Protect Your Home and Keep Your Family Powered Up with a Champion Generator-Giveaway

November 30, 2017 by Kathryn 162 Comments

About a month ago, my family moved into the newly built house that my husband and I have been labouring over for the last five months. It sits on six acres of beautiful prairie land in a subdivision just outside Saskatoon, and is everything we dreamed it would be.

For the most part, everything about the move has been wonderful. But even though we’re in a subdivision, we are still technically on a rural property. And that comes with some challenges. We waited for an Internet connection for over five weeks. We have a septic system instead of a sewer line. And, being in a rural area, I know that power outages are going to be much more common.

Luckily, Champion Power Equipment has come to the rescue to help me ensure a power outage doesn’t mean it’s lights out for the family! The company sent me its 3000-Watt Generator featuring a gasoline-powered 196cc engine and 4000 starting Watts to help ensure that even if our house loses power, we’ll be able to function. [Read more…]

Enjoy Great Meals for the Whole Family with Trudeau Fuel Lunch Containers-Giveaway

September 7, 2016 by Kathryn 110 Comments

If there’s one thing that can make the tedious job of packing lunches easier and more enjoyable, it’s great containers. A bento-style box for snack lovers, a salad bowl with a built-in dressing tub, leak-proof containers that actually live up to their name…no matter what type of lunch a family loves best, the right products make packing those lunches so much easier!

That’s why I was so excited to discover Trudeau Fuel lunch gear this year. These innovative products offer handy lunch solutions for kids and adults alike. I received a variety of Trudeau Fuel portable meal containers to check out and I couldn’t wait to put them to the test.

My personal favourite product was the Trudeau Fuel Salad To Go Container. Not only did this clever salad bowl have a built-in dressing tub, it also featured a unique cooler lid to ensure that vegetables stayed crisp all day long. My fiancé often takes salads for his supper when he’s away on a train, so having a way to keep that salad tasting fresh for hours was ideal. I simply popped the lid in the freezer so that it was ready when needed. Then, after making a salad in the bowl, I snapped the frozen lid on top! [Read more…]

Eating Healthy With Kids While on the Road

June 21, 2016 by Kathryn 1 Comment

Summer is coming, along with summer vacations and travel. Traveling with kids is challenging whether you’re going for a day trip or a week-long vacation, and one of the major issues is what to feed the little ones while on the road. Here are six great tips for keeping your kids fed when you’re away from home.

Use Your Travel Cooler

This is an important tool to have in your arsenal. Choose a small personal-sized cooler if you have one or two children, but if you have three or more go for a full-sized cooler. Skip the loose ice cubes and keep your cooler cold and mess-free with commercial ice packs or frozen water bottles. You can keep dairy snacks and filled baby bottles cool all day, and chill fruits, veggies and dip for maximum enjoyment in the summer heat. For added cooling power, freeze juice boxes the night before your trip. They will melt slowly and help keep your cooler cold to boot.

Bring Your Gear

If you have infants or toddlers, you probably have special feeding gear that you always use at home. Instead of packing up everything from home, consider buying duplicates of favorite bowls, cups, and utensils for traveling. Other travel-friendly gear you may not have include spill-free snack cups you can use to serve dry cereal, chips, small berries, and other snacks to kids while in their car seats, and spill-proof cups. If you have older babies and toddlers, look for cups with straws as these are easier to drink from when your kids are held in a reclining position in a car seat. [Read more…]

Layered Bean Salad with Tuna and Feta is Perfect Picnic Fare

July 26, 2015 by Kathryn 41 Comments

In less than a week, the closing date for my house sale will be here and I’ll be saying goodbye to my childhood home forever. Having lived in the same house almost my entire life, it’s an emotional time for me. But it’s also a busy one since the house has accumulated so much over the years. And between packing, throwing out garbage and giving away items I’m not putting into storage, I don’t really have the time or utensils to cook proper meals at the moment.

Luckily for me, Kraft Canada came to the rescue with some incredible portable picnic recipe ideas! The recipes are quick and easy to whip up, can be eaten quickly or taken on the road and, best of all, require hardly any cooking! I decided to put a twist on a popular recipe on the website: Layered Bean Salad with Feta. While it’s a hearty enough salad to be a meal already, I need all the energy I can get at the moment. Adding tuna was the perfect way to make this tasty salad even healthier and more filling!

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Holiday Music Sounds Better with a LuguLake Bluetooth Speaker Stand-Giveaway

December 1, 2014 by Kathryn 217 Comments

I love listening to music on my phone, but finding a convenient way to share it with others isn’t always so easy. And now that Christmas is coming up, I’m even more motivated to find a way to blast some music; it is Christmas carol season after all! The LuguLake Bluetooth Speaker Stand looked like a great solution for a music-lover like me and recently I had the chance to review it and see for myself how it worked.

This speaker uses Bluetooth technology to wirelessly connect to my smartphone and comes in three stylish colours: coffee, silver and blue. I received the brown speaker and it looked amazing in my dark brown living room. The speaker is sleek and stylish, which is always a plus for me, and is designed to double as a stand for smartphones and tablets! [Read more…]