Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Yummy Chomp Snack Sticks - Paleo Snacks

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I have had the amazing opportunity to try these Chomp Snack Sticks. These snack sticks are really good for almost any use case you can think of! What are these all about anyway?! Chomps are a new healthy snack which were recently released and have been gaining popularity since. Chomps are Gluten Free, Paleo and Crossfit friendly.  Chomps use 100% Grass-Fed Beef and they are cured naturally too.  Chomps are free of synthetic nitrates, nitrites and MSG. Chomps are shelf stable for a whole year and the only natural preservative used is celery juice!  Best of all, they taste amazing!
  • If you're new to the Paleo diet and are always looking for the right nutritional content, stop looking! Chomps can satisfy your all natural, grass fed beef, and gluten free needs. As the healthy alternative for snacking, Chomps snack sticks fits with your new Paleo lifestyle.
  • Looking for a quick and easy healthy snack before your next workout? Try Chomps to maintain your energy levels throughout your workout session. Maximize your workouts with Chomps low-carb and high protein snacks to help increase muscle cells and shrink fat cells. Stay energized throughout your active day. Switch to Chomps and fuel up naturally with 9g of lean protein!
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  • Worried about what your kids are snacking on? Chomps are made with all natural ingredients, full of protein, and kids love them! Chomps are gluten free and ideal healthy snacks for kids.
I am always looking to lose weight and working out, these snack sticks are a great power boost for me before I go to the gym or in the morning before I leave for work. The size of the snack sticks allow them to fit in many of my bags and they're filling enough to keep me going all morning or afternoon.

Have you ever thought about cooking with a product like this? Why not?! Check out the great recipes here: http://blog.paleohacks.com/10-exquisite-ways-to-eat-beef-jerky/. Chomps are versatile as all get out. Did I mention the three yummy flavors available? My favorite is the Hoppin' Jalapeno, yummy flavor with a bite! There is also an original flavor and a Crankin' Cran.
You can pick some of these yummy snack stick up at http://www.gochomps.com/ and I highly recommend doing so!

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Brand Backer. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Valentia True Glow Eye Serum Review

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If you have been a long term reader of this blog, you may remember my review of Valentia Skin Care's NEW Even Glow Serum - 20% Vitamin C - Natural & Organic. Well this awesome rand has a new product and it is no less awesome! Enter stage right, Valentia True Glow Eye Serum!

This eye cream is rich and thick. The bottle comes with a pump top that makes it easy to dispense the product in small doses. Great since you only need a little anyway!

Even with how thick this cream is, it absorbs very well, and quickly too! My eyes look instantly less puffy when I use this cream in the morning and it makes me look more alert when I get into the office. Plus, the orange scent of this product is a great scent to wake up to!

The orange-ish yellow color of the cream is slightly off-putting in color as it reminds me of puss, ick. I would not recommend that the company change the formula at all though, especially if that meant giving up the high standard of 98% natural ingredients. Seriously though, when you read the ingredient list you'll know exactly what most of them are. This product is not chemicals and fillers.

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Tweez'em Stainless Steel Tweezers for Ingrown Hairs


These tweezers are great. I have some difficult hairs that always are always difficult and I have never found tweezers that work this well! I have had zero difficulty removing those tough to get hairs or the short hairs in my eyebrows. The sharp tip of these tweezers are perfectly sharp and once you pluck a hair, they're great at holding on, pulling out all those unwanted hairs. They also work as a helpful tool such as picking out splinters. I received this product for free in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are 100% honest and my own.

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Monday, September 7, 2015

HemisFares™ Dry Pasta - Tagliatelle di Campofilone and Sugo Bolognese con Barolo

As you may remember, I recently reviewed an awesome pasta brand from Kroger Co. called Hemis
Fares. I had another opportunity to review this amazing brand including pasta and pasta sauce!

HemisFares Dry Pasta Facts

All of the HemisFares dry pastas are made by local, artisanal producers in Italy using traditional Gragnano style methods — the highest quality production process for pasta. The machines they use cannot produce more than a few hundred pounds of pasta an hour (compared to tons of pasta at industrial companies). The pasta is then dried for 12–14 hours (compared to 4–6 hours) at a lower temperature to preserve the authentic flavor and natural nutritional value of the wheat used. The items from Hemis Fares which I tried in this Bzz Kit are as follows:

Tagliatelle di Campofilone (Italian Flat Egg Noodles)
Region: Marche
Tagliatelle originally comes from the tiny medieval village of Campofilone, overlooking the Adriatic Sea. According to legend, this traditional egg-based pasta originates from the late 1400s and has been passed down by generations of local women. Dough was rolled out on marble stones, then kept in cotton cloths to absorb humidity and preserve the character of the noodles. Eggs give this pasta a subtle but rich taste. It pairs well with very simple ingredients: olive oil, tomatoes, fresh basil and Parmigiano Reggiano, to name a few.

Sugo Bolognese con Barolo (Bolognese Pasta Sauce with Barolo Wine)
Region: Emilia-Romagna
Located in the north of Italy, Emilia-Romagna is known for hearty dishes and quality meats (especially pork). The earliest mention of a meat-based sauce recipe was in the late 18th century from a town near Bologna; and thus, Bolognese was born! This rich sauce is given even more depth of flavor with the addition of aged Barolo, considered one of Italy’s finest wines.

Olio di Oliva Extra Vergine (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
Region: Sicilia
This herbaceous, unfiltered oil is produced on a family farm near the ancient town of Partanna — made from olives that have been grown and harvested by the same family for over 100 years and cold pressed within eight hours of being picked! Only the best hand-picked olives are used to extract the oil, resulting in a distinctive cloudy appearance with some tiny olive particles that remain.

The Tagliatelle di Campofilone is just delicious, it tasted like it was freshly made! We couldn't get enough of the sauce either. Even though it is a Bolognese, I wasn't expecting the meat in the jar. It was nice not needing to cook up meat to go with the meal too. Instead of pouring a little over each serving of the pasta we decided to dump the whole thing in there and mix it with the noodles. It turned out amazing! We enjoyed the pasta and sauce so much that I had to go back and buy more! This will now be our go to pasta sauce!

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using BzzAgent.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.  

Saturday, August 15, 2015

NEW Jif™ Bars Review

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Finally, the great peanut butter taste you love about Jif® Peanut Butter, now in a snack bar. NEW Jif™ Bars combine delicious Jif peanut butter with chewy granola! They’re the perfect combination of delicious and texture with 7 – 8 g of protein. And they come in three delicious varieties: Creamy Peanut Butter, Crunchy Peanut Butter, and Peanut Butter Chocolate flavored.

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While I received these bars complementary from Crowdtap, I couldn't help but think I had tried these before. I have! A few weeks ago my boss offered these to me. Turns out his sister works for Smucker's and I received two of these Peanut Butter Chocolate bars in their white packaging before they came to market. Super cool!

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The NEW Jif™ Bars are delicious but there's not much truly NEW about them. I wanted these to be my new favorite bar ever. Unfortunately, I think that these are similar to most granola bars on the market today. These granola bars are very sweet because they have so much peanut butter on them. Don't get me wrong, they're delicious, they're just not NEW.

I think I may have preferred these if there were different nut varieties available, maybe an almond or cashew? I love using sunflower butter in place of peanut butter these days ant the schools are not allowing peanut butter on site anymore.

I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to review these products.  I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free from Crowdtap.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. 



Saturday, June 13, 2015

Folgers Iced Café™ Artificially Flavored Coffee Drink Concentrates Review

I don't use concentrates like this Folgers Iced Café™ Hazelnut Latte Artificially Flavored Coffee Drink Concentrate often but I'm so glad I was able to try this one!  This product is amazing and it definitely changed my opinion on products like these!  As I said, I don't ue products like these usually so I was reluctant to try it at first. I love iced coffee though so I had to give it a try.

When it comes  to iced coffee it can be difficult to make it quick but nothing is easier than grabbing this Folgers Iced Café™ concentrate and squirting it into milk.  I like to make coffee cubes, ice cubes made with black coffee, to add to my iced coffee. These Folgers Iced Café™ Artificially Flavored Coffee Drink Concentrates save me so much time!

While mixing this Folgers Iced Café™ Artificially Flavored Coffee Drink Concentrate into my milk, I found that it acts similar to chocolate milk syrup. If you don't mix it really well, it settles to the bottom.  The mixture can be hard to get perfect with the ice cubes included but a knife works well. 

When you use this Folgers Iced Café™ Artificially Flavored Coffee Drink Concentrate, you don't need a lot.  Just a few drops works great!  I love this product because it allows you to customize each drink.

I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to review these products.  I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free from Crowdtap.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.  

Friday, June 12, 2015

Two-Layer Hybrid Case for Samsung Galaxy S6

Features:

  • Designed for Samsung Galaxy S6
  • Get superior shock protection for your smartphone by using this Hybrid Protector Case
  • This case features a dual-layer design, which combines an inner TPU layer with an outer polycarbonate (PC) shell
  • The case maximizes impact resistance and skid pads provide grip on various surfaces.
  • The device snaps easily in and out of the case as it would in any protective skin.
  • Use your Samsung S6 as if it wasn't in a case & don't worry about damaging it.
  • All the functionality of your device is unobstructed while the case is keeping it secure.
This case is gorgeous! The bright pink portion is just the pop needed in my life! My only complaint is the pink portion is very smooth and can easily slip through your fingers. I have dropped the phone once (OK, not me, but my 5 year old) and everything survived, so for the price, this is a steal!

The angle of the case at the front edges doesn't interfere with the scree or fingerprint reader. The look of the case isn't super flashy but allows you to have something colorful with you at all times. Overall its a great slim case that will offer decent protection while still allowing the S6's beautiful design to shine.

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.