Congratulations Maura!!! You are the winner of the April NatureBox!! We will be in contact to get mailing info

Several weeks ago we received a snack box from NatureBox. NatureBox is a company that creates delicious, healthy snacks, and sends them to you monthly. NatureBox focuses on making it easier to eat healthier for you and your family. They offer a monthly membership that delivers hand picked snack food to your door along with expert tips and tricks to living a healthy life delivered right to your inbox.

I’m always a bit skeptical of these food delivery services, but I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised when I received our box.

Here’s what our box included.

• Dried Bing Cherries
• Fresh Granola without any processed or added sugar
• Sunshine Chips – a rainbow of vegetable such as sweet potatoes, squash, carrots, taro, & green beans
• Fire Crackers – made from rice and lightly flavored with soy sauce, garlic, and paprika.
• Figgy Bars – made with whole-wheat flour and juicy figs.

As a busy  mom of two, I found it quite handy to have quick, healthy snacks at my fingertips. A bonus is that M loved them! Here’s how I incorporated them in her daily snacks.

Dried Bing Cherries from NatureBox

Granola from NatureBox

Figgy Bar from NatueBox

Sunshine Chip + Fire Crackers from NatureBox

NatureBox is offering one lucky reader a chance to win a box of their delicious snacks!

To enter, leave a comment telling me what your favorite snack food is.

Be sure to check out their Facebook page for the latest!

P.S. NatureBox is offering Weekly Bite readers a 25% discount if you are interested in signing up for a NatureBox subscription. The promo code HEALTHY may be used for 25% off your first month of subscription (please note that the 25% discount is only applicable to the month-to-month subscription. 6 month subscriptions receive 1 month free and 12 month subscriptions receive 3 months free).

Good Luck!!

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day. That means it’s time to wear obnoxious amounts of green, imbibe a bit more than normal, and eat Irish Soda Bread.

This is my third post about this exact same soda bread recipe. Growing up, the only thing St. Patty’s day meant was to wear green so we wouldn’t get pinched. Mr. Weekly Bite grew up with a full Irish traditions.

This is his mom’s Irish Soda Bread recipe. We make it every year and love it. This was also M’s first time enjoying a slice fresh out of the oven.

When I told her it was her Granny’s recipe she smiled from ear to ear

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup raisins

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar together… set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter. (Make sure melted butter has cooled a little… if its too hot, you’ll scramble the eggs.)

Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Stir together with a wooden spoon. Fold in the raisins.

You can use either a loaf pan of a round 9 inch cake pan. Spray with non-stick cooking spray. Spread dough evenly into pan.

Bake for about 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.

Happy St. Patty’s Day!!

We have more citrus fruit than we know what to do with. We love being able to walk to the backyard and grab a grapefruit or orange when the craving hits, but having never owned fruit trees, we are slowly coming to a loss as what to do with them.

One thing we have started is a weekend morning ritual of making fresh orange juice. With daddy’s help, M has become quite the orange juice maker.

We don’t own a juicer so we make it old school, squeezing orange after orange.

And licking fingers in between

We don’t add any water or sugar. Luckily these oranges are sweet enough to drink straight.

M looks forward to making oj every weekend.

and I love that she’s learning how to make real fruit juice.

If you had endless amounts of oranges, what would you do with them? I’m in the market for some ideas

We were given an extra day this day year, and Quaker’s Leap Day Campaign asked the question “What would you like to discover on your extra day?” On Wednesday, Leap Day, M asked if she could sing “The Wheel’s On The Bus” with her little sister. M climbed off her chair, pushed her sister along side hers, and asked me to play the Giggle Bellies.  I pulled out my trusty iPhone and witnessed the cutest thing ever! This was the first time M asked me to do this. If it weren’t for this extra day, I wouldn’t have experienced this special moment with my two girls.

What did you do with your extra day?

WINNER of Quaker Oatmeal Squares & $75 Visa Gift Card:

Jennifer (Jencole) said she would like to re-discover what it means to sleep as long as she would like to since sleep is always in short supply in her house! Jennifer, I hope you were able to get some extra sleep! Congrats on winning the new product line of Quaker Oatmeal Squares & a $75 Visa Gift Card! Enjoy!!

Behold, M’s precious bowl of Quaker Oatmeal Square’s.

I’ve talked about M’s love of Oatmeal Square’s before. She loves them so much that we now buy the giant industrial size box from our local Costco. She eat’s them with milk for breakfast, and dry for a snack.  You can imagine how excited we were to learn Quaker is coming out with a new flavor of Oatmeal Squares.

Quaker Oats is celebrating Leap Day this month with a Delightful Discoveries campaign that will launch a new flavor of Quaker Oatmeal Squares, Honey Nut Crunch. Leap Day presents an extra day on the calendar this year to try something new. Its the perfect opportunity to try out this new flavor. Along with the other well-known flavors, including Brown Sugar, Cinnamon and Golden Maple, the new addition of Honey Nut can add an extra touch of sweetness to your morning cereal.

Pinterest has officially become the thing I do when I’m lazy. I can get sucked in for hours, get nothing accomplished, yet feel super productive at the same time. I mean, how can discovering how to refinish furniture without sanding, and finding the best cookie recipes not be productive? I’ve also realized the more people I follow, the more cool things I discover.

Are you on Pinterest? I’d love to follow you! Leave a comment with your Pinterest name or link. If you are not on Pinterest and would like to be, let me know and I’ll send you an invite

Have a great weekend!

Are you ready for Valentine’s Day? This is the first year M understands what Valentine’s Day is. She is so excited! She told me she wanted to put hearts all over the house, make heart cookies, and make hearts for her friends.

We hung felt hearts on just about anything we could find.

Together, we made heart garland for the fireplace.

I saw this cute idea on Pinterest. M helped me wrap the yarn around the the pipe cleaners

She made Valentine Bookmarks  for her friends.

And we made and ate delicious sugar cookies.

Only thing left is to make my favorite rice krispy treat with my favorite candy, Rolos. I made these last year and loved them. Go here for the recipe.

What are you making for Valentine’s Day?

Congrats to Sarah L & Bree!!! Each of you will be receiving  a case of the new Chobani Champions flavors.

Chobani will be contacting you shortly. Congrats

M has declared Chocolate Chunk her new favorite Chobani Champions flavor!! She said Orange Vanilla is her second favorite

Last week Chobani sent us a case of their new Chobani Champions flavors, Chocolate Chunk & Orange Vanilla. Our entire family loved them! If you’re new to this yogurt, Chobani Champions is the 1st Greek yogurt made just for kids! Every delicious, creamy cup is protein-powered, making it a healthy and happy choice for your little Champion.

Two lucky readers will receive a case of Chobani Champions new flavors, Chocolate Chunk & Orange Vanilla.

How to enter: Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite Chobani flavor.

Don’t forget to visit Chobani Champions New Facebook Page for more chances to win free yogurt!

This giveaway will be open until Friday.

Good Luck