Thanks to MyBlogSpark, I recently received a box of chocolate cheerios with a kit that included a chocolate color bowl and some fun chocolate soaps and bath salts.   This cereal is really good, it is the great cheerios taste with a chocolate covering.  We all loved it.  Cheerios is that cereal that is perfect for snack time even for the youngest ones and below I have several great recipes you can use with the cereal.    If you are a chocolate lover the way I am you have to try it.

• Chocolate Cheerios is low in fat
• Has 100 calories per serving
• Contains at least 8 grams of whole grain per serving (at least 48 grams recommended daily)
• Is a good source of calcium and vitamin D.

Chocolate Cheerios is made with real cocoa, You can find some great recipes for Chocolate Cheerios by clicking here.  Recipes include Chocolate Hazelnut Marshmallow Balls, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cereal Bars plus several more!

You can also find a printable coupon for $0.50/1 box of Chcolate Cheerios.

We’re excited to give one of our lucky readers a Chocolate Cheerios prize pack! 

The Chocolate Cheerios prize pack includes:

• Box of Chocolate Cheerios
• Scented Spa Kit (Chocolate Body Bar, Chocolate Body Wash, Chocolate Bath Salts, and Sponge)
• Chocolate Inspired Ceramic Bowl

 Here are a few for you to check out:

Chocolate Cheerios® Marshmallow Hearts

Prep Time: 30 Minutes
Start to Finish: 1 Hour 45 Minutes

Crust
1 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 cup Chocolate Cheerios® cereal, crushed
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups miniature marshmallows
Topping
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 bag (11.5 ounces) milk chocolate chips
4 cups Chocolate Cheerios® cereal
Candy sprinkles, if desired

Heat oven to 350°F. Line bottom and sides of 13×9-inch pan with foil. In large bowl, mix all crust ingredients except marshmallows with electric mixer on low speed until crumbly. Press firmly into bottom of pan.

Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove from oven. Immediately sprinkle with marshmallows. Return to oven; bake an additional 1 to 2 minutes or until marshmallows just begin to puff. Cool while preparing topping.

In large saucepan, place all topping ingredients except cereal and sprinkles. Heat over medium-low heat just until chips are melted and mixture is smooth, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in 4 cups cereal. Immediately spoon warm topping over marshmallows; spread to cover. Sprinkle with candy sprinkles. Cool completely, at least 1 hour.

Using foil to lift, remove mixture from pan; remove foil. With deep 2 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out 18 hearts. Store loosely covered.

Chocolate Hazelnut Marshmallow Balls

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Start to Finish: 15 Minutes

1/2 cup hazelnut spread with cocoa
1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
14 large marshmallows
Toothpicks
3 cups Chocolate Cheerios® cereal
Round wooden sticks with one pointed end or craft sticks
(flat wooden sticks with round ends)

In medium microwavable bowl, microwave hazelnut spread and chocolate chips on high 30 seconds; stir until smooth. Place cereal in shallow dish.
Insert toothpick into marshmallow; dip in chocolate mixture. Roll in cereal to coat completely. Place on large plate; remove toothpick. Repeat with remaining marshmallows. If desired, insert round wooden sticks into each for pops.
Refrigerate 30 minutes or until chocolate is set.
14 servings

Strawberry-Chocolate Cheerios® Parfaits

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Start to Finish: 15 Minutes

2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
4 containers (6 oz each) Yoplait® Light Fat Free strawberry yogurt
2 cups Chocolate Cheerios® cereal

In 4 parfait glasses or clear drinking glasses, layer half of the strawberries, half of the yogurt and half of the cereal. Repeat layers.

Serve immediately

 Leave me a comment telling me your favorite breakfast meal.Notice of Disclosure:  The product, information, prize pack, and giveaway have all been provided by Cheerios and MyBlogSpark.   

For additional entries

Contest ends Friday March 12th, 2010 at midnight eastern time.

If you like to go out to Chinese you HAVE to try Wanchai.  It is a frozen meal you buy at the grocery store and I tell you it is the best Chinese meal I have ever ATE from a store.  I LOVE  the sweet n sour one, it makes for a wonderful family night or a couple date night after the kids go to bed. The Wanchai meals are really easy to make and have a great taste.  They come in Orange Chicken,  Shrimp Lo Mein, Spicy Garlic Chicken and Sweet & Sour Chicken.  These meals have no MSG!   You can find Wanchai Ferry Entrees at your local Target.  I recently received a wonderful gift pack below and I get to give one away to one of my readers.  Leave a comment telling me your favorite chinese food.   Open to US residents.  Contest ends Saturday March 6th at midnight Eastern Time.

The Wanchai Ferry “Perfect Night In” prize pack includes one VIP coupon valid for a free package of any of the Wanchai Ferry frozen entrees, in addition to a set of great Asian-inspired rice bowls, chopsticks, bamboo placemats, flavored fortune cookies, and a $25 Target gift card.

For additional entries

The product, prize pack, information, and giveaway have all been provided by Wanchai Ferry through MyBlogSpark.

This looked like a lot of fun!  It is a fun and great way to meet new bloggers.

Follow as many blogs as you’d like. 

Leave a  comment on the blogs telling them you’re from Friday Follow.

Follow back when you get a new follower through Friday Follow.

The Blog Hop is the same at each of our three hosts blogs so you do not have to add your blog at each site. Just one - but you can follow each blog. Follow a few or follow them all.

We received two yoohoo pets and keychain and it is ADORABLE.  We have so many stuffed animals, I wondered if it would be different. It is very unique!   We got the valentines monkey and it is SO soft and cute. If you push its tummy it makes a kissing sound and the heart lights up. It has these fun big eyes and a beautiful pink striped tail.  My daughter LOVES it, she has carried it around all week.   These pets are so unique, you won’t have one like it. 

I love what Aurora World says about the pets and their website, as a homeschooler I love when we get a toy that has an educational aspect to them.  It takes something fun and gives the child a lesson too.

Aurora will introduce many new YooHoo & Friends throughout next year but look for the Beaver, Yellow Tiger, Jaban Rhinoceros and Japanese Macque (five and eight inches) to kick off 2010 introductions. They join the Scarlet Macaw, Barbary Lion, Iberian Lynx, Platypus and a host of other characters.

Even better, YooHoo & Friends teach kids about endangered species from around the globe. There’s a corresponding free, interactive web site (no annoying activation codes required) http://www.yoohoofriends.com that teaches about the animals (on which the YooHoo & Friends line of characters are based) in their natural habitats; as well as a host of games, desktop wallpapers, coloring sheets and more — the web site makes learning about these animals engaging and fun. Each plush piece makes a fun sound when squeezed.

I have one random five inch selection and keychain Visit Aurora World Inc.’s - YooHoo & Friends website.    Leave me a comment letting me know which one you think is the cutest, it will be tough to decide. 

Contest ends Friday Feburary 19th, 2010 at midnight eastern time

This product was given to me free of charge for review purposes.

Boy, have we been getting the snow. Our kids made the cutest minature snowman.

Giveaway is now closed.

We recently received a copy of Disney’s CD for the Princess and the Frog.  We are enjoying the music, it has a really jazzy feel to it and I love jazz music .  Our favorite song hands down is Down in New Orleans.   The music is upbeat and will have your kids dancing for sure!   We love music around here and this is a great one to add to your collection and is especially fun for kids. 

I have one to giveaway to one lucky winner.  Just leave a comment letting me know your favorite Disney Movie or Soundtrack.  Contest ends Tuesday February 16th midnight eastern time.

For additional chances to win

 This post was written for Family Review Network as part of a program for Walt Disney Records, who supplied the CD for review

This giveaway is closed

I have always LOVED Caress.  You can just open a bar of Caress and put in on your sink or tub and voila you have a beautiful scent in your bathroom, I LOVE that!  It smells so good and makes you feel pretty and pampered.  One of the biggest things I do for stress relief is soak in the tub, so I love to have good products in the tub to use.  I was blessed with a package from caress recently with their new evenly gorgeous line.  It smells SO good.  It lathers wonderful and exfoliates your skin.  It left my skin feeling smooth and pampered. 

Caress Evenly Gorgeous body wash and beauty barwith burnt sugar and karate butter to help moisturize, gently exfoliate and reveal even-toned, radiant and silky skin.  Caress® makes skin the ultimate fashion statement with the introduction of the Caress Skinwear Collection®. Caress gives you gorgeous skin – right out of the shower – that you will want to flaunt just like the season’s hottest styles. Now you can shower on your look with Caress body washes and beauty bars for even toned, radiant or silky skin … and have the confidence to show it off!

This review was done as part of a campaign for Caress through Family Review Network.  All opinions are 100% mine

I have always loved Kathy Peel. She is a great author who teaches women about being family mangers of their homes. If we look at our home like we would if we were in the workplace we could start thinking about areas that need to be managed effectively to keep everything running smoothly but we often think of it just as housecleaning,etc and we don’t treat it like a business and often we struggle with areas of homemaking because of it. So I was so excited when I had the chance to review her new book called, “The Busy Couple’s Guide to Sharing the Work and the Joy”.

This is an excellent book to read with your spouse if you like to read books together. My husband and I have started it and we are really enjoying it. It talks about topics that effect family life on the daily basis. She talks about ways you can help one another, meal ideas, how to keep you family strong in faith and ways to stay connected as a couple even when life throws you curves or you don’t have the most convienient schedules. The husband even adds a mans point of view at the end of each chapter. I LOVE the example of the couple who was about to give up on their marriage because their expectations for meal times were so strained and how her and her husband helped this couple make a few changes that helped the husband reconnect. They now have been married 20 years. One of the most fought over areas in a marriage is not feeling appreciated and helped. This book will help so much in that area. It is just full of great ideas. You have to check it out!