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A Mars Modern Movie Night At the Bishop House Giveaway

June 29, 2013 by Momstart 39 Comments

We had a “Modern Movie Night, on Mars,” complete with all the trimmings TWIX Ice Cream, SNICKERS Ice Cream, M&M’S Ice Cream and Milky Way Ice Cream and a gift card.

I don’t want to be depressing with every post but I’m not with my family right now and I’m trying to still get all my work done. I’ve left them with my blog box and we’re working through it over long distance. I’m in Texas trying to be there for my family and work as I have time. Work by writing about what my husband says my family is doing with my blog review box for me. Today, they had a great day doing the Mars Experience.

Mars sent me an amazing array of ICE CREAM. And my kids had a movie day, well they had an experience of movies and ice cream. But I will be honest and tell you that they had to eat the ice cream outside in the back yard because my husband and I hate cleaning up the mess they make as they eat it. So that’s why the ice cream photos are outside, but they did enjoy some TV time too.

So why a Mars Ice Cream day and a Movie Day?

Big blockbusters are invading movie theaters around the country on a weekly basis. But the big screen can come with even bigger lines…sometimes, you want to take the fun and excitement home! Home movie nights don’t have to be boring, or even at night and we want to prove it by having “Modern Movie Night, on Mars.” and give you guys a “Modern Movie Night, on Mars.”

Delicious Mars ice cream and frozen treats including TWIX Ice Cream, SNICKERS Ice Cream, M&M’S Ice Cream and Milky Way Ice Cream have a free movie code in them. Each Mars ice cream product comes with a coupon for a free Redbox rental. I love going to Redbox and I love it even more when my husband surprises me by bringing home a new movie to watch. I have a secret movie watching addiction. I LOVE to watch movies. I really really love to watch movies, I’m even watching movies to try to lighten the mood I’m in. Dealing with someone you love in the hospital is really an emotional roller coaster. But these photos of the kids enjoying the ice cream on a really hot day and knowing they were enjoying TV time with dad really did lift my spirits.

And so did the photos of my kids enjoying the ice cream. My husband later told me that it was practically their dinner. Oh man, I love my kids. I miss them. I wish I was enjoying movies with them. All right, enough of that and me, tell me how you and your family is cooling off this summer and enjoying family time together I hope!

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· Popcorn & Mars candy – the best movie night snacks!

· Info on the best apps and activities to spice up movie night

· A few other items that provide just the right amount of pampering

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tell me how you and how your family is cooling off this summer and enjoying family time together I hope!

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This giveaway ends July 9th. Please see our giveaway rules.

New Summertime Ice Cream Treats Giveaway

July 6, 2011 by Momstart 634 Comments

It’s National Ice Cream month and I’m ready for ice cream. Honestly, I’ve had some form of ice cream every night since this month began. I love ice cream, so does my husband, so do my children. We’re just an ice cream family. I love chocolate ice cream, peanut butter ice cream, and cookie ice cream. Ok, so I like just about any ice cream I’ve met.

In honor of Ice Cream Month, Unilever is introducing new ice cream flavors across the board. Three of their brands, Popsicle, Breyers, and Klondike are releasing new summertime ice cream treat flavors.

For Breyers, the Breyers Blast line is growing. Moms will love the new Breyers Blasts! line, which features delicious mix-ins from America’s best-loved candy and cookie brands blasted into every bite. We let the kids pick out the flavor they wanted and they chose, Oreo Cookies & Cream Chocolate.

Other Breyers Blast flavors to choose from:

Mrs Fields Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough
Whoppers The Original Malted Milk Balls
Chips Ahoy! Chocolate Chip Cookies
Oreo Cookies & Cream Mint (my husband wanted to get this flavor)
Mrs Fields Chocolate Fudge Brownie
Mrs Fields Mint Fudge Brownie
Waffle Cone Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Oreo Cookies & Cream
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Snickers Caramel Swirl Chunk
Heath English Toffee

And I loved the Breyer’s Blast Chocolate Oreo flavor. I loved the quantity and size of all the Oreo cookies pieces within the chocolate ice cream.

For Klondike moms and dads will rejoice at the sheer awesomeness of the new Klondike varieties such as the new Mint Chocolate Chip bar and What the Fudge? Brownie sandwich.

Personally I can’t wait to try the What the Fudge. MMM, currently I have the Klondike Heath bars in my freezer. I love the Heath, and I was very tempted to get the Klondike Caramel Pretzel flavor, that sweet and salty variation is always a favorite. Other new varieties for Klondike:

Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip Bar
Klondike Rocky Road Bar
Klondike Choco Taco

My Kids are crazy about the Popsicles right now. Your kids will go bonkers for the new Popsicle offerings (I know mine will)! The new Jolly Rancher Awesome Twosome and AirHeads ice pops are colorful and bursting with the same bold fruity flavors that kids know and love from Jolly Rancher and AirHeads candy.

What family doesn’t have a REESE’S peanut butter lover? And now there’s REESE’S Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cups! These bars feature peanut butter ice cream with a REESE’S peanut butter swirl dipped in a milk chocolate flavored coating. Yum! Yum! Yum!

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

We received samples to facilitate this review.

Unilever is committed to transparent communication. They provided me with coupons from Unilever/Breyers/Popsicle/Klondike to keep and to use for the giveaway portion of this post.

Party with Blue Bunny Ice Cream: Three Easy Ideas!

December 27, 2010 by Momstart 6 Comments

Blue Bunny Ice cream has some wonderful recipes and ideas on how to spruce up ice cream and use it as a festive party pleaser on their website. And I used Blue Bunny for two different parties this year.

For the first party, I took out all of the Christmas Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches and set out to make the Frozen Cookie Baklava. Yeah, I didn’t think about the details of making the recipe until the night of and was afraid to use lime juice in place of lemon juice, so I made it really simple instead. I cut up all the ice cream sandwiches into little triangles, and drizzled caramel all over the top. It was bite size ice cream made fancy for the party! And yea, I had a lot going on that night and didn’t get any photos. Christmas was quite quick this year, It’s the first year we were involved in church, the neighborhood, and pre-school. WOW, it’s been a blast, but I don’t know where all the time went either. Anyways, here is the recipe that inspired my ice cream creation!

Blue Bunny® Frozen Cookie Baklava

INGREDIENTS:
8 Blue Bunny®
Christmas Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
1/2 cup honey
1 tbsp. butter, melted
2 tsp. water
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
PREPARATION:
In a small bowl, stir together the walnuts, honey, butter, water, lemon juice and cinnamon. Line a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper or non-stick heavy foil. Place 4 ice cream sandwiches in prepared pan, cutting to fit. Spread 1/2 the walnut mixture over the top; cover with remaining ice cream sandwiches, cutting to fit. Spread remaining walnut mixture over the top; freeze at least 6 hours or until solid. Cut into 12 triangles. Serve immediately.
Makes 12 servings
Prep Time: 12 minutes*
*Freeze time extra

The second party, I actually wasn’t even able to attend. So nothing special was created. I was able to pass off the Blue Bunny ice cream to a friend and she passed it around to all of our friends to try. I missed out because I love Blue Bunny. Locally, we don’t have Blue Bunny or any of their ice cream varieties. I miss Blue Bunny Ice Cream. I was really looking forward to trying the Hot Cocoa ice cream bars. Maybe next year I can do this again or go to a state that carries all of these wonderful Blue Bunny Holiday flavors and Blue Bunny Holiday Recipes.

This will be my final grand attempt at creating an ice cream treat for this year. I hope this goes well, and I’m going to have some better planning on my part.

Blue Bunny® Spumoni Ornaments

Makes 4 servings
Prep Time: 15 minutes*
*Freeze time extra

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Blue Bunny® Premium Spumoni Ice Cream
Assorted small candies, cookie and cake sprinkles or chopped nuts
4 (4-inch pieces) red licorice laces or strings
4 mint jelly leaves or green jelly fruit slices, cut in half

Directions:

Turn freezer to coldest setting. Form ice cream into 4 (1/2 cups) scoops; place on a small wax paper lined baking sheet or baking pan. Freeze 6 hours or until solid. Make a small hole in top of each scoop with a knife or skewer and insert licorices "loop." Working quickly, sprinkle each with cookie and cake sprinkles, candies or nuts; pressing gently to adhere. Return to freezer for 1 hour or until solid. just before serving, place 2 jelly leaves on top of each. Serve immediately or store in freezer until needed.

Recipes are from Blue Bunny Ice cream. They also provided samples needed for the parties, while also supplying donations to the Seattle Tweet Drive.

Remembering Good Humor Ice Cream $10,000 #Giveaway

August 20, 2010 by Momstart 182 Comments

Good Humor was a very special treat indeed once upon a time. I love their chocolate ice cream bars, I think they are called the chocolate éclairs, because they are so decadent and unlike any other brand out there. Well, I guess after 90 years of making ice cream they would have an advantage.

Since revolutionizing the ice cream industry as the first ice-cream-on-a-stick, the Good Humor^®ice cream brand has helped to create lasting memories for millions of Americans. This year, the iconic brand is celebrating its 90^th anniversary and wants everyone to join in the fun creating new memories for generations to come.

I remember receiving the ice cream off of a truck. It was delivered and I can’t remember how old I was or who had the delivery because this really wasn’t something that I had all the time. I see now that you can just go down to the grocery store and purchase the Good Humor Bar. I’m quite happy about that and noticed that last week they were on sale. MMMMM. I’m going to be re-living my childhood really soon.

“Each time Americans enjoy a delicious Good Humorice cream bar, it takes them back to their childhood and the first time their parents introduced them to the classic ice cream treats,” said Andrea Lokshin, Brand Manager for Good Humor^®. “As we celebrate our 90^th anniversary, we’re thrilled to be able to share this milestone with the many parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents who helped us make the brand what it is today. And we are excited to pass on the brand’s rich history to a whole new generation of ice cream fans.”

They are sharing their excitement by giving away 10,000 prizes and 10,000 in cash. You have until September 6th to enter so hurry up and go purchase some ice cream.

Ways To Enter:

Purchase specially marked 4 oz. single-serve Good Humor^®Strawberry Shortcake, Chocolate Éclair, Toasted Almond and Candy Center Crunch bars for a chance

Or, for free instant-win game play, players can mail a 3×5 paper with their name, date of birth and full address to Good Humor^®.* Bars are available by visiting convenience stores and ice cream trucks nationwide. Visit www.GoodHumor.com for store locations.

The grand prize winner will be selected at random. See Good Humor for more details, rules and exceptions.

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Breyers Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream Bars and Cookies Giveaway

July 19, 2010 by Momstart 482 Comments

I had the opportunity to team up with Mom Central and try the new Breyers Ice Cream Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches. I ran out to Albertsons today to buy some of the Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream and had one as soon as I put the kids down for bed. I gave one to my dh and well, he didn’t like it, but I had just devoured mine and was quite ready to eat another. Yeah, I know, this doesn’t fit in with my healthy eating, but a girl needs to take a break every now and then or she’ll just go crazy.

Good News is that they are lower in calories than most of their ice cream is. When it comes to ice cream, I’ve never been very good at a healthy serving size, so I know I should have just stopped at one, I just couldn’t.

With six rich and creamy flavors, including Chocolate Caramel Brownie, Vanilla Caramel Chip, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Chocolate Covered Strawberry, Vanilla Fudge Brownie, and Triple Chocolate Chip, Breyers Smooth & Dreamy bars and sandwiches offer something for everyone. And with no artificial flavors or colors, 160 calories or less and 4-6g of fat per serving, and delicious mix-ins and swirls, these bars and sandwiches make for delicious snacks and dreamy (yes I just did that) desserts.

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Visit Breyers and tell me what your favorite type of ice cream is and what flavor you prefer.

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I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Breyers and received products necessary to facilitate my review. In addition, I received a gift certificate to thank me for taking the time to participate.