When I am cooking for my family, I find I put a lot of time and energy into feeding them well-rounded meals. I am a good cook and I enjoy it. Indeed, I am a professed food snob. BUT when it comes to me being alone in the middle of the day, I find my own food intake is often put on the back burner. I often just throw together a sandwich or salad or end up skipping lunch altogether. So Amy's Organics has been a great fallback for me over the last few years when I am alone. When Amy's decided to send Read more [...]

We are chocolate milk lovers around here. My kid's drink Dean's chocolate milk at school every day, but I had never had it before. So when Dean's Dairy offered me some of their product to taste and review I was excited. I had never seen it at my local grocery, but when I was a few towns over running errands, I saw it in their grocery and picked up a gallon of the 1% Chocolate Milk and the Whole Chocolate Milk. I was happy about the 1% because I don't think I have seen that from other brands. I generally Read more [...]

I am on my feet A LOT in my kitchen. We don't have a dishwasher so I spend hours out of my day over the sink. GelPro Gel mats understands this problem and has made a product to help my aching back. GelPro sent me a Willow Fern Gel mat to try out and it has certainly exceeded my expectations. I found it has been helping my knees, back, and ankles and I could tell almost immediately I was going to really enjoy using it. The Gel mats are made with some sort of shock-absorbing inner core. They Read more [...]

Joe the Cigartainer started Private Brands of Cigars over a decade ago in order to ensure there was a high quality cigar that could be used for business and entertainment purposes. Since then he has been written about in several magazines and even written his own book entitled Long Ashes, Baby! which is his kind of trademark statement. He also explains on his website the idea that long ashes show the quality of the cigar. He sent me a really great case of cigars that were hand-rolled and personalized Read more [...]

Goodies for Gifts is a great website that offers "goodies" from vendors all across the country. It's a neat place to shop for unique foodstuffs that be shipped as gifts to any of your loved ones...or yourself! The founder realized that she had begun sending gifts to family and friends all over the country for different occasions and it was increasingly becoming more about food. She took this idea and from it formed this business to act as a venue for small individualized bakeries, boutiques, etc. Read more [...]