The Mama Hood's Goods

Congrats to Cheryl! You won the Pillsbury Prize Pack Giveaway!  I will email you! Thanks to all who entered!  What better way to celebrate than taking your family to visit a local apple orchard to pick fruit. Then, take those delicious apples home and bake the quintessential favorite – Apple Pie! It’s so easy when you start with Pillsbury® Refrigerated Pie Crusts, which deliver the look and taste of homemade without the time and stress of making a crust from scratch. VISITING AN APPLE ORCHARD To pick the best apples for your pie, gather the family for a road trip to the local apple orchard to savor the flavors of fall. Not sure which orchard is closest to you? Log onto tasteofhome.com/appleorchards to find a list of orchards that are planning Love the Pie! baking demonstration events across the country. While there, you can learn pie baking tips and ideas from State Fair Pie Baking Champions, and pick up recipes and participate in other o...

CONGRATULATIONS TO VICKE C!!  You won the $35 Jiffy Lube Gift Card!    Did you know that in the United States the average age of cars and light trucks on the roads today has reached a record high of 9.4 years? That means it’s more important than ever to take proper care of your vehicle. With the informative Web site www.MotorOilMatters.org (created by the maker of industry-leading brands Pennzoil and Quaker State) you can easily locate key information about how quality motor oils can help prolong your engine’s life and improve overall efficiency, as well as help answer other questions you may have about motor oil. In addition, the site offers a fun, educational game for you to play called “M.O.M. Knows Best” where you can put your motor mind to the test with an interactive quiz. Did you know? * According to a recent survey from the Automotive Service Association, more than 54 percent of customers who take their vehicles for service and repair are women * Usi...

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GIVEAWAY CLOSED With specially marked boxes of kid favorites – including Fruit Roll-Ups, Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, and Stickerz & Shapes – your child could win one laptop to keep and Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snacks will donate another to a child in Africa. Details: Each day from now through May 30, 2010, one laptop prize will be awarded to a U.S. winner. For every laptop won, one laptop will be donated to an African child through One Laptop per Child , an organization that creates educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. For your chance to win, simply enter the unique online code printed on participating Betty Crocker Fruit Flavored Snack packages on www.WinOneGiveOne.com . The REVIEW: My Blog Spark and Betty Crocker provided us with Fruit Roll-Ups & Fruit by the Foot to ...

General Mills provided us four coupons for free cereal through My Blog Spark for this review. We picked out Honey Nut Cheerios, Multi-grain Cheerios, Reese's Puffs Cereal and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. Our family loves cereal and we would eat it for all three meals if I let everyone. This would be an easier option now because General Mills has decided to reduce the amount of sugar in their cereals and adding more of the important nutrients like whole grains, calcium and vitamin D to their cereals. We loved our cereal as a matter-of-fact, they are almost all gone... :( Did you know that ready-to-eat cereal eaters consume less fat, less cholesterol and more fiber than non-cereal eaters? Cereals also deliver important vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients, making cereal a top source of key nutrients in children’s diets. Other cereal benefits: Ready-to-eat cereals, including presweetened cereals, account for only 5% of sugar in children’s diets. Ready-to-eat cereal is th...

This holiday season, Crayola offers gifts that will light up your children’s imaginations and provide them with creative memories that will last a lifetime. Crayola provided me with some of the hottest gifts of the season to review through MyBlogSpark™. Beginnings Color Me A Song Color Explosion Glow Dome Glow Station * The Crayola Beginnings Color Me A Song lets little ones draw to the beat of their own drum, trumpet, piano or guitar. This portable drawing and music creation station features a pressure-sensitive board that matches a melody to the artist’s pace. Draw fast, and the tempo picks up. Slow down, and so does the music. Four instrument buttons let kids pick their favorite sound. Color Me a Song was named a “Toy of the Year” by FamilyFun magazine and one of American Baby magazine’s picks for “Best Toys of the Year.” For children 24 months and up; suggested retail price is $24.99. * The Crayola Color Explosion Glow Dome is sure to bring wide-eyed wonder to kids’ faces w...

I received information about Yoplait Kids and a fantastic prize pack from MyBlogSpark to review. Enclosed in the package was a coupon* for any of the Yoplait Kids yogurt products along with a Yoplait Less Sugar, More Fun prize pack. Perfect for accompanying this fun afternoon snack, the Yoplait Less Sugar, More Fun prize pack includes coupon for a Yoplait Kids yogurt, a travel cooler (to take your yogurt on-the-go), a fun spoon that changes colors in warm water, a reusable place mat with games to keep the kids happy while snacking, and a fuzzy tangle puzzle for some after-snack fun. (*This coupon offer for a free six pack of Yoplait Kids yogurt is not valid in some states, including Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota and Tennessee. ) One of my kids favorite snacks happens to be yogurt. They could live on it if they had to. Seriously . They can't get enough of the stuff. Which is a good thing, because yogurt has many health benefits. My favorite way to enjoy yogurt...