Reviews

Easy and Affordable One-Dish Dinners from the $5 Dinner Mom

October 30, 2012

This giveaway is now CLOSED. The winner is Karen Hiebert – #32. Thank you to all who entered! So it’s no surprise that my favorite word is EASY. But when you find something that combines EASY with my other fave word- AFFORDABLE…. well… BINGO!!! Putting dinner on the table for $5, and doing it easily, [...]

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Don’t Buy EasyLunchboxes

February 1, 2012

Don’t spend money on EasyLunchboxes.  EasyLunchboxes are useless for a lot of reasons. Seriously. Don’t waste your money on these. HERE are some others to choose from. Read the warning below, recently posted on my Facebook Page Thanks to Kendra Peterson for looking out for all my readers. Kendra slaves over making makes lunches for [...]

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You Don’t Need Supernanny to get Parenting Help

September 19, 2011

Definition of a “crazy” person: someone who does the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Definition of a crazy parent: someone who does the same thing over and over again with their children, but doesn’t understand why there are NO results. My definition of crazy “entertainment” is a TV show like Supernanny, which [...]

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Make Your Baby a L’ovedbaby – Giveaway for new Moms and Babies

August 2, 2011

-CLOSED- Congrats to JENNY, the 70th entrant, for her win!   Children bring many gifts and blessings to their parents. One of the biggest gifts are the lovely friendships that have inevitably formed between me and the moms of their classmates, from Mommy and Me, preschool, and up through high school. Through the back and [...]

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Easy Dinners, No Stress -Thanks to the Six O’Clock Scramble

May 3, 2011

Opening up my fridge last night, in addition to the usual bread, peanut butter, milk, and string cheese, I found a bag of spinach, two chicken breasts, three ready to be discarded mushrooms, no onions, and not much else of great interest. My girls would be home from dance class shortly and I was in [...]

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Kinnikinnick Foods Gluten-Free Donuts – Taste Test Results (VIDEO)

April 22, 2011

Blueberry Glazed Donuts Don’t those sound yummy??? You want one, right? Maybe warmed in the toaster?… So go! Eat it! Oh, wait. What if you’re allergic to gluten and you can’t eat donuts? … Go! Eat it! HUH??? No, I’m not trying to torment you! I have good news: Kinnnikinnick Foods – “Gluten-Free has never [...]

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Squeezable, No Sugar Applesauce from GoGo squeeZ is a Healthy Snack

June 26, 2010

Finding snacks that can satisfy my children’s tastes, my own healthy food agenda, and our family’s lifestyle and budget is an ongoing challenge in our house, and probably yours as well. As the ‘reusable food container queen’ I always look for snack items I can buy in bulk and portion out. But sometimes, when convenience [...]

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Feeding Baby is Easy with the Baby Dipper Bowl

June 8, 2010

My oldest daughter is going off to college in a couple of months and my youngest is graduating elementary school in a couple of weeks. There have been a gazillion baby products that have come on the market in all the years I’ve had kids, but only a handful of them are truly unique, helpful, [...]

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Ziploc 3-compartment Lunch Containers vs. EasyLunchboxes

May 7, 2010

How do they compare? UPDATES: August 14, 2012 – Angie reports on how EasyLunchboxes have held up after a year of steady use. October 26, 2011 –  Bento Bloggers compare EasyLunchboxes to Ziplocs and others. Click HERE to read. Aug. 8, 2011  - (You can see her own pics of the other brand warping ) A [...]

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