Sam’s Club P&G baby essentials $25 GC GIVEAWAY **NEW END DATE**

I have some great news regarding the $25 Sam's Club Gift Card Giveaway!!

I've decide to extend the end date one more week to allow you all to get in those additional entries and increase your chance at winning!! We all know you can't win unless you enter.

So go on and get those extra tweets and Facebook "Like" in there to make them count!!

$25 Sam's Club GC Giveaway (3/17)

New end date is now 3/17

Crayola "Inside the Crayon Box Chat

Creativity matters. It’s a skill that all children can learn and when it’s practiced every day, kids become the critical thinkers, problem solvers, and leaders in the classroom, and they’re better prepared for professions of the 21st century.

Crayola wants every child to be creatively alive, so they’re inviting parents “Inside the Crayon Box,” for a special live chat with celebrities and trusted parenting experts that will inspire and spark ideas to expand your child’s creative thinking. If you find yourself looking for new ways to inspire your children to express their ideas and build their creativity, you’ll want to join us to learn and share!

The first “Inside the Crayon Box” live chat is Wednesday, March 7 at 9 p.m. EST. Join Crayola and musician, children’s author and mom, Lisa Loeb for a 45-minute live streaming video chat on the Crayola Facebook Page. Lisa, best-known for her number one hit “Stay (I Missed You),” will share as personal stories, practical advice and ways she brings a little creative play into every day for her daughter. We want to hear from you - participants can ask Lisa questions during the event, too! We hope you will share the information about the first Crayola “Inside the Crayon” live chat with your readers on or before Wednesday, March 7th so they may plan to attend as well.

Interested in the topics to be covered during the chat?

• Why Does Creativity Matter? Creativity is not about who’s the best artists or becoming an architect. It’s a way of thinking that encourages kids’ original ideas and develops their confidence.
• Growing Up Creative. Lisa will share stories about growing up in a home where creativity was encouraged.
• Simple Tips. Easy Ideas. Like most moms, Lisa juggles a lot. She’ll share simple, easy ways she sparks her daughter’s creativity as part of their daily routine.

“Creativity Matters”

Just in case you miss the Crayola “Inside the Crayon Box” event check out the Crayola YouTube Channel where the session will be posted.

To learn more about the tools from Crayola that make it easy for parents to help children develop their creativity www.Crayola.com and like Crayola on Facebook!

Also, be sure to check out Lisa’s book Lisa Loeb’s Silly Sing-Along: The Disappointing Pancake and Other Zany Songs (Sterling Children’s Books, 2011) available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. Sing, laugh, and play with pop Lisa in this fabulous collection of ten of the silliest songs ever. Fun activities, games, and recipes accompany whimsical songs. Take Lisa's Silly Sing-Along with you wherever you go and get the high-spirited good times started. Includes a 10-song CD recorded by Lisa!

This information was provided to me by Crayola through MyBlogSpark.

Whole Grain First Ingredient - General Mills Review

If you’re like me then the New Year typically means you resolve get healthy and create good eating habits in your family’s diet. Therefore, you would carefully choose products with more whole grains, whether that’s bread, crackers or cereal. Whole grains tend to give me that Full feeling without eat so much and it helps limit my snacking habits.

We know whole grain is important to you, and the Dietary Guidelines recommend choosing products with a whole grain listed as the first ingredient. Now every cereal with the white check has more whole grain than any other single ingredient with the same great taste. You will see “whole grain” as a part of the first ingredient on the ingredient list, indicating that whole grain is the first and most prevalent ingredient.

According to Dr. Travis Stork, emergency room physician and host of “The Doctors,” identifying whole grain products can be challenging. Shoppers can look for nutritional cues on the front of the box, but they need to read the ingredient list to know if they are getting enough whole grain.
With all the health messages facing grocery store shoppers, it can be confusing to translate what appears on food labels into nutritional needs, and hard to determine which foods have a meaningful amount of whole grain. Dr. Stork has some additional recommendations to help you include whole grain easily into your diet. They include:

• Start Early! Dietary Guidelines suggest a minimum of 48 grams of whole grain a day. Start early and get your whole grains in at breakfast.

• Make Simple Swaps. Bread and pasta can be purchased in whole wheat varieties. Crackers can be swapped out with those made mostly with whole grains, and brown rice can be made instead of white rice. Popcorn is a great whole grain snack.

• Don’t Judge a Food by Its Cover. Read the ingredients on the products you buy, and don’t just rely on the front packaging. Check the side labels and the nutrition labels for more information.

Make a commitment to add more whole grain to your diet by simply pouring a bowl of cereal with the white check including Cheerios®, Lucky Charms®, Cinnamon Toast Crunch®, Honey Nut Cheerios® and Total®.

In order to help you to choose products with whole grain, General Mills introduced “Fast Lane for Whole Grain,” an educational game online. You can go down virtual store food aisles and learn how to find products that have whole grain as the primary ingredient. There is also a sweepstakes you can enter to win one of each of the fifty cereals with the “white check”.

For additional information on why we should have whole grain in our diets and to play and enter “Fast Lane for Whole Grain” visit www.WholeGrainNation.com.

In lieu of hosting a giveaway I've decided to make a healthy contribution to my local food pantry. I will donate at total of eight boxes of General Mills cereals to local family's in need. (Five from MyBlogSpark and three from my portion of review samples) Hoping this small contribution will help kick start healthy eating habits for those family's. Thank you! Thank you MyBlogSpark for making this healthy donation possible.

Disclosure: The prize pack, information, and donation have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

HURRY: Free Dr. Talbot’s Diaper Rash Ointment

Hurry over and LIKE the Nuby Facebook page because the first 5,000 NEW FANS to like our page will receive a 1oz tube of Dr. Talbot’s Diaper Rash Ointment.

You must fill out the survey to get the free tube.

Of course don’t forget to LIKE Lil Baby Booty while you’re there!

Good Luck!

Rally for Real Pizza sponsored by Freschetta – 100 weekly/10 grand prize winners

It’s time to “Rally for Pizza!”

It's time for your family to Boycott Blah, Fight for Flavor, and pledge to serve only the freshest frozen pizza – FRESCHETTA® pizza?

At times my family get stuck in a food cycle. Same type of food every other week and it can get pretty boring! "Oh, it's pasta, again." Thank goodness for FRESCHETTA® pizza. I can get a good tasty meal on the dinner table in no time and everyone is happy!! Frozen pizza shouldn't simply taste better. It should be better. FRESCHETTA® frozen pizzas are made with top-quality ingredients and taste-tested recipes, just to make sure your pizza will always deliver Fresch® flavor.

Event Details:

Date -	February 27, 2012 – March 30, 2012
What -	Rally for Real Pizza
Where -	From the comfort of your own home
Details -	www.Facebook.com/Freschettapizza

The makers of FRESCHETTA® products are asking fans to take a stand for FRESCH® pizza! Fans are able to submit a photo to a Rally Mosaic on their Facebook Fan Page for a chance to win FRESCHETTA® pizza. Each week, they will select 100 winners to receive 5 FRESCHETTA® pizzas. On March 30, they will select 10 winners who will receive a year supply of FRESCHETTA® pizza.

For more information and to enter, please visit Freschetta Facebook page! This giveaway/contest is not hosted by me as I am just the messenger. If you have any questions, please direct them to the company.

Disclaimer: This is not a compensated post and I did not receive anything for this post. I occasionally receive compensation in the form of products for posts. The opinions I share are solely my own.