Doodles Alphabet Coloring Fun Review and Giveaway

Doodles Alphabet Coloring Fun by Setria James is a coloring book for children. The story behind the author is that she is a graphic designer that utilizes original doodles instead of stock illustrations. The pages in this book are large and she used quality paper. The doodles are designed to build motor skills and encourage self expression. It takes each letter of the alphabet and has two drawings on the page that start with the letter. A few of the items were not what I would have chosen for each particular letter. The letter A had apple, which is a given and then the next item was an Ape. My son keeps saying A is for monkey. Most children say monkey and not ape so that was a little confusing. The drawing is so simple that I felt like she could have came up with something else for A that would have been easier for little ones to learn. Other than that the book was a hit over here, my son has enjoyed coloring and working on his letters and sounds.

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*Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above. Giveaway starts March 18 , 2011 and ends on March 31, 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 provided one of the coloring books free of charge for this review.

You know your penny pinching is effecting your family when...

Your 4 year old comes out of the bathroom during a play date and announces, "We use toilet paper to wipe our butts and to blow our noses!" Maybe I shouldn't skimp on the Kleenex huh?

Happy St Patrick's Day

We love Charlie Brown and friends! So classic!

We hope everyone is having a great and green day! I know this year we are trying to think more "green" and St. Patrick's Day is a great day to think of new ways to be green. I love that later in our event we will be reviewing Eco-Kids products for art supplies and Sprig Toys for trucks made form recycled materials. I find myself looking harder for eco products than in previous years.
I want to start a mini compost pile so we can incorporate it into our gardening soil. I was browsing Eco Mom and found 3 great products to start with my little idea.

Bamboo Compost Pail

 

White Stoneware Compost Pail

 

Stainless Steel Compost Pail

 

 

 

NurturMe Foods Review and Giveaway

NurturMe is a baby food company that sells naturally grown quick dried baby food that come in light weight, palm-sized pouches. Each pouch has approx 2.5 oz of pureed baby food. You can mix the pouch contents with water, formula or breast milk and it is ready in seconds. The idea is similar to rice cereal where you add water or breast to create the consistency your baby will eat. The nice thing about these sweet little pouches is that you don't have to worry about carrying jars of baby food in your diaper bag, just pull out a pouch or 2 and mix it with your liquid of choice. Depending on the age of your little one, from 4 months to toddler you can add as little or as much liquid as you want. There is a bit more information about the mixing here.

There are 4 flavors to choose from scrumptious squash, hearty sweat potatoes, plump peas and crisp apples. I combined the squash and apples together to create a larger meal and to change up the flavor. He loved it! Yummy for sure!

I took a few pouches out with me on a lunch date with my girlfriend and it worked out great. I asked the waiter for a little bowl, poured out the pouch, added water (it was most convenient) and lunch was served. Not to mention no clean up for me! NurturMe is a nature conscious company that uses recyclable cartons made with wind energy and the with no jars to throw away this is a very "green" way to help the environment! I recommend this to Mom's with little ones who babies are eating their "first" foods and like the convenience of a eco-friendly company.

You can buy NurturMe foods online and at select Whole Foods stores and Babies R Us. 

This is a fairly new company and we look forward to more flavors in the future. They have a twitter campaign going on trying to get their product on the Mothers Day show on Ellen. I hope they get on and you can show your support by retweeting and tweeting to Ellen about it!
  
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For our Moms Leaving the Workforce event NurturMe has generously offered one of our lucky readers the chance to win 2 pouches of each flavor (total of 8 servings) plus a BPA free "Nutritious" spoon

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*Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above. Giveaway starts March 17 , 2011 and ends on March 31, 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 provided one of each of the flavors for free for this review.

Yum Yum Dishes Review

Yum Yum Dishes were created by a mother who after having her second child realized she was snacking too much and decided to do something about it. She started snacking out of a a small dish and in a short time was back to her original weight. Portion control is how the Yum Yum dish was born. It is a 4 oz. ceramic dish and inside it says, Yum Yum time is over. Pretty cute. It is really hard not to want to refill it, after all it seems so tiny. But you may think twice about refilling the bowl when it tells you that you are finished! haha

Children may find this as a cute way to know that their snack is over. I know that childhood obesity is an issue for many families and these bowls may help teach your child portion control. I have more of the problem with getting my son to eat more so these may also be useful for moms trying to get a child to finish their food until the bowl is empty.
Necessary for an adult? Not really but a super cute way to cut back on snacking and a great reminder to enjoy the little snack you are about to eat! I think this would be more helpful to children.
I did see on the Yum Yum Dishes website that Lisa Mosley, a contestant and single mom from the tv show Biggest Loser is now working with the company to give out a daily tip to your inbox. You can sign up here, bottom right hand side of the page.
You can follow Yum Yum Dishes on facebook and twitter for updates and sales.


** I was not paid or compensated for this post. The opinions in this post are 100% mine and may vary from other opinions. I was provided for free the item in this post for review purposes.