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IHOP National Pancake Day: March 1, 2011 Free Pancakes With Donation to Children's Miracle Network

Mmmmm, pancakes...it's what's for dinner, at our house (a lot!) especially, when supporting a really great cause!

Join IHOP to celebrate National Pancake Day, TODAY -- Tuesday, March 1, 2011 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP will give you one free short stack (three) buttermilk pancakes.

GREAT -- but, what's the catch?

All IHOP asks is that you consider making a donation to support local children's hospitals through Children's Miracle Network, or other local charities.

Now, feel free to go and share some pancake love!

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Disclosure:  No payment was received for this blog post.  Why?  Because, supporting local children's hospitals is just a really nice thing to do.

Foodie Tuesday: Breakfast Pear & Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich Feed the Need With DonateFruit.com

You like pears?  How about bacon?  Or, cheese, you like cheese?  How about all 3, melded together?!?

So, I was looking for a pear recipe (bacon and cheese were a bonus) and happened on NaumesFruitGifts.com.

The Naumes Family has been growing fruit for 100 years, expanding to 21 farms located in 3 states -- Oregon, California and Washington.

Here's the REALLY cool, part.

They also offer their customers an opportunity to give back with their Donate Fruit gift program -- Naumes Fruit Gifts will match every purcahse, pound for pound, with a donation of fresh fruit to a food bank.

My youngest (she's 9) and I are the pear lovers in our family, so I've been cruising through their website's recipes and drooling over the Breakfast Pear & Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich nearly shorted my laptop!

Pears AND bacon, who knew?

LINKY LOVE BYTES:

Naumes Fruit Gifts Website (http://www.naumesfruitgifts.com); Naumes Fruit Gifts Blog (http://naumesnews.com/); Naumes Fruit Gifts on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/naumesfruitgift); Naumes Fruit Gifts on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/naumesfruitgift)

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The Small Gray-ish Print:  No payment, product, or any other consideration, besides a chance to share stuff I think families (like mine) would like, was received for this blog post. 

 

 

 

HEALTHY HALLOWEEN SNACKS: California Raisin Spooky Spider Recipe

California Raisin Spooky Spiders

Halloween is just around the corner (no, my two youngest STILL don't have their costumes..DANGIT!) I like to cook, but often find it hard to fit in (don’t we all!) so, the good folks at California Raisins thought this might be a perfect time to send along a fun (and healthy) recipe that the kids and I could make together and, you know, get in the Halloween spirit.

Yes, it is THAT EASY!

The Barilla Family Dinner Project: Martina McBride and Celebrity Chef Mario Batali "Share the Table"

Piccolini® Mini Farfalle with Sausage Peppers and Pecorino

My maternal grandmother passed away on October 10, 2003 (a couple of months after I started my parenting blog, in fact) and -- especially, toward the end of her life -- I would often times take her to the doctor, or the occasional emergency room visit, with all 4 of my kids in tow.

She lived with my parents and they were both still working full-time jobs, at the time.

Still, I know my parents appreciated all the support they could get and programs like Meals on Wheels really helped, too.

Barilla is giving us the chance to Share the Table and fantastic kid-friendly recipes, like Piccolini® Mini Farfalle with Sausage Peppers and Pecorino (pictured above) and give back to people in need!

Because, nice matters and hunger sucks -- here's how it works:

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Club BK Giveaway

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With 4 kids in school, full-time for the last 10 years, my kids have brought home A LOT of books and quite a few of them have found their way back to the library, too.

 "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" is most definitely one of our favorite children's books and I was very sorry to have remembered to, you know, give back.

Then, the good folks representing Burger King (BK for short) sent us one and, well, we can't wait to see the movie and are super hungry to share it with you!

Why?

National Eat Together Week: Ways to Give Back as a Family

I know, I know, what with field hockey, soccer, girl scouts and back-to-school nights, as if eating together, let alone sitting down, was ever that easy, right?

Still, all four of my kids look forward to visiting my parents and celebrating, what they like to call, "Sunday Chicken Soup with Mama."  It's really one of the very few times when my family gets a chance to slow down and disconnect from all the crazy, just for a little while and, well, my mother's a wicked good cook!

Now, we get the chance to give a little bit of that warmth back by doing something nice, for someone else, for a change.

In fact, America’s pork producers, in partnership with Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief charity, are making it easy to “click for a cause”.

Beginning at midnight Sunday, Sept. 20, for every recipe printed or shared from the special National Eat Together Week section on TheOtherWhiteMeat.com, America’s pork producers will donate five pounds of pork (or about 25 meals) to a food bank in need.

So, how can we help?

Help Raise $1,000 for My Local Food Bank with Lunchables!!!

This Full House is proud to partner with the Lunchables team to help promote the Lunch Note Promise campaign.

Why?

Growing up, our family was no stranger to hunger.

Today, I'm not ashamed to admit that we lived a frugal life and that my parents chose to accept the charity of strangers, to ensure that their children would never know that kind of hunger.

Now, with 1 simple click, I'm getting the chance to give a little kindness back and would love to share it with you!

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP:  

The Lunchables team is asking parents and caregivers nationwide to promise to drop a note of encouragement into their child’s lunch.

For every parent that logs onto www.lunchnotepromise.com to make that promise, the Lunchables team will donate a meal to children and families in need through Feeding America, which serves an estimated nine million children each year. 

The goal is to turn 100,000 promises into up to 100,000 meals.

HELP ME RAISE $1,000 FOR MY LOCAL FOOD BANK:

• Make a promise on www.lunchnotepromise.com

• Leave a comment that lists what number the promise was – “I was promise number 12,003 on www.lunchnotepromise.com”

• For each comment, Lunchables will donate $5 to my local Feeding America food bank - The Foodbank of Ocean and Monmouth Counties – up to $1,000 or 200 comments!

Because, nice matters and hunger sucks!!!

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Share A Little Comfort: Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is Feeding America, One Box at a Time!

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My good friends at Weber Shandwick [waves to Caroline] asked us to participate and weigh in (figuratively speaking, of course!) in Americas Frank Feedback, knowing that we loves us some hot dogs.  Especially my 10-year-old son, with lots and lots of ketchup!  He puts ketchup on EVERYTHING and even eats his macaroni and cheese with lots and lots of ketchup.  Yes, it IS pretty gross and totally unappetizing as it sounds AND watch!

Oh, and Oscar Mayer was all sorts of AWESOME and offered to sponsor our Memorial Day backyard barbecue.  But, the kids and I got sick with the creeping crud.  ICK!  So, we postponed our family barbecue to yesterday and spent it with my parents at their place.  Our family had a great time (thank you, Oscar Mayer!) and even the sun decided to show up (about gosh-darned time!) just in time to help us celebrate my twin brother's 40-something-ish birthday party.  Oh, yeah and mine too.

It just warms my 40-something-ish heart when my children choose to take full advantage of a quiet moment to do something (ANYTHING!) together.  Kicking back during the summertime and hanging out in our backyard is perhaps the closest our family gets to, you know, roughing it and it's comforting to know that the good folks at Oscar Mayer are doing their best to help families (like mine) give a little something back, as well.

That's why I am THRILLED to tell you about this awesome new campaign sponsored by Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. 

I can't think of anything that goes better with a hot dog, than a big old honking bowl of macaroni and cheese. 

Can you? 

Especially, since I am a big supporter of Feeding America (via Community Food Bank of New Jersey) I would love to be able to share the gift of a little comfort with you, too!

Why?

To quote one of our favorite Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Mouse:

"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted!"

Aaaaand it's how we roll, really.