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I don’t mind cooking for my family, in fact we eat at home most every evening, we rarely eat out.  But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy convenience.  I just like to know what’s in the food I’m eating, and making our $$ stretch farther.

That’s why I love Tyson products.  They always meet (or exceed) my expectations.  The new Grilled & Ready Frozen Fully Cooked Oven Roasted Diced Chicken Breast was no exception.

Our local Walmart had a number of varieties of the Grilled & Ready line, including Chicken Breast Strips (which we have used before to make quesadillas) in both the regular and fajita flavors.

There are not many women who can say they don’t color, style, bleach, blow dry, flat iron, curl…(well you get the idea) their hair.  But your hair doesn’t just get damaged on the outside, it gets damaged on the inside as well, making it weak porous, and prone to breakage and split ends.

The new Dove Daily Treatment Conditioners help take care of the damage with a unique dual-action formula:

Playing baseball outside is an age old past time in America — on green diamonds, concrete drives and of course sandlots.

You can bring all that action inside your home too, with Backyard Sports Sandlot Sluggers video game (available on Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS, mrsp $29.99).

Courtesy of MalkavWe are really fortunate to have a great vision plan through my husband’s job.  With all three of us needing corrective lenses, it’s a benefit worth paying for. 

Every year it allows us either a full set of frames and upgraded lenses or a certain dollars worth of contact lenses.

Since the value of the eyeglass package is worth more, we choose that option through the plan, and then I just get my contact lens prescription from the optometrist and purchase those on my own.

Last year when I went for my annual vision exam, the optometrist suggested for me to get the Acuvue Advance Contact Lenses, because I was experiencing dry eyes when wearing my contacts.  I noticed the difference right away when I started wearing them.  By the end of the

Finish Quantumatic, is a new automatic dishwashing product that makes dishwashing almost effortless.  How great does that sound?  I hear mother’s everywhere applauding!  And it is a fabulous product.

I already love the Finish Quantum Tabs.  I have been using them in my dishwasher since I first tried them last April.  So when I was offered the chance to review the new Finish Quantumatic, I was intrigued.  An even easier way to wash dishes?  Bring it on!

The system is a detergent dispenser that automatically releases detergent for 12 washes.  Simply clip the dispenser on the rack of your dishwasher and replace the refill after 12 washes.  The counter on the top of the dispenser lets you know when it’s time for a refill.

Do you want a grab and go snack this summer in your pantry that won’t be filling your kids up with sugar?  What’s not to like about a snack like that?

Nature Valley Chewy Fruit & Nut Trail Mix Bars are not just for hikers or campers.  They’re perfect for adventurers hunting for dinosaur bones and crop circles in the backyard, tea parties at the park or rations for those pirates hunting for treasure under the porch.

Sam’s Club sells these nutritious snacks in a warehouse pack of 30 bars, so you’ll have plenty to go around for your hungry kids (and all their friends!).

DO GOOD – Ecolution is a line of cookware that is made with Hydrolon.  Hydrolon is an ecologically advanced, water based non-stick coating.  “Made without PFOA” means safer for you and fewer greenhouse gasses.

Hubby has been using this pan for a couple of weeks now, as he is the “egg” specialist in the family.  I have never been able to make good scrambled eggs, so that’s his domain, and he’s always on the lookout for a good pan to make them in.  For obvious reasons he likes a pan that is non stick when making them.

I don’t work outside the home, so I don’t have an identification card to be in a building, that needs to be carried around.  Every time we cruise though we receive a lanyard to hold our stateroom cards.

We started out getting red and black cloth ones, and have now graduated to red and grey ones, which distinguish our repeat cruiser status.

By this time though, we’ve amassed twelve of these lanyards and each time we return home they get relegated to the souvenir box, never to see the light of day again.  Honestly I don’t even know why we keep them.

I was recently asked to do a review of the new Infiniti by Conair You Curl.  It looks like a really great product, but my hair is only about 4″ long so I wouldn’t be a good test subject!

So….this is an informational post, but the You Curl is really making me think of growing my hair out again!

Soft curls are now easy to create with the new Infiniti by Conair You Curl. The You Curl has a unique, clamp-free design and a cone-shaped barrel that creates a softer, less structured curl.  Simply wrap hair around the barrel, hold for a few seconds and then release.

Anyone who has been following my blog for the past year knows that my family is big into cruising.  And now I have an offer to share with you from Zenith Training to take a cruise in the Caribbean, where the participants also learn about business.  The seven day Dare to Dream Dare to be Great cruise is sailing November 7th to the 14th, 2010.

What an exciting opportunity!  Let me tell you more about it.  While aboard the cruise those attending will: