$50 Visa Gift Card Giveaway from ConAgra Foods!

I have a great new site for you guys to check out. ConAgra, makers of probably half the food in your pantry, has a site called The Dish. It’s a place for bloggers to get inspired about food posts, new products, recipes, money saving tips and so much more. For Food bloggers this can be a lifesaver when you’re in a foodie rut and your creative juices have dried up. Anyone, not just bloggers, can go check out their user friendly site and great articles.

For Bloggers, this site is a wealth of information. Not only do they have a list of panelists that you can personally contact with questions you have about building your blog, cooking advice, and kitchen tips, but when you become a member at their First Look, First Taste section, you have access to some great information. You will be able to get exclusive coupons, hear about new products before they even arrive at your grocery store, order samples for review on your blog, and more.

In the Seasonal Spotlight section you’ll be filled in on current food trends and so you can tell your readers about relevant products and foods that change with the seasons. In the Recipe Resource Section you’ll find access to top rated recipes using ConAgra products. If you want to build traffic to your blog, learn to maximize your social media networks or learn to create a paycheck from your love of blogging, you can visit the Ask Our Team section where you’ll find a panel of experts ready to respond to your questions.

So head on over to The Dish and sign up to be a new member and start requesting some product samples to check out. You can also follow them on Twitter @ConAgraDish. And check out this great article I came across from their May issue on snacks that can keep your kids happy. It will give you some good ideas for healthy treats for the kids during these last few weeks of summer.

But that’s not all I have to tell you. Here’s the kicker. Blogger or not, you have the chance to win a $50 Visa gift card from ConAgra Foods. It’s quick and easy and there are no strings attached. Here’s how you can enter to win - just tell me what section of The Dish you think is most useful.

Rules:

No duplicate comments.

You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:

a) Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post

b) Tweet about this promotion with hash tag #sweepstakes and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post

c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post

d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.

This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

The Official Rules are available here.

This sweepstakes runs from 8/22/2012-9/8/2012.

Be sure to visit ConAgra Foods' brand page on BlogHer.com where you can read other bloggers’ reviews and find more chances to win!

KIND Bar Giveaway!

I’ve got a fun giveaway for you this week. KIND, makers of healthy snack bars made from all natural ingredients, would like to give a 20 bar KIND cube away to one of my readers. It’s a value of $42.95 and one randomly chosen winner will get this delivered to their front door. These are new and aren’t even available for purchase yet. It includes -Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt, Cashew & Ginger Spice, Madagascar Vanilla Almond and Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Pecan. Their bars are yummy. I’ve picked one up at my local Starbucks and they are the perfect combo of sweet, salty and healthy.

And winner or not, everyone has the opportunity to receive KIND’s first-ever coupon offer that will be available starting Monday, July 30th as part of a “Say No to Secret Ingredients” promotion on KIND’s Facebook page. The first 100,000 people to sign up and pledge to say no to secret ingredients (like sugar alcohols and all those words you need to Google!) will receive a coupon redeemable at retail stores on the new KIND Nuts & Spices bars. You can go HERE to check out their facebook page and enter to receive the coupon.

To enter for the KIND cube giveaway, here are the rules.

Rules:

You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:

a) Leave a comment in response to the sweepstakes prompt on this post with your email address so I can contact you if you’re the winner.

b) Facebook about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post

This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me; otherwise a new winner will be selected. This giveaway runs from July 30, 2012 to midnight PST, August 1, 2012.

Good luck!

Slim-Fast $100 Gift Pack Giveaway!

Head on over to my Giveaway page for the newest freebie! It's a good one!

Giveaway!

I've got a brand new giveaway up at my Giveaway and Review page. Click on over and check it out and you could enter and win!

New Giveaways! Don't Miss Out!

Yahoo! I've got new giveaways up on my product and review page. Come check it out HERE.

And The Winner Is...

We have a winner! Go check out the product and review page to see if you won the Nifty Nappy Organic Diaper Giveaway and get the coupon code for 10% off your next purchase.

There's a new giveaway up at my product and review site. Free Organic Cloth Diapers! Go check it out HERE.

Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Monica B. for winning the beautiful monogrammed tile (with her own last name, not mine) from Lisa at Heartfelt Words!



I don't know about you, but I'm already starting to think about Christmas and trying to pace my cash-only Christmas shopping. For us, we only have three more paychecks until Christmas. (Eeek!) So if you're getting started on gift selections, Lisa has some beautiful personalized gifts that would be one of a kind Christmas presents.

AND lisa offered a discount on tiles if you mentioned that you heard about her here, on The Grocery Cart Challenge.


And check back next week for a new giveaway going up.

Heartfelt Words Giveaway!

Head on over to The Grocery Cart Challenge Giveaways HERE and see what you could win! It's beautiful!

Ok now, go!

Giveaways Coming Soon!

Just wanted to let you know that I've got a couple of REALLY GREAT giveaways coming up in the next few weeks. I'm SO excited. So check back for some fun stuff coming soon.

And if you're a mom with a business you'd like to promote through a giveaway (because I totally love being able to help other Mom's who are working hard for their families) then send me an e-mail and we'll talk details.

Lunapad Winners

I think my love language is gift giving because I get such a thrill out of being able to give somebody something, especially when it's free. Or maybe my love language is "frugal"? Is that a love language? Either way, we have us some winners.

Lori

Tanya

Joy Comes In The Morning

Please contact me within 48 hours with your mailing address to receive your prize, otherwise I'll have to pick a new winner.

Congratulations and thank you so much to the Lunapad company for generously sponsoring this giveaway.

And if you didn't win but would like to purchase some of their products they have made a special coupon code just for the Grocery Cart Challenge readers. Upon checkout just enter the code gcc09 to recieve 10% off your purchase!

For those of you interested in Lunapads, I encourage you to sign up for their monthly newsletter HERE where you will receive advance notice of their monthly specials and new fabrics, as well as link to their featured blog posts and testimonials. For a sneak peek at their April newsletter, click HERE.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Keep your eyes peeled for more giveaways coming up.

Just A Few Hours Left...

If you haven't already entered the Lunapad Giveaway, don't miss out. You can still enter until midnight PST. The three winners will be announced tomorrow.

WFMW - Frugal Womanhood AND Giveaway!

****IMPORTANT INFORMATION - A lot of the winners of my giveaways miss out on their winnings because they aren't subscribed to my feed and don't remember to check back to see if they've won. Please take a minute and subscribe at the top of this page. If a winner is picked and there is no response within 48 hours, I have to pick a new winner. Many times the notifying e-mail that I send to you gets sent to junk-mail so if you are subscribed you'll then have two ways of being notified. Thanks guys.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would learn so much from trying to be frugal. But fortunately my commitment to frugality has led me to some treasures that in wealthier days I would have passed up...never even considered...missed out on. And today's giveaway is one of the things that I'm so glad I gave a try.

The Lunapad company sells 100% cotton reusable menstrual pads, pantyliners and menstrual panties along with several other products. Now, just a few years ago I would have balked at the thought of any kind of reusable menstrual product but as you can see HERE, I'm quickly becoming a convert. Not only is it extremely cost effective to be able to skip buying tampons or pads every month (think...a penny per use), but it's also so good for the environment considering over 14 billion tampons, applicators and pads end up in landfills every year.

Being a tampon user and not much of a pad or pantyliner user I was hesitant to revert back to my teenage years of wearing what seemed like a diaper for the duration of my period but since the Lunapads company sent me some samples in various sizes and absorbency's I thought, "What the heck," and gave it a try.

Lunapad products come in cute prints and designs so that appealed to the girliness in me. But they were also very comfortable...no sticky wings getting bent in the wrong direction and sticking to my leg (or worse), no extreme bulkiness, no strange odors, and no rough fabrics. They were soft and thin and very comfortable. And when it came time to wash them, I thought surely they would be ruined. But I rinsed them in cold water and then washed them in warm and they came out looking like they had never had anything on them. And with all cotton fabrics, the more they are washed, the softer they get.

I'm sold!

So I'm excited to let you know that the Lunapads company wants to give away not one...not two...but THREE sampler packs worth $24.99 each to three lucky winners.

Here's how to enter:

• Leave a comment to enter . Please include an e-mail address to contact you with.


• For an extra entry post about this giveaway on your blog and come back to leave a second comment.

And in the meantime go over and check out the Lunapads website to see all the things they offer. They have been gracious enough to provide

a special code for the Grocery Cart Challenge readers to use that will save you 10% extra on any purchase over $35. Just use the code "gcc09" at checkout!

My favorite items were the Lunapanties (which are on sale right now) and the Mini Pads on my lighter days when it was overkill to use my DivaCup.

Open to US and Canada residents. Giveaway ends on Sunday, April 5th. Winner to be announced on Monday, April 6th and will have 48 hours to respond.

Good Luck!

***Participating in Works For Me Wednesday.

Giveaway Winner

The winner of the EcostoreUSA giveaway is....

Sherry Oconnor!

Congratulations!

Sherry will be notified by email and have 48 hours to respond. Thanks everyone for participating.

Look for the next giveaway coming soon!

Green Product Giveaway!

I know a lot of you out there are not only trying to be frugal but also to be environmentally aware. So when I had the chance to try a few chemical free, environmentally friendly products from Ecostoreusa, I was excited to find some alternatives to commercially produced supplies.

They sent me some laundry soap, dishwasher powder, bar soap and a dog ear wash to try. (Thanks for letting me use your dog as a guinea pig Emily!) and I've been scrubbing up a storm.

The first thing I noticed were the yummy smells. The laundry soap smelled of eucalyptus and my clothes came out so fresh and clean. After using homemade unscented laundry soap, this was quite a treat. And just like the homemade product, it has no chemicals and nothing nasty stuck to my clothing after it's been washed.

I make most of my cleaning products from homemade natural ingredients but that's not something that everyone really cares to do. And I've NEVER found a homemade alternative to dishwasher detergent that didn't leave a nasty film on my dishes. So that's one cleaning product that always gets purchased in our house. Their dishwasher powder had a fruity/citrus smell and left no residue. And it only takes one tablespoon to clean a whole load of dishes. I was VERY pleased.

And that my friends, is what I have to give away today. EcostoreUSA is offering one reader a bottle of their Non-toxic Auto Dish Powder (you can go HERE to check it out). They also have baby care, pet care and other household products too.

Here's what you can do to enter....

• Leave a comment with an email address so I can contact you when you win...it's as simple as that.

• For an extra entry, post about this giveaway on your blog and come back to leave a second comment to let me know you did it. (You're welcome to grab my button if you'd like)

A winner will be randomly selected on Wednesday, March 18th. And don't forget to go check out Works For Me Wednesday over at their new digs for more great tips and good stuff.

And The Winner Is...and other stuff.

So today is the day. The two winners of the DivaCup giveaway are Heidi and Stephanie. Congratulations! Please respond back within 48 hours to claim your prize. If you didn't win and you'd like to get one for yourself see my left sidebar. Amazon has them for a little cheaper price. I've got a few more giveaways I'm working on so check back to see what else you could win.

Also, my newspaper column came out today. Check it out here. My friend Emily (who is the goddess of all Goodwill Outlet shopping) went with me. These are the photos of the strange and nasty things that I couldn't put in the paper. But see the bonus you get for actually reading my blog?

This is what the outlet actually looks like. Big rolling bins that they periodically rotate with fresh stuff.

Pretty sexy, huh?


I swear it was nasty underwear day. Just piles and piles of underwear that had seen better days.
Even found a disposable pair of boxers with a built in diaper. See how brave I am? No gloves. Just a lot of hand sanitizer in my purse.

GCC Giveaway - I'm Such A Diva!

I hate having to spend my hard earned grocery money on unedible things. I want it all to go to food not cleaning supplies, toilet paper, and feminine hygeine products. So I'm constantly trying to find ways to save in these areas. The cleaning supplies I've figured out, the toilet paper I'm not willing to part with yet but ahhh, the feminine hygeine products have officially been erased from my budget.

Do you know that the average women spends $150 - $200 per year on disposable pads and tampons? That's a whole lot of chocolate that I'm not able to buy just so I can hope that I'm not going to leak through my khaki pants onto my chair in church on Sunday morning. And there's still no guarantee that I'm safe.

But several of you have mentioned a reusable menstrual cup as a way to save money so I took it upon myself to contact the company that makes the DivaCup and see if they would be willing to let me review their product (they did) and then graciously they supplied two FREE DivaCups (a $35 value per cup) to give away to my readers.

Now before you get all grossed out let me tell you that is exactly why I poo-pooed away any notion of using one of these things. It sounded messy and nasty and just plain yucky. But when it meant a huge decrease in my grocery budget I started to warm to the idea.

I used it for the first time a few weeks ago and I'm kicking myself for pre-judging the thing. Not only was it way more comfortable than a hunk of tampon up there but it wasn't any more messy or difficult to use. And my plumbing wasn't in peril because there was nothing major to flush away.

The DivaCup can be worn for up to 12 hours at a time. On my heaviest day, which usually means a trip to the bathroom every hour to remove a super size tampon that hasn't done it's job, my DivaCup lasted 8 hours before I finally gave up and checked it. It could have lasted a lot longer but it's hard to get used to the fact that I can just forget about the darn thing and let it do it's job.

It took me about three days to get comfortable with inserting it and getting it in the right place but after that it was quick and easy. And I loved not having a used pad discreetly wrapped in toilet paper and shoved in my wastebasket where little hands might be able to find it.

But the best part for me was knowing that I will NEVER have to spend money on tampons or pads again. It's totally worth it. So head on over to the DivaCup site to have all your questions answered. They have a ton of information on FDA approval, silicone versus latex, environmental issues and all kinds of good stuff.

So if you are interested in winning one of your own here's how to enter...

• Leave me a comment! It's that easy. No hoops to jump through. Make sure there is some way to contact you if you win.
• If you 'd like a second entry just post about this contest on your blog and come back and leave me a second comment.

Two winners will be randomly chosen on Wednesday, February 18th. Open to US and Canada residents only.

Go check out more Works For Me Wednesday ideas HERE.

Free Stuff! I Just Love The Sound Of That.

Pssst. I have another giveaway going up this week. Check back on Wednesday for that.

A New Winner!

Seems I'm having a hard time giving that Keurig Brewer away. My first winner didn't respond within the 48 hour time frame so I'm picking a new one using a random generator.

So The Bertones at the3kidsandme@yahoo.com is my new winner. I'm sending you an email with instructions on how to claim your prize. Please respond within 48 hours and Congratulations!

And The Winner Is...

Congratulations to Lindsey at LMMann124@hotmail.com. You won the Keurig Brewer and coffee!!!

You've been notified via e-mail on how to claim your prize. Please contact me within the next 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

Thanks so much to everyone for participating. I've got another giveaway lined up and will be announcing it sometime within the next few weeks.