Graze Box

So I signed up about a week ago for this cool idea called a Graze box. It comes for $6 once every week/every other week/however you set up your timetable, and contains 4 snacks, HEALTHY snacks. What instantly made me try them was that you can cancel at any time. The website tells you when your next box is coming and what date and time you have to cancel by before you'll be charged. The snacks looked amazing and you get things like Key Lime Pie in trail mix form! When you sign up, you can use a code to get your 1st and 5th boxes free and then if you give people your code, they can sign up and you earn $1 which you can use on your own boxes, or you can donate it through Graze to the Graze School of Farming. Your friends get their 1st and 5th box free. On the website, once you get your box, you can rate, using a "trash, try, like, love" scale. Trash means that you didn't like it and they won't send it to you again. Try is automatically marked on every product when you sign up and they'll send it to you once to try unless you go and click on something else. Like means that you liked it and they'll send it to you occasionally. Love, well, obviously means that you loved it and they'll send it frequently. Again, you can cancel at ANY time. There's no obligation to stay with the program.

I received my first box today. YUM! Look at all these amazing looking goodies! As you can see, in my first box, I received Key Lime Pie, My Thai, Cracking Black Pepper Cashews, and Summer Berry Flapjack. I immediately dug into the flapjack. It looks like a granola bar and it was AMAZING! It had this sweetness to it that kept it from tasting like your typical granola bar. The insert includes nutritional information including a "best by" date. The Key Lime Pie contains lime infused raisins, sponge pieces, mini meringues and green raisins. It does taste like key lime pie as long as you eat a little bit of everything together. I only liked it instead of loving it because I'm quite fond of pie being in pie form. I just couldn't get past that phase but it does taste good and does indeed taste like key lime pie. The My Thai basically only has the flavor from the sauce. I guess that's the point since the little crackers or chips are soy. The sauce has a sweet flavor to it with a kick at the end. Not really something I'd eat again. The Cracking Black Pepper Cashews taste like they sound, cashews covered in black pepper. Again, not really something I'd eat again. I can't stand too much black pepper. On anything.

If you want to sign up, just go to graze.com and put in my friend code: ROBINS7RB

Enjoy snacking!

Sargento Ultra Thin Slices

I know everyone looks at my blog and wonders why I even keep one! I know I do. I keep up with other blogs and they post daily or multiple times a day and while I aspire to be like that, I just don’t get out enough for all that and my 10-year-old son would rather go hang with friends than stay home and create things with me, although the other night we did create a pretty awesome desert diorama for extra credit at school. You can read a short blog about that here.

So anyway, this particular post is a review of Sargento’s AMAZINGLY tasty Ultra Thin Slices. I’m an Influenster member and I occasionally receive boxes of products to review. There are a few previous posts here somewhere regarding products I’ve received through Influenster and I love being able to try new and exciting products and then tell everyone about them. This past month I was the lucky recipient of the Sargento Vox Box. I was sent a coupon for free Ultra Thin Slices, one for $1.00 off and a pretty cool lunch bag. I love cheese period even though my tummy tends to disagree with it sometimes. Perhaps it’s the amount I tend to eat! Lol. That’s why these slices are pretty perfect. They really are thin but they pack a big punch of flavor!

I particularly love provolone on everything. I also love chicken so BAM! I made chicken wraps. I unfortunately didn’t get a picture. SORRY! However, it was amazing. I used a homemade tortilla wrap with some grilled chicken, lettuce, 2 slices of Sargento Ultra Thin Provolone cheese (it was a long wrap) and a little homemade ranch dressing. It was….AAAAAMAZING! The dressing didn’t cover up the cheese or anything. I’m telling you, these little things pack some flavor punch! It also didn’t upset my tummy at all! These are great for wraps or maybe finger sandwiches and meat & cheese wraps for parties and such.

Sargento has done it again in my opinion. I love their products and thanks to Influenster and Sargento, I was able to try these for free and I got an awesome lunch box which means I can take my lunch on all those field trips I attend!! It’ll save me tons of money!

Extra Credit Desert Diorama

So my mini me decided to wait until the absolute last possible minute to work on an extra credit project he has due tomorrow. He knew about it for three weeks… Way to go kid! Lol. He’s definitely taking after me. The assignment was to create a shoebox diorama of a habitat. He chose the desert.

It’s a good thing that his mother is a crafty lady and has all kinds of awesome stuff on hand. We didn’t have anything to really put in the box and a quick trip to town via my boyfriend left us pretty empty handed for “decorations” since our tiny town had NOTHING for a desert. Good thing mom had pipe cleaners in various dark colors on hand. PERFECT for the dessert and we have a dirt road right by our house that has some sand at the end of it that they put in after it kept washing away and creating huge potholes. We got creative! Green pipe cleaners became cactus. Two different browns and a tiny red one became a snake. Dark brown became a scorpion and light brown became a camel. Keegan’s imagination went EVERYWHERE on what could be put in the box.

I also have spray Elmer’s adhesive. I highly recommend this stuff! We covered the inside of the box with brown construction paper and then bundled some paper up and glued it to the bottom and then we glued down another piece so that we didn’t just have flat terrain. We sprayed the inside with the spray glue and dumped in some sand. We emptied it and repeated until we had several layers of sand and then let it dry. We poked a couple holes and started sticking in our creations. A piece of blue paper glued to the top, some cotton balls, a cotton face pad and some orange and yellow finger paint later and we had a sky! I love his creative nature and I love how into he got. I mean he was throwing out ideas left and right.

All in all, for it to be a last minute project I think he did an amazing job! I posted it on Facebook and his teacher came back with the response “100” so I’m pretty sure that means he earned full credit! Way to go kid! I’m proud of you!