Label your Food with Date it! Labels

I have been a Lovable Labels Lovebug through my blog for a few years now. Through the program I’ve had the opportunity to try many Lovable Labels products. My absolute favorite one is their Date it! Labels.

Did you every clean out your fridge and pull out one of your food storage containers. You don’t even remember how long it’s been in there and you’re honestly afraid to open it for fear of the stench or grossness that may display itself proudly. What is in that Container!? Label your food with Date it! Labels from Lovable Labels. These are one of the most useful things I’ve discovered for my kitchen. These food storage labels come in 30 packs with 10 large, 10 medium, and 10 small labels. When you transfer your food to the storage container just place your label wherever you want on the container and you can mark the date and contents of said container so you know exactly how long it’s been in there and what it is.

This is a pic from the making homemade applesauce how-to I did back in October. I used them to date the baby food. You can leave the labels on the container. These labels are microwave, dishwasher, and freezer safe, waterproof, and reusable. These labels are heavy duty labels. I’ve had some of mine on my containers for a year and they still look like the day I put them on there. Don’t worry about them sticking forever to your good Tupperware either. They stay put but I’ve removed them and restuck them a number of times and they still stick well and don’t leave any nastiness behind either. You can use a dry erase marker and wipe them off to use them again and again.

For a while there Lovable Labels only had 3 different designs available. The design pictured above is called “candied dots” then they had a blue and white one called “picnic” and a cute baby design. They have now added NEW designs one called “country” that comes in a few different colors and “Retro” that has some pretty funky designs.

I liked these so much I actually got a bunch of packs to give to my coworkers this past Christmas.

If you’re thinking of ordering them I can save you a little money with a coupon code: AngieBLB3 saves you 10% off your order at lovablelabels.ca

Ideas for Leftover Holiday Candy

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

Holiday candies, the kids love ’em and some times mom and dad do too. In our house thought my kids get treats from all directions. They get them in their stockings, they get candies and treats from relatives, and from parties at school. After a while though everyone seems to get tired of them. You can throw them away I suppose but I have some better ideas. Sometimes it’s just the form, people are tired of looking at candy canes maybe but changing their form might renew a interest in them. So what can you do with leftover holiday candy?

We received some awesome Wonka candies from Nestle. We received Gobstopper Candy Canes 12ct.
and some SweeTarts holiday mix around Christmas. Every year we hand candy canes on the Christmas tree to add to the decor and the kids are able to take one off now and then to nibble on it. Inevitably we find a few that people missed on the tree.

The Gobstopper candy canes had the typical candy cane shape but they were solid colors on the outside. If you are familiar with regular gobstoppers, you know that as you suck on them there are different layers of color. The candy canes are made similarly.

These candy canes went fast. Everyone loved them. There were a couple hiding on the tree when we took everything down. Crushed, the candy canes could easily a topping for cupcakes, cookies, ice cream and more.

Also, when kept at the right temp, candy canes will last a while. The Gobstopper candy canes came in red, white, and green colors. Did you ever notice that when you put the two hooks of the candy canes together they make a heart? You could affix two candy canes to a piece of paper or tie them together to make a heart for little Valentine treats. The Gobstopper ones would work great for that with the red and white ones.

We also had some leftover SweetTart holdiay mix. They were red and gree holiday shops. Again, crushed you can use them as toppings on whatever you like. Being that they are are…well..tart they do better with a sweet sour mix. I had some granny smith apples in the fridge. I personally love tart and sour things. I thought I’d cut up some granny smith applies, dip them in chocolate then roll them in crushed SweeTarts.

Initially I wanted to use white chocolate but when I went to melt my white chocolate I realized it had expired so I used milk chocolate instead. I still think white chocolate would have been better but they turned out good anyway.

Recipe for Sweet and Sour Granny Bites:

— About 1 cup chocolate to melt. In my opinion white would be better but milk chocolate worked for us. Could be baking squares or chocolate chips

— 3 Granny Smith apples

–1/2 box of crushed SweeTarts

Cut your apples up into slices removing core. Crush SweeTarts. We Put them in a sandwich bag and smacked them with the back of a heavy spoon but you can do it how you like. Pour crushed SweeTarts into bowl. Melt chocolate according to package directions and then stir until smooth. Dip half of your apple slice into the chocolat then roll in the crushed SweeTarts. Allow to hard for about 20 minutes.

My boys all tried them. They were a kit here. In fact the next day my youngest son asked me “Mom do we have anymore of those SweeTart apples” lol:

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Custom Shirts from Allied Shirts

**I received a t-shirt in order to complete an honest review. No other compensation has been received**

It’s only January but I’m getting excited to see winter clearances happening and stores starting to introduce spring collections already. With spring comes team sports, spring marathons and walkathons, and spring fundraisers for organizations. If you need custom t-shirts for your spring events, check out AlliedShirts.com

I had the opportunity to create my own custom t-shirt to test out the process of creating a shirt and see the quality of the work that Allied Shirts does. I made a shirt for Luv Saving Money with my banner on it. With so many details in my banner I was wondering how well it would turn out. When I received my shirts I was really impressed with how well the design turned out. I loved the fact that there were so many t-shirt colors to choose from as well.

I know it’s hard to see because the lighting in my house is not very good but the shirt is actually dark green with my logo and web address on the front. This shirt has been washed, the colors and logo didn’t fade at all. They are 100% pre-shrunk cotton shirts. The type that I reviewed is the budget t-shirt. Don’t let the name fool you though, the shirt is a thicker t-shirt, NOT a flimsy cheap material.

If you need custom shirts made for your spring sports team, family reunion, business, fundraiser team, etc I would definitely recommend Allied Shirts. They did nice work and did it in a timely manner. Doesn’t surprise me thought, they also own BuildASign.com and Printcopia, I worked with Buildasign.com not too long ago and got a banner, business cards, and magnets made by them and they did the same amazing and timely job.

You can find Allied Shirts on twitter: @AlliedShirts and on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlliedShirts

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Gearing Up for Spring Sport with ArmourBite® Mouthpiece

Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial.

Even though it’s only the beginning of January, I already had a small stack of spring sport sign ups placed upon my desk by my boys: youth baseball, youth basketball spring league, and AYSO soccer. My 10 year old wants to do the basketball and AYSO, my oldest wants to sign up for baseball, my youngest son is now old enough to play AYSO and he wants to. Filled out forms and sent in money. Next step will be to pick up the gear they need for practice and games.

Under Armour is a well known brand for performance and sports gear. My boys think it’s cool to have Under Armour gear. This year my oldest son gets to test out a new Under Armour product, ArmourBite® Mouthpiece.

If you look at the picture you can see it doesn’t look like your typical mouthpiece. I actually thought it was a mouth guard of some sort when I initially read about it but my assumption was wrong. It’s actually a mouth piece to help with your performance.

ArmourBite® Mouthpiece is meant to be worn on the lower teeth. The idea is that when we work out or play sports we tend to clench our teeth. When we clench our teeth we aren’t getting as much air flow and cortisol is released which causes stress. Here is a video from Under Armour that explains it a little more:

If you or your children have ever worn a regular mouth guard, the fitting process is pretty much the same. It uses the boil and bite fit. You just boil your mouth piece in water for 45 seconds, remove from the water and allow it to cool for 15 seconds. You then place it in the mouth of the person the mouthpiece is intended for. In my case, it’s for my oldest son for baseball. He bites down and forms it then place in cold water for 10 minutes. the Armourbite comes with instructions that are easy to follow.

My son is currently in wrestling for winter sports but this mouth piece is not intended for contact sports. This would be more for baseball, soccer, tennis, workouts, lifting, things of that nature. Under Armour does make a protective mouthpiece however for contact sports with the same technology idea. My son is looking forward to trying this mouth piece out for baseball. He wore it around the house for a bit and told me it felt comfortable.

Under Armour mouth pieces are available on bitetech.com there are several types including one for people with braces. The Armourbite I reviewed her is latex free.

You can find Bitetech on the following social media channels:

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Donate to a Great Cause Get a Dollar for Dollar Reward

**This is a sponsored post from Causora. Giveaway is sponsored by Causora**

UPDATE: This site no longer exists. All links have been removed

I try to donate to charities as much as I can. With a family of 6 on a budget it’s hard for me to donate the money I would like to. I try to donate things like extra coupon stock, food for food drives, things like that. I’d really love to be able to give more monetary donations though to some charities that move me. Sometimes though I have some money and I think well Christmas is coming up, or so and so’s birthday is coming up and I’m gonna need money for that.

What if you could donate a monetary donation and get a dollar for dollar reward back in return? You can now with Causora. There are celebs involved with Causora as well like Marc Anthony and William Shatner just to name a couple. To get a better idea of how Causora works, check out this short video:

There are a number of causes on the site to donate to right now. Some of the include Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation, Help Victim’s of the Philipines Typhoon Haiyan, Children of War Foundation, Cure Alzheimer’s Foundation and more. (When you look at the causes, be sure to click the “all” tab to make sure you see all the charities you can donate to) You can even create your own cause if you know a cause.

Initially the rewards part I had trouble with. I thought, isn’t the idea of giving to charity something to do because you want to, not because you’re being rewarded? BUT in watching the video and reading over the site, charities like the Red Cross are happy to be involved with this because they feel it’s a way to give back to their donors. Also, the rewards are for socially conscious companies like NOVICA, The Bouqs (both of which I’ve reviewed before and LOVED) Evolue Beauty and more. One of my new discoveries in looking over the site is Uncovet which has hand made and socially conscious goods so really not only are you donating to charity but you’re also supporting a company or artist that gives back or is eco-friendly as well. When you sign up for Causora you also get a $5 credit in your account to use towards your charity choice. If you donate $20, you get $20 in rewards back. Pretty good huh?

You can also find Causora on these social media channels:

Twitter: @causora

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I really like the idea of the site and I’m so excited to be able to work with Causora . They have generously sponsored a giveaway here to with 9 winners! YES 9!!

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