Oh, I shouldn’t forget to tell you that I am a big fan of seafood. Both my husband and Jaihari are picky eaters in seafood as they don’t like to eat it with bones in. I love to cook Fish or Shrimp. It always give delicious taste if you gonna cook it bone in as you get stock from the bone during cooking proposes.

I also love to grab something easy and fast to toss seafood straight from the oven. The best  brand to cook from scratch and make elaborate meals for your whole family by creating your own  recipes is SeaPak. You don’t have to be creative to make own recipes with Seapak frozen foods. You’ll find more simple recipes that save your time and money in their website. I also received Seapak recipe booklet and found healthy food
Both  myhubby and Jaihari love SeaPak Popcorn Shrimp as they are kid friendly, perfect no-hassle way to bring the taste of the coast home for the whole family to enjoy. Ready to bake and easy to coat this whole tail-off shrimp with a light, crisp, Japanese-style breading that’s sure to please. And because this shrimp includes a healthy dose of Omega-3s and vitamin D per serving, you can feel good about serving it. 12-ounce and 20-ounce packages. It comes in  big resealable bag and you can get fresh taste.

Popcorn Shrimp Nachos

Directions

PREHEAT oven to 450°F.
PREPARE the shrimp according to package directions.
SEASON the tomato with salt to taste and set aside.
PLACE chips into a 9″ x 13″ baking dish. Sprinkle half the cheese over the chips. Drizzle with barbecue sauce. Scatter shrimp and jalapenos over chips then sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and bake until cheese melts and nachos are golden on top, about 10 minutes.
SCATTER the tomatoes and scallions over the nachos and serve immediately with additional sauce and sour cream.
Recipe courtesy of the Food Network Kitchens.

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I can say that Bella Viva Orchards is the best selling organic dried fruits. They are freshly made and sell exceptional fresh and dried fruit, nuts and chocolate to loyal customers at our stands in northern California’s celebrated farmer’s markets, in select restaurants and to their online customers across the country.

Quality is of utmost importance to us here at Bella Viva. Growing the fruit that we dry and market enables them to have complete control over the fruit quality from the initial growing phase on through the final packaging and delivery.

I am very sure you’ll love what I received California’s Organic Gift Basket for review. It is environmentally friendly gift basket filled with organic,  sustainably grown dried fruits from our farm in California and an organic sparkling tangerine juice. This organic dried fruit and sparkling tangerine is all packaged in one of  their hand crafted peach-wood boxes made from an old peach tree from our orchard.

What’s in it?

Contains 6 different bags of organic fruits, nuts, & beverage (6
lbs)
8 oz Organic White Nectarines
8 oz Organic Pears
8 oz Organic
Yellow Peaches
16oz Organic Bing Cherries
16oz Organic Thompson Raisins

16oz Organic Almonds
750 ml Organic Sparkling Tangerine (by Santa Cruz
Organic)

Bella Viva Orchards neatly organised large portion sizes of the dried fruit and nuts in hand crafted peach-wood boxes. It’s easy for us to munch each dried fruit and nuts in moderation daily to maintain healthy. It has succulent taste of fresh fruits that we get it in season. We know a variety of dried fruit & nuts have the benefits of different nutrients.

I cant wait to make my own trail mix with a variety of nuts in my cereal and yogurt parfait. It gives me energy and also keeps me full longer during my breastfeeding. You can also find recipes in their website. Now, I am thinking of making load with variety of dried fruits and nuts to give chewy in texture.

If you are searching for healthy and environmentally friendly gifts, I would suggest to try any of thier fruit tray or basket. Then you’ll understand its unique aspects as it was at one time a tree in their orchards producing the exceptional fruit we all get to enjoy!

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Eating small portion of any seafood is so expensive in seafood restaurant. No need to sacrifice for your kids to buy it in restaurant. First try few varieties of delicious seafood that Gorton’s offers. Eating fish every week is a healthy choice. I bet you’ll be tempted to eat more. Go ahead to eat delicious and nutritious meal that can improve your diet. Both my husband and Jaihari are picky eaters in Seafood. They’ll take few pieces from me just to taste it in restaurant.

Thank you to Gorton’s giving this chance to try their product line. They liked it lot which is a good thing for me. I can cook it from  scratch in no time. It’s packed with  NEW Resealable Bags and keep them fresh. Have you  visited their recipe gallery?
Cheesy Fish Fillet Broccoli Casserole is super easy to cook with  frozen chopped broccoli, milk, cheddar cheese soup, cheddar cheese and Parmesan cheese. Jaihari refused to eat cooked broccoli. It’s easy way to hide veggies and give it a healthy boost.

You can find Gorton’s coupons, promotions, and special offers. Gorton’s promotions & coupons page changes frequently so make sure you visit often for great savings on your favorite seafood.

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I was happy to be selected to participate in the DailyBuzz MomsTastemaker campaign. They send me the Brita bottle, Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, and Glad To Go containers, courtesy of The Clorox Company!

I dont want Jaihari to drink tape water in his school as it is not good for health. I gave Reusable Brita Water Bottle to him and so he can fill it up and drink it. It has bottle filters to make the water taste better.

I want Jaihari to keep Clorox Disinfecting Wipes in his bag to clean his desk when his classmates sneeze. He told me that he don’t need it as he already had it in his school. Now, my husband kept it in his office desk.

Glad will help to pack lunch a snap with a sample of their new Glad to Go container with a snap-in dressing cup. Your kids can enjoy soup, snacks or their favorite dressings. Sometimes Jaihari may not like his menu for his lunch. It is so coneneient to pack some healthy snacks in this container for his mid afternoon snack.

This post is part of a DailyBuzz Moms Tastemaker program in partnership with Clorox.  The opinions above are 100% my own.

Vegetable Leader Whips Up Good Luck Food Awareness for a Cause
Allens, Inc. Share Your Luck To Benefit Winner & The Ocean Conservancy

Allens Inc., a national leader in canned and frozen vegetables since 1926, announces Share Your Luck Sweepstakes benefitting Ocean Conservancy and one lucky winner. The campaign, designed to bring awareness to traditional good luck food such as greens and blackeyed peas, will reward one lucky consumer with a $2500 cash prize, while also donating $1500 to Ocean Conservancy in an effort to protect our oceans and improve our lives.  Consumers can enter online at ILoveAllens.com and Facebook.com/AllensVeggies now through March 31.

Ocean Conservancy is a non-profit advocacy group that promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems. In that the traditional south believes in the value of good luck food, the tie inbetween the south, the oceans and good luck in 2012 seemed very logical to all of us at Allens, shares David Brown, Vice President of Retail Sales, Allens, Inc.  The Share Your Luck Sweepstakes also helps us to remind our consumers that we remain dedicated to helping our community, the areas that our loyal consumers live and the environment overall.

The practice of eating good luck foods on New Years Eve and New Years Day is commonly observed throughout the South and around the country as a fun superstition. Traditions vary from culture to culture, but there are striking similarities in what’s consumed throughout the United States. Specifically, however, the blackeyed peas are thought to bring prosperity, especially when served with collard greens and other greens variations which are thought to bring wealth and money.

Allens, a company based in Arkansas, offers a range of good luck vegetables and recipes enlisting good luck vegetables for good luck planning.  Consumers are invited to visit ILoveAllens.com recipes as well as more information on the sweepstakes, overall.

About Allens Inc.
Allens Inc., a national leader in canned and frozen vegetables since 1926, is family-owned and operated in Siloam Springs, AR. Every Allens vegetable is proudly grown and packed in North America. Allens vegetables are sold nationally and internationally with 11 manufacturing plants throughout the U.S. in Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, New York and Wisconsin.

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Want to save even more when shopping at Kroger? Purchase any four participating General Mills products* that your family knows and loves and Kroger will reward you for your purchases. It’s that simple! Head to your local Kroger to take advantage of this great offer:

• From November 13th through November 26th, with the purchase of any four participating General Mills products, you will either receive free milk (up to $3; limit of 2) or to receive $3 off your shopping order**
• Look for some of your favorite participating General Mills products like Cheerios, Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookies, Nature Valley Bars and Fiber One Bars
• Promotion varies in different locations. Please be sure to check your local Kroger Co. Family of Stores for specific deals and offers which include Kroger, Ralphs, King Scoopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith’s, Fry’s, QFC, Baker’s, Owen’s, Jay C Food Stores, Hilander, Gerbes, Food4Less, Fred Meyer, Pay Less Supermarkets and Scott’s Food & Pharmacy

*Excludes General Mills meal and baking products including; Betty Crocker, Old El Paso, Progresso, Hamburger Helper, Macaroni Grill, Wanchai Ferry, Yoplait
**Promotion varies based on store location; check your local Kroger store for details (Cash Offer: Mid South, Delta, Mid Atlantic, SW Louisiana stores, Central Missouri stores and Dillons Missouri stores)

I often check deals in their weekly ad and shop at Kroger. We used $25 gift card to purchase Cheerios, Pillsbury Cookie and Natural Valley bar to get free milk. You can also buy  your favorite items to get free milk.

Disclosure: The Kroger gift card, information, and giveaway have been provided by Kroger and General Mills through MyBlogSpark.

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We love to see beautiful glimpse of Christmas Food Gift Basket when it is arrived here. It is very  nicely packed and  made us  feel that Santa brought us Christmas treats, whoohoo.

This Christmas basket is  very attractive with artificial flower and its pretty red and green raffia ribbon. We can use wood basket often to cover muffin, bread and other pastries. I love it doesn’t have its handle to carry as I want it to sit beautifully on the dinning table for welcoming guests.

Christmas Food Gift Basket is one of the most popular Christmas designs in GourmetGiftBaskets.com Give this excellent gift to someone you  love.

Each Christmas Basket contains a variety of award-winning gourmet snacks that appeal to a wide variety of tastes. With gourmet snacks including a chocolate covered cherries, dark chocolate bar, chocolate chip cookies, almond clustered popcorn, raspberry honey mustard pretzel dip along with pretzels and so much more!

We never tried at least any one of this snack before. My husband teased me that I will finish all of them  in 2 days. Both Jaihari and my husband opened it before letting me  know about it. They know that I am snack lover, both sweet and salty. I was crying to see empty buttered peanut crunch in the trash. I asked them why you both never allow me to try one  or two pieces.  He laughed and said that he took the packet’s cover with  some buttered peanut crunches, put it on the basket and throw its cover. Yipee! I had chance to try some

Now, I am inviting you to participate Military Donation program that GourmetGiftBaskets.com wants to donated to soldiers when you write a review in your blog about their Christmas gift selection and how they can be a great gift for someone.

They will donate two care packages for every Blog Post written about their Christmas Gifts selection. Please post between November 21^st and December 9^th.  Send me the URL to your blog post to me at rajee@momsfocusonline.com with the subject line as “Military Donation”. We want to make sure all the Care Packages being donated can reach the soldiers in time for Christmas.

Where To Buy

You  can shop for Christmas Gifts & Gift Baskets and  Kosher & Hanukkah Gift Baskets

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Exclusively available at Kroger, Fred Meyer and Ralphs stores (the Kroger Family of Stores), a wholesome, irresistible chocolate chip cookie your entire family will love.

I can’t wait to try new product that Kroger has introduced The Truly Awesome™ Homestyle Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Two boxes are on the dinning table. My husband wants some sweet treats after dinner. I asked him to open a box of He said that these cookies are packed nicely in a tray and covered it in aluminum foil. Wow, he said that it tasted like home made cookie. Yes, I said, it is homemade cookie with  no artificial colors and no preservatives. One cookie has lot of chocolate chip. You will find 8 cookies in a box. Each cookie has more chocolate  chips made from real, wholesome ingredients. Almost 2x the size of other chocolate chip cookies. It can be heated for a few seconds in the microwave to taste more like they just came out of the oven

Just hit shelves earlier this year at a retail price of $2.79.

Jaihari enjoy each  bite of it and ate slowly while watching some cartoon movies. He is  happy when we said that we will pack one or two cookie in aluminum foil to maintain its  freshness and put  them in  his  lunch box for his afternoon snack.

I want you to try this fresh  home style cookies. Please share your honest opinions, good or bad.  I think you can refund it if you  are not happy with it.
Disclosure: I received samples of Kroger’s The Truly Awesome Homestyle Chocolate Chip Cookies to review. Information and coupons were provided as part of a BzzAgent Campaign. All opinions provided in this post are honest and my own. I was not compensated monetarily for this review.

In our weekdays, kids will gather with their friends to play outdoors when there is no school. They used to come here to play with Jaihari. Sometimes, they ask him whether there is any snack here, something to sweeten their tooth. I know he will be looking it everywhere in the kitchen. We never keep candy in our house except Halloween Candies he collected. We would love to share with them to eat some Kashi TLC Peanutty Dark Chocolate Layered Granola Bars

Kashi’s products are natural, minimally processed, and free of highly refined sugars, artificial additives, and unnatural preservatives. Each Kashi TLC Peanutty Dark Chocolate Layered Granola Bar has 7 grams of fiber and 4 grams of protein, making it a delicious indulgence you can feel good about.

It has a good combination of sugar covering one side with dark chocolate and salt   in the other side of chewy granola bar,  YUM. Good to know both kids and adults can get 4 grams of protein with each bar. They can stay active and feel full longer instead of consuming high sugar candies with hydrogenated oils, synthetic colors, flavors and unnecessary preservatives.

Thanks to Moms Meet, I was provided with a selection of Kashi items that includes Kashi TLC Peanutty Dark Chocolate Layered Granola Bars , Kashi Cinnamon Harvest Cereal, and Kashi TLC Soft-Baked Ripe Strawberry Cereal Bars As a breastfeeding mom, it is a  healthy choice to grab these healthy treat and feel full with this bowl of Cinnamon Harvest Cereal.

Kashi Cinnamon Harvest Cereal wakes up sleepy taste buds with bite-sized organic whole-wheat biscuits, lightly sweetened and baked with real organic cinnamon. With the goodness of over 20 percent of your daily fiber requirements and over 2/3 of your daily recommended whole grain intake in each serving of Kashi ® CinnamonHarvest ® cereal, what’s not to love?

Kashi TLC Soft-Baked Ripe Strawberry Cereal Bars are baked up toasty baked up toasty and golden with real fruit and wild flower honey for natural goodness you can see and taste.

The Ripe Strawberry Cereal Bars offer up 3 grams of fiber and 11g of whole grains in each serving—making it an ideal morning or midday snack. Mix things up and microwave them for a few seconds to create the warm Mix things up and microwave them for a few seconds to create the warm taste of homemade pie.

For more than 25 years, Kashi has stood up for real food, offering a variety of naturally nutritious foods and educational resources for everyone to enjoy. Kashi is smart to provide healthful choices with the  nutrition, offering a variety of kid-friendly foods that give great taste to stay healthy and happy.

Disclaimer: I received this product for free from the sponsor of the Moms Meet program, May Media Group LLC, who received it directly from the manufacturer. As a Moms Meet blogger, I agreed to use this product and post my opinion on my blog. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of May Media Group LLC or the manufacturer of the product.

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