JACK’S® PIZZA

December 3, 2011 By Momstart 68 Comments

I received a Pizza Kit from a brand I’ve never heard of before. I love all pizza, it really should be a food group. Anyhow, I wanted to share this pizza brand with you guys! Jack’s Pizza!

JACK’S Pizza was created in 1960 by a man named Jack who was in search of the perfect pizza in Little Chute, Wis. He delivered JACK’S Pizzas to his neighbors and residents of the small town, and as word spread, JACK’S Pizza became a favorite throughout the Midwest. Today, JACK’S Pizza is still made with 100 percent real Wisconsin cheese and the perfect combination of meats and sauce on a thin, crispy crust. A consumer once referred to JACK’S Pizza as “amazing, affordable circles of bliss.”

Now, pizza lovers can find JACK’S Pizza from coast-to-coast at a supercenter near you.

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, nan.

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Have a Family Movie Night Cars 2 and Juicy Juice

November 16, 2011 By Momstart 413 Comments

It’s always a good time to have a family movie night and I’m ready to pop open Cars 2. Our kids have already seen the movie, they went to the theater with their dad and watched it and I can’t wait to see it again. I love the soundtrack and listen to it all the time.

Nestlé’s Juicy Juice is teaming up with Cars 2 to help all of us have a fantastic movie night, including you! Juicy Juice has set up Spy School and your kids should try it out. You might even like to try it out. There is a name game, what’s your spy name? I just filled out the information and my assigned spy name is Lacey Lee. Find out what your spy name is at Nestlé’s Juicy Juice Spy School. Your kids can also play many different spy games there.

On our movie nights we love to all snuggle up on the couch. How do you like to spend your movie night?

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, Nicolle B.

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Boost Kids Essentials Chocolate Caramel Banana Cooler Recipe

October 3, 2011 By Momstart 42 Comments

My kids love flavored milk and I really dislike giving them extra sugar at any time. But we still have flavored milk a few times a week, sometimes more often than that. So whenever I have the opportunity to give them flavored milk with less sugar I’m all about that. I’ve used Boost Kids Essentials in the past as a snack for the kids and we’ve been quite happy with the results. So when I had the opportunity to work with them here on MomStart, I was quite happy to accept and even get creative so I wanted to share this fun recipe with you, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it immensely.

Chocolate Caramel Banana Cooler Recipe

Ingredients:

1 container (8.25 fl. oz.) BOOST® Kid Essentials Drink (chocolate)
1 banana
1 Tbsp. caramel syrup

Directions:

Place all of the ingredients in a blender and mix blend.

I love that each serving of BOOST Kid Essentials Drink provides 240 calories, 24 essential vitamins and minerals, and 7 grams of protein. Talk to your pediatrician about healthy eating and meal replacements.

When it comes to getting my kids to eat healthy I’ve found that I have to be a good example. My husband and I like different things, he’s the fruit eater and I’m the veggie lover. So between the both of us the kids see us eating a variety of items. However, I still feel that I have to make sure I’m eating everything that’s good for us so they will too. It’s a challenge but I find that it really is important. And it’s normal for picky eaters to be cautious about trusting an unfamiliar food. So, rather than simply insisting that a picky eater eat a food he or she hasn’t tried before, try these approaches to introducing nutritious new foods as suggested by ChooseMyPlate.gov and helpguide.org:

I received samples on behalf of Nestle to facilitate this review and try out this recipe.

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Nestle Family Back To School $25 MasterCard Rewards Card & Nestle Gift Basket

September 10, 2011 By Momstart 855 Comments

Reading is Fundamental (RIF) is a charity I can get behind because Reading is Fundamental to our children’s success. My kids love to read and I’m lucky because of how easy it is for us to get books. It’s not so easy for everyone. RIF is the oldest and largest children’s and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. All RIF programs combine three essential elements to foster children’s literacy: reading motivation, family and community involvement, and the excitement of choosing free books to keep.

As a proud partner of RIF, Nestlé Family is sending us $100 worth of books to donate to a school of our choice. So we’re going to find a local school or charity to give them too. I’m learning towards giving them to a hospital in Seattle. As I’m thinking about where to send them, I’d love your ideas. I’d also love to know how the school year is going for you. So would Nestle!

How is your school year going? Our just started, Wednesday was the first day of school and it’s going fine. We only had two days of school this week. One thing we’re focusing on is having really great healthy after school snacks along with some fun treats too. Nestle sure does know how to do special treats right? We’re having a small giveaway of special treats from Nestle, a Back to School Survival kit. In this survival kit you’ll find a gift card and coupons for awesome Nestle products.

Nestle has a larger sweepstakes going on too, the Happy New School Year Sweepstakes. Feel free to enter every day for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 worth of back-to-school essentials plus a $2,000 NESTLÉ Literacy Grant for your school, plus daily prizes of $50 reward cards. The Happy New Year Back To School sweepstakes ends October 15, 2011.

This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, Ashley.

All rules can be found under giveaway rules. We received free samples.

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Nestle Raisinets for National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day

March 27, 2011 By Momstart 282 Comments

Oh wow, I can’t believe I missed it. March 24th was National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day. My excuse is that for the last week an a half my life has been turned upside down by illness and what not, but I’m back on track and it look like other than a small cold Zoe seems to have we might be back on track to having a healthy family. So we’re going to be celebrating National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day a few days late.

I’d love to celebrate it with you guys!

Nestle Raisinets contacted me, well their PR company contacted me on their behalf and asked me to share some fun facts about Raisinets with you and I get to giveaway a few boxes. Raisinets bring back fond memories of my childhood and falling in love with chocolate. My babysitter had a bowl of raisinets in the refrigerator and I used to get a few when my parents were late picking me up, and when I was really little it seemed to happen a lot. So, I was on lucky girl getting to snack on chocolate covered raisins. It’s funny because writing this just reminded me that I actually have a bag of Raisinets in the fridge right now. Yumm!

• All Nestlé Raisinets are produced in Burlington, Wisconsin. They are made with select California raisins and a unique blend of Nestlé Chocolate.

• Raisinets were first introduced in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. Back then, it took two-and-a-half hours to produce one batch of Raisinets! Now it takes between 45 and 60 minutes.

• Today, we produce more than 1 million Raisinets per hour! Slightly less than 30 million individual Raisinets each day!

• In 2010 we produced nearly 20 million pounds of Milk and Dark Chocolate Raisinets, which is equal to approximately 8 billion individual Raisinets. If you lined them up end-to-end, they’d stretch all the way around the earth about three-and-a-half times!

• Last year we used almost seven million pounds of raisins and more than 10 million pounds of Nestlé Chocolate to produce both Milk and Dark Chocolate Raisinets.

• Raisinets are the first chocolate covered raisin candy to have a cartoon series featured on its own YouTube channel! – www.youtube.com/raisinets

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5 Winners each receive 2 milk chocolate and 2 dark chocolate boxes (MOVIE SIZE BOXES) of Raisinets.

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Tasty Treat Thursday Irish Chocolate Mint Custard Recipe

March 17, 2011 By Momstart 9 Comments

Tasty Treat Thursday: Irish Chocolate Mint Custard By Summer

This is a recipe I picked up from Paula Deen’s show when I was watching her and her son Bobby on The Food Network while working out on my elliptical … granted it wasn’t “Irish whipped cream” or a custard with mint, but that base recipe gave me the idea for this one. (I know masochistic right? Watching The Food Network while working out; well, I work out to be able to eat for pleasure.)

So this is my promised adult St. Patrick’s Day recipe from last week’s post. The recipe is super easy, you just need to be willing to take the time to properly make it.

INGREDIENTS for Chocolate Mint Custard
1 cup milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup Nestle Toll House Dark Chocolate & Mint Morsels
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons sugar
¹/₈ teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 300^oF. Also set a kettle of water to boil.

2. In a saucepan scold milk and cream, but don’t boil.

3. In a double boiler (or in the microwave) melt morsels. Stir until chocolate is smooth. Remove from heat if on a double boiler. Slowly stir in milk mixture.

4. In a large mixing bowl combine yolks, sugar, and salt. Blend well. Temper eggs by very slowly mixing in the milk chocolate mixture. Stir constantly and until combined.

5. Pour even amount of mixture into 4-6 ramekins depending upon size.

6. Place ramekins into a cake pan. Carefully create a water bath by pour water into the cake pan but not into any of the custard cups.

7. Place cake pan in preheated oven for 35 minutes or until custard is not outwardly runny and is gelatin-like to the touch.

8. Cool custards at room temperature for 40 minutes. Then continue to cool custards in the refrigerator for a minimum of 3 hours. Keep refrigerated until serving.

INGREDIENTS for Irish Whipped Cream
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons Bailey’s Irish Cream

DIRECTIONS

1. Combine ingredients and beat until stiff. Peaks will begin to form. Keep refrigerated!

TIPS

- The Nestle Toll House Dark Chocolate & Mint Morsels are a limited time product for the winter season. If you can no longer find them in a store near you, take the same amount of morsels in dark chocolate with 1 teaspoon mint extract (or flavoring as desired). You can also try making this recipe with your favorite flavor of chocolate chips.

- I needed more ramekins in order to have enough custard dishes. So I ran to Cost Plus World Market and got a pack of 4 green ramekins for only $2.99! GREAT DEAL! They also offer the sets in yellow, blue, orange, and red; green was just too perfect with St. Patrick’s Day!

About Summer:

Summer is the President of our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living.

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A Paul Frank Nestle Crunch Christmas #Giveaway

November 4, 2010 By Momstart 446 Comments

Nestle has teamed up with Paul Frank, you know, the cute little monkey that you see everywhere. You know, once he made it to Target he made it all the way!!! Well, now Nestle will be sporting the adorable monkey with holiday Crunch Bars. The limited-edition Paul Frank CRUNCH bar package, which features holiday-themed artwork of characters from the Paul Frank collection, including Julius the Monkey and Worry Bear. This sweet stocking stuffer will be sold exclusively at Target, and should already be there.

Win a 500.00 Shopping Spree:

The Stocking Stuffer Sweepstakes is a larger giveaway than the giveaway you see at the bottom of this post. Nestle CRUNCH and Paul Frank will be giving away nine weekly drawings from now until December 31st 2010. One winner will be chosen each week to receive one of the following prizes: A Julius Dance Machine sound system that can be used with all iPod devices; the eye-catching Neon Julius Cruiser bicycle; a $500 shopping spree to the Paul Frank store or paulfrank.com; and much more! As an added bonus, each winner will receive his or her very own month supply of NESTLE® CRUNCH® chocolate bars. Checkout sweepstakes details and how to enter online at the Nestlé Crunch Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nestlecrunch.

Then in celebration of this union of Paul Frank and Nestle CRUNCH one lucky Mom Start Reader will receive a Paul Frank Nestle Crunch Gift.

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A Paul Frank blanket, two limited-edition Paul Frank Crunch gift bars and two 12 oz. bags of Crunch jingles

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Happy New School Year Nestle Family Reading is Fundamental Giveaway

September 13, 2010 By Momstart 1,341 Comments

As a proud partner of RIF, the NESTLÉ Family is sending us $50 worth of books to donate to a RIF school of our choice. It’s the NESTLÉ Family Happy New School Year giveaway in partnership with Reading is Fundamental. They will be sending me a list of RIF schools in my area and then my family and I can take them to a school in our neighborhood. You all should know how much I love to help out my community. I try to donate as much of what we receive as I can.

RIF is the oldest and largest children’s and family nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. All RIF programs combine three essential elements to foster children’s literacy: reading motivation, family and community involvement, and the excitement of choosing free books to keep.

Through this partnership, NESTLÉ has distributed millions of books to elementary school children across the country that are associated with the NESTLÉ Adopt-A-School program. And the books donated are designed to not only encourage literacy, but are specifically focused on teaching kids about the importance of nutrition, health and wellness.

In honor of this partnership we’re going to be hosting a giveaway here on Mom Start. But there is also another larger giveaway at nestlefamily.com which is the Happy New School Year Sweepstakes. Feel free to enter every day for a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000 worth of back-to-school essentials plus a $2,000 NESTLÉ Literacy Grant for your school, as well as daily prizes from Crayola. The Nestle Happy New School Year sweepstakes ends October 15, 2010.

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$25 gift card to Walmart , a NESQUIK^® lunch box, product from RAISINETS^® and a mix of free coupons from NESTLÉ^® Pure Life, OVALTINE^®, TOLL HOUSE^® Refrigerated Cookie Dough, TOLL HOUSE Morsels, NESQUIK, COFFEE-MATE^®, DRUMSTICKS^® and CARNATION^® BREAKFAST ESSENTIALS^™.

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This giveaway ends September 27th. All rules can be found under giveaway rules. I will be receiving the same package as the winner along with the books to donate.

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Nestle Crunch and KaBOOM “Cause for Play” Giveaway

June 4, 2009 By MomStart 137 Comments

Nestle Crunch and KaBoom are giving a playground to a family and a grant for a playground to a deserving community.

According to child-advocacy groups, children should play for at least an hour a day, but many children throughout the country don’t have the proper play spaces to observe their needed play dates. I can’t imagine what it would be like to not have all the beautiful wonderful parks we have in my area. We are in a very blessed part of the country. Let’s help the cause it’s easy…

NESTLE CRUNCH and KaBOOM! believe that every child deserves a dedicated play space and has taken up the charge to inspire a "Cause for Play."
From March 7, 2009 through Oct. 29, 2009, parents, teachers, community organizers and anyone who believes in the power of play can enter to win a residential ready-to-assemble playground, $3,500 cash and the opportunity to help designate a $30,000 KaBOOM! playground grant to a deserving community. Entry to win can be found on NESTLE and WONKA fun-size bags via a unique online entry code to use on www.NestleCrunch.com/CauseforPlay. For every entry, NESTLE CRUNCH will also donate up to $30,000 (this is that amount we’re trying to raise in June!) to KaBOOM! – a national non-profit organization dedicated to bringing play back into children’s lives. Additionally, NESTLE CRUNCH is donating $70,000 to KaBOOM! to further their national mission.

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