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October 7, 2013October 14, 2013

Green BEAN Delivery Right to Your Door: You Can’t BEET It {promo code! and a recipe!}

The older I get, the more truth I see in the movie Groundhog Day. I wake up, I feed the children, I go to the grocery, I feed the children, I do some laundry, I feed the children…you get the idea. We are always eating, and as a result, I am always at the grocery store. I can buy a lot of things in bulk to minimize my trips, but fresh produce is something I can only buy so much of at a time. Which means every few days, I have to go to the store to buy apples and peaches and grapes.

Enter Green B.E.A.N Delivery.

Green B.E.A.N Delivery delivers fresh, often organic, often local produce to your door. Each week (or every other week, you decide), you are emailed a list of what will arrive in your bin, and the you have a few days to make substitutions or add additional items that are featured on their website.

We had our first delivery last week, and it was like having a treasure chest sitting at our front door when we got home on Tuesday. I immediately cut up the pineapple, and washed the grapes. I made a salad with the Bibb lettuce, and set the peppers aside for fajitas later this week.

Then I unpacked the beets. Beets are something I’ve never cooked before.

I wasn’t sure what to do with them, so I looked around online. It turns out, you can roast beets just as they are, wrapped in foil, just like potatoes. When they are done, the skins slide right off ,and you can eat them warm or cool. You can eat them as a side dish, or in a salad.

I ended up making this:

I used the lettuce from our bin, and two beets to make this amazing salad. I sliced the beets, added the lettuce, tossed a little balsamic vinegar and oil in, and then topped with walnuts and goat cheese.

Hooray for trying new vegetables!!

I loved having produce waiting for me at my doorstep. I can see it cutting down on trips to the store, and also adding variety to our diet. Signing up for Green B.E.A.N. Delivery is easy, and if you’re ready to try it, have I got a deal for you- just keep reading.

PROMO CODE FOR $15 OFF (through October 14, 2013)

If you are a new customer, or if you’ve had deliveries in the past but your account isn’t currently active, simply enter this code: 15GBml for $15 off your first order! This code is good through Monday, October 14th, so head on over already.

Disclosure: Green B.E.A.N. Delivery provided me with a free bin of produce for my honest review. My opinions are entirely my own, and I tried the beets on my own accord.

September 30, 2013October 14, 2013

The Talk Before the Talk

Last week our school district offered an informational meeting about the health classes they are now offering from pre-K through sixth grade. The company that’s done “the talk” classes for 5 & 6th grades is now contracted to started talking to every grade level.

We attended the meeting so that we knew what was going to be discussed at each grade level. I don’t know where the line is for us yet- if there will ever be a lesson where we don’t agree with the information presented. For their preK-3 curriculum, they are nowhere near that line.

In the preK- grade 3 curriculum, they cover bullying, being a friend, and a nutrition. They name body external body parts, and they name internal organs (non-reproductive). They talk about private parts being private, and what to do if someone makes you feel uncomfortable about your body. As the presenters were going over exactly what body parts were being named, the hands started going up.

Maybe it’s because we’ve always called body parts body parts, maybe it’s because I have a child of each gender, maybe I’m just all kinds of progressive, but I honestly didn’t see what the big deal was. They are introducing four words to the children, and I have a hard time believing that my children are the only two who will already know these words.(I’m not saying this words out loud here, due to creepers who search for such things for non-educational purposes).

People were asking how to opt out of the class because they didn’t want their children to know such things. My mouth hit the floor, Leilan told me to let it go, and I just listened. What I wanted to ask was, “Do you kids go to the bathroom?” “Have they ever been to a swimming pool?” “Do they have siblings or cousins of the opposite gender?” “What the hell do you tell your kid when he asks what ‘that’ is?”

When we left the meeting, we told the children about the class that they’d be having at their schools in the near future. We mentioned all the topics they’d be covering, and said there would be a lesson about the private parts of their bodies too. They were un-phased, and they only had one question- “What about the butt?”

(Which, oddly enough, didn’t come up, and isn’t one of the four body parts they’ll discussing.)

September 20, 2013October 13, 2013

Wendy’s Will Get You Excited in #6SecondsFlat {video! sweepstakes! fun}

In short, I love everything about Wendy’s. I love their burgers, I love their sea salt fries, and I love their Frostys. I love how they advocate for older child adoption through the Dave Thomas Foundation.

Now I have something new to love. Turns out, I’m not the only one in my house who loves them either (it’s the bacon).

Enter: The Bacon Plane. It’s piloted by the bacon fiend in our house.

This is Flamingo. She likes bacon too.

One day, Flamingo was eating her Asiago Ranch Flat Bread sandwich (with bacon). Watch to see what happens next!

You can have something new to love too- a Flatbread sandwich and possibly $6,000 dollars. Just enter their #6secondsflat sweepstakes by creating a 6-15 second video on either Vine or Instagram featuring their new Asiago Racnh or Smoky Honey Mustard Flatbread sandwiches.

It’s true! Here are the details:

Tell Wendy’s what you think about their flatbreads in a Vine or Instagram video then send it @Wendys (through twitter, Instagram or Vine) with the #6SecondsFlat tag and my custom hashtag #Gotchababy6. Each week of September, one lucky winner will be randomly selected to receive a $6000 prize.

Visit the sweepstakes landing page for more information- and view the “official rules” at the bottom of the page. Good luck and watch out for flamingos and airplanes!

Disclosure: Thanks to Wendy’s for sponsoring this post. While I am being compensated for participating, all opinions are my own and I chose to inhale the flatbread sandwich featured in this video all on my own.