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Witch’s Kitchen Baked Goods Gift Box

Here is another box of delicious baked goods from GourmetGiftBaskets.com. This is called the Witch’s Kitchen Baked Goods Gift Box. If you are looking to send a Halloween package to someone like your student or the sweet-lover you miss and want to reach out to, this is a hit! Have you tried the cookies and brownies from GourmetGiftBaskets.com? They are so fresh and full of flavors you love!

In the Witch’s Kitchen Baked Goods Gift Box are the following

Chocolate Chunk Brownies – 1.5 oz.
Peanut Butter Brownies – 1.5 oz.
Chocolate Chip Blondies – 1.5 oz.
Butterscotch Blondies – 1.5 oz.
Chocolate Chip Cookies (2 pack) – 2 oz.
Fudge Brownie Cookies (2 pack) – 2 oz.
Lemon Sugar Cookies (2 pack) – 2 oz.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (2 pack) – 2 oz.

Also, all these baked goods are Kosher OU-D certified.

There are more Halloween options for you. So head on over the GourmetGiftBaskets.com Halloween page for more!

Food, Natural Foods

The Lovely Candy Company just launched a first-to-market Organic Candy

August 16, 2018August 15, 2018 Erin Sluka

I have partnered with Lovely Candy Company for this feature

Candy! The common belief is that it is loaded with artificial ingredients, loads of sugars and unhealthy sweeteners that rot your body and teeth. However, they also told us once in a common belief that sugar MAKES our kids hyper and that was proven false. So what is the candy debate results?

Let’s just say that MOST candy is harmful. It can be fun in small doses, but too much leaves your body trying to digest and store a multitude of bad ingredients. So here is how you can eat your candy and feel a little less guilt about it too…..

Eat the candy in moderation and make sure it is made with ingredients such as the ones found in the Lovely Candy Company products of chocolate, gummy and hard candy sweets.

Lovely Candy products are free of high fructose corn syrup, gluten, trans fats, GMO’s and artificial colors and ingredients. The candies are also kosher. This makes a great snack choice to soothe that sweet tooth for you or the kids.

Here are some of the ingredients used to make these candies:

real butter
pure vanilla
hormone-free dairy
natural flavors
raw honey
natural extracts
pure 99% dark chocolate liqueur (in the truffles)
rich dark chocolate
coconut
real fruit bits

You can find a variety of these organic candies at retailers such as Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, Whole Foods and even Hallmark and Burlington Coat Factory stores just to name a few. A list of all retailers is found here.

Lovely Candy Company has a variety of candies to choose from including caramels, fruit chews, honey gummy bears, sour bears, licorice, hard candy, suckers, chocolates and more! Visit LovelyCandyCo.com to learn more!

Back to School 2018, Food, Natural Foods

Slammers Super Food Snacks are a delicious instant organic fuel for active kids

August 9, 2018August 5, 2018 Erin Sluka

Fruit and protein in a pouch just grew up! There comes a time when you child actually does NOT want that pouch they loved as a toddler in their lunchbox. They are around friends at a lunch table and associate the fruit pouch with being from the diaper bag. That is until they try the Slammers!

They have really gone far out and made these pouches for the older child to want for lunches and snacks after practice. I eat them! Seriously! They are delicious!

Slammers Snacks can be purchased nationwide at Target, Safeway, Kroger, Costco and Walmart:

Watermelon Kiwi Burst (7 grams of protein per pouch) – strawberry, kiwi, watermelon, apple, banana & beet
Pomegranate Grape Crush (7 grams of protein per pouch) – grape, pomegranate, coconut, apple, banana & purple carrot
EPIC – mangoes, bananas, oranges, carrots, Greek yogurt & real vanilla
AWESOME – bananas, blueberries, strawberries, beets, acai, amaranth (a highly nutritious gluten-free grain)
CHILL’N – bananas, blueberries, butternut squash, Greek yogurt & yumberry

If you buy one this the next time you are shopping, pick up a box of the Watermelon Kiwi burst and try one when you get home. You’ll thank me later!

There are no artificial colors or flavors, no peanuts or gluten and NON GMO as well as USDA organic.

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Food, Travel

Snack Foods You’ll Want to Take Camping

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 Erin Sluka

I have partnered with the following brands for feature

We bought a new Toy Hauler last year and we love taking weekend camping trips here in the Pacific Northwest. I pretty much have packing and food prep down to a science, but when we first started RV camping it took some research and planning to make sure I packed everything we need and minimize store trips into towns. The first weekend of new RV owners we took it to a very local campground for a weekend as a trial and learn what we were missing.

Our first weekend out I realized some of the things I wish we had were cleaning wipes (boys and toilets in tight spaces), smaller kitchen garbage bags and more snack variety. The snack thing was tough because with boys and us we sort of got bored with our options by day 2 and found ourselves overspending a tiny grocer near camp so we can find some different snack ideas. I am always prepared with some guilt-free snacking options.

Here a few favorites I have stashed aside for our Memorial weekend RV trip. My son LOVES Snikiddy’s Grilled Cheese Puffs. We actually leave on his real birthday (Friday the 25th) so I geared a lot of snacks for him and the friend he is bringing along. He also loves Bare Snacks in his lunches at school and I have the apple packs packed in the RV.

My husband is a Jerky loves so he has some Country Archer Jerky packed. We just tried the honey chipotle flavor and I was a bit skeptical trying it but I like it. Not too much of a heat kick and still addicting.

My personal favorite is PopCorners. I love all of their flavors and having the Kettle Corn flavor is the most snack dangerous for me. I cannot stop eating them. Of course, I love a good potato chip when we grill hot dogs. To me, you can’t eat hot dogs when there are no potato chips handy and I feel much better munching on the Good Health Avocado Oil chips as opposed to those cooked or fried in unhealthy oils. I use avocado oils to cook with so these are the chips I choose.

We also need grab and go snacks for by the lake or polls on site and the Enjoy Life Grain & Seed bars make a great snack. They love the chocolate marshmallow flavor best! When you pack snacks, remember you will be eating more than an average weekend at home. It just always works out that way so make sure the snacks you choose are on the better side of ingredients and oils. It makes you feel a lot less guilty in the end after a weekend of food and fun!