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Smooze Fruit Ice + Giveaway!

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When Isaac was going through his major swallowing issues, I was looking for something, ANYTHING that he would eat. He’d just been discharged from hospital after contracting a bad ‘flu and losing weight, so I was at my wits end.

Enter Smooze Fruit Ices – found in the dessert section of the supermarket (where I was also picking up custard and jelly) I thought they would be interesting to trial.

They were, frankly, delicious.

After we’d eaten two whole boxes of them, I contacted the company to tell them how much I loved it and together, we worked out a way for you, dear Internet, to share in the love.

Smooze is made out fruit puree and coconut milk and each ice-cream is around 60 calories – making them a perfect summer treat.

They’ve been amazing for my morning sickness (which is the reason this giveaway didn’t go live sooner) and the children have been asking me to buy them more.

I’m a fan.

And because I’m a fan, Smooze are offering to give one lucky reader a whole mixed carton of Smooze (6 boxes).

Delicious, right?

All you need to do to enter is tell me who would be eating the Smooze in your house.


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Blackmores Vitamins

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Way back, a very very long time ago (as Amy would say), I attended the Bloggers Brunch and received some vitamins from Blackmores to trial. Now, I could have written about it in the first week of taking the vitamins, but I figured I would take them for a while and see what I thought, and then report back. I wasn’t procrastinating, I was researching.

Actually, I filmed a vlog about Blackmores a month ago, but I did it outside and the wind noise was bad and I never got around to editing it properly. So now I’m catching up.

I received a range of stuff to try, fish oil for the kids, regular multivitamins for Nat and I, etc etc.

Look, I love Blackmores products anyway. Given the budget, I will always choose their stuff in the supermarket.

Reporting back on the products I got:

Conception vitamins: I haven’t conceived yet, but I can’t blame the vitamins for that. Instead it’s my sucky body’s fault. I’m still taking the vitamins regularly, just in case, but I’ve spent the last few months catching every virus going around, so I can’t tell you if they’re making me feel healthier.

Women’s bio balance: AWESOME. I get thrush, a lot (overshare? Maybe) and it drives me batty. I eat a lot of yogurt and I always have canesten in the medicine cabinet, but the women’s bio balance has to be the best thing I’ve ever taken. I take a tablet a day, or two tablets if I forget for a week and then get thrush and it sorts everything out immediately. I am just about out of tablets and these are the ones I will be buying for myself every month, come hell or high water. Probably both, given the way the world is going.

Women’s multivitamin: I keep forgetting to take it. ‘Nuff said. Sorry guys. I bet it’s awesome.

Stress complex thing: (I should go and get the box and tell you what it is properly, but that would break my train of thought.) I kept forgetting I had this one, which is a shame, as the last few weeks saw me with homicidal PMS and I bet my family would have preferred I wasn’t screaming at them. I have remembered a few times and it does calm me down, while also giving me a burst of energy (yay B vitamins) and this is probably the one I need to take immediately every morning. I need all of the energy I can get.

Kids Fish Oil: This one was great, until my kids decided that they were going to steal the bottle and eat all of the fish oil at once. Plus side: It didn’t poison them, or make them sick. Downside: I then didn’t have any fish oil to dole out over the month and report back on. PS, I need a locking medicine cabinet.

Conclusion:

Blackmores is pretty cool and I like their vitamins.

 

 

Table of Plenty, Mini Rice Cakes

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Amy was a little bit thrilled, that on the morning of her birthday earlier this month, we received a box of goodies in the mail from Table of Plenty. Their new range of mini-rice cakes are chocolate coated and the kids thought they were great.

In the interest of reviewing these properly, I made everyone who came into my house for the next week try them. Unanimously, it was found that they were a) delicious and b) not expecting something that nice and c) rice cakes and chocolate sound super weird, but taste surprisingly good.

I was also a fan, the only problem I had was they arrived on the first Monday of school holidays and didn’t last all that long. I can imagine that they would be excellent lunch box treats though.

At $3.99 a packet, they’re a bit out of my price range, but if I see them on special at any stage in the future, I’ll buy them again. You can find them in your local Coles supermarket.

She Tea: Love Blend

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It’s no secret that I love tea. I like to mix and match, choosing what I am drinking based on my mood (and my nausea). I am amassing quite a decent collection of teas and Nathan keeps getting grumpy with me, because there are packets and samples and little boxes all strewn in a corner of the kitchen.

What? I’m not the most organised person!

When I was offered a chance to review the new Love blend from She Tea (a company that I have raved about before), I was happy about it.

Love contains white tea, blueberry, blackcurrant leaves, elderberries, apple, strawberry leaves, blue mallow flowers, hibiscus, sweet Chinese apricot kernals, & rosehip.

Different enough to black tea to be interesting and I wasn’t disappointed, it was very interesting, in a very good way.

I love tea and Love is soothing and delicious. Quite a decent addition to my collection methinks!

Gippsland Dairy Yogurt

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I bought myself Gippsland Dairy Yogurt at the supermarket yesterday, because it was on special ($4 for a large container, at Coles) and loved it so much at breakfast this morning that I wanted to tell you how much I loved it.

If you’re ever in the supermarket and trying to make a choice between Gippsland Dairy and any other yogurt, PICK THIS ONE. I bought strawberry twist and as I write this, Isaac is being rather silent, eating an entire bowl of it (and requesting more – now).

Thick and creamy and absolutely delicious.

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I was not paid to write this post, nor did I even receive a sample to try. I bought the yogurt myself and when I tasted it, I wanted to tell everyone how great I thought it was, because I can. So there.