Mummashan and Kimberly W won the Good Earth Mediterranean Dinner Gift Packs. I have been in touch with both of them.
Swanson’s Mommy Blogger Recipe Challenge and Giveaway ( 4 winners)
I was invited to participate in the Swanson Mommy Blogger Challenge. Each blog in the challenge was asked to come up with a recipe using a can of Swanson’s chicken. If I can be up front and honest with you, I am not a much a cook. I have just gotten to the point where I can follow a recipe and experiment with it if I don’t have all the right ingredients. The moms in my playgroup know that to come up with this recipe I bounced every ingredient past them. My friend from playgroup Heather emailed me back and forth a few times with ideas too. This recipe for Fruitful Chicken Salad is really simple and may already be something that you make at home. For me this is a new recipe and creates something both my guys wanted seconds of.
Below the recipe, you will find a place to leave a comment/entry/ voting area.
What did you say? Well, if you leave a comment is counts as a comment in a giveaway tied to Swanson’s chicken. Five people will receive coupons for free cans of chicken. Each comment also counts as a vote for my Fruitful Chicken Salad. There are five bloggers in the Swanson Mommy Blogger Challenge. The blogger with the most comments/ votes can win $250.
Fruitful Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
2 cups red grapes
2 cups of cut cantaloupe
¼ cup plain non-fat yogurt
½ cup Vidalia onion salad dressing (I used Ken’s)
1 cup walnut halves
1 large can Swanson’s chicken
1 bag of spring salad greens
1 packet of Splenda or another sweetener or honey
2 tablespoons of honey
Cooking spray
Directions:
1. In a small bowl mix the sweetener, yogurt, and Vidalia onion salad dressing.
2. Flake the chicken with a fork in a small bowl and add to the dressing mixture to it.
3. Toss cut fruit in a medium-sized bowl.
4. Pour chicken and dressing in with the fruit and mix so that all the fruit is covered. Set salad aside to work on the walnuts.
5. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
6. Spray a metal cookie sheet with baking spray and then spread walnuts evenly across the pan.
7. Sprinkle the walnuts with honey and bake them for ten minutes.
8. Remove the walnuts from the oven and let them cool before mixing ½ the walnuts into the salad.
9. When serving the salad, place it on a bed of lettuce. Sprinkle a few on the remaining walnuts on the top of each person’s serving.
This salad serves 4-6 if used as a main dish.
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Walking Hand in Hand With Dad
This is one of my favorite pictures of my husband and son.
When the Garage Door Goes Up, Steer Clear of the Kitchen Door!
When the garage door goes up, it mean Daddy is home. JDaniel listens for the noise the door makes as it rises. Once the noise stops he races for the kitchen door. It must be a wonderful feeling to hear him shouting, “Daddy! Daddy!” as my husband walks in the door.
I know there are some days when he is exhausted and would just love to go lay down for a minute or two. Once you have jubilant two year old hugging on to your legs that just isn’t possible. If we are upstairs playing, he might have a chance to bolt to our bedroom and rest for a minute or two before the door is flung open and a little face appears before the bed to welcome him home.
It wasn’t always this way. JDaniel has always raced for the door, but it wasn’t because he was excited about his daddy. Oh! He has always adored him, but Daddy coming home signaled dinner time had arrived. We wait until 6:30 p.m. to eat dinner as a family. JDaniel used to greet his dad with, “Dinnertime! Wash hands!” This is not the most welcoming greeting.
What made the change? I started giving him an afternoon snack. It isn’t anything big, but it is enough to satiate my little guy’s appetite a little.
“Daddy! Daddy!” has to be a better greeting to hear. We will be listening tonight for the door to rise. When it does, steer clear of the door. JDaniel is on the run!
Muffin Tin Monday- Dad Lunch
Muffin Tin Monday doesn’t have a theme this week. I decided to create a lunch based on the blog’s theme which is Father’s Day. JDaniel loved the fact he was having a “Dad” lunch.
What is “Dad” lunch? You have chicken breast cut into a D, a cantaloupe A, and a cheddar cheese D in the first row. The second row has peaches set out in a D, an A made of raisins on cottage cheese, and a tortilla D.
JDaniel loves cottage cheese right now and peaches. The other foods are old favorites. I think Dad would have liked this lunch too. He would have wanted the peaches to be fresh though.
Six Giveaway Winners!
The Tomato Shack Giveaway was won by dgood. Verymarried, cdziuba, lisa, jerseygirl137, Tamara B have all won an Alouette Brie cheese.
I want to thank all of you for entering the giveaways.
Great Posts I Came Across This Week- June 12
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Child Related:
Havin’ Fun Yet has a fun clothes pin idea for counting called Clothespins. This would be a easy counting tool to put together. I bet you have all the things you need to make it at home.
Monkey See Monkey Do has a wonderful idea for making shadows with potato chip lids. She tells you how to create it in her post The Lion and the Mouse and Some Shadow Fun.
I am still looking for ways to use all those plastic Easter Eggs I gathered a few months ago. I found a fun idea on Child Central Station called Easter Egg Caterpillars.
The Picky Apple did an wonderful Gardening Sensory Bin. I think JDaniel would love to have one of these.
Recipes:
5 minutes just for me has a wonderful recipe for Ugly Cookies. These look great!
Mom Related Post:
Amaria’s Blog has a wonderful post on her daughter composing her first musical piece. The post is called Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord.
I Needed to Read This:
Totally Tots had a wonderful post called Intentional. It really reminded me that if I want JDaniel to understand God’s good news. I needed to act like it was good news.
Connecting with Other Bloggers:
Muffin Tin Mom is having a Muffin Tin Monday Swap 2010. This looks like a lot of fun.
Mariann Johansen Ellis is giving away a set of her bird prints. All you have to do is leave a comment. I love her work.
Bug Books and Other Bug Related Activities
We loved working with bugs this week. JDaniel has been so into trains and construction equipment. Bugs were a great diversion.
Books
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We read two bug-related books this week:
The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman is about a bee that decides not to share a wonderful field of flowers he has found with his other hive mates. He eats it all himself and grows to big to fly. He needs the help of other insects to make it home. This book has a great lesson on sharing and helping others.
The Delicious Bug by Janet Perlman is also a book on sharing. The two lizards on the cover both catch the same bug. Neither one wants to let go of the plump bumble bug. They have an argument with their tongues out that takes them all around the pond they live near. The lizards have to learn to share and how to apologize to their neighbors for their rude behavior.
Language
JDaniel was asked to select a letter and put it in a construction paper hive. He preferred to put them in his dump truck.
The printout for the hive came from First School. The letter bees came from Toddler Toddler.
Math
We used an old juice bottle a bee hive to place the correct number of bugs in and later dump them out.
We made a bug out of two take-home boxes from Cracker Barrel. We went to Cracker Barrel while visiting with my mother-in-law this week.
Music
THE BUGS ARE MARCHING INTO TOWN
Tune: “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again”
The bugs are marching into town, hooray! Hooray!
The bugs are in a great big Bug Parade.
Some are black and some are red.
Some have antennae on their heads.
Oh, we’re oh so glad the bugs could come today.
Jean Warren
The song was taken from Preschool Express.
Useless Unless Usual Understanding of Use Comes to Mind
My husband had been single and living in our house for over twelve years when we got married. There were interesting pieces of shall we call it “nostalgia” tucked in nooks and crannies all over the house. We believe somehow in rush to clean a bedroom that had a lot of nostalgia in it I might have discarded the remote control to a robot dog. After that, we came to an agreement that if I found something that I wasn’t sure we needed to keep, I needed to check with him first.
After being married a few months I found this lovely large plastic bug in a bedside table drawer. I am not sure of how or why it came to live at our house. I returned it to the drawer and left to discuss at a later date. It remained in the drawer for quite a while before I remember we had it.
Now that JDaniel is two this large bug has many uses. It can play hide and seek around the house. The bug makes a great pointer when JDaniel is asked to locate a letter in a puzzle or a picture in an I Spy book.
If you need to stop a train coming down a track, he can do that too.
Birds Need a Good Book and Bugs
We went to Barnes and Nobel last Saturday night and saw three bird nests tucked into this Barnes and Noble sign. I didn’t have my camera that night. JDaniel and I went back on Tuesday morning so I could take these shots.
The birds kept flying around the shopping plaza looking for bugs for their families.
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