Bulu Box January Review and Opportunity for You to Get 50% off or a FREE 1st Box

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**Please consult with your physician or health care practitioner prior to adding any supplements to your diet. 

Are you trying to improve your health?  Get more fit? Eat better?  2014 is your year to do it!  Bulu Box is the first vitamin, supplement and general health subscription sample box designed to help you get there too. Every month, you’ll get a box filled with 4 to 5 premium, curated samples from top brands.

Look forward to a new mix of products for both women and men, including vitamins, weight loss, sports nutrition, protein, diet, energy, detox, digestion, sexual health, herbs, natural remedies, endurance and more. They make sure you get enough to decide if the product is right for you. No shipping or extra fees either. Depending on your plan, you can cancel anytime. There are two kinds of Bulu Boxes to choose from.

Bulu Box-This is the box that I subscribe to....It is the first and only vitamin and supplement sample box out there.  Each box includes a sampling of vitamins and supplements from different areas of health. Each box contains 4 to 5 premium samples (some are bigger than others as you will see!) plus lifestyle extras sometimes. There is good stuff in every box.

Bulu Box Weight Loss: This box is the first and only weight loss and nutrition box. They designed it with the specific goal of weight loss in mind. Each box contains 4 to 5 premium weight loss items such as vitamin and supplement samples, fitness gear and healthy eating tools. These are products to help you succeed with weight loss.

I know you want to see what was in my first Bulu Box so here it is.  The big skinny! Every box comes with a card (above) that explains about the samples and gives you a price for a full size product. My Bulu Box came with a yummy and easy recipe card and a mix of supplement samples and one full size looking product. 

The first item was Wiley's Finest Peak EPA and I was interested to try it.  I need Omeaga 3 since I don't eat enough fish. I have tried a bunch but I had heard good things about Wiley's. It went down easily so that was a good start. 30 Softgels are $19.79

Each box also comes with a My Sample Journal shown above. You can keep notes for yourself and also submit your feedback and earn points towards products you like from your Bulu Box!

Energems were a new to me product. They are described as a product to help enhance energy and focus. Energems energy is equivalent to one energy drink. They tasted good. I liked the flavor a lot. I will let you know. They are $16/12 boxers

I have tried these PowerBar Blends and they taste pretty good.  Natural ingredients and no fat or caffeine. Great before a tough workout or spin class's, ya know? $14.59/6 pouches

Kare-N-Herbs Kold Kare uses a natural herb blend to aid you in reducing cold symptoms like headache, fever, congestion and more.  This is going right in the medicine cabinet for my next cold. I love natural remedies. $11.00/40 tabs

The Alternavites was another new item to me. Looks for for kids and it is. My tween thought the melty powder was cool. No sugar, aspartame or HFCS. Like this one! $15.95/30 sticks

The last item was a single teabag of HELPS Organic Rest and Relax tea. I love chamomile and other relaxing teas at night so this was nice although it was a single sample. $10.98/40 tea bags

Thinking about signing up for BuluBox?  Super easy!

1. Go to BuluBox & choose a month-to-month ($10), 3 ($30), 6 ($60) or 12 month ($110) plan.
2. Sample each vitamin or supplement and try out the fitness gear or weight loss items.
3. Earn Reward Points:  Earn 50 points ($5) or more each month for completing sample surveys, sharing and subscribing.
4.) Save by using your Reward Points to purchase your favorite products!

**Remember to use the coupon code BULUGAN989, you can get your first box totally free!

Paddy O’Shea’s Golf Card Game is a Great Way to Relax and Gave Fun With Friends And Family {Giveaway}

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Do you enjoy Game Night with friends and family?  Maybe you have considered starting a regular Game Night but never got around to it in 2013.  Now with the New Year, you have a fun opportunity to set up that regular Game Night evening to relax with your friends or family with Paddy O’Shea’s Golf Card Game! You can even get the kids in on it because this is a game perfect for anyone age 10+.

If you enjoy classic card games like Uno and Hearts I encourage you to try Paddy O’Shea’s Golf Card Game then because you are going to LOVE it.  It is so much MORE fun than any of your usual card games. It is challenging and fun for card players, golfers and board game lovers.  It offers a ton of excitement and you will constantly be challenged by the twists and turns in Paddy O’Shea’s Golf Card Game.

First if all, Paddy O’Shea’s Golf Card Game is a  family game appropriate for 2 to 6 players ages 10 and up. The tweens and teens will love it.  It is very easy to learn but totally unpredictable in its play.  You can learn strategies to stack the cards but luck are involved too.  The game consists of nine hands (“Rounds”) and usually takes 40 to 50 minutes to play a game.  You will definitely want to play more than one game.

We had a bunch of fun playing with our family this weekend.  We had three adults and two 11 year olds and a 9 year old.  Everyone learned the game pretty fast...even the kids and the 9 year old (very smart one that 9 year old).  Paddy O’Shea’s Card Game had the kids laughing as they tried to out-strategize us!  We enjoyed playing so much we went for a second round even though it was totally past certain peoples bedtimes.  We agreed this is a fun game we are going to regularly incorporate into our game nights. My husband also thought it would be a good travel game since it takes up minimal space. 

Suggested retail price is only $9.95!  It makes a great gift for Valentine's Day or even St. Patrick's Day.  Enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below to win your own Paddy O'Shea's Card Game.  a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Cook'n Recipe Organizer 11 Download Review + Giveaway ($80 value)

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I recently had an opportunity to download and try out the Cook’n Recipe Organizer.  Cook’n is a computer program that lets you organize your recipes into your own cookbook.  You can add your own recipes, buy them through Cook'n or capture them from the internet. I like that you can export the entire collection anywhere at any point too.  Cook'n has a built-in menu planner, shopping list organizer and even a handy nutrition guide.  Excellent for keeping it all healthy, especially in light of those resolutions!

The program took a few minutes to install and it was really pretty simple to do.  It comes with one cookbook with included recipes, the DVO.com Cookbook.  It has an excellent selection of recipes too.  I was provided with a code to choose an additional cookbook or recipe collection. That was also fairly easy to buy from the Cook'n program. I started out capturing a few recipes off the web which was easy to do. 

I was not surprised to hear that Cook'n is the #1 Best-Selling Recipe Organizer.  It can be really helpful to get everything organized. A few features includ:

Easily Enter your Personal Recipes

• Get Ideas for What to Make for Dinner
• See a Visual Menu Planner
• Auto-Generate Shopping Lists
• Capture Recipes From Favorite Websites'
• Calculate Nutrition of Your Recipes
• Capture & Sync Pinterest Recipes - Demo
• Scan Printed Recipes - Demo
• Discover New Recipes w/Live Feed - Demo
• Print Themed Recipes - Demo
• Use Snip-It to Capture Blog Recipes - Demo
• Import recipes from Word - Demo
• Share Recipes with Social Media - Demo

Cook'n is an easy way to organize your personal recipes. When you have entered your personal recipes into Cook'n you can:

• - Create a family Cookbook
• - Share your recipes easily
• - Create menus and meal plans
• - Enhance the recipe by adding photos and stories
• - Get the nutritional facts for your recipes
• - and much more!

Cook'n has a Visual Menu Planner so can create custom menus and meal plans.  I was interested to hear that research shows that those who use and effective menu planner are more likely to:

• - Save time by making less trips and by staying organized on what's for dinner
• - Save money by eating-out less beacuse they are prepared to make delicious   home-cooked meals.
• - Eat healthier by planning healthy menus and meal plans. And avoiding convenient foods rather than nutritional foods.
• - Save gas by making less trips to the store and on fast-food pickups.

Get healthy too!  Stop guessing what nutrients are in the foods you are eating. Use Cook'n to help you stay organized in your dieting! Analyze the nutritional elements of recipes and menus (even the ones you add!) Cook'n makes it simple to calculate the nutrients your body is receiving. After typing in a recipe or importing one from the internet, simply click a button for the information you need. Save you a ton of time by analyzing nutrition in seconds!

A big help for me is to be able to save time and money. I like that Cook'n also calculates the approximate cost of your shopping list. Cook'n automatically combines the food on your menus and makes a grocery shopping list. It even converts tablespoons of tomato paste to 8 oz. cans! Cook'n organizes your shopping list by aisle to save you time at the store.With the Grocery Shopping Assistant you can:

• - Organizes grocery shopping list items by aisle
• - Compiles your family's grocery shopping list automatically
• - Calculates your grocery cost
• - Converts to package sizes (ie; tablespoon tomato paste to 8 oz. cans)

Love Pinterest?  Me too! Cook'n will Automatically import all of your Pinterest recipes with one click and synchronize the two so any new recipes that you Pin will automatically appear in Cook'n! It's not magic... but it's pretty close to it!
Once your Pinterest recipes are in Cook'n you can:

• - Create Menu & Meal Plans
• - Share them with Friends
• - Generate a Shopping List
• - Sync them to your Phone
• - Analyze nutritional values
• - and much more!

Check this out...you can scan your printed recipes or take a photo of them to get them uploaded! With the new Scan-It feature, it's easy to get all of your printed recipes into Cook'n without having to type any of them!  Importing recipes you clipped from magazines and newspapers is easy... just scan them! Or, take a picture with your mobile phone. Use the Scan-it feature to translate scanned recipes to text and use the Snip-It tool to copy & paste the text into Cook'n with just a few clicks!

Cook'n has a Snip-it tool to capture internet recipes FAST. Most of the time, you can capture internet recipes with just one click. However, this doesn't work with web pages that are not formatted properly (like the recipes posted on many blogs). Enter Cook'n Version 11.  When Cook'n Version 11 detects web pages that are not marked up properly, it will automatically split the screen and display the Snip-It toolbar in the middle. Simply highlight the recipe directions and click the Directions button. Highlight the recipe ingredients and click the Ingredients button. With the new Snip-It Tool capturing recipes from your favorite blogs is a snap!

 Do you need some recipe inspiration? Rather than browsing Allrecipes, Foodnetwork and other recipe websites, just launch Cook'n! As soon as a new recipe is posted on the web, it will appear in the Cook'n Live Recipe Feed. Customize your recipe feed and follow your favorite websites easily. Click the recipe to see more or simply drag & drop it to save it in your personal cookbook.

 

Print your recipes in your choice of beautiful themes.  Get professional.  The themes in Cook'n are great! And, they're getting better all the time! Now, with Cook'n 11, your printed recipes can look just as fantastic as they do on the computer! In Cook'n 11, the print preview window is embedded inside Cook'n. And, the new printing tool is capable of printing themed recipes in all formats (3x5, 4x6, and full page). Add some real sizzle to your recipes and share them in style with Cook'n 11!

Post your favorite recipes on Facebook or pin your recipes on Pinterest with just one click! Print a family cookbook and give a gift that everyone will treasure or simply e-mail a recipe to a friend. Tweet your recipes, embed your recipes in your web pages, and link to them. Sharing your favorite recipes with Cook'n has never been so fun!

Share your recipes on:

• - Pinterest
• - Facebook
• - Twitter
• - Google+
• - Email
• - Text
• - Printed Cards
• - PDFs
• - Blogs
• - Websites

The Cook'n Cloud provides an off-site backup or sync of your valuable recipe collection to keep your recipes safe and to protect against viruses, computer system failures, hard disk corruptions, and data-loss. The Cook'n Cloud also makes it easier than ever to synchronize recipes between all of your Cook'n apps. For example, recipes entered into Cook'n on your PC will automatically appear on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and other PC's.
 

Don't forget to follow Cook'n via your fave social networking sites like Facebook and Pinterest to get all the latest updates!  Enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below to win your own Cook'n and see what all the excitement is about!
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Sahara Sam's NJ Indoor Water Park Kid's Birthday Party Package Extravaganza @usfg @saharasams {Giveaway}

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Sahara Sam's is New Jersey's LARGEST Indoor Water Park. They totally take fun to the next level!  They are even offering a fantastic discount and a GiVeAwAy through US Family Guide for a limited time for birthday packages. Keep reading to get all the scoop on this super fun water park.

Sahara Sam's is excited to announce a brand new birthday party package, so you know that Sam's Cooking Up Fun in February! Now you can have the most delicious birthday party ever and easy on mama! Kids, put on those chefs hats and get ready to make your own pizza and cookies before heading into the water park for a day of fun! Sahara Sam's is so excited that they're giving away a FREE party package!

The Birthday Giveaway Sam’s Cooking Up Some Amazing Fun!

Sam’s Cooking Up Fun with the new Sahara Sam’s Birthday Party Package! To celebrate we are giving away a party package to one lucky winner! Give your child the most delicious birthday party ever!  Your birthday child, and kids, will put on their chief hats, make their own personal pizzas, and decorate tasty cookies in their very own private festive party room! Then head into the water park for 2 hours when the flavorsome fun is done!  Hurry up and fill in the form via this link for a chance to win the ultimate party package! One entry per person please. Winner will be announced February 10th! 

Here is the scoop about this fun indoor water park in Berlin, NJ:  58,000 Sq. Ft of Splashtastic Fun, SAMAZON Adventure The WORLD'S tallest Ropes Course (an outdoor attraction), A 3,000 Sq. Ft Modern Arcade with great prizes - no admission required!, The region's only Flow Rider indoor surfing simulator, A full-service cafe featuring your favorite snacks, cold soft drinks, and your favorite cocktails or beer.

Here is your special birthday party coupon...you can save $30 on select birthday packages!

Sahara Sam's is the Birthday Party place, now offering even more choices to celebrate 

You can see all of their options here

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Sam's Cooking Up Fun - Birthday Package Value: $399.00

• 3.5 Hours Long Party, Start to Finish


• 1.5 Hours Exclusive use of a Festive Party Room with a Dedicated Party Host at the Beginning of the Party


• 2 Hours in the water park following the party room time


• 1 Make-Your-Own Personal Size Pizza per Child


• 3 Cookies to Decorate With Assorted Toppings per Child


• 1 Chef Hat per Child


• Four Small Lockers


• Additional Children are $24.95 Each


• Available Select Times Only on Fridays and Sundays

My own Sahara Sam's Ticket Extravaganza Giveaway to get your family out of the house and the cold and into the warm waters at this super indoor water park located in Berlin, NJ. You can enter to win your own tickets on my Rafflecopter blog giveaway right here!  Good luck and don't forget to share with family and friends.a Rafflecopter giveaway