Month: August 2010

New York Style with Avocados

- brandy3

Now New York is known for the Statue of Liberty, Time Square, Empire State building.   Pizza is very big in New York (and NYC), so I thought it would be fun to try to make an avocado pizza. Given there are already recipes out there for  this, but hey it’s still good.

Avocado pizza

  • 1 thin pizza crust
  • 1 package mozzarella cheese
  • 1 can pizza or tomato sauce
  • pepperoni
  • 2 avocados

pre heat oven to 425 degrees. Spread pizza sauce on crust, sprinkle on cheese(use whole bag). add Pepperoni lots of them. bake for 10-20 minutes until crust is brown and cheese is melted.

Slice avocados and add them to top of pizza, serve and enjoy. DO NOT add avocados to pizza before baking, they will taste bitter.

I’ll admit sometimes i just buy a pizza from our local hometown shop and add avocados.

Another big thing is bagels again just add them on top of your bagel and cream cheese.

Avocados are very healthy at only 50 calories per ounce (3 slices), plus they are sodium and cholesterol free. You can use avocados in everything and they boast 20 vitamins and minerals per serving.

The MAHIA is holding a contest for the Big Hit, and want to see your hometown recipe. visit www.TheAmazingAvocado.com,  you could be a avocado league MVP and win avocados for a year.

“I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association. Mom Central also sent me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.”

Shox Scooter For Those Awesome Tricks

- brandy3

Shred Sled , The comapny specializing in extreme sports products for children introduces the Shox Scooter, The first everactive shock absorber scooter that allows riders to perform higher, faster, more awesome tricks! The Shox scooter’s supreme shocks increase a riders speed and airtime, making stunts bigger and better.

Features:

  • Spring deck that absorbs impact when landing jumps and stunts, also springs back to increase riders power.
  • Deck has a rough grip for foot control, and back brake helps with control and safety.
  • handles adjust to fit children of all sizes
  • Folds in half for easy traveling and is also lightweight.

**** This scooter was a lot more than i expected. Now my kids are still a little young to be doing tricks, but they love the scooter. My daughter says its so much easier than riding a bike, and the her leg is getting to much exercise. It also so much easier to bring to the park, we don’t have a driveway and live on a ver busy road. So the park is the place to ride bikes, but we can’t fit three bikes in a car. This folds up for easy traveling, and can even adjust to fit all of my children.

Retail:$59.99 at www.ShredSled.com

Disclosure: I did not receive any compensation for this post, a product was received through Team Mom for my review.

Maroon 5 New Album for Pre-Order

- brandy3

Maroon 5 has announced the pre-order of their new album Hands All Over due in stores September 21.  You can pre-order on iTunes or on the bands website.

Their new album will feature these tracks

Misery
Give a Little More
Stutter
Don’t Know Nothing
Never Gonna Leave This Bed
I Can’t Lie
Hands All Over
How
Get Back In My Life
Just a Feeling
Runaway
Out of Goodbyes (With Lady Antebellum)

Additional tracks

Last Chance *
No Curtain Call
Never Gonna Leave This Bed (Acoustic)
Misery (Acoustic)
If I Ain’t Got You (Live)
The Air That I Breathe (Bonus Track) *
Last Chance (Live) (Pre-Order Only) *
 (*  iTunes exclusive tracks)

No compensation was received at all, just sharing this information.

Gossip Girl Season 3

- brandy3

Gossip Girl has been on for 3 seasons, and I try to catch as many episodes as I can.   We try to limit our television time.   I am totally stumped on who Gossip Girl is maybe Jenny, or Serena. I also think though that maybe the character is not a woman, just maybe voiced by a woman. Serena’s younger brother has been a sheltered character who commit suicide, maybe it was all a set up, and it’s him.

Buy Gossip Girl Season 3 tomorrow.

 “I have been hired by Warner Bros WBWord division to raise awareness for Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season – which arrives on Blu-ray/DVD on August 24. Pre-order your set, and unlock an exclusive show clip by playing the Gossip Girl game here: http://bit.ly/cx8nDx!” I also received a advance copy of Gossip Girl season3.

Moon Dough Your Way To Building

- brandy3

Moon Dough never dries out so you can use it again and again! Makes amazing & detailed 3D creations that kids will love to create and play with! Magic Molding. Unlike traditional dough, it does not stick or stain to material. Comes in 8 colors.

*****  This is nothing like play doh, the dough actually feels like powdered sugar. It stays for about 5 seconds and then falls apart, and it is extremely messy. I wasn’t to happy about the big mess afterwards. Its hard to use it again, because it breaks up into little pieces.  When the dough is put into the little barn it does make chickens and goats, which was fun for the kids. They never really turned out right though. My kids liked this product, but I am not to fond of it.

Retail:$19.99

My Rating: 4

Disclosure: I did not receive any compensation for this post, a product was received through Team Mom.

Back To School Lunch Packing Tips

- brandy3

With school starting here are some tips for packing your kids lunch

  1.   Consider packing foods that are nonperishable and won’t require refrigeration.
  2. If you do pack perishable foods such as luncheon meats or prepackaged cheese & crackers, include a frozen gel pack or a frozen juice carton with the food in an insulated lunch bag or box.
  3.    Preparing lunches the night before and storing it in the refrigerator until you pack your child’s lunchbox in the morning can help keep food cold longer the next day.
  4. Don’t reuse packaging materials such as paper or plastic bags, aluminum foil, etc. as they can contaminate other foods and cause foodborne illness. Have your child discard all used food packaging and paper bags after lunch.
  5. Don’t overpack to much food, just what your child will eat.
  6. make sure your child washes hands before lunch and snack time for at least 2o seconds.

 

No compensation was received, tips were provided by NSF International.

Clorox Power A Bright Future

- brandy3

 Could you imagine school without sports, art or theatre, with all the school budget cuts it may soon be a reality.  Extra-curricular activites are what make school so much fun, Clorox understands how important these programs are to education and thats why they have launched 2010 Power A Bright Future contest, to help keep these programs in schools.

The Power a Bright Future Program is a grant program aimed at providing necessary resources to help support school programs.   You can help nominate a school by visiting www.clorox.com until September 27 and upload a photo and smmary of how the grant would be used in one of three catagories. 

 Education focused programs, sports and exercise based programs, and art focused programs.

 October 4 through November 1 america will vote for their favorite four needy programs and the week of December 8 the winners will be announced. Now here the exciting part, the winner will receive $50,000 grand prize grant, and the 3 runner ups will receive $20,000 grants.

Visit www.clorox.com for more information.

** I was able to be apart of the Clorox event at Blogher and learned about this great program.

Disclosure:  Earlier this month, I attended Clorox’s 2010 Blogher session where I received free product.

Sid the Science Kid Gotta Know Microphone Review

- brandy3

Product Description: Sid the Science Kid is an animated television series on PBS Kids, starring Sid, a funny and inquisitive 5-year old. Join Sid and his friends as they celebrate their excitement and curiosity about the world through discovery, activity and fun.

Features:

  • Electronic microphone, modeled after the one in the television series
  • Lets kids tell jokes, interview and sing with its laughter, applause, theme song and echo features
  • Explore your world with an electronic microphone just like the Sid the Science Kid character’s on the animated television series
  • Fun push-button features let you create applause noise after you’ve interviewed someone, laughter noise when you’ve told a joke
  • For extra fun, set it to echo mode and listen to your voice echo echo everywhere you go
  • Even the Sid the Science Kid series theme song and silly sounds when you’re ready to sing

****My kids love Sid, and this microphone makes it so much more fun. they pretend to be sid and ask our neighbors questions in the microphone.  The microphone has an echo feature which can kind of get annoying after a while. This is so much fun between the music, applause, and so much more.

Retail:$14.99

Disclosure: I did not receive any compensation for this post, a product was received for my review.

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