Review: BFG

My family and I were able to attend a sneak preview of BFG last week and we were so excited.  My younger daughter, almost 11 years, loved this movie.  She was laughing out loud, especially the scene with the feast (I don't want to give anything away).  She just could not stop talking about how much she enjoyed watching the movie.  Now my teen thought it was a good movie but did not laugh out loud like her sister.  The movie is just beautiful to see.  My favorite part is when they are exploring and visit the dream tree.  The visuals in those scenes is enough just to see the movie.  The movie is good for families, though it would depend on the teen if they might enjoy it or not.  I did find the giant hard to understand sometimes so you do need to pay close attention and somewhat translate in your head. 

Disclosure: I attend a sneak preview with my family and all opinions stated are my own.

Review: VidaKai Loose Leaf Fruit/Tea Infuser Water Bottle

I am always drinking water but sometimes it is nice to have a little more flavor.  I do not like artificial flavors so if I want to add flavor it needs to be from real food.

I made lots of infused waters in the last week in VidaKai Loose Leaf Fruit/Tea Infuser Water Bottle.  The first was tangerine sage with chopped strawberries, then lime mint with crushed blueberries and both were delicious.

Since the infuser is at the bottom the water continues to be infused as I am drinking it.

Once I finished my water, I actually added more water at least once, sometimes twice to infuse more water.  When it was time to clean, the bottom comes off for much easier cleaning

To clean out the metal infuser, you just pop it off and clean it out.

The bottle is great infusing water and even more important to me it is so easy to clean and dry.

 

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

 

Review: Sound Intone MS200 Headphones

I don't know about you but I seem to listen to music or television/movies more using my iPad or iPhone more than any other way. If I am going to listen over headphone then I want them to sound good.  Sound Intone MS200 Headphones sound great plus they fold up for easier traveling.

My husband saw how much I was enjoying them so he has been using them too.  He likes to watch movies while on our exercise bike and found these perfect.  The sound is great and they look sharp too so I recommend these to anyone in the market for headphones!

 

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

 



Review: Propresser Stainless Steel Kitchen Garlic Press

Growing up my grandfather always had a garlic press at dinner, with which, he would use to press garlic he grew himself straight onto his food.  Luckily I love garlic almost as mush as he did.  Surprisingly I have never owned my own garlic press. I tried buying garlic and chopping it myself or buying it already chopped.  Neither method worked, the pre chopped garlic just doesn't have the right flavor and chopping it myself was so much work (plus I can never chop uniformly small pieces).

 The Propresser Stainless Steel Kitchen Garlic Press is so easy to use.  I rolled the garlic pieces in the tube to rub off the outer skin and placed in the garlic press.  Just a squeeze:

Out comes great garlic.  Since receiving this garlic press I have been using garlic much more often.  I even made some garlic bread by adding the pressed garlic into soften butter, spread on bread and broiled to perfection! I am actually out of garlic since I have been using it so much.

Now, what about cleaning?  I found the garlic press quite easy to clean.  I used my finger to grab the leftover bits of garlic that did not go through, washed with a sponge and it was clean.

 

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

 

 

Review: Double Camping Hammocks by Live Infinitely

As I live in the Pacific Northwest even in summer one can not count on the weather to be dry. I need to be able to easily put away those items used outside.  Beside being of strong and safe contrition I wanted a hammock that was easy to pack away.  Live Infintely Double Camping Hammocks is easy to pack up and very light making it great for camping or even your own back yard.

 

The hammock it easy to just roll up and then stuff into the attached bag.  It did not even take a whole minute to pack up the hammock and roll up the straps and place in their own separate bag. 

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Review: Pack of 120 Premium Multi-Size Chalkboard Labels

I buy lots of food in the bulk section in my grocery store and that means that the foods are not labeled except with labels I make myself.  In the past I have tried making labels with different levels of success,  With these labels I just write on them, peel and stick,  It is so easy and if the label doesn't look just right I just wipe it off to try again or peel it off and reattach.  It is really as easy as that.

The Pack of 120 Premium Multi-Size Chalkboard Labels I received comes with so many labels I will have more than enough to label everything I want to.  It also comes with full size sheets you can use as they are or even cut into the shape you want, for example a heart or hippo or anything you want.  I haven't decided what to do with the large sheets yet as I am too busy using the smaller labels to label my whole pantry!

 

As you can see they are easy to write on using chalk or chalk markers.  You can write on them before or after attaching them to whatever you are attaching them too.  Personally I like to write on them first but have written on them after placing them on jars too, so I know it works both ways.

If you need to label stuff I highly recommend the Pack of 120 Premium Multi-Size Chalkboard Labels.

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned for free.  Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.