Mom Life in the PNW

Ordering Food Online With Schwan’s Home Service

Ordering Food Online With Schwan’s Home Service

Have you ever ordered food online and had it delivered to your door before? I absolutely hate going grocery shopping, so I opted to try Schwan’s Home Service just so I could avoid the store for a week.

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I browsed the site a bit and picked out the best sounding meals which included the chicken enchiladas, the orange chicken skillet, meat pizza, the blackened chicken alfredo with fettucini noodles and of course I couldn’t forget my sweets; strawberry cheesecake ice cream and chocolate peanut buttercup ice cream. As soon as I got to my cart and tried to check out, I noticed that the only option was to pay to have it shipped to me, not the free service where they come right to your door with their freezer truck. This struck me as odd because I’ve seen the Schwans guy drive up and down our street before. After a couple weeks past, the service mysteriously appeared for my area so I finally got a chance to place my order, however, delivery wouldn’t be for another couple weeks.

*knock*knock*

My food was finally here!

The Schwan’s guy was very nice but I didn’t like that he tried to up-sale me more stuff as soon as I opened the door. I mean, if I wanted to order more items, wouldn’t I have done so in my initial order? This was my first time trying Schwan’s so I didn’t want a big giant bill nor the food if I thought it was sub-par. So I respectfully declined. He then went out to the truck and proceeded to find my food. Took about 10-15 minutes but everything was there.

The following day, I decided to try the chicken enchiladas. The seasoning and flavoring was pretty good and it was decent sized for 2 people only, anymore than that and you would probably still be hungry. So seeing as it says this is suitable for 6 people is laughable. Maybe if you added a bunch of sides to it like pinto beans and whatnot. Also, there was not much chicken in this, mainly just rice, so that was unfortunate.

 

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I also tried the orange chicken skillet. Figured I would prepare it for my husband and I. I looked down at the pan and realized that this wouldn’t be enough to fill my husband and I both, he has a meatier appetite. There wasn’t that much chicken to make it a successful dinner for 2, so I had to make him a separate meal. I did not eat the entire contents, there was a tiny bit leftover, but I still feel like its not suitable for 3 people as it claims. Maybe if you’re used to super tiny meals. It did taste pretty good though. Loved the orange sauce, but I am partial to Chinese food. The chicken, however, tasted processed like a chicken nugget.
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The only other thing I have tried is the chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream and it is GOOD! But, I feel like you could get the same thing at the store for way less. I guess it’s up to you if convenience is worth it to you.
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I may give Schwan’s another try, but I am going to carefully read each review to make sure it’s actually well worth it as the meal portions seem awfully small for the price.

I’m also not looking forward to the Schwan’s guy coming back every 2 weeks to ask if I want anything. I don’t like to be annoyed by salesman, so hopefully I can opt out of this if I choose.

Do you order from Schwan’s?

TruMoo Orange Scream Truffles for Halloween

TruMoo Orange Scream Truffles for Halloween

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TruMoo. All opinions are 100% mine.

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The other day I went grocery shopping looking for my usual flavored soy milk and stumbled upon the new TruMoo Orange Scream milk. I figured my nieces would enjoy it as well as myself, so I decided to grab a thing of it since it’s fresh, pure milk that contains 8 essential nutrients with no high fructose corn syrup or artificial growth hormones.

AND Halloween is almost upon us, so why not put this delicious milk to use, which gave me the idea to make some Halloween themed Oreo truffles.

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Ingredients:

  • 1 (16 ounce) package OREO Cookies, any flavor
  • 1 (8 ounce) package Cream Cheese, softened
  • 2 (8 ounce) packages white chocolate orange chips (or any type of chocolate you prefer)
  • 2 TBSP (more if necessary) of TruMoo Orange Scream Milk

Directions

l  Crush 9 of the cookies to fine crumbs in food processor; reserve for later use. (Cookies can also be finely crushed in a resealable plastic bag using a rolling pin.) Crush remaining 36 cookies to fine crumbs; place in medium bowl. Add room temperature cream cheese; mix until well blended. Roll cookie mixture into 42 balls, about 1-inch in diameter and place on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. Store in refrigerator and move onto the next step.

l  Melt your preferred chocolate in a double boiler pan. I used yellow and hot pink chocolate chips which gave off this bright orangy color when mixed together. Add 2 tsp of Orange Cream TruMoo milk and mix thoroughly. You don’t want it to be too runny but you want it to be at least creamy. Add more if necessary.

  • Dip balls in chocolate; place on wax paper-covered baking sheet. (Any leftover chocolate can be stored at room temperature for another use.)
  • Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Store leftover truffles, covered, in refrigerator.

How to How to Easily Dip Truffles

  • Place truffle ball in melted chocolate to coat; roll if necessary. Lift truffle from chocolate using 2 forks (this will allow excess chocolate to run off) before placing on wax paper, otherwise you end up with this end result here. It does end up being a little rich, so you should probably avoid the excess.

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Now we’re off to enjoy our orange scream truffles.

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Double Barrel Roadhouse at Monte Carlo in Las Vegas

We were staying at the Monte Carlo so we decided to check the Double Barrel Roadhouse out as our first meal that evening in Vegas. I ordered a burger and garlic fries, my husband had the ribs and mac and cheese. My burger was alright, nothing super special and the garlic fries were definitely garlicy, but they were also dry and over cooked making them unpleasant.

My husband gave me a bite of his mac and I was extremely jealous that I did not order it too. Honestly, it is up there with some of the best mac and cheese I’ve had. I think it would be even better if it had jalapenos in it. We wanted to come back another night just to have it, but there were too many other options to try out and didn’t have time to come back.

The drinks were almost the price of the meals, so be forewarned.

My First Ultrasound at 10 weeks 5 days

I had my first ultrasound last week which was reassuring that this is real and is going to happen whether I am 100% ready or not! I am ready age-wise, but mentally I’ve been questioning it. I guess that’s normal with your first child, you’re scared, frightened that you won’t be the best parent, don’t know how you’ll be able to handle the transition from no kids to a baby in just a few months…. eeeerrr. I know we’ll do fine and it’s probably the hormones talking.

So the ultrasound went fine and I was able to see it actually moving around, which was cool. She measured it as well and its measuring a week bigger than what my conception date was. So either we’re going to have a big baby or it happened sooner than we thought. I guess only time will tell, my due date is around April 16, but I guess it can now be anywhere from Apr 9-16 give or take.

The image shot she gave me of the ultrasound is not a very good one, I wished she snapped it when it was moving its arms around and actually looked like a human and less like a blob, but anything is better than nothing I suppose. Baby is extremely healthy she says and is growing like a weed, guess that explains the constant nausea symptoms.

 

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We don’t get to find out the gender until around Nov 27th, which is Thanksgiving so I wonder since we’re a week early if we’ll get to go in earlier to avoid the holiday or if we’ll have to wait til after. The waiting is the killer, but it will go by in no time. Both my husband and I are hoping for a boy since there’s nothing but girls in my family, but we’ll love whichever god gives us.

The awesome thing is, my sister is pregnant too and she finds out the sex on Oct 14. So we’re going to have babies pretty close, at least 5-6 weeks apart. Yay for close cousins!

Until next time…

20 Sites to Test Free Products

20 Sites to Test Free Products

20 sites to test free products

The whole point of this blog is because of my obsession with getting things for free. There’s no point in paying for products when companies let you test for free right? Right! So here’s a list of 20 sites where you can test free products too. Some of these I have gotten stuff from and some I have not worked with yet.

  1. Tomoson – Product Review site for Bloggers. You will need to have social networking accounts as well since there are requirements set from different advertisers. I have gotten my foot in the door of product testing with this site.
  2. BzzAgent – Fill out easy one page surveys and qualify for campaigns.
  3. Influenster – Receive random Vox Boxes if you qualify from the surveys they send out.
  4. MomSelect – In-home parties to test kid products
  5. House Party – Test products and have in-home parties.
  6. Swaggable – Add things you’d like to review to your profile and you may be picked
  7. PinchME – Get new samples to try out every 2 weeks
  8. Smiley360 – Free samples of various items
  9. Kraft First Taste – Try new Kraft food products
  10. Vogue Insiders – Try new beauty products
  11. Tide Team – Try new Tide products
  12. Pillsbury Mills Advisory Panel – Try new Pillsubry Products
  13. New Balance – You get to test out new shoes, but, this one requires you to send them back.  (Thanks MassholeMommy)
  14. Crum Creek – Indulge in Healthy Food
  15. All You Reality Checkers – Test products for women
  16. Nike Product Tester – Apply to test shoes and apparel
  17. Generation Mom – Test kid/baby toys
  18. Moms Meet – Test kid products with a group of your friends/family
  19. InStyle Trendsetter – Evaluate brand-new products!
  20. Marie Claire –  Exclusive access to special offers, insider events, sweepstakes, and more.

If you know of anymore that are missing from here, let me know in a comment below. Now let’s get our product testing on!