twitter: Watch @FRESHthemovie, FREE online till 2/1! Great film on how to put good food on every plate: http://bit.ly/AbfNsm

© 2008 FRESH the movie – New thinking on what we’re eating.

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Yummy Fun with Food Fridays

Posted by Theresa, Owner on January 20, 2012
in Food and Treats

Most of these food photos were taken by my oldest daughter. She loves taking close ups of food. I have to admit that I think it’s cool too how the camera/the eye captures particular shots. This week, I only took the one of my son and the chocolate cake. The cake was made by my other two daughters. The chili and homemade pancake photos were taken by Virtuous. Yummy fun with food Fridays!

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Smiley360.com

Posted by Brande on January 19, 2012
in Food and Treats, Free Stuff, Fun Stuff

Remember a few month ago, I posted about House Party?  Well, I found a new one yesterday, called Smiley360!  They offer you the opportunity to test products and leave your feedback, without the party!  I’m still learning my way through the site, BUT I do have a Knorr Homestyle Stock coming for FREE!  In addition to the stock, they are saying the box will include coupons ($2.00 each), a soup ladle, and Knorr stock recipe booklet!  I can’t wait to get it!

If you click here I get extra “smiles”…

http://smiley360.com/353281.cfm Or you can join at www.smiley360.com

Happy Testing!

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Week 2: Fun with Food Friday

Posted by Theresa, Owner on January 13, 2012
in Food and Treats, Photography

I introduced Fun with Food Fridays last week. It is simply me (or my daughter or a combination of the two) taking pictures of food. This week’s feature includes clementines, bananas, and peanut butter and honey popcorn.

Clementines


by moi

Peanut Butter Honey Popcorn

by moi

Unripe Bananas

It’s hard to remember to take pictures of food when you are trying to feed ten hungry people!

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Fun with Food Fridays

Posted by Theresa, Owner on January 6, 2012
in Family Stuff, Food and Treats, Fun Stuff, Photography

Introducing Fun with Food Fridays!

We have had fun taking pictures of food lately with our new camera. I know, a tell tale sign that we have been taken by the shutter bug. These are intermixed photos taken by my daughter and I. Here is our fun with food:

Carrot Cake by Theresa

Cream Cheese Brownies by Virtuous

Pizza by Virtuous

Spaghetti in Steam by Theresa

Off Brand O’s by Virtuous

Center of a Cantalope by Virtuous

Pumpkin Stem by Virtuous


Honey and Garlic Mixture by Theresa

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Dunkin’ Donuts – DD Perks Rewards

Posted by Brande on January 3, 2012
in Coupons, Deals, Food and Treats, Free Stuff

Happy New Year!!!   I love coffee, especially Dunkin’ Donuts!  Here’s a link to sign up for Dunkin’ Donuts Perks Rewards!

  If you sign up besides receiving news and offers. You’ll get a free medium beverage on your birthday!!

So, Happy Birthday too!https://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dunkindonuts/en/ddperks.html

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Homeschooling and Astronauts

Posted by Theresa, Owner on December 26, 2011
in Family Stuff, Food and Treats, School

For awhile my kids were really into space and astronauts. This was when they were much younger, but even today my husband and children love to watch the stars and one night this winter they even stayed out in the freezing air waiting for a comet that never appeared. Think we got the wrong time or missed it completely. :-(

Since they were so interested space I decided to put together a unit study for them. Even today my kids have fond memories of doing that unit study! (It was my older daughter’s idea to do this post!) We went to the library and checked out tons of books on space and then we all sat around and read them throughout the course of a few weeks.  We watched a couple movies on space, did complimenting projects and assignments. The children really enjoyed that unit study.

Of course, we couldn’t do a unit study without the food! And since astronauts eat foods for survival, I purchased a couple freeze dried meals for my kids to try. They liked them a lot and thought that it was the funniest thing that you could put ice cream in a bag and eat it without a spoon! ;-)

I still have the pink folder with my children’s book reports in it that they did on several of our favorite books on space. In the past couple years the folder has started to fall apart, but we still have the packaging to the astronaut food and the memories are still in my four older children’s minds and hearts of the time that we did a study on space.

Considering the fact that it’s been almost six or seven years since we did that unit study I should really do it again for the sake of my four younger kids. And I’ll have to BuyEmergencyFoods to show my younger kids what astronauts eat so they can experience the fun too!

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Warm Up with Pot Pies

Posted by Theresa, Owner on December 19, 2011
in Food and Treats

I have to admit that I do appreciate having a couple of quick and easy meals on hand for those times when I just do not feel like cooking. One way to do that is to have frozen meals in the freezer, which might include frozen pizza dough or frozen pizzas themselves or something to really warm up with like pot pies. For our family that usually means some homemade frozen gravy and pie dough, cut up cooked meat and some frozen veggies that we can throw together to make a meal. This is a great way to use up leftover turkey, chicken or beef.

Marie Callender Turkey Pot Pie

We recently tried a couple of Marie Callender’s pot pies. We tried the chicken and turkey flavors. They are filled with with white meat, vegetables, creamy sauce and a flaky crust made. They do taste a lot like our homemade pot pie we make from scratch. We did not find much difference in the taste between the chicken and turkey. We enjoyed the taste and appreciated the convenience they offered. These pies do take nearly an hour to bake in a regular oven, although they may be microwaved. Sorry no personal photos…still haven’t found our camera….might be an unexpected Christmas present to myself! However, the photos from Marie Callender are pretty accurate and make my tummy gurgle this morning since I have not had my breakfast yet!

Marie Callender’s Pot Pie varieties include:

Chicken Pot Pie
Turkey Pot Pie
Beef Pot Pie
Creamy Mushroom Chicken Pot Pie
Creamy Parmesan Chicken Pot Pie
Honey Roasted Chicken Pot Pie
Cheesy Chicken Pot Pie

With cooler weather moving in, all of you busy moms should consider adding Marie Callender’s Pot Pies to your freezer. They are easy to pop into the oven after a fun time playing in the snow or skating at the ice rink. A yummy way to warm up!

Marie Callender Chicken Pot Pie

Marie Callender’s Pot Pies are available for a suggested retail price of $2.10-$2.99 for the 10 oz. size or in the $4 range for the 16 oz. size.

Marie Callender’s meals are available in grocery stores nationwide. Product lines include Complete Meals, One-Dish Entrées, Fresh Flavor Steamers, Fresh Mixers, Multi-serve Bakes, Pot Pies, small Fruit Pies and Dessert Pies & Cobblers. For more information, visit http://www.mariecallendersmeals.com

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review and is being compensated by Marie Callender and TheMotherhood. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review and compensation, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

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