Pork Be Inspired Gets Two Thumbs Up At My House!!

 

Have I said lately how much I love being a BzzAgent and sharing my thoughts about products with all my readers? Well in case you have missed it, I love it! I love trying the products that they permit me to apart of the campaigns of. And I love sharing my thoughts on said products. I share my thoughts with you readers, my friends and my family, and trust me I share the positive and negative thoughts both. Not all my reviews have been positive.

Now, on to this Kroger, Pork Be Inspired campaign. This is a very positive review. My thoughts are positive on this one on all aspects! My hubby is not much of a pork eater (he says it is like chicken and he does not care for that either). Any how, I used my coupon for $5.00 off from the campaign to get some thin center cut pork chops to fix for dinner last night, which is one of my favorite cuts of pork besides BBQ ribs and they didn't have any of those or course. Then I went through some recipes from Pork Be inspired on Pinterest and chose to fix two different kinds of chops. I chose the Americas Favorite Pork Chops (right) and the Paprika Pork Chops (left).

I have to admit that I loved the Paprika pork chops and my husband liked them both but he preferred the American's Favorite Pork Chop better. You can find the recipes to both of these pork chops by clicking on the recipe titles above my picture.

And just a little knowledge for you all: 

Don't overcook your pork!

Both the USDA and the National Pork Board recommend using a digital cooking thermometer to get an accurate internal temperature reading for your pork. While 145° F (with a three-minute rest time) is where you want to be for chops, tenderloin and roasts, ground pork should always be cooked to 160° F and pre-cooked ham can be reheated to 140° F.

 

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Follow the Official Page of the National Pork Board and the brand, Pork Be inspired on Pinterest

Disclaimer: I am a BzzAgent and as a BzzAgent I received a coupon to receive this product either for free or at a discount for myself and coupons to share with others. These are my opinions are my own honest opinions and I was in no way paid for my opinion.

Images and information are from PorkBeInspired.com and BzzAgent

Blue Nile’s Cyber Monday (ALL WEEK) Deal & The Extraordinary Days of Christmas

CYBER MONDAY (ALL WEEK)

20% OFF Discount Code

is: Special20%Off

Please see Terms and Conditions for the discount offer below:

Offer MUST be entered in cart or mentioned over phone at time of purchase. 20% discount applies to silver or pearl or gemstone jewelry, only. 20% off applies to only one item in one category, and does not apply to loose diamonds, Build Your Own Diamond Jewelry, gift certificates, and cleaning product purchases. Offer may not be combined with any other offer and cannot be applied retroactively. Void where prohibited. Offer valid through November 29, 2012 at 8:00amET. 

Blue Nile will be running an interactive game on Facebook for the holidays called The Extraordinary Days of Christmas.

The Extraordinary Days of Christmas game details:

        There are six unique presents wrapped and displayed for each Facebook fan on Blue Nile’s Facebook page. In order to participate, fans must “Like” the Blue Nile Facebook page.

For 12 days, Facebook fans will have a chance to unwrap one present of their liking to win a Blue Nile prize.

It is a game of chance. Prizes vary from percentage off discount codes to $11,000 diamond rings. We’re happy to say that we will be giving away a cumulative prize value of $100,000 over the course of 12 days.

One extraordinary jewelry prize will be given out per day, but everyone will win something.

One extraordinary jewelry prize will be awarded each day, and range from $3,500 to $13,500! Prizes include, but are not limited to, multiple diamond engagement rings

(including one from the new Monique Lhuillier line),

2-carat diamond earrings,

a sapphire and diamond ring 

and a 4-carat diamond bracelet.

The campaign will kick off on Cyber Monday (November 26, 2012) and end on December 7, 2012.

So make sure you hop on over to Blue Nile and use your 20% coupon code before it expires and visit Blue Nile on Facebook daily and unwrap your virtual gift and see what you win.




 

Disclaimer:  Images and information was received from Blue Nile. I was not paid for this post but however did receive, in exchange for this post/review a Blue Nile product. LoveMy2Dogs is in no way responsible for the prizes from Blue Nile.

 

$100 Amazon Gift Card #Giveaway Ends Dec. 15th

Happy Home and Family has teamed up with a group of the most amazing bloggers around to bring you this great giveaway to help you out with your holiday expenses!!

One lucky reader will be winning a $100 Amazon Gift Card!

If you win the $100 Amazon GC, what would you buy?

I know that if had a $100 Amazon GC this time of year, I would use it to buy Christmas gifts. I love buying from Amazon and not just books for my Kindle either. They have everything at reasonable prices, and I love their one click buying. After entering this giveaway, check out my widget over on the right sidebar for the deal of the day.

Special thanks to our co hosts - Capri's Coupons, My Mushings, Mum Writes , SaMie Designs

Giveaway details:

• One lucky reader will be winning a $100 Amazon Gift Code ( or $100 cash through PayPal )
• Giveaway is open worldwide
• The giveaway will run from November 25- December 15

Just enter the rafflecopter below. Good luck everyone!!

Blogger Opportunity ~ Similac Advance Ready to Feed

Blogger Opportunity

This giveaway will be from 

1/01/2013  to  1/30/2013

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96 Bottles 2oz each Similac Advance, Complete Nutrition, Ready to Feed Value $131.88

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November is National Family Caregivers Month

November is National Family Caregivers Month

Taking care of a loved one starts with taking care of yourself.

More than 65 million Americans are currently providing care for a loved one. ¹ But, sometimes caregivers neglect an important step: taking care of themselves. Protecting the caregiver's own well being, both mentally and physically, is an incredibly important step in the caring process. So in honor of National Family Caregivers and National Hospice Month, UnitedHealthcare has some steps to help make the transition to caregiver.

Get out and enjoy time together:
Go for a walk. Go to a movie. Feed the ducks at a park. Keeping active may relieve stress and can create positive new memories.

Eat Healthy:
A healthy diet can keep you sharp. Stock up on healthy snacks and prepare your own meals. Here are some simple (and delicious) recipes for you and your loved one.

 

• Chicken Minestrone Soup
• Slow Cooker Hearty Pork Stew
• Easy Chicken Pot Pie
• Pumpkin Smoothies
• Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies

Educate yourself and your family: 
Scarlet Says Goodbye Sweepstakes 
Particularly for those dealing with advanced illness or end-of-life situations, it's important to prepare yourself and your children. A new activity book, Scarlet Says Goodbye, is one tool to help educate young children with a loved one entering hospice care. The book can be downloaded for free at: www.ScarletSaysGoodBye.com.

Want a chance to win a free copy of Scarlet Says Goodbye? Enter the drawing by posting about National Family Caregivers Month and submitting the link through your personal MyBlogSpark page.

 

Don't be afraid to ask for help:
UnitedHealthcare understands that being a caregiver can be an emotionally and financially exhausting experience. UnitedHealthcare designed Solutions for Caregivers* specifically to help alleviate both of these issues. Visit www.WhatIsSolutionsForCaregivers.com to learn about all the resources available, including other great recipes and aid in developing a care plan, built specifically for your situation.

*Disclaimer

Solutions for Caregivers assists in coordinating community and in-home resources. The final decision about your care arrangements must be made by you. In addition, the quality of a particular provider must be solely determined and monitored by you. Information provided to you about a particular provider does not imply and is in no way an endorsement of that particular provider by Solutions for Caregivers. The information on and the selection of a particular provider has been supplied by the provider and is subject to change without written consent of Solutions for Caregivers.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Subject to Official Rules. Sweepstakes begins at 12:00 am CT on 11/21/12 and ends at 11:59 pm CT on 12/15/12. Employees of UnitedHealthCare are not eligible. For Official Rules, including odds and prize descriptions, visit your personal page on www.MyBlogSpark.com. 

 ¹ National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP; November 2009

This information was received from MyBlogSpark.

 

50% OFF Melissa & Doug Toys Today Only Plus Black Friday Deals Week at Amazon!!

50% OFF Melissa & Doug Toys

Amazon is having a great Gold Box Deal of the Day today and here are a few of the toys they have. Hop on over and check out everything they have!

While you are over there checking out the Melissa and Doug Toys, you can check out there Black Friday Deals Week.

Happy Shopping!!

I am an Amazon Affiliate and I do get paid a small percentage if you purchase something when you go to Amazon.com from my website.

 

#Blogger Opportunity ~~ Fisher Price Peppa Pig Peek 'n Surprise Playhouse Playset

Blogger Opportunity

This giveaway will be from 

12/19/2012  to  1/10/2013

Come and be part of this awesome giveaway!

Fisher-Price Peppa Pig' Peek 'n Surprise Playhouse Playset

Introducing the Fisher-Price Peppa Pig's Peek 'n Surprise Playhouse Playset, new for fall 2012! Peek 'n Surprise playhouse lets little girls play out Peppa's everyday adventures with her family, just like on the show!

The Fisher-Price Peppa Pig's Peek 'n Surprise Playhouse Playset features:

• 4 floors of play space including bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom
• Comes with over 18 play pieces including 2 articulated figures - Peppa and George
• Play pieces include lots of little surprises..washing machine flips to reveal clean clothes, fridge opens up to reveal food, barbecue flips for different meals, bathtub flips to reveal bubbles and more!
• Pieces store inside house for easy and convenient clean-up

Options to join

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PERDUE OVEN READY Is What's For Dinner Tonight!

 

PERDUE^® OVEN READY Products

 I have never had any of the PERDUE^® OVEN READY Products before I had the opportunity to receive a coupon for one during the PERDUE campaign by being a *BzzAgent. I went with the Whole Seasoned Chicken Roaster, how much easier could it be than to just take off the outer bag, cut a small slit in the inner bag over the breast and pop it in the oven? It is already seasoned and ready to go.

Now, we are not usually huge chicken eaters unless it boneless chicken breasts and is cut up and put into something so this is something new for us. I have done a beer can chicken or two a few years ago when we were camping but a couple bites and I am done. That is how big of a chicken eater I am and dear hubby usually skips by it to a burger.

Now, this is all I am writing for now. I will write more of this post after I bake this Chicken and have dinner and see how it is.

 

Well, baking that chicken was as easy as the directions said it would be. I took off the first bag, cut a slit in the second bag and put it in a casserole dish and put it in a 400 degree oven for 1 hour and 45 minutes and I did the thermometer check to make sure it was 180 degrees and it was. It came out of the oven looking and smelling delicious.

 

I do have to say that here is a hint, drain the drippings from maybe a corner of the bag before you start opening it. I had to drain my glass dish after I opened the bag and then put my chicken back in the dish. I also learned that where ever the bag was touching the chicken, that is where the chicken browned much better......but is is also where it stuck to the bag. So maybe if I would have moved the bag around a little during the 10 minute wait after taking it out of the oven it would not have stuck to the bag.

I am not a carver, I am a picker so my beautiful chicken looked quite a mess when I finished with it but it all tastes the same, right?? Of course I am not showing you all the mess that I made of that chicken but I am sure you all can imagine what it looked like if you just look at my plate. I am not all about pretty food, I am just all about it tasting good. And I just have to say that it was delicious. And my dear hubby even said that it was really good and went for seconds.. The daycare kiddos loved the chicken and asked for more also.

I went for the a little of dark meat and a little breast both but he is a white meat kinda person and I do have to say that the breast meat had more of the seasoned flavor, which I was completely surprised. The meat was all very tender and juicy and there were plenty of drippings to make gravy with and the directions for making gravy if you don't know how, is right on the back of the original packaging.

You can buy PERDUE^® OVEN READY Products

PERDUE® OVEN READY Boneless Chicken Roast (1.75 lbs.)

PERDUE® OVEN READY Boneless Turkey Roast (1.75 lbs.)

 

PERDUE® OVEN READY Whole Seasoned Cornish Hens (3.75 lbs.)

PERDUE® OVEN READY Whole Seasoned Roaster (6 lbs.)

PERDUE® OVEN READY Whole Seasoned Roaster Bone-In Breast (3 lbs.)

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 *By being a BzzAgent I receive products to try, either for free or at a discount and then I give my HONEST opinion. I am in no other way compensated for my opinion so I do give my complete honest opinion about the products whether it be positive or negative. I also receive coupons to hand out to others and pass the word out about the product after I have tried it and I do this face to face so that I get their personal opinions so that I can give feedback to the company about what others are saying.

Disclaimer: I am a BzzAgent and as a BzzAgent I received a coupon to receive this product either for free or at a discount for myself and coupons to share with others. These are my opinions are my own honest opinions and I was in no way paid for my opinion.

Images and information are from PERDUE and BzzAgent

 

Order #Fibromyalgia Key Chains till Nov. 24th

Amy from The Fibro Frog is selling key chains with this picture on them now until Nov 24th to help fund her seminar Living With Chronic Pain - A Patients View.

If you have never visited The Fibro Fog, I highly suggest that you do. She is trying to get the word out about Fibromyalgia and chronic pain from the patients point of view, so that the family/caregivers understand more what people who suffer go through on a daily basis.

You can hop over and read what she has to say about this, before you order a key chain from her. It is definitely for a good cause.

You can go straight HERE to her event page to find out how to order or you can go HERE to her blog post and it will have a link there to her event page.

Vidacup #Giveaway ($335 value) Ends Nov. 26th

Coffee?? Do I smell coffee?? I love the smell of coffee brewing in the morning and better yet, I love the taste of coffee. So for all the coffee lovers out there, here is a great giveaway for you!

The Ultimate Coffee Lover's Giveaway

~ WIN 12 Boxes of Premium Coffee ~

Have you heard of Vidacup? It's a new and different way for you to think about coffee! Check out their products here: http://vidacup.com/products.php.

Vidacup has offered a great giveaway for our readers which will include 4 boxes of Xtreme, 4 boxes of Mo-Joe, and 4 boxes of Ageless Brew (a $335 value).

How wonderful is that! All you need to do is fill out the Rafflecopter below to ENTER! Good luck! Open to US and Canada!!!

This giveaway is hosted by Mommy Guru

and Promoted by Fantastic Group of Bloggers 

Make sure to CHECK THEM OUT!

Blogger Opportunity

Hosted by Diva Fabulosa and Happy Home and Family

• Event Date: January 4 - January 18
• OPEN WORLDWIDE
• For companies/ non bloggers/business owners who are interested in sponsoring an event, please send me an email at: admin at divafabulosa dot com
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Kelloggs New Limited Edition Poptart and Coupon

 

Pop-Tarts® Frosted Pumpkin Pie toaster pastries Limited Edition

 Now, wouldn't these be awesome in the morning all toasted up with a cup of coffee? I can just smell them now.

Click here for a coupon for Pop-Tarts®

Image and information is from KelloggsFamilyRewards.com


 

$!00 Amazon Gift Card Blogger Opportunity

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Blogger Opportunity!

This is a guest post:

Blogger Opportunity

12/1  to  12/20

Come and be part of this awesome giveaway!

I love Pandora jewelry, I personally collect them.  There was a time that I used to buy bracelets like crazy, thinking that I was going to fill out all my bracelets with charms! 

I still have some bracelets in there original packages, they are new!

On this giveaway I will be giving one Pandora bracelet size 7.5 

And

 One Pandora Collectible Cupcake Jewelry Box Ceramic Breast Cancer.  This Collectible Cupcake was giving in 2010 with every purchase of $150 or more it was given free, it's new in original box.

This Giveaway is not sponsored by Pandora or any other company, both prizes are given by me.

 (with permission of my husband lol)

If you decide to buy extra links or to be a host, payment will be use for shipping charges and for futures giveaways. 

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