Monday, September 12, 2011

Olive Garden Review and Giveaway


Whenever my girlfriends and I talk about getting together for dinner or an occasion the conversation usually leads to the Olive Garden. We have had many events, birthdays and even one of my baby showers there. Also when my husband I are talking date night I seem to bring up how yummy the Olive Garden is and we usually end up there. With the Olive Garden you know that you are going to get bread sticks with your choice of soup or salad with your entree. How could you go wrong? Recently the Olive Garden has brought back the Never Ending Pasta Bowl that has a total of 42 combinations between the pastas and sauces, that's 7 pastas and 6 sauces!!




For only $8.95 you get the Never Ending Pasta Bowl (aka all you can eat) with unlimited salad and bread sticks. We just had to check it out and boy were we in food heaven!! We brought the boys along because JJ's favorite anything is pasta, he would eat it every meal if I let him. To start off we chowed down on some bread sticks and salad. YUM.






The first pasta bowl I ordered was the Penne pasta with Five Cheese Marinara and it was amazing! I loved the sauce so much I was dipping my bread stick in it just to make sure I did not leave any sauce or cheese behind. Cheese, cheese and more cheese please!!!






My husband ordered the Penne pasta with Roasted Mushroom Parmesan with Sun-Dried Tomatoes. He is a mushroom lover so this was right up his alley. He said that the mushrooms were great and it gave the dish a lot of flavor.





For our next bowl we changed it up and this time my husband ordered the Fettuccine noodles with Pizzaiola Meat Sauce. It was pretty good, classic he says.



I picked the Fettuccine noodles with Alfredo sauce, again another classic that you know you can't go wrong with. It was pretty good but after my Five Cheese Marinara not much else compared, but still really tasty.






We enjoyed our meals and the experience. Everyone is always so nice at the Olive Garden, so along with the great food you always get great service. To show everyone just how much we enjoyed ourselves here is a picture of me scarfing down my food and because I posted this one of myself I am putting one up of the husband too!! Haha Oh and JJ at the end cause he loves the Olive Garden too!!!





GIVEAWAY
 
Win a $25 Gift Card to Olive Garden

To Enter This Giveaway: 

Visit the Olive Garden website and tell me what Never Ending Pasta combo you would like to try.

My favorite is the Penne pasta with Five Cheese Marinara!


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*Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above. Giveaway starts September 12, 2011 and ends on September 24, 2011 at midnight PST.  Winner will be emailed and has 48 hours to respond before another winner is selected. I was not paid for this giveaway or post. I was provide a gift card to Olive Garden for free by the company or PR firm representing them. The opinions on this item are 100% mine and may vary from others.

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Whole wheat linguine with meat sauce sounds great!
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sablelexi said...

I'd like the Penne pasta with Alfrado sauce.

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I would like to try Angel Hair Pasta with Alfredo Sauce

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whole wheat marinara is what i'd like!

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Mama K said...

My husband has been really wanting to eat at Olive Garden...We have to drive an hour to eat at one, but it's worth it! I would get the fettucini with alfredo sauce first, and then your favorite...the penne with five cheese marinara!

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I love that they have whole wheat linguine to choose from so I would definitely go for that and the roasted mushroom parm looks TDF yummy!
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I'd like to try the Whole Wheat Linguini with the Mushroom Parmesan Sauce.

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Tamara B. said...

Love pasta and would order the Angel Hair with Five Cheese Marinara first.
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Fettuccine Alfredo please!
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Would love the Penne with Roasted Mushroom Parmasen!

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They have good fettuccine chicken alfredo

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I'd choose the whole wheat linguine with roasted mushroom parmesan sauce. Yum!
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Orecchiette with marinara!

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i am a simple girl i would get the Penne pasta with Five Cheese Marinara mm can't wait to go thanks for the giveaway .

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If I win I'll get Fettuccine Alfredo!! It's just not the same at home!lol

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Shared on FB as Sam Whitney Lett
https://www.facebook.com/#!/wlett3/posts/160794020675028

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Erica best said...

http://twitter.com/#!/purplelover04/status/117773863877754880

Letherton said...

daily tweet

http://twitter.com/#!/TheEthertons/status/118115665327562752

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Erica best said...

http://twitter.com/#!/purplelover04/status/118102599898632192

Letherton said...

daily tweet

https://twitter.com/#!/TheEthertons/status/118347071072903168

ethertonphotography@gmail.com

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