BzzAgent Burt's Bees' and a deal for you!

My latest campaign for BzzAgent has been one of the best assignments to date. Burt's Bees' Intense Hydration line of products. I have found my favorite product to be the night moisturizing cream. I know it says to use it at night, but I also use it days when I am home all day cleaning, and dont put on makeup. My skin feels GREAT! The best part is that the whole line is 99% natural.

Included in the Intense Hydration line of products are:

Intense Hydration Cream Cleanser- which helps to reduce wrinkles and fine lines, removes daily dirt and makeup without harmful scrubbing, and leaves no pesky residue behind.

Intense Hydration Day Lotion- which is a light cream that does not leave your skin greasy and absorbs quickly for a revitalized supple appearance.

Intense Hydration Eye Cream- which is a perfect combination of natural ingredients for the sensitive skin around your eyes. It reduces wrinkles and fine lines after extended use, and also absorbs quickly leaving skin hydrated and soft.

Intense Hydration Night Cream- * my favorite* this is a heavier cream that absorbs very quickly into skin. It will reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and leaves your skin feeling silky smooth and not greasy at all.

Intense Hydration Treatment Mask- which provides immediate intense hydration to your skin. It will leave your skin feeling younger, revitalized and silky smooth. It is quite easy to apply but be aware that it can be a bit messy as it goes on wet and stays wet until you wipe it off with a washcloth.

The whole line can be found here on their website.

I have tried the whole line and love the way my skin feels. Oh and I need to mention that Burt's Bees' NEVER tests on animals, which to me, is a HUGE deal.

So, let’s talk money. The line is a bit expensive if you are not going to use coupons (which I have noticed a bunch on Coupons.com lately (keep your eyes open for more). Paired with sales, you can score pretty good deals on the products. Without coupons the products range from $10.00 to $18.00 each. Luckily I found a deal to help you try out some of their products with a discount. Just head over to Burt’s Bees to get 20 items for just $16.44 shipped! To get this deal just add 20 $1 Burt’s Bees items to your cart, including the Intense Hydration line, and then use coupon code: BBEES12 at checkout. This will subtract $5 off your order. Plus you can get free 2 day shipping by choosing that option at check out. This would make a great Christmas basket if you are creative in putting it together. This is sure to make someone on your Christmas list very happy... with hydrated silky smooth skin!

Oh Smartfood Selects...how we love you

 

 

 

One of the new campaigns that I am working on for Bzz Agent is the new Smartfood Selects line of snacks. When we received our Bzzkit filled with samples of the chips and a FULL SIZE bag of the Cinnamon Brown Sugar popcorn it was like Christmas in our household. My kids are all about snacks, and I have trained them to eat healthy so the first question they usually ask before eating anything is "Mommy...is this healthy" With ease I was able to confirm, yes these snacks are indeed healthy. First we fixed sliced up some fresh fruit including apples, grapes, and strawberries and opened the bag of Sundried Tomato/Herb chips and made a nice little spread. I served the snack on to the kids during their after school play date with a few of the neighborhood kids. Let me tell you, the whole plate was devoured in a matter of a few minutes. All the kids loved the combination of the fruit and the seasoned chips so much so that I had to open the Feta chips for them to share.

Here is a picture of my little spread.

 

 

 

I saved the Cinnamon Brown Sugar popcorn for our family movie night. We watched Cinderella and I sometimes spurge and serve kettle corn on occasion as a treat, but it is so high in fat and sugar I don’t like to this much. I was a little concerned that the kids would not like the Smartfood Selects Cinnamon popcorn because when I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of Cinnamon on it. Boy was I wrong. What I thought was all Cinnamon was a perfect combination of Cinnamon and Brown Sugar which made your taste buds burst. It was so good that the kids didn’t even ask for Kettle corn and said they liked it better than Kettle corn. WOW! The popcorn was light, airy and just the perfect combination of sweet and crunchy. I wish they would serve this at the movie theater instead of the salty, fatty popcorn they serve.

If you have not tried Smartfoods Selects, I highly recommend you do so. These are not just for adults, and not your average "diet" food. They are natural, healthy and delicious. Try them and let me know what your family thinks. Oh and rest assured, if I come across any coupons I will post them, but for now keep your eye on Smartfood on facebook here, they sometimes post great savings to their fans.

 





Glade Expressions Fragrance Mist Starter Kit from BzzAgent. **Free alert*

I have been working on the Bzz campaign for Glade Expressions oil diffuser and Spray Mist which they sent me free to try out and review... and I have to tell you I love this product. I bought the Apple Spice variety and have received so many compliments on the smell of my home. The most common comments are that it smells like I am baking something or that my house just "smells like fall". With two dogs, my house smelling like anything other than dog is a welcomed comment.

The Glade product comes in a beautiful oil diffuser and also a spray mist. The oil diffuser blends with any décor and comes in Pineapple (with a brown dispenser) or Apple (with a white dispenser). The decorative dispensers are refillable so once the oil runs out, you only need to get more oil jars in your desired fragrance.

The spray mist comes in more fragrances which include:

Cotton & Italian Mandarin

Fuji Apple & Cardamom Spice

Lavender & Juniper Berry

Pineapple & Mangosteen

A great feature of the spray mist is that wrapper comes off so that it is not as noticeable wherever you decide to place it. Another BzzAgent spruced hers up to look like a ghost which makes a very festive mist :-) All she did was take the wrapper off and add black ghost eyes to the top and mouth. Super cute.

Here is the great news, you can try the spray mist for free at Target by coupon stacking, but be fast as the prints usually go quickly. Here is how

Go here and print the $2.00 Glade product coupon 
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?bt=vi&tqnm=xjlgdmz39852827&o=104702&c=SJ&p=amz2kMnL

(you should be able to print this twice)

Then go to Target Coupons and click on the "household" category. You should find a $1.00 coupon for Glade.
http://coupons.target.com/

Print the coupon and bring both to Target. Use both coupons on one spray and boom! You can score up to two free Glade Spray Mist products! (you will need two of each coupon to do this) Whoop Whoop!! Come back and let me know what fragrance you tried and what you thought of the product.

Have a great Sunday shopping :-)

Free Unreal candy bar at CVS.

Have you heard of Unreal candy yet? It is all the bzz, and all the rage. EVERYONE is talking about how these candies are unjunked of all that sugar, Hydrogenated Oils, Artificals, and Corn Syrup and still taste great.

If you have not tried it yet, or if you have and love these candies you are in luck.   CVS is giving away coupons to try one of the Unreal Candy varities for FREE!!! Supplies are limited so HURRY over to the CVS Facebook Page and click on the "Unreal Free Gift" tab. Once you complete the form you will get a coupon in your inbox got a FREE Unreal Candy Item. I am going to get the Peanutbutter cups. YUMMO!!!! I have been lucky enough to be included in the Bzz Unreal campaign on BzzAgent and I can not wait to get my BzzKit to see what type of the candy they send me. I will keep you updated on this Bzz campaign, and in the mean time...get over to CVS and try out your free candy and then come back here and let me know how you like unjunking your candy.

*Limited quantity; Coupons available while supplies last. Up to a $1.19 value. Offer valid in store only. Limit of one coupon per customer. Must be age 18 or over.

Meet the Boys

Ok so it should have read, meet the boy and the girl, but didn't sound as good. So without further ado meet the beefy boy Cooper. He is my rescue dog and what a good dog he is. He is a huge pure Saint Bernard that loves to snuggle, play and eat. Boy can he eat. I recently received a bag of Hills Science Diet Ideal Balance Grain Free dog food from BzzAgent and was anxious to try it out with Cooper. I typically try to feed him healthy and after speaking to my vet I was confident that Hill's science diet was a very good dog food for him. My vet said that most vets will recommend this food, especially for the bigger breeds to maintain a healthy weight and overall health. Chicken is the number one ingredient as opposed to most other dog foods where grains are the biggest ingredient. What I was most happy to hear was that there are no artificial preservatives or colors and that Hills Science Diet Grain Free is easier on digestion. Cooper is a naturally gassy dog so any food that is easier on digestion for him makes me happy.

I initially made the switch to Hill's Grain Free slowly mixing half and half and increasing the Hill's Grain Free a little more each day. He seems to love it, and scarfs it all up in record time. I have not noticed a difference in his skin or coat yet, but it has only been a little over a week since he is on full Hill's Science Diet Grain Free. To be an honest doting momma, I must say

that his coat was beautiful before changing his food, so any improvement would just be adding to his established beauty. :-)

Meet Crushy------------------------------------------->

Crush is a pure German Shepherd Dog. She is a lovie and not even a year old yet. She is my picky eater and will wait until you add a little something special into her bowl, or wait until something drops onto the floor before she will start eating her dog food. She is a bit overweight and the vet asked me to change her over to adult dog food to try to help control her weight. I switched her over to Hill's Science Diet Grain Free food also. Because the main ingredient is Chicken and not Corn like most other dog foods, she is getting the protein she needs without all the other fillers that could increase weight gain. There are a bunch of fruits and veggies that are in Hill's Science Diet Grain Free dog food, and to find out more of which fruits, veggies, grains and meats are good for your dogs health you can go here where they outline it all for you.

After a week of gradually adding more and more of her new SD Grain free food to her meals, Crushy still waits to see if we are gong to add anything "special" to her bowl, but I have noticed that she gives up easier with the Science Diet dog food and I am starting to notice her waist again. To see how your current dog or cat food stacks up to Hill's Science Diet you can go here.

Dont forget to sign in and download the rebate they are currently running. With two big dogs in this house, I am going to download the form now and send it in!

How do you eat your oatmeal?

When someone says oatmeal what is the first thing that comes to your mind? If you are anything like me you immediately thing healthy, then lumpy glumpy eeeekkkk! Well Quaker has changed this initial reaction to oatmeal for me with Quaker Oatmeal Squares.

Quaker has made oatmeal into a crunchy breakfast cereal that I am now adding to my breakfast routine. It comes in four wonderful varieties, Honey Nut (my favorite),Golden Maple, Brown Sugar, and Cinnamon. If you are looking for the Golden Maple variety, it is sold exclusively at Walmart at this time. You can feel great about starting your day with Quaker Oatmeal Squares because it is made with natural flavors and each serving has 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of dietary fiber!! If that is not enough to convince you it also provides 46 grams of whole grains per serving! WOWO!!!

Lets face it, you can have all the grains, protein and fiber in a cereal, but if it does not taste good, you aren't going to eat it right? Well, let me tell you, I ate two bowls for dinner the other night and if I could have fit more, i would have. I found this cereal so delicious I even converted my husband, who is strictly a Lucky Charms eater into eating Quaker Oatmeal Squares. I added strawberries for a bit of pizzazz and whala, he was on the road to eating a healthier breakfast.

I received a free box from BzzAgent to try out and spread the word about, but you are in luck because right now, Quaker is giving away a sample box of their Oatmeal Squares for you to try out before you buy. Now you have no excuse not to try it. Just friend them on Facebook here and request your free sample box to try out. I will make a bet that you will make a trip to the supermarket soon after to purchase a box in the variety of your choice. It is on my weekly shopping list from now on and I am happy knowing that I am on track to eating healthy.

Let me know how you like it!

Italian Pizza Night "IN"

I have been reviewing Ristorante Pizza by Dr. Oetke for BzzAgent for a couple months now and wanted to share with my blog followers my experience. I tried the Spinaci which is lumped with cooked spinach, mozzarella and garlic red sauce. It only took about 10 minutes to cook in my oven and to my surprise the kids ate most of it which left me with just a little square to try for my review. It was delish. I will admit I added some extra cheese to it before I cooked it. I do this for most frozen pizza I make to add a little zing to it. It was fantastic!

The next Ristorante Pizza I made was the Mozzarella with fresh mozzarella, a pesto sauce and tomatoes. this time I made it for lunch while the kids were at school. The picture on the box looked too scrumptious to share. It was a good thing I did, because I was a pigglie wigglie and at the entire pizza myself. The pesto sauce was so different and delicious.

Ristorante made a large variety of gourmet pizza, but the trick is finding a store that carries all of them. Ristorante currently has; Mozzarella- with mozzarella, sun ripened tomatoes, and pesto sauce, Spinaci- with leaf spinach mozzarella and garlic sauce, Funghi- with mushrooms, mozarella, tomato sauce and herbs, Quattro Formaggi- with 4 cheeses including blue, mozarella, edam and emmental plus basil and seasonings, Vegetale- with tomatoes bell peppers, onions, chilies and a sour cream sauce, and finally, Speciale -with pepperoni, ham and spicy herbs.

My shop rite here at the Jersey Shore only had the Spinaci and the Mozzarella. I am so craving the vegetable one and the Quattro Formaggi that I may order it online at http://ristorante.us/ . YUM

Healthful Breads BzzAgent style

As promised I wanted to tell you about some of the Bzz campaigns I am working on. Lots of my friends already know that I am addicted to Arnold's Healthful Breads Flax and Fiber. I was very excited to try this bread and made the kids grilled cheese sammies after playing in the snow a few weeks ago. Now, my kids are picky, if they even see a tinge of brown in the bread they wont eat it. They despise wheat bread.

To my delight they loved Arnolds Heathful breads, even with the seeds in the crust. I was pretty stoked because there are 5g of protein per slice and only 80 calories, so even I felt great eating the bread. Plus there are no artificial colors or preservatives. It is a win win kind of bread if you ask me. :-) and it TASTES great too.

I am going to add my famous french toast recipe to the Healthful's website after we try it out tomorrow with the Flax and Fiber bread. Here is the link to their recipe sharing site in case you wanted to browse and get ideas for your healthful breads. My favorite way of eating it is plain dipped in my balsamic basil salad dressing. Let me know what you think after you tried it, or if you have already.

Wow!!!

Wow! Thanks guys for logging in and following my blog. More posts to come on all the fun things I am working on. I also want to share a recipe I came across for home made butter!! YUM and fun for the kids. Stay tuned all!

Are you smarter than I am?

I have talked extensively about BzzAgent right? Well they have this fun quiz/competition going on about how well you know BzzAgent. If you are already a BzzAgent you can go here to try it out and see if you can beat me. ( I am currently 800 out of 800) If you are not a BzzAgent, sign up NOW here! You get to test new products free and give reviews and spread the word to your friends of your opinions of the products. Most of the time you get coupons for your friends to try the products out.

The smarter campaign is filled with lots of questions about your basic BzzAgent experience and information. For example one question I received was "How many Bzz Camapigns are you able to participate in during the same time frame?"

The answer of coarse is "unlimited" because BzzAgent does not limit the amount of campaigns you can participate in.

So there you go, you got one answer to one of the questions. There are also smarter quizzes on Twitter and Facebook knowledge. What a fun way to engage your friends on facebook to some friendly competition on who knows more.

Here is the link to "Smarter" again. Have fun!!!

Post about the products I am using to follow :-)