Lunchables JR. Review and Play Date

We received products free from Kraft Foods and Crowdtap to facilitate this review.

You may remember Lunchables from when you were a kid and begged your parents to buy them. I know I did. Lunchables now have come a long way since then and have much healthier choices to pick from. Sure they still have the cold pizza, but it has wholegrain crust now and they also have Lunchables with sub sandwiches! They also have added bottled spring water, fruit smoothie, apple sauce, sugar-free Jell-O, and 100% juice to the meals.

New to Lunchables are Lunchables JR. These snacks are made with little kids in mind and are great for ages 3+. They are great for kids that have a lot of energy all the time. These are easy to whip out in between meals for a great snack when little bellies get growly. Also great as an after school snack too!

 Lunchables JR. lunch combinations have 4 different awesome flavors:

• Ants on a Log: Peanut Butter, SUN-MAID® Raisins, and Honey Graham Sticks
• Blueberry Bonanza: Cheez-It® Baked Snack Crackers, Blueberry-Flavored Dried Apple Pieces, and Mini NILLA Wafers
• Teddy Bear Picnic: Peanut Butter, Dried Apple Pieces, and TEDDY GRAHAMS Honey Graham Snacks - Naturally Flavored
• Very Berry Crunch: Mini RITZ BITS Cheese Cracker Sandwiches, Strawberry-Flavored Dried Apple Pieces, and TEDDY GRAHAMS Honey Graham Snacks

Zari and her play mates taste testing Lunchables JR.

We received Blueberry Bonanza and Teddy Bear Picnic to try out. Zari and her little friends had a play date and tried the snacks out while having an indoor picnic. They enjoyed all the combinations, but the creamy peanut butter, TEDDY GRAHAMS Honey Graham Snacks, and Mini NILLA Wafers were the first to go. Zari loved everything there, but since we had dried a bunch of fruit ourselves from harvest she and her little friends were not quite in the mood for the dried apples pieces (which didn't have the crunch our dried fruit has) and left them for the very last. The girls got thirsty with these though and so I had to break out the 100% juice from Capri Sun®. We think that it would be great if they added a drink to the package so that not only the hunger of little bellies ceases, but thirst does too.

Girls polishing off the creamy peanut butter and getting a much needed thirst quencher to go with the Lunchables JR.

DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I received product for free to facilitate my review. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review.

Wordless Wednesday Teela's New Friend and Us Mommies

Teela and her new friend, Melody, playing ring around the rosy.

Teela and Melody hugging a tree :)

I and my long term blogging friend Erin from Connected2Christ blog and Through My Daughter's Eyes blog (we were friends long before we were blogging or had children).

Blog Awards

I have just been awarded two awards from my friends. I was awarded the Friends Award by gahome2mom @ Loving Heart Designs and the Sisterhood Award by EllyBean @ Connected2Christ on Monday, March 23, 2009. I want them to know how thankful I am to have friends like them!

Gahome2mom is a homeschooling mom of 5 girls. She also has 2 grandsons, 2 granddaughters and a Chocolate Labrador Retriever puppy dog named Charley.

EllyBean was my good friend even before we were bloggers :) We met online when we were younger because we both loved this series of chapter books named 'Animorphs'. We would role play the characters together and sometimes make up our own. She is actually one of gahome2mom's daughters. She now has a beautiful baby girl that is about my Teela's age and lives only about an hour and a half away from me. She is also very talented and has an Etsy and a Zazzle store.



So along with the Friends award comes some rules ... here they are ...
Rules do accompany this honor:"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award." .

The Friends Award Goes to:
1. EllyBean @ Connected2Christ
2. Jordan @ Goddess of Sewing
3. Carrie @ Carrie 143
4. Codilyn @ The Suite Life of Zach and Codi
5. Carla @ How Does This Work Again?
6. Missy @ Sweet Funky Vintage
7. Carrie @ The Gremlin Wrangler
8. Barb @ Handbook of Nature Study



Those who won the Sisterhood award please follow my example and pick some friends of your own and send them the “Sisterhood Award” too.

The Sisterhood Award Goes to:
1. Laura @ The Allen Family
2. Kineret @ BlackBerry Blossom
3. Melody @ Melody and David Olsen