One Moms World Mom Blog - Jen Houck

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Help Kraft Fight Hunger – Day 3 Easy Cheese Dip Recipe

We are helping Kraft Fight Hunger here at One Moms World this Christmas season. It is the least we can do to give back.

See first post here – Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

See second post here – Ham and Cheddar Bacon Mini Sub Rolls.

According to Feeding America, In 2010, 4.8 percent of all U.S. households (5.6 million households) accessed emergency food from a food pantry one or more times.

As stated in my other posts, here is how you can help:

1. Please “like” the Kraft Food’s Fight Hunger Facebook Page. Once you do, a meal will be donated to a food bank.

2. Play the 2-Minute Trivia drill to donate even more meals.

Kraft will donate up to 4,000,000 meals via online and mobile activities, as part of their goal of providing 25 million meals. I am sharing a Ham Sandwich Recipe today. Each recipe that I am sharing, Kraft is going to donate 1,000 meals to my local food bank.

Cheese Dip

Ingredients

1. 1 block of Velveeta Cheese (I use reduce-fat)

2. 1/2 pound of ground turkey

3. 1/2 pound of sausage

4. 1 can of Rotel Tomatoes (We use mild but you can use hot as well)

Directions

1. Brown ground turkey and sausage together.

2. Cut-up Velveeta Cheese in small squares.

3. Add cheese, ground turkey, sausage and rotel tomatoes together in a crock pot.

4. Cook on high for 3 hours.

Serve with tortilla chips and Enjoy!

I have been making this recipe for years. It is always welcome whenever we are eating, sleeping and breathing sports.

Disclosure: Kraft Foods is providing me a gift card in exchange for my participation in this program at no cost to me; however, all opinions expressed here are my own.

Enjoy a Wendy’s Frosty and Raise Funds for Adoption (Win)

We all love the cold and delicious Frosty’s from Wendy’s right? Especially on these warm summer nights. We all will load up in the car and drive up to our local Wendy’s and only order Frosty’s then sit down and enjoy them. Some of the best conversations happen during these outings. As you can guess, we will be there this Father’s Day weekend celebrating my husband for being such a wonderful father. Only, this weekend, we will get to participate in helping raise funds for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

50 cents from each Frosty purchase will be donated to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption on Father’s Day weekend (June 18 & 19). These donations will be used to benefit the cause of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, which is a program that helps foster children in need find great homes.

You can help even more this weekend by using social media:

1. Twitter – Use the Treat it Forward application on www.facebook.com/frosty (Treat it Fwd tab), or use the hashtag: #TreatItFwd (please note, this is modified from the hashtag I sent last week). A donation will be made, by Wendy’s, for each designated tweet or re-tweet made from Treat it Forward.

2. Facebook – Send a Facebook friend a “virtual” Frosty, or tell friends about Father’s Day Frosty Weekend through the Facebook application found on www.facebook.com/frosty (Treat it Fwd tab); as a result, Wendy’s will make a donation.

3. Also, from Facebook, on Father’s Day Weekend only (June 18 & 19), offer a “Here’s to You, Dad!” Frosty “virtual toast” by snapping a photo of you raising your Frosty cup to Dad, tagging it with the words “Wendy’s Father’s Day Frosty Weekend” and posting it to Wendy’s Facebook wall or tweeting it; this, too, will result in a donation from Wendy’s.

4. Foursquare – Every person who ‘checks in’ to a Wendy’s during Father’s Day weekend only (June 18 & 19) will result in a donation from Wendy’s.

So take the special dad in your life out and enjoy a Wendy’s Frosty. You can enjoy a delicious dessert and help a good cause as well.

WIN!

Treat the whole family with a Wendy’s Frosty by winning a $10 Wendy’s gift card.

To enter:

1. Leave a comment below wishing the special dad in your life a Happy Father’s Day.

Extra entry:

Tweet:

Share a @Wendys Frosty with your FB friends! http://on.fb.me/mjFgBL Each frosty is a 50 cent donation to @DTFA! #TreatitFwd

Giveaway ends June 19 at 11:59pm ET. Good Luck!

Disclosure: I was given a gift card to take my family out for a Frosty dessert. All thoughts and opinions are of my own.

We Can Make a Difference on this Tax Day

Yes, it is Tax Day… but we can turn this day into a really big positive day for a wonderful Charity – Make a Wish. Let’s all take this day and help children with life-threatening medical conditions to bring hope, strength, and joy to their lives. These children go through so much fighting for their lives and what joy it brings on their faces to have a trip, a special toy, a playground and etc. to take their minds away from all the medical things they are going through.

How can you help? So glad you asked!

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* Support the Make-A-Wish Foundation® online while saving on your favorite Betty Crocker® products through the Give $5, Get $5 promotion. Just visit StirringUpWishes.com today April 15th to donate $5 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help make children´s wishes come true and get $5 worth of downloadable Betty Crocker  coupons.

* Simply purchase your favorite Betty Crocker® products this spring. For every specially marked package purchased, Betty Crocker will donate 10¢ to the Make-A-Wish Foundation®, with a guaranteed minimum donation of $250,000 and a maximum donation of $500,000.

Betty Crocker has made a three-year, $250,000 annual commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation which, with your support, could be doubled in 2010 to $500,000.  Will you help today please? Skip that lunch take-out today or that special coffee and give just $5.00 to make a difference on this Tax Day.

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In addition to the Give $5 and Take $5, Blog Spark and Betty Crocker is making a $25 donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation on my behalf. They would also like to make a $25 donation on one of my reader’s behalf as well and offer the above prize pack. How cool is that? Go ahead and leave a comment below about the Make A Wish foundation such as if someone in your life as experienced a Make A Wish or just a good through about the program itself. You can read stories on the Stirring Up Wishes site. They are so inspiring for sure. I will pick a random winner using random.org tomorrow.

Will  you please help? Thank you so much. We can all make a difference!

Disclosure: The prize pack and the donation were all provided by Blog Spark and Betty Crocker

Congratulations to Nan… comment number 5. You are our winner.

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Disney Social Media Moms Celebration Day 2

This is a conference that I truly walked away feeling so uplifted and inspired. Day 2 definitely helped in that inspiration.

We started out the day at Epcot at the Volunteer Celebration.

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Disney brought in families from all over to congratulate them and express their many thanks for all the volunteer hours they were able to put in for our country. You see Disney put on an awesome event called Give A Day Get A Disney Day.

From Disney’s site “The overwhelming support we received for the “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.” program has helped us reach our goal of inspiring one million people to volunteer a day of service to their communities.”

For Disney to take the time to so appreciation to all these families is just so inspirational and just what our great Country needs. I was so happy to be involved. Our own families were able to volunteer right there on Disney Properties during this Day 2. Seeing all the families working together just big a big huge smile on my face.

During the event, a special guest arrived to showcase the biggest Can Food Drive. I have two videos to display this event.

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After the volunteer events, we headed into the Epcot world showcase. This was neat as the girls had not been to Epcot since they were 2 years old and 8 months. We enjoyed walking through all the countries and seeing all the culture changes that each country would have. We stopped and danced, visited characters, dined on different foods and L’s favorite spotted out all the animals that we could.

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Fast forward to the evening, and we were invited to an all exclusive dance party that included one of the Jonas Brothers. M was so excited and stayed right there at the stage watching every minute while Mommy and L dined on all the different foods that were served to us.

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I do have a funny story… A cameraman came right up to us and I didn’t realize he wanted to video us and I was looking all around me trying to figure out who he was going to video… then DUH it was us. L gave him one of her infamous looks that said get that camera out of my face while mommy is over here acting clueless that he wanted to actually video us. I laughed so hard after the cameraman left…just another clueless moment for Jen right? :).

Disney really put on a spectacular show/concert for us and we were all over the moon heading back to the Polynesian that night.

Up next Day 3 of the wonderful conference with some superb guest speakers. Stay tuned for the post coming up 🙂

Cheerios 100,000 Book Giveaway!

We are a huge reading family. Each night we take time to sit down for family time and M reads her chapter book to us and then I will read to the girls. I just love having this time each night with the girls. Also, the girls love books. They are always asking for new books and so delighted when they see new books come in.

Cheerios has teamed up with Jon Scieszka and First Book to distribute 100,000 new books to kids in need across the country. Through the 100,000 Book Giveaway, the five states receiving the highest number of votes will each receive 20,000 new books for local kids – and we need your help to decide where the books should be donated!

By answering the trivia questions featured in this challenge, you can help select the states that will receive new books for local kids. For every trivia question you answer correctly now through August 31st, 2010, you can cast one vote for the state you want to receive new books. The more questions you answer correctly, the more votes you cast!

We take so much for advantage and don’t realize how a simple book is wanted so bad by children that just cannot afford them in their household and county school system. We are very fortunate here in our school system for the Pre-K division. Each week a new set of books is sent home in a reading bag for myself to read to L. We were so thrilled when this program started for the first time this year, but I never realized till Cheerios brought to my attention how this is wanted so badly by other states and school systems!

Please take a moment and go to the site and answer some of the trivia questions to cast your votes to where the books should be sent.

Cheerios sent to us through My Blog Spark a gift pack.

100k_book_giveawayAll the books shown above were included and also a box of the Frosty Cheerios. They included a Barnes and Noble gift card as well. Each book was the perfect shape to fit into travel bags for the girls and just the right length. Each night we would read one, and the girls just loved sitting there listening then asking questions at the end. No book is the same, so I really recommend at the end of each book you read to your child, to let them ask questions to see how much of the book they actually do comprehend!

Cheerios through My Blog Spark would like to offer one of my reader’s this same gift pack. All you need to do is:

1. Leave a comment about your reading routine with your family.

Then to receive extra entries:

1. Tweet this contest

2. Facebook this contest

3. Subscribe to our feed

4. Blog about this contest

Leave an extra comment for each entry that you do!

I will close this contest on Dec. 19th at 11:59pm EST.

Full Disclosure: I did receive the Cheerios, prize pack, information, and giveaway from Cheerios through MyBlogSpark.

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