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Costco is one of my favorite stores to shop for bulk items of all kinds especially with a growing family! That’s right my family is growing from three to four and we are all pretty excited about it.

A few of the snacks we like to purchase from Costco include animal crackers, popcorn, nuts, dried fruit mix, and as of recently thanks to My Blog Spark and General Mills, Fruit Roll-Ups and Nature Valley’s Chewy Trail mix!

Now available at Club Stores, Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars and Simply Fruit Roll-Ups deliver great value and are perfect to have on hand for last minute day trips and even an afternoon in the backyard.

Not only nutritious, but convenient too, the club sized snacks are individually wrapped and ideal for throwing in your purse or travel bag, just in case your little one’s tummy starts to rumble.

Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars are a delightful, 100% natural, combination of tastes and textures you’ll love. Now, you can get 25% more of the whole almonds, peanuts, raisins and cranberries in every bar! With no artificial flavors or colors and only 140 calories, Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Granola Bars also contain 8g of whole grain per serving.

Simply Fruit Roll-Ups are a better-for-you treat that kids love! Simply Fruit Roll-Ups are an excellent source of Vitamin C and are available in a convenient variety pack of Strawberry and Wildberry flavors. Every delicious roll is made with 90% real fruit and fruit juice and packs a full serving of fruit. Even more exciting? They’re gluten-free and contain only 50 calories per roll.

Overall Thoughts…

I will be looking to Costco again to purchase these great snacks. As a mom of a toddler and with a another baby on the way, I appreciate the convenience of how easy it is to throw these individually wrapped healthy snacks into my purse or diaper bag for a trip out! Great snacks at affordable prices that my whole family loves, I can state we have a winner!

Check out your local Club Store today for stock up packages of these delicious snacks and more!

Win it!

Thanks to My Blog Spark and General Mills, I have a “Costco Sunny Day Snacks” prize pack for one of my readers! It includes:

• Stock-up sized package of Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars (48 ct.)
• Stock-up sized package of Simply Fruit Roll-Ups (42 ct.), and a
• $25 gift card that you can use at Costco.

To Enter: Tell me what kind of healthy snack you’ll stock up on the next time you’re at Costco or what your family’s favorite healthy snack is.

Extras:

1. Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
4. Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
5. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)
6. Email a friend about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

Tweet: (copy/paste)

RT: Win a Costco Sunny Day Snacks” prize pack ! @erinlowmaster– Ends 6/12/10.

Giveaway running till 06/12/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant. USA only please and no P.O Boxes.

Disclaimer: General Mills provided me with the free product, information, and gift cards through MyBlogSpark.

Not to miss out on!

I’m very excited to inform everyone about the Cart Savings Event Kroger is having! I don’t know about everyone else, but I know I could always use the extra savings when it comes to purchasing numerous things, especially my groceries! So now until March 14th you can save big when shopping at all Kroger and Kroger Family stores which include; Fred Meyer, Ralphs, King Soopers, Dillons, Smiths, Frys, Bakers, Owens, Food4less, to name just a few.

I bet you are wondering what brand products that are participating in the event! The brands participating include Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Hamburger Helper, Yoplait, Progresso, Totino’s, Green Giant, Cascadian Farm, Tide, Charmin, Bounty, Pampers, Pantene, Crest, Iams, Febreze, Old Spice and many more!

Win!

Kroger and General Mills are teaming up through My Blog Spark to give one of my blog readers a $25.00 gift card to spend on groceries!

To Enter: Let me know what you are looking to stock up on when out grocery shopping!

Extras:

1. Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
2. Blog it, link back to this post. (2 extra)
3. Favorite my blog on Technorati
4. Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
5. Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)
6. Email a friend about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

Tweet: (copy/paste)

RT: Win a $25.00 Gift Card to spend on groceries! 3/10 @erinlowmaster (add url).

This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada

Giveaway running till 03/10/10 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

**Disclosure: General Mills and My Blog Spark provided the above information and sent me a complimentary $25 Kroger gift card **

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.

Jones Soda is unique soda making company unlike any others out there. There is no other place where you can find flavors like corn of the cob, Tofurky, and many more that would never even rightly come to mind!

Did you know that at Jones Soda, you can personalize your very own bottle? This is a fantastic idea for those one of a kind gifts for those very special people in your life! Truly the selection is endless as you can not only pick what photo you’d like on the bottle but also the flavor and name!

I’d love to put a commission art photo that was drawn for Valentines last year that was requested secretly by husband from a good friend of ours.  This image holds a lot of special meaning to me and I would to display it not only proudly on my wall but as a fun soda on my husbands desk!

The flavor I would choose to go along with the personalized bottle I would choose would have to be the Strawberry lime or perhaps another one of the lime type flavors. Those who know me personally, know that limes hold a significant place in how my husband and I met.

I think Jones Sodas makes the best gifts and with Valentines quickly coming up, I encourage you to check out the myJones custom soda. I promise you’re sweetheart will be impressed with all the extra thought that went into creating such a special and memorable gift!

General Mills has announced a commitment to further reduce sugar in cereals advertised to kids under 12 to single digit grams of sugar per serving. The company has already been reducing sugar in cereals while increasing key nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin D, and providing whole grain.

Thanks to MyBlogSpark, I was sent four coupons of my very own to stock up my family cupboards with various General Mills cereals!

Benefits of eating cereal…

Right now if you click here, you will find a $1 off coupon for Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Cinnamon Toast Crunch or Lucky Charms. Note: Hit back 3x to print twice.

Disclaimer: All free cereal coupons were  provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Alice.com. All opinions are 100% mine.

Alice.com is a website  that makes shopping for things you normally use on a day to day basis much easier! You’ll find many known brands of products that you commonly will find in almost everyone’s household not to mention fantastic deals with no need to use coupons. How cost effective! I love how you can maintain your budget in this area of purchases all online at Alice.com!

I signed up for Alice.com, myself  just to see how everything works and am very happy about how easy it is to find the products I need! I like how I can also view reviews on the products I am interested in as well as seehow the products you are selecting rate on health, the environment and social responsibility.

There’s just  one catch though, Alice.com offers free shipping with a 6 item min. order, but with your first time using Alice.com you can purchase as few as you like!

Alice.com has a Refer a Friend program (located under the “My Account” section on Alice.com). This is an affiliate program where users can give their readers $10 off once $50 is spent on the site, and then they get 3% back of the purchases for a year.

I encourage you to check out Alice.com! I can’t help but think what a fantastic way  to start getting organized as the New Year approaches!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.

So, my wife wanted me, Justin, to guest post about the Tofurky and Gravy Jones Soda . I think it was because she was too scared to try it herself {:0p

I’ve had some of the various oddball Jones sodas before, such as Corn on the Cob, which tastes like butter, and Turkey and Gravy, which was way too salty. The Tofurky and Gravy soda at first was an unpleasant concoction to quaff. After the initial taste it got put in the fridge. Later, just before I started writing this, I took it out to taste it again. I believe it is much better served cold.

On the second drink, I found that little sips are best. It really gives you the gravy flavor. You can let it rest on your tongue and enjoy the tingle of the soda. I’ve never had tofurky, so I can’t attest to the flavor accuracy, but it’s not bad. I do like it much better than the overly salty Turkey and Gravy soda I’ve tried before.

If  I to get this as a gift for someone, it’d have to be a gag gift for a friend who would actually enjoy the novelty and not just be grossed out at the idea. It’s also really good for a Christmas party drinking game. Even if you can work your way up to enjoying it, drinking a Jones novelty soda all in one go would be a significant challenge and worthy of a valuable Christmas prize.