As a mom, having things in my diaper bag in case any 'what if' situation arose when out with my toddler and infant is a MUST!
What are the 'what if' situations I'm referring to?
"What if"....
My toddler spills juice on his shirt? Have an extra shirt Infant gets hungry? Have a bottle ready for anytime feeding My toddler has a tantrum and needs a distractioin? Have a Quaker soft baked oatmeal cookie to distract him from the cookie that another child was eating.
These things happened one day while out on a play date. I received a bag of these oatmeal cookies from Influenster's mom voxbox and I was thanking my stars for remembering to add it to the diaper bag before we left the house.
Since having my daughter a little over six months ago, I have been working on getting back to my pre-pregnancy weight by changing my diet. It is definitely easy to snack on junk foods like cookies and chips since being in my new career as full time stay at home mom after my daughter was born.
I recently discovered a new (and healthy) monthly food subscription box service called NatureBox foods.
NatureBox helps you eat healthier without needing to change your eating habits. We focus on snacks because that’s the easiest habit to change. Do you know that the average American eats almost 25% of their calories from snacking? In fact, snacking is the leading cause of childhood obesity. NatureBox helps you get more out of your day without wasting calories on the bad stuff.
Food You Can Trust
Every NatureBox item is carefully sourced and nutritionist approved. Everything inside your NatureBox will be guilt free so that you can feel great about what you’re eating. You can trust that our products will be made from the most wholesome ingredients and will be minimally processed, if at all.
Try Us Risk Free!
Each box costs just $19.95 and shipping is always free with NatureBox. You can pause or cancel anytime, and we’ll happily issue a refund if you’re not 100% satisfied.
Together, We Give
For every NatureBox sent out, together we’re helping to feed the hungry. NatureBox donates one meal for every box to feed the over 14 million children in America who go hungry. We believe in doing good and eating well.
Whenever I go to the grocery store, I always want to leave with a healthy and delicious snack but with the large variety they have it's hard to pick one and actually like it!
As we continue to see more sample boxes, food boxes are becoming the next 'go to' box next to beauty boxes. Early this month, I was able to test and review a new healthy food box service called - Healthy Surprise.
Healthy surprise is healthy snacking made easy. New snacks every month and there is no commitment. Healthy surprise sends you a box every month filled with the highest quality snacks that you guaranteed to love.
Subscription plans work in the following way -
Here is the unboxing video and ranking of the Starter Healthy Surprise box.
What do you think of this box? Have you tried any of the products?
FTC: A huge thank you to Healthy Surprise for allowing me to review the PPPP!I am in no way affiliated with the company or products mentioned. No cash compensation is being received for reviewing this product. Any opinions about this product is 100% honest and are not construed or influenced by Healthy Surprise.
Along with rounding out the end of May, we welcome June! Almost halfway through the year? Goodness the year has definitely zoomed by! Here is another weekly roundup of how last week was for me!
Taking queue from Linny's post, here was how it worked:
With a $15 spending max, purchase your favorite things (lip gloss, nail polish, lotion, candy, gift card, candle, movie, book, magazine, etc) and send them to your swap buddy.
Must be able to send your swap buddy a package of goodies
You must be willing to spend up to $15 (before shipping).
Partners will be randomly matched up
Your package must be in the mail by a certain date
I was the coordinator of this fave swap and I changed up how swap buddies were chosen. Each person didn't know who had them and it was kept as a secret until favorite packages were received!
Would you consider yourself a food enthusiast? Would you like to receive unique, hard-to-find tasty bites which varies based on seasonal themes? Well, say hello to Love with Food!
About Love with Food
Love with Food was founded by Aihui Ong who wanted to combine her two passions, tech and food. The company is passionate about helping the more than 16 million children in America who are at risk of hunger. So for every box sold, they donate a meal to several food banks such as the Feeding America Network and Share Our Strength - No Kid Hungry.
How does Love with Food work?
Monthly Membership
Get 8+ curated gourmet bites per month
Earn points good for free products
Member-only access to discounts
Every purchase supports food banks
$10 + $2 shipping per month ($12/month)Cancel anytime
Remember when magazine subscriptions were the big thing? Well, now it is all about the monthly box subscriptions. Subscription boxes can vary in content from makeup, skin care, food, lifestyle, moms, children, pets to just about anything!
With all of the subscription boxes out there, how can anyone keep up? As many of you know, I am obsessed with monthly boxes and majority of my Youtube channel videos are unboxings and reviews of boxes that I have received. Two main reasons I love this concept are that I love getting goodies in the mail and, in most cases, I don't know what I'll be receiving! Who doesn't want to feel like it's their birthday EVERY month? To take the guessing and research out of the equation, here are all of the monthly boxes that I am either subscribed to or have researched to include in this list!
Do you know of one that I missed? Email me their website info and I will include it on this list! *all logos are properties of each company - click on logos to visit company website.
Many rely on coffee, energy drinks or even caffeine pills to get an extra push of energy in our day. Unfortunately, many do not know that certain snacks can help give you energy and are better for you! But the search of what is best for you can be difficult.
A great option for a energy picker upper that's raw and organic is from Superfood snacks!
We are a sustainable superfood company from the island of Kauai. Our focus is on creating cutting edge organic products using raw ancient superfoods and specialty ingredients from around the world. We source the highest quality organic & wildcrafted fair trade ingredients for all of our recipes.
Our organic raw chocolate superfood line is packaged in the very first ever-printed package that is made with NatureFlex TM non-gmo, sustainably sourced, 100% biodegradable and compostable materials.[more about this great company on their website]
So we are close to being finished with our first bountiful basket haul from the Saturday before last! I'm so happy with my bountiful basket because it motivates me to find recipes for the goodies we've received!
I love hearing about what others did with their veggies and fruits.
I heard about bountiful baskets from my friend Brandi and I'm so excited to share!
Their website is www.bountifulbaskets.org. It's a co-op that's volunteered ran which focuses on attaining produce (fruits/vegetables) as close to local as possible thus making the carbon footprint eco-friendly in comparison to those produce we get in our grocery stores. You don't know know what produce you will be receiving but it's usually what's currently in season.
For a first timer, you add $4.50 ($3 for first timer and $1.50 processing fee) on top of the regular price of $15. After your first basket, you pay $16.50 and you pay for whichever week's basket you want. The website has schedules and locations for pickup in the midwest part of the country.
Omg! My obsession grows with these monthly beauty box subscriptions!!
I've been a member of Birchbox for over 6 months now and have gotten 2 quarterly New Beauty Test Tubes which I love because I get a box every month with some really fun beauty items! I can't get enough! Goodness!
I received 2 new boxes on December 7th from Gogo Girlfriend and Julep.
Gogo Girlfriend is a beauty box membership that costs $12.99 to receive a box monthly of 6 or more products, discounts on products through their website and you get to qualify to be part of giveaways.
Thoughts - First impression isn't positive so far. They indicate that they are big on customer service but their delay in getting tracking information after 2 weeks (based off the FAQ section of their site) from signing up has contradicted this. I had to email them 3 weeks after my sign up date of November 2nd and they replied quickly to say that they will contact their warehouse to let them know that I contacted the company. I finally received my tracking email for my shipment on December 2nd and then received my first box on December 7th. Wow, really? This was meant to be a November box but I received it in December. World's different from Birchbox. Although some may receive their Birchbox late in the month, at least its in the month that the box was supposed to be received on.
In my unboxing, I was not impressed with my first box and was not super duper excited with any of the products. I had viewed previous videos on youtube of previous months and they had some great items. I will say that these items seem to be worth more than the $12.99 I spent. They debited money from my account for 'December' box already, so I will see how I like the next 'regular' box along with the the deluxe box I placed an order for in the beginning of this month. I will keep you posted.
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Blossom dreamy girl mineral shadow, Camille Beckman Gift set
This past rainy Monday, I decided to make some 'healthy' Banana Nut Muffins.
It was great warm with a mug of hot chocolate!!
For original recipe visit the source below!
I tweaked the original recipe (the recipe below is what I used) to be all whole wheat flour, adding 1/2 cup more of applesauce, handful of crushed walnuts and handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
These things happened one day while out on a play date. I received a bag of these oatmeal cookies from Influenster's mom voxbox and I was thanking my stars for remembering to add it to the diaper bag before we left the house.
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