Healthy Choice An Easy Choice

I recently had the opportunity through +Crowdtap to try the product Healthy Choice Baked Taste.  For the past year I have been trying to watch my weight and dieting is just not my thing!  Through trial and error I decided I will just try  to make better choices in my eating habits and I was excited to try the New Healthy Choice Baked Taste.

Which one to choose!

I ran out to the store with my dollar off coupon, thanks to +Crowdtap and Healthy Choice, in hand and ended up buying four different meals.  I purchased the Four Cheese Ziti Marinara, Lasagna, Roasted Chicken and Potatoes, and Fettuccini Alfredo Bake.  The last one was for my husband who is a big fan of Alfredo sauce!  I was  looking forward to trying the Lasagna!

A Healthy Choice Lunch!

I was so excited to try my Lasagna only to realize as I reached into the freezer that my husband took it to work the day before! He said it was delicious and highly recommended it to me to try.....which I will the next time I go to the store! This time I am going to hide it so I can try it myself!  I looked at the other Healthy choice products in my freezer and realized someone had also eaten the Roasted Chicken and Potatoes and after asking around my son confessed to eating it for lunch the day before...teenagers nothing is safe in the freezer!  He told me it was really good and said he would eat it again.... high praise coming from my son!   So my choice was narrowed down for me!  I tried the Four Cheese Ziti Mrinara!

I prepared my lunch as directed and while it was cooking I got out one of my favorite veggies to eat with my meal, Sugar Snap Peas.  I also pulled out my clementine and for dessert a Healthy Choice frozen Greek Yogurt!  A very Healthy lunch!

I always have dinner companions !

Hubby trying the Ziti!

I have to say that the Four Cheese Ziti Marinara was yummy!  I am always a bit leery when it comes to frozen pasta meals because they tend to be either bland or taste too much like tomato but this really was delicious!  I liked the fact that the Marinara sauce had a bit of spice to it and the noodles were cooked just right not too rubbery or hard but just like I cooked them on the stove.  I also like the cheese that was in the Ziti I could taste it but it did not overpower the meal.  Overall I felt it was a great Healthy Choice for my lunch and I can not wait to try the Lasagna next!

BENJAMIN MOORE AURA® WATERBORNE INTERIOR PAINT REVIEW!

Picasso I am not but when I got the opportunity to try out a gallon of Benjamin Moore Aura paint I jumped at the chance!  I have been wanting to redo my living room from the "lovely" country blue theme and move into the new century and this gave me a great reason!

So Many Color Choices!

Now came the hardest part for me....Picking the color!  I was tired of pale and country blue and I wanted to go with something that was rich in color yet neutral enough to go with what I already had in the room.  After days and days of deliberation I decided to go with the color Carob which is a rich brown color that would look great with my cream colored furniture and eggshell trim.

Paint day arrived and first I had to patch up several holes and some of them were whoppers!  My son had a major accident while carrying a computer desk chair with the wheel deciding to detour though the wall rather then his door.  When all that completed finally to the paint.

Patching up the wall!

I was shocked when I went to the store to use my free coupon to see what the bill would have been if I did not have my coupon thanks to Bzzagent!  I thought this paint has a lot to live up to!

Gotta love the 90's Country blue!

Love the rich color!

when applying the paint I was shocked that I was not immediately overwhelmed with the normal "paint" chemical smell!  I was also amazed that as I painted that it went on so smoothly and that it covered so evenly I realized I would not need a second coat and it dried in about twenty minutes! Amazing!  My walls became a rich milk chocolate brown that I knew would breath new life into my living room!





Would I recommend this product to a friend? Yes I would I love it!  The only concern I had is the cost. So you have to out weigh the initial cost with the fact that you do not have to purchase a primer and the fact that this product makes painting a breeze!

I need to find great accessories like these!

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I Am So Glad It's Glade!

I recently had the opportunity through Bzzagent to tryout the new Glade Expressions! Needless to say I was very excited, I am always looking for creative ways to improve the "natural" scent of my home and Glade is a  product I had always used in the past. I could not wait to try their newest product!

So many choices!

I quickly took my coupons to the store to get my Glade Expressions I stared at the choices and finally decided on the fragrance mist, Cotton & Italian Mandarin and Oil Diffuser, Fiji Apple & Cardamon Spice!


I can not tell you how much my family enjoys both scents!  The Fragrance Mist when sprays brings an instant  scent of Ahhhhh.... As my son would say!  The scent is pleasant and one of my favorites I am of fan of scents that are not too flowery or "perfumey" I love it and I love the subtle "clean" aroma that fills the air when I use this product!  I also love the fact that it is refillable which helps to reduce the cost of my next purchase!

Placed among the honored "Browns Bobble Head"

My daughter eagerly opened the Oil Diffuser and put it together and placed it on top of our piano in the living room.  The Fiji Apple & Cardamon scent is amazing!  I love that it is a subtle scent that does not overpower the room!  It is like an afterthought....and I mean that in a good way!  I walk through my living room even two weeks after opening the diffuser and I think..."what is that smell?" I realize that it is the Glade Expressions and it fills the room with a gentle pleasant scent!

On of our main reasons we love Glade Expressions!

 I really would recommend these products to family and friends they are pleasing scents incorporated into tasteful designs that can decorate your home as well provide a delicate aroma!


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Brand X With Russell Brand!

 I recently had a viewing party through Crowdtap of  Brand X with Russell Brand a new show on the network FX !  I gathered some of my family and friends over at my daughters new apartment to watch the show.

Getting ready to laugh! LOL!

To help us get in the mood for the show we all walked down the street to the coffee shop to watch open mic night. We watched a not so great comedian, my Daughter played the piano and sang ( wonderful) and my husband actually performed a few magic tricks!  Yes I am married to a magician and have a musician daughter!  Now we were in the mood for some good comedy!

Let the "kids" pick the snacks and you
end up with pizza rolls and cake! Yum!

Sporting a "Brand" vest!

Back at the apartment we ate some great snacks and performed our best Russell Brand impersonations!  Not all of them very good.  My son however has a sense of humor we call "Under the Radar" because he manages to say something very subtle to get us rolling!

He looks very Russell Brand ish!

son doing his Tebow wearing the
shirt that makes me cringe!

We then watched some very funny Russell Brand X clips on the FX website....did I say very funny!  My kids loved the Tim Tebow clip as my son is an avid football fan and does the best Tim Tebow impersonation! (At least in my opinion!)



We are now primed to watch the premier!  When the show started I was a little leery because I was unsure what to expect but as I watched I was pleasantly surprised!  We laughed throughout the show and since my son's name is Joe he immediately sympathized with Joe the man from the audience that Russell Brand picked on throughout the show!  My husband really enjoyed seeing Ryan Hurst on the show because he is a huge fan of Son's of anarchy and I got a kick out of seeing Cletus Hogg!


Over all we all thought the show was humorous and glad that is was rather easy to laugh with!  It was not tooo political or too serious it was a great half hour escape from reality!  My friends and family enjoyed it so much that they all stated they would tell their friends to watch it too!

Progresso....Recipe Starters...So Easy!

I recently got to try Progresso's new Creamy Portabella Mushroom Sauce through Bzzagent!  Let me tell you I was nervous at first because my son and I are not huge mushroom fans so we were a bit skeptical that we would enjoy this meal but we love to try new things!

I decided I would try the Recipe Starter in the crockpot with several chicken breast that I had just purchased.  I am always cooking in the crockpot during the week and so I really wanted to see how well this sauce would work.


I was amazed!  The chicken came out moist and delicious and the sauce great!  My fear of mushrooms was put to rest when I tasted the sauce it was flavorful but the taste was not so overpowering that I could not enjoy my meal.  I made a bed of egg yolk noodles for the chicken and sauce and to tell you how good it was there were no left overs!  My son ended up eating three helping of just the chicken so his initial hesitation turned into ravenous hunger once the first taste test was completed!

Thank Progresso and Bzzagent I am already looking into all the great recipe ideas I have seen online to try the next great Progresso Recipe Starter.  I am thinking Creamy Roasted Garlic Sauce would be great with chicken and rice!





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Maria harrison - YouTube

I want to share my daughter's YouTube channel she really has a beautiful voice! Of course I could be biased!  Listen, like, share, and subscribe.
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Maria harrison - YouTube

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