Yoplait Whips! Coupon and Prize Pack

Everyone in my family loves yogurt. In fact, I would say that most of us eat it every single day. My husband is a plain vanilla eater. My older daughter loves the Yoplait Red Velvet Cake. My younger daughter sticks to the Go-GURTs. I bounce back and forth between a number of the light flavors (like Pineapple Upside Down Cake), the Light Thick & Creamy (Lemon Meringue), and Fiber One (Key Lime Pie).

I consider yogurt to be one of the best ways to get my family to consistently eat something that we all love and that is good for us in many different ways. That’s why I was excited to receive a prize pack from Yoplait Whips! and MyBlogSpark. The prize pack contained a yogurt coupon, a canvas cooler bag, and a set of four ice cream cone shaped popsicle molds. Here you can see my girls eating their frozen yogurt popsicles that they made with the molds and their favorite Yoplait yogurt. These were a huge hit!

I’m happy to announce that Yoplait is giving my readers a chance to win an identical prize pack! Here are the flavors of Yoplait Whips! to think about before you enter: Chocolate Mousse, Chocolate Raspberry, Key Lime Pie, Lemon Burst, Orange Créme, Peaches ‘N Cream, Raspberry Mousse, Strawberry Mist, and Vanilla Créme.

To Enter:

1) Leave a comment below telling us which flavor of Yoplait Whips! you would most enjoy frozen (one entry).

2) Twitter about the contest and leave a comment below with your Tweet (one entry).

3) Sign up for our newsletter on the right and leave a comment below (e-mail will be verified) (one entry).

4) Blog about this contest or post the contest in your giveaway section and leave your link to the post below (two entries).

Drawing will take place September 7 at noon Eastern. Must be a US Resident, age 18 or older to enter. Winner will be notified via e-mail and have 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

Even if you don’t win the contest, you can win with this great coupon: Click here to download a printable coupon for $.55 toward the purchase of any 2 cups of Yoplait Whips! yogurt today.

My Sweet Sunday Moment Pillsbury Contest

Sundays in our house are completely family time. Whether it is winter and we are watching football or summer and we are swimming, we spend almost the whole day together. It’s the one day of the week where we spend time making a family breakfast and hang out in our pajamas. As a result, I really appreciate the My Sweet Sunday Moment contest by Pillsbury.

In addition to reminding us how Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls can be a party of our Sunday morning, they are giving visitors a chance to win a “week of Sundays” vacation to California, including a visit to theme parks and SweetHarts, the sweet shop owned by Melissa Joan Hart. To enter, you just need to visit the contest and tell them why your family loves Sundays together and wants more of them. Can you imagine 7 days in a row that feel like Sundays??

I was lucky enough to get a “My Sweet Sunday Moment” prize pack from Pillsbury that includes a Pillsbury Doughboy Giggle Doll (which my daughter absolutely loves!!), a blue silicon spatula, a blue silicon pot holder, and dishcloths. Even more exciting–I have a whole prize pack to give away to my readers as well!!

To Enter:

1) Leave a comment below telling us about Sweet Sunday moments in your home (one entry).

2) Twitter about the contest and leave a comment below with your Tweet (one entry).

3) Sign up for our newsletter on the right and leave a comment below (e-mail will be verified) (one entry).

4) Blog about this contest or post the contest in your giveaway section and leave your link to the post below (two entries).

Drawing will take place August 31 at noon Eastern. Must be a US Resident, age 18 or older to enter. Winner will be notified via e-mail and have 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

*Thanks to MyBlogSpark and Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls for my items and the prize! Be sure to Visit Pillsbury on Facebook or Pillsbury on Twitter for more contest news as well as tips and recipes.

Edited to add Winner: Janet Fricano

Hoosier Popcorn at Its Finest

I don’t usually enter Twitter contests but when I saw that Indiana-based SKP-Popcorn was running one two weeks ago, I wanted to help spread the word. Each Friday they give away samples of their popcorn to lucky winners. You can find them at www.twitter.com/skppcrn.

I participated in the contest, was lucky enough to win, and then left town for a week. I completely forgot about the popcorn until I was going through the mail stack this morning and found the sample. When they say “sample,” they don’t mean handful. They mean enough for my whole family to try (if it’s still here when any of them get home today, which it might not be!).

I’m not a buttered popcorn girl. I don’t even eat it at the movies. But ever since I was kid, I have always loved flavored popcorn. I can actually remember going to a birthday party in Evansville in 6th grade where the mom bought different flavors and we stayed up all night snacking on them and watching movies. Ever since then, I have been hooked.

So of course I had to open my bag immediately. It turns out that I got a “test” of chocolate and banana. I can hardly think of anything more perfect! I headed to their site to find out what other flavors they have and ended up learning some great facts about the company. Here are just a few:

• Their popcorn is 100% Indiana grown
• They are the official popcorn of the Indianapolis Colts (this Steelers fan can forgive them for that)
• They donate a portion of the profits from their “TYE-DYE”Licious popcorn to Rupert’s Kids (a great charity run by the Survivor winner)
• They do custom labels, corporate promotions, and fundraisers

I just couldn’t be more tickled to see an Indiana company that not only makes a great product but is also supportive of our community. Now I just need them to start an affiliate program so that I can add them to all of my websites and introduce them to my national marketing friends!

You can visit SKP-Popcorn on their website. And be sure to start following them on Twitter so that you have a chance to win this Friday.

Win a Trip from Disney and Hanes

Disney and Hanes have once again teamed up to give away a Walt Disney World Vacation. Although the trip is called the “Hanes Magical Golf Getaway,” it would be terrific even if you are not a golfer. Six Grand Prizes will be given away, and each prize consists of a trip for 4 people to Disney World for 5 days including airfare, ground transportation, a room at a Moderate resort, Park Hopper Tickets, custom Mickey Mouse Ears, a $500 Disney Gift Card, and golf passes for one of Disney’s golf courses. The value of the prize is $5,715.

Click here to visit the new Hanes Travel in Comfort website and get entered. The giveaway ends September 26, 2010.

Sam’s Club for Back to School (Contest!)

I have to admit that I take the easy way of buying school supplies and always sign up in the spring to buy the back to school boxes that our PTO sells. However, there are still so many things that we need at the house to start the school year. I had never considered Sam’s Club before for school supplies although I’ve had a membership there for as long as I can remember.

When MyBlogSpark, Sam’s Club, and General Mills offered me the chance to review Sam’s Club and do a giveaway for my readers, I jumped at it! Armed with a $25 gift card, I headed to my local Sam’s Club to focus for the first time on something besides food. When I got there, I immediately found the Back to School section, which sort of merged in with office supplies as it continued a couple of rows. The first thing that I saw was the selection of pencils. We go through an unbelievable number of pencils at home for homework. We had to choose between mechanical and regular pencils and ended up with the mechanical. Either was a great deal and for less than $6 would last most families the whole year. Beside the pencils were markers, which we go through almost as quickly. I scooped up a couple of packages for coloring homework.

Next I started thinking about what we use a lot of during the school year. For lunches, we go through an insane number of sandwich bags. We got a huge box of Ziplock sandwich bags (my brand of choice) and the bonus was that each of the boxes inside the big box all had Box Tops on them. The other big item that I bought was detergent. We go through twice as many clothes during the school year because the kids usually wear one outfit to school and then something different in the evening–either dance clothes, gymnastics clothes, or clothes to play out in the yard. I stocked up on the biggest detergent that I could buy because I know that I will go through a lot of it very soon.

Bananas. I forgot that I actually did buy some food. I saw those big bunches of bananas and couldn’t resist. Perfect for lunch boxes because my braces-wearing daughter doesn’t need them cut up.

I also have a Sam’s Club “Plus Membership” coming and the cool thing about those is that if you upgrade between now and August 13, you get 150 Bonus Box Tops! Box Tops are huge at our school because we not only save them but we our classes compete to collect the most. Sam’s Club carries many different brands that have Box Tops, and the only thing better than Box Tops are Box Tops in bulk.

Now that I have gone on and on about Sam’s Club, how about I give away a $25 gift card??

To Enter:

1) Leave a comment below telling us what Back to School item you most want to buy from Sam’s Club (one entry).

2) Twitter about the contest and leave a comment below with your Tweet (one entry).

3) Sign up for our newsletter on the right and leave a comment below (e-mail will be verified) (one entry).

4) Blog about this contest or post the contest in your giveaway section and leave your link to the post below (two entries).

Drawing will take place August 26 at noon Eastern. Must be a US Resident, age 18 or older to enter. Winner will be notified via e-mail and have 24 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected.

*Thanks to MyBlogSpark, General Mills, and Sam’s Club for my items and the prize as well!

Edited: Congrats to our winner–Cheryl F, the Lucky Ladybug!

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