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Florida’s Natural Orange Juice

Posted by html404 on January 30, 2011
in Food and Treats

Orange juice is our favorite breakfast drink. We have tried many, many different brands of pure orange juice and Florida’s Natural ranks in our top two favorite brands. (The other is a organic brand, which I can’t even remember the name of, that we tried years ago). We love the fact that Florida’s Natural comes from the US only. Many brands of pure orange juice (including Tropicana® Pure Premium and Simply Orange®) import their juice from Mexico, China, Brazil, and combine that with the US grown fruit. We like to buy US made products to help support the US economy. We think our food should come from the US and be as local as we can get it. We are not quite at eating foods in season, but it would be nice to get to that point.

We really like to taste of Florida’s Natural. It is really sweet tasting and delicious, like real oranges.

Here’s some product information about Florida’s Natural: Most people think all orange juice is from Florida. But did you know that Tropicana® Pure Premium and Simply Orange® sometimes import their juice? Because Florida’s Natural is owned by Florida growers, every drop of their orange juice comes only from homegrown Florida oranges. Never imported. And supporting American growers is always in style. For more information about Florida’s Natural, visit http://bit.ly/b46i39.

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Box Tops for Education®

Posted by html404 on January 20, 2011
in Education, Food and Treats

About Box Tops for Education

Box Tops for Education was created by General Mills in 1996 as an easy way to help make a difference for kids and schools. Since then, schools have earned more than $375 million through the program to help get the things they need-from books and school supplies to playground equipment and computers. Help make a difference in schools by clipping Box Tops from more than 240 brands, including Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Hamburger Helper, Kleenex, Ziploc, Hefty, Juicy Juice, Avery, Welch’s, Land O´Lakes and Brita. Find out how much your school has earned and learn other ways to earn cash for your school at www.btfe.com.

Become a fan of Box Tops for Education on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BoxTopsforEducation

Follow Box Tops for Education on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BTFE and if you tweet about the program, please include the #myblogspark hashtag.

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Food, Inc.

Posted by html404 on January 19, 2011
in Food and Treats, Movies

Yes, we are on a food kick. We have seen both of these documentaries that we have posted about this week, but we wanted to revisit them because their message is so very important to the future of our food system here in the USA. I am also hoping to attend a Local Food Round-Table Discussion tonight and wanted to refresh my memory as to the issues of concern. Not that I plan on saying too much. I am more of a silent observer, but if I have to I will be better prepared to voice my opinion if need be.

Food, Inc. has the same basic message as The Future of Food, but presents it in a different way with different people (Michael Pollen, Joel Salatin, a Christian farmer from Virginia, Stoneyfield Yogurt and more). It also deals more with ecoli outbreaks, saving seeds, feed lots and poultry, as well as the farmers and meat packers who work in those industries.

Here’s to the health of not only our families but the health of the whole nation!

Let me know how these documentary movies have affected the way you think.

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Auntie Anne’s At Home Baking Kit

Posted by html404 on January 19, 2011
in Food and Treats

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product. Editor’s Note: I also believe we won this product because we posted about an author’s giveaway… maybe…I also think I am loosing brain cells without my daughter’s help lately since we have been down to one computer!

You have heard of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, right? Most of you probably know they taste yummy, so you don’t need our review to tell you that fact. However, you may never have tried their At Home Baking Kit. We were not disappointed, it makes exceptional tasting pretzels as well. We forgot to take pictures of our baking experience. It’s pretty hard to remember to take pictures of a food review product when you have ten hungry people waiting to be fed. So forgive us for this oversight! What you would have witnessed is us mixing a very easy pretzel baking mix and then leaving it to rise too long. It did not affect their taste just their look. They were rather thin, not plump and puffy like they should have been.

We would need two pretzel mixes to sufficiently feed our family a decent snack, as we served this box as a side with a meal.

What else can we say? They were very good.

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Health & Garden Tuesday: The Future of Food

Posted by html404 on January 18, 2011
in Food and Treats, Health & Garden Tuesday

If you haven’t seen the documentary The Future of Food, then please consider watching it on Netflix or on www.thefutureoffood.com, which is free. It is alarming how big corporations are taking control over our food source. I know the struggle of affording good, quality, naturally or organically and locally grown food, but it is imperative that we do for our health, the health of our children and the health of our nation.

The Future of Food will give you a whole new way of thinking about Genetically Modified food.

Please consider supporting a local farmer this year, either through farmers markets, buying a CSA membership or you can even “purchase” a workershare from your farmer. A workershare is when you work so many hours, usually set by your farmer, in exchange for a CSA box. This is a wonderful opportunity to see where your food comes from, learn about gardening, growing your own vegetables, not to mention the joy of being a part of a local farm and eating what your own hands have helped produce.

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Thrifty Thursday- Free Kashi Cereal!

Posted by html404 on January 13, 2011
in Food and Treats, Free Stuff, Thrifty Thursday

Recycle Bank has a great deal for $3 off any Kashi Product printable coupons available this week. Kashi cereal is on sale for $2.99 at Target this week, so I’d print alot of coupons and stock up on some free cereal!!!!

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ClosedPopchips a Tasty Treat Giveaway

Posted by html404 on December 17, 2010
in All Natural Products, Food and Treats

Congratulations to Ellen! You won this giveaway! Winner chosen by Random.org. Thanks to all who entered and to Popchips for sponsoring this great giveaway!!!

Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review, thanks to Popchips.com and Happy Healthy Moms Product Review Team. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

Popchips are an all natural snack. It is a potato chip that is not fried or baked. Popchips are made with a little heat and pressure, then pop! a Popchip has been created. Popchips are seasoned with all natural ingredients, are free of any added preservatives, added colors or flavors. They come in 7 different flavors – Original, Barbeque, Sea Salt & Vinegar, Salt & Pepper, Parmesan Garlic, Cheddar and Sour Cream & Onion. Popchips have less than half the fat of fried chips, no trans fats, no cholesterol and the only flavors to have a teeny tiny bit of saturated fat is sour cream & onion and cheddar, containing .5g of saturated fat.

Popchips.com has a list of all the nutritional facts and ingredients in each bag. Full disclosure. Gotta like that.

We received a sample pack of Popchips. They were actually very yummy. They tasted like potato chips, obviously, right? Yet at the same time they were different. They crunchy to eat, were not greasy like regular potato chips.

Here is our family’s voting results on the Popchips flavors:

#1 Barbeque
#2 Cheddar
#3 Sea Salt & Pepper
#4 Original
#5 Parmesan Garlic
#6 Sour Cream & Onion
#7 Salt & Vinegar

We thought Popchips were a tasty, all natural treat and even though we all had our personal favorites we definitely like Popchips.

For the month of December, Popchips is offering Facebook Fans (old & new) an opportunity to save $1 off their next bag of Popchips! All you have to do is be a Popchips fan (“like”) on facebook. This is a 30 day rolling coupon, so they have 30 days to use it after they print it, anywhere Popchips are sold in the U.S.

We’d like to encourage you to consider emailing your friends, family, influencers, etc., with the following link: http://popchi.ps/hnPjlH
to “pop” over to popchips facebook page & click the ‘share’ button below the post that is there and share it on your wall.

For those of you on twitter, please feel free to retweet the following: http://twitter.com/#!/popchips/status/10377410658701312

Enter to win Popchips! One of you lucky readers the chance to win a month’s supply of Popchips!

Mandatory Entry:Visit Popchips and tell me what flavor Popchip you would like to try.

Extra Entries (Please be sure and leave a comment and link for extra entries):

1 Entry:Follow Faith and Family Reviews On Twitter(http://twitter.com/faithfamilyrevw)

1 Entry:Follow Pop Chips on Twitter

1 Entry:Like/Friend Faith and Family Reviews on Facebook.

1 Entry: Like Popchips on Facebook AND comment on there wall saying “Faith and Family Reviews sent me and be sure to print off your coupon for a $1 of Popchips!

2 Entries: Follow Faith and Family Reviews on Google Friend Connect (on the our right side bar).

2 Entries: Tweet about this giveaway, but only one tweet per day please. Include your tweet url with your comment. You may write your own tweet or use this one:

Giveaway: Enter to win a months supply of Popchips! @faithfamilyrevw! http://faithandfamilyreviews.com/?p=6112 Please share! Thx!

5 Entries: Blog about this giveaway and link back this post and Popchips.

1 Entry: for every comment you leave anywhere else on this blog, but please leave a link with your comment!

5 Entries: Tell me your favorite thing about Christmas.

Details:

This giveaway will run from December 17th-December 30th, 2010 at midnight CST. The winner will be chosen through Random.org. Popchips will ship one winner a months supply of Popchips. Winner will be contacted via email on or before January 15th and will be asked for their contact and other pertinent info. Winners will have 48 hours to send me their info at [ffr] [giveaways] [at] [gmail] [dot] [com] (without spaces and parenthesis). Please note: This giveaway is offered to US only. And the winner must use their home address if they win. Popchips will not ship to P.O. boxes.

Thanks and have fun!

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Thrifty Thursday: Yoplait Coupon

Posted by html404 on December 16, 2010
in Coupons, Food and Treats, Thrifty Thursday

Today is pretty short and sweet. We just wanted to pop on here to share a 50 cent off coupon for Yoplait. Enjoy!

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Closed12 Days of Christmas Giveaways – Day 6- Lemon Pepper Panko Review & Giveaway

Posted by html404 on November 28, 2010
in Food and Treats

Congratulations to Karen! You won this giveaway! (and no we aren’t rigging this Random.org really likes Karen! The secret is to tweet, tweet, tweet!)

Thanks to General Mills for providing me with information and for providing product for review and giveaway through MyBlogSpark. Faith and Family Reviews received the following product in exchange for writing a review. While we consider it a privilege to receive free products to review, our reviews are our honest opinion and thoughts of the product.

Sorry, yesterday we were busy Christmas tree hunting, cutting and decorating that I did not get to post our seventh day of Christmas Giveaways in time. So we’ll feature 6 and 7 today.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to YOU! Lemon Pepper Panko & a Cookbook by Chef Chiarello!

The chef’s secret is out – panko is in! A longtime secret of Japanese cuisine, panko is now a pantry staple for creating perfect crispiness in any dish. This past October, Lemon Pepper joined the ranks of Progresso’s line of panko bread crumbs, which includes Original and Italian flavors.

Whether frying, baking or broiling, this culinary superstar adds a flavorful crunch to create simple, savory recipes. Made from the soft, tender centers of the bread, Progresso Lemon Pepper Panko combines the perfect crunch with effortless flavor to give any dish that extra punch. The large, flaky crumb has a coarser texture than traditional bread crumbs, delivering a lighter, crunchier coating or topping.

My Review:

I was sent Lemon Pepper Panko breadcrumbs and an autographed copy of chef Chiarello’s new cookbook: Michael Chiarello’s Bottega.

I thought that the cookbook was very well written, and I liked that it included a lot of wonderful Italian recipes.

Our family really liked the Lemon Pepper Panko breadcrumbs. We used ours to make breaded chicken and we liked how easy it was to use these bread crumbs. We also loved the taste! Yummy! They were a little hot on the tender tongues of the little ones, but the rest of us loved them. Everyone wanted seconds. Even my husband who tends to be skeptical about new foods loved the Lemon Pepper Panko bread crumbs! The bread crumbs were so tasty that we didn’t have any leftover chicken! Boo hoo, as we tend to like leftovers around here so we don’t have to cook again! Thankfully everyone’s tummy was satisfied.

On to the giveaway:

Enter to win a Lemon Pepper Panko breadcrumbs and an autographed copy of chef Chiarello’s new cookbook: Michael Chiarello’s Bottega!

Mandatory Entry:Tell me why you want to win!

Extra Entries (Please be sure and leave a comment and link for extra entries):

1 Entry:Follow Faith and Family Reviews On Twitter(http://twitter.com/faithfamilyrevw)

1 Entry:Like Faith and Family Reviews on Facebook. Please do not unlike us after the contest is over. Isn’t that a form of dishonesty? Just sayin’. Put yourself in our shoes, ok? Thanks!

Editor’s note: We learned recently that Facebook limits the amount of “likes”, so not much we can do besides friend each other. Just let us know in your comment which one you did for us and the giveaway. Thanks!

strong>2 Entries: Follow Faith and Family Reviews on Google Friend Connect (on the our right side bar).

2 Entries: Tweet about this giveaway, but only one tweet per day please. Include your tweet url with your comment. You may write your own tweet or use this one:

Giveaway: Enter to win a lemon pepper panko bread crumbs @faithfamilyrevw! http://faithandfamilyreviews.com/?p=5078 Please share! Thx!

5 Entries: Blog about this giveaway and link back this post and Progresso.

1 Entry: for every comment you leave anywhere else on this blog, but please leave a link with your comment!

5 Entries: Tell me your favorite thing about Christmas.

Details:

This giveaway will run from November 27th to Sunday, December 11th at midnight CST. The winner will be chosen through Random.org. MyBlogSpark will ship 1 winner a box of Lemon Pepper Panko bread crumbs as well as an autographed copy of chef Chiarello’s new cookbook: Michael Chiarello’s Bottega. Winner will be contacted via email on or before December 15th and will be asked for their contact and other pertinent info. Winners will have 48 hours to send me their info at [ffr] [giveaways] [at] [gmail] [dot] [com] (without spaces and parenthesis). Please note: This giveaway is offered to US.

Thanks and have fun!

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Thirfty Thursday: Hamburger Helper Coupon

Posted by html404 on November 18, 2010
in Food and Treats

After last week’s Thrifty Thursday post about 12 Tips to Save on Groceries, this week we actually have a coupon to share! Thanks to General Mills you can save on a upcoming meal(s). Love Coupons? Hamburger Helper fans you’ll love this too! Just go to the link below for your grocery savings.

Hamburger Helper Coupon