Reviews, promotions and giveaways

Celebrating the Eggiest holiday of them all with Kinder Surprise

18 March 2015 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

It has been a long, late winter, hasn’t it? Relentless cold, snow still piled high – at least that’s what it’s been like in my end of Canada. Have faith, though, my bloggy friends, because spring is coming and Easter is a scant two and a half weeks away. And what says Easter treats better […]

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A dozen reasons Kinder eggs are better than chicken eggs — with bonus yolks, I mean jokes!

22 January 2015 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

Some blog posts are more fun to write than others, and I had WAY too much fun collaborating with Beloved and all three boys on this one. And then I had TWICE as much fun creating the visuals. (A dozen! Get it? Cuz they’re eggs? I slay me. Just wait, it gets better!) Let’s do […]

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School lunches made better with Rubbermaid LunchBlox

15 December 2014 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

The other day when I was talking about Rubbermaid’s Easy Find Lids containers and the unexpected benefits of learning to cook from real ingredients, one of the things I mentioned was leftovers. When the food tastes better, the leftovers taste better too. Somehow I’m thinking this should be less of a surprise to me than […]

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Conquering the out-of-control plastic food container cupboard

24 November 2014 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

One of my leitmotifs for this year has been learning how to cook. I continue to be surprised at my capacity to cook healthy and tasty food for my family – real food from scratch ingredients, instead of assembled meals from prepared foods. This has had all sorts of benefits. There’s the ones I expected, […]

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Anticipating holiday fun with new KINDER advent calendars – and a giveaway!

14 November 2014 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

We love advent calendars. We have so many of them! The boys always get a Lego advent calendar to share, and they take turns opening each day’s treat. We usually get each boy one of those inexpensive cardboard advent calendars with the chocolate that always seems to taste vaguely of soap. And we have a […]

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Fun bloggy news: I’m a KinderMom!

26 September 2014 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

I remember getting Kinder eggs from my grandparents when I was a kid, just about the same time they first became available in Canada in the early 1980s. (Did you know the brand is 40 years old?) I was fascinated by the exotic milky white insides of the chocolate eggs, aside from loving the wee […]

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Chef Michael Smith’s new Family Meals cookbook: a review and giveaway!

8 August 2014 Eating and thinking and thinking about eating

So I may have mentioned (cough cough) that I’ve become something of a fangirl of Chef Michael Smith lately. But please believe me when I tell you that even if I weren’t already predisposed to great affection for the towering chef from PEI, I would still rate his new Family Meals cookbook as the best […]

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Mastermind Toys is now open in Barrhaven and you could win a gift card!

8 July 2014 Reviews, promotions and giveaways

I‘m taking a break from All-PEI-All-The-Time blogging to share a terrific little bit of news that hits a little closer to home. Did you hear that my very favourite toy store, Mastermind Toys, has opened a Barrhaven location? You might remember last year I blogged about it when they opened their first store in Ottawa, […]

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Ingredient of the week: cabbage – and a Food Revolution Day giveaway!

30 April 2014 Eating and thinking and thinking about eating

When I was a kid, my dad did a fair bit of overnight traveling for work. I always knew my dad was on an out of town road trip when I smelled the unmistakeable odour of cabbage being boiled for dinner. My mom and granny loved it; my dad couldn’t stand even the smell of […]

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Family Fun Giveaway: Family pass to Kidsfest Ottawa!

17 March 2014 Ottawa Family Fun

Have you heard about Kidsfest Ottawa? What’s Kidsfest? At Kidsfest Ottawa families will enjoy quality, family-fun entertainment including stage shows, interactive animal exhibits and opportunities to meet popular children’s characters, explore over 70 exhibitor booths providing a unique platform for parents to purchase products and services for their families, and have access to fun and […]

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