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Frito-Lay All Natural Ingredient Chips GiveawayClosed

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I am always looking for healthier snacks for my family, Frito Lays is introducing all natural ingredient chips to their line.  Approximately 50% of Frito-Lays products are all natural including Lay’s Potato Chips, Tostito’s Tortilla Chips, and Sunchips multigrain snacks.

You can’t even tell the difference the chips taste the same as the original. I love that I don’t have to worry about artificial preservatives  MSG with the new line of chips.   The Garden Tomato and Basil chips are so yummy, makes it actually feel likes it spring time.

I have 3 bags of Frito Lay’s All natural chips to giveaway. (pictured above)

To enter: Tell me your favorite Frito Lay’s chips?

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Contest ends 5/27/11

Disclosure; No compensation was received for this post, products were received. All opinions are my own.

Rory The Racing Car Knex set

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Take a break from the race to tune up with K’Nex Roary the Racing Car Silver Hatch Garage Building Set! Your child can build the Silver Hatch Racetrack Garage to really experience a day in the world of Roary!

This Knex set is a great gift for any boy. it is very easy to assemble and tons of fun play time.  My son was more interested in the car than the garage set. My daughters decided to get in on the play and used their Dora and Barbie dolls to be mechanics and fix Roary every time he came into the shop!

Disclosure: No compensation was received for this post, a product was provided for this review.

Winners for 4-25-11

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Dinosaur Train nutrition month-Sea Potato

Purex Crystals-Ellen

Strawberry Shortcake DVD-Shannon Thompson

Wubbzy’s Egg-cellent dvd-Debi Jackson

Rio Soundtrack-Jenny

Garfield Private Eye DVD-Rachel D.

Winners have been emailed

Contests April 26, 2011

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Mom Knows It All-Hershey’s track and field prize pack/4/29/11

Mom Knows It All-Chicken Soup For The Soul, Grieving and recovery/4/29/11

Here and There-Carefree acti-fresh pantyliners/4/29/11

Val’s Views-The Night Before Easter DVD/4/29/11

Fooducopia-$500 in Artisan food prizes/4/30/11

Val’s Views-Here Comes Peter Cotontail DVD/4/30/11

Val’s Kitchen-Autographed copy of Now Eat This Diet/5/2/11

Here and There-MGM Blu-ray/DVD Easter basket/5/6/11

Consumer Search-$500 dollars/5/8/11

Lets get this Weight Loss Started

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I have been battling my weight since having kids. Before my first child in 2005 I weighed 125 lbs, after my last child in 2007 I was up to one 150. I got down to 139, after some hard work. Now that I am home with 3 kids aged 3-6, who fight constantly and stress me out, I am back up to 157. According to the BMI chart I am obese, since I am only 5’2″.

I would love to lose these last 30 lbs! I have tried everything from hardcore exercise, to sketcher shapeups, even weight loss pills, Nothing is working.  I am going to work my butt off these next couple of months to get in shape, and would love your support.

My main problem with the way I look is my body shape, All of my fat is belly fat.  My hips can fit into a size 9 pair of jeans, but jeans that go over the belly have to be a size 12 (except that’s to big). So I am a in-between non-existence size.

Stress is a big factor in my life right now, and the main reason why I think I can’t lose weight. My husband is working on his PHD and is always at school or studying. Add in cooking, cleaning, laundry, and 3 kids and that is a lot of stress to handle.

This is my motivation………….

I don’t want to look like this anymore.

NO I am Not Pregnant.

Chuck E Cheese Birthday Party

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My kids have always wanted a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese, so yesterday they finally got to have one. We decided to have a double birthday party since both my daughters birthdays are only a month apart.

Chuck E Cheese offers to birthday packages…..

$15.99 and $20.99 per child, you get

  • 2 slices of pizza per child
  • drink with unlimited refills
  • 2 hours reserved table space
  • medallion for birthday child
  • Ticket blaster experience for birthday child
  • inflatable crown with tokens for birthday child
  • Jumbo foil balloon for birthday child
  • Birthday Sticker for birthday child
  • birthday show
  • 20 token per child
  • festive tableware
  • host/hostess
  • VIP sticker for adult
  • email invitations
  • 500 bonus tickets for birthday child ($20.99 only)
  • Bank with 12 token for birthday child ($20.99 only)
  • 16 additional tokens per child ($20.99)
  • balloon for each child ($20.99 only)
  • bobble head cup for each child ($20.99)

This was also our first time at a Chuck E Cheese in New York, and it was fun. There were 4 other parties going on at the same time and it got really crazy. I only had 8 kids and 7 adults, but other parties had like 40 or more people.  When we first walked in we noticed a weird smell, but just put it off. We were greeted kindly at the door and of course got stamped at kid check, we also met our hostess for the party. The first thing we did was the kids got their tokens and went to play games. an hour later we sat down to eat pizza and have cake, then partied with Chuck E and do the ticket blaster. I received a paper that had the itinerary on it, but it was not followed and was a little disorganized.

What I didn’t like: We opted for the $20.99 package, but did not receive the 500 tickets, party stickers, sticker for adult, and bank with tokens. I asked about the products and they said they were coming but never did. After asking 3 times I gave up, plus I felt like I had to chase my hostess around.  The game floor was nice but a lot of the games were out of tickets or ate my tokens. There was not enough time to open gifts at the party, we had to take them home and open them.

I was a little disappointed things weren’t going perfect, the kids were having a blast and couldn’t care less.

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Overall there were some disappointments, but we still love Chuck E Cheese and will continue to go. we are going again in a month, just for the kids to play.   My main suggestion for birthday parties is to call ahead and see how many parties will be at the  same time as yours. I think there should only be 2 or 3 parties allowed at a time. It was really overcrowded. I would give Chuck E Cheese a definite 10, but the particular facility we went to would only get a 5.

****UPDATE: I just received a phone call from Chuck E Cheese Geust Relations and they are sending me everything I didn’t receive at the party Plus some. Now thats satisfaction!

Disclosure: No compensation was received, I received a certificate for a free party, but paid a lot out-of-pocket. All opinions are 100% my own.

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