Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks - Give and Win: A Review and a #Giveaway

If you know anything about me, I try to avoid processed foods. So when I was given the opportunity to review Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks, I was not quite sure what to do. Then a read a little more and knew I wanted to. (And the girls are loving the 'treats'!)

Do you know what little Miss Betty Crocker has been up to lately? Betty Crocker has teamed up with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), "an organization that creates educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

If you have bought any specially marked packages, you may have seen a logo that says Win & Give. This is what that logo is for.



Great stuff, huh? Best of all, for each package of these specially marked packages of Fruit Roll-Ups, Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, and Stickerz & Shapes, you have the chance to win a very own laptop of your own for your child!

Just for posting this information to you, Betty Crocker will donate $25 to One Laptop per Child in my name. Pretty great!

And now you have the chance to win two boxes of Betty Crocker snacks, which have the code to enter which means you could potentially win a laptop! Betty Crocker will also donate another $25 to One Laptop per Child in your name.

To enter, just leave me a comment. For fun, let me know what child in your life could use a laptop. For the fine print and up to five additional ways to enter, click here.

I will draw a winner on Friday, March 26. Please make sure I have a way of contacting you should your name be drawn.

Good luck!

Three Ladies and a Dad Reviews Disclosure: This review is possible through My Blog Spark and Betty Crocker. My Blog Spark and/or Betty Crocker sponsored this post by providing me with two boxes of Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks and two to give away so that I may share this information with you. My post is an expression of my own honest opinion based on my experience and is not reviewed or edited by My Blog Spark and/or Betty Crocker. My Blog Spark and/or Betty Crocker does not compensate me in any other way for this post.

Winner!

Congratulations to lucky number 21 - @WildOrchids09 - for winning my $25 Kroger Gift Card giveaway!

Check back this week for another giveaway!

Kroger & Box Tops for Education: A #Giveaway!

If you have a child in school, you have probably heard of Box Tops for Education. I admit, I have not always collected these. I started about a year and a half ago and when I see one of something I buy, I throw it into a little container under my sink. Every now and then, I collect all of them and send them with Macie to school. It is an easy way to help keep tuition down at school!

There is a program going on now called Reward Your School. When you register your school, they can get five Box Tops automatically in their account! Another promotion going on now is Bonus Box Tops. You simply load your shopper card and when you buy participating products, you get Bonus Box Tops!

What an easy way to get Box Tops for your school!

How about a $25 Kroger gift card to help get you started collecting more Box Tops? To enter, leave a comment! That's it! For the fine print and up to five additional ways to enter, click here.

I will draw a winner on Friday, March 5. Please make sure I have a way of contacting you should your name be drawn.

Good luck!

Three Ladies and a Dad Reviews Disclosure: This review is possible through My Blog Spark and General Mills. My Blog Spark and/or General Mills sponsored this post by providing me $25 Kroger gift card for myself and one to give away so that I may share this information with you. My post is an expression of my own honest opinion based on my experience and is not reviewed or edited by My Blog Spark and/or General Mills. My Blog Spark and/or General Mills does not compensate me in any other way for this post.

K'Nex and Sesame Street: A Review

When I the girls were given the chance to review a couple of products made by K'Nex, they were excited. We received the K'Nex 400 piece tub and the Police Car Building Set by Sesame Street and Kid K'Nex.

I started by opening the K'Nex 400 piece tub and boy were there a lot of pieces! Cars, airplanes, ferries wheels and hundreds of the pieces that connects them. This set alone entertained my girls for about 45 minutes. The building tub has literally hundreds of pieces! What does that mean for you? Endless fun...your child would have a hard time getting bored. There are so many things they could make and there are even more ideas online and in the included book. The best part about it is it does come in a storage tub so clean up is a breeze...I love it when toys with small pieces come with a storage container.



Next was the Sesame Street Police Car Building Set by Kid K'Nex. These have a larger pieces which make it easier for tiny hands to play with. If your little one is anything like my nephew, they love 'vroom vrooms' and this is perfect! There are also additional sets so your child can make the entire neighborhood! The sets come with a Play and Learn activity sheet for you and your child so this could easily be transformed into a deeper educational toy.

Unfortunately, I don't have a set to giveaway. But if you go to the K'Nex website and submit a video of your child playing with their K'Nex building set, you have a chance to win $1,000.00 and be featured on the site. Just look at the details and rules and submit your video! This ends on December 7th, 2009.

Want one? The K'Nex 400 piece tub is available at most retailers, including Amazon, Target, Toys R Us and Wal Mart. The Sesame Street Neighborhood Building Set is available at Toys R Us, Wal Mart and Target as well.


Three Ladies and a Dad Reviews Disclosure: This review is possible through Team Mom and K'Nex. Team Mom and K'Nex sponsored this post by providing me with both sets so that I may write a product review. My product review is an expression of my own honest opinion based on my experience trying the product, and is not reviewed or edited by Team Mom and/or K'Nex. Team Mom and K'Nex does not compensate me in any other way for this product review.

PUR Flavor Options: Winner!

The girls had the honor of drawing the winner for the PUR Options Water Filter...just press play to find out who won...



#30 is The Royal Family

You should have received an email me from me. Congratulations and thanks for entering everyone!

Magnificent Manicure Kit: A Review

I love having girls...pretty dresses, hair bows, painted nails and toenails...I love every bit of it. Macie has liked having painted nails for a while now, after all she is seven and is starting to notice all the little details that come with being a girl. Zoa will be five in just over a month and is starting to notice everything as well.

While I don't have quite enough energy to have painted nails on them all the time, we do enjoy a quick polish every few weeks. So when Team Mom sent me the Magnificent Manicure Kit by Elmer's to review, I knew the girls would be thrilled with trying it out!

This set includes everything you need to create scented lotion, buff and shine your nails and apply a crystal mudd to your hands and feet. Right up a girls alley!

The great thing about this set is it allows you to explain the science behind it. You can easily turn this into a fun lesson that is hands on and would be a great addition to a home school parent, as well has a parent that just wants to enjoy an afternoon with your little lady. I am not the only one that likes this toy...Creative Child's Magazine named this toy the Toy of the Year in the Educational Toy category!

I love when toys provide me with enough entertainment to want to do it...and this toy did just that!

Want one? The Magnificent Manicure Kit is only $19.99 and is available at Toys "R" Us in store and online, as well as many other nationwide retailers.

Three Ladies and a Dad Reviews Disclosure: This review is possible through Team Mom and Elmer's. Team Mom and Elmer's sponsored this post by providing me Magnificent Manicure Kit so that I may write a product review. My product review is an expression of my own honest opinion based on my experience trying the product, and is not reviewed or edited by Team Mom and Elmer's. Team Mom and Elmer's does not compensate me in any other way for this product review.

PUR Flavor Options: A Review and a Giveaway

***THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***

When we moved into this home, one of the first things I noticed was how the water was not exactly, ummm, clear. It was cloudy and had particles floating around. It kind of took the appeal out of a tall, nice glass of cold water.

When PUR offered me to review a product of theirs, the PUR Flavor Options Water Pitcher, I was stoked. Nice, clear water, not to mention clean!

I received the water pitcher with the grape flavor option. It was fairly simple to assemble and the water is crystal clear! Plus, you get to control how much flavoring you want, if any, by pressing that blue button on top of the handle. There are five flavors available right now...grape, lemon, strawberry, raspberry and peach.


My girls are not big water drinkers. We always offer it, but they tend to shy away from it. With the flavor option, they have chosen "grape" water nearly every time. This makes for one happy mama!

PUR is also doing great things for the world. From their website,

"Clean, healthy drinking water is a basic need for people everywhere but unfortunately many go without," said Dr. Greg Allgood. "By joining forces with others who share a common goal, we can bring major attention to the global water situation and provide even more people with access to clean drinking water – whether it's abroad or right in their own kitchens." Anyone in the U.S. can join the clean drinking water cause by purchasing a PŪR pitcher or faucet mount system, which donates a week's worth of clean drinking water to a small child in a developing country."

Overall, this is more than just a company trying to make money. They are a company on a mission to raise awareness about the importance of clean water and they are providing tools to people to help them have clean water.

Pretty awesome, huh?

Okay, okay...on to the fun stuff!

Want 'em? You can get the PUR Flavor Options Water Pitcher from Amazon and other nationwide retailers.

Wanna win it? PUR has agreed to give one PUR Flavor Options Water Pitcher away to one of you! To enter, just leave me a comment. Be sure to include you email address or a way of contacting you. For additional ways of entering and the fine print, click here.

This giveaway will end on October 30, 2009.

Good Luck!

(P.S. Just as I was about to publish this, Macie (7) asked if she could get her a cup of "grape" water. Not lying!)

Three Ladies and a Dad and One Lady's Reviews Disclosure: This review is possible through PUR Water Filtration. PUR sponsored this post by providing me PUR Flavor Options Water Pitcher so that I may write a product review and offer a giveaway of one pitcher. My product review is an expression of my own honest opinion based on my experience trying the product, and is not reviewed or edited by PUR. PUR does not compensate me in any other way for this product review.