I know you’re excited about the upcoming release of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on DVD. We are too, and we’re celebrating by giving a lucky reader a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD!
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Win a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 – DVD!
Mandatory entry – Take The Harry Potter Trivia Quiz using the Beginner, Advanced, or Intermediate button in the widget below. Then tell us what the results of your quiz are, in the comments at the bottom of this post.
Earn extra giveaway entries:
Be sure to have completed the mandatory entry first!
1 extra entry (each time) – Tweet this: “I entered a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD #giveaway from @mommyinsider! You can enter to win here: http://wp.me/plszx-2ym”, up to once every 8 hours.
3 extra entries – Share your top three tips to having the ultimate Harry Potter party in the comments below
3 extra entries – Write about this giveaway on your own blog and leave the URL to your blog post in the comments below (can be done once)
Enter our other giveaways and tell us which giveaways you entered in the comments below
Entries accepted through 11:59pm EST, November 28th.
Open to U.S. residents 18 years old and older only. No P.O. Boxes.
We are not responsible for shipping. PR company will ship thep prize to the winner.
I am an Ambassador in the Ragú® Mom’s the Word on Dinner Program and this week we are discussing leftovers! What busy parent doesn’t love leftovers? They are quick and easy to prepare when you’re on the run, after a long night out at sports practices, or when you’re too tired to cook a meal.
If we have leftover chicken, sausage, and/or shrimp, we mix them together in a pot of Ragu sauce and serve it over pasta, rice, or barley and wahlah!, we have a Jambalaya! Here is a great recipe for Jambalaya. The best thing about this recipe is that you probably have all of the ingredients in your kitchen already! My favorite Ragu recipe to date has to be the Chicken Fajita Grilled Pizza with Ragu Pasta Sauce that I made in September. That was delicious but there’s we never have enough pizza left for leftovers.
Win a $200 American Express Gift Card! {This contest has ended}
To win tell me your favorite leftover tip or what your favorite leftover meal is (what recipe always leaves you with great leftovers?) in the comments below.
To earn extra entries, after you have left a comment, do any or all of the following.
Make sure you leave a separate comment entry for each extra thing you do.
DO NOT leave your email address within the comment!
Get two extra entries (each) for doing each or all of the following:
Subscribe to The Mommy Insider (and verify the subscription) and leave a separate comment telling me that you subscribed. If you are already a subscriber, leave a comment telling me that you are a subscriber.
Follow @mommyinsider and Tweet this giveaway using the blue Tweet button at the top or bottom of this post. Then leave a comment with a link to the Tweet. Tweet up to once every 8 hours.
Entries accepted through 11:59pm November 15th. Open to U.S. residents, 18+. No P.O. Boxes.
Disclosure: This is part of a campaign where I am an Ambassador in the Ragú® Mom’s the Word on Dinner Program. Visit www.facebook.com/ragusauce to join the conversation.
Is it too cold to Trick or Treat in your town tonight?
If you are staying in tonight instead of braving the cold weather to trick or treat then jump in the car, run to the grocery store, buy a couple of Totino’s Party Pizzas and and Pizza Rolls get a free one-day Redbox DVD rental! Serve a convenient meal that your whole family will love and still have plenty of time to sink into the couch to watch the latest movie rental from redbox. Dont’t forget to answer the door for the trick or treaters!
Look for specially-marked packages of Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas to stock up on everything you need for a fun Halloween night at home. Purchase 4 Totino’s Party Pizzas or 2 Totino’s 40 count Pizza Rolls to receive a free one-day redbox DVD promo code that can be redeemed at the following:
Rolls
Pizza
With more than 27,800 locations, and available nationally at Walmart, there´s always a redbox kiosk nearby! Find the closest redbox kiosk by checking redbox.com/locations.
TOTINO’S AND REDBOX GIVEAWAY! – This contest has ended. Congratulations Katie B.!
We are giving a lucky reader a prize package containing:
2 VIP Totino’s coupons
Free one-day redbox DVD promo code
2 pizza slice plates
1 popcorn bucket
1 pizza cutter
To enter to win, leave a comment below telling me how would you use your prize package. For example… a fun night with the family or you’d let the kids have friends over to hang out and enjoy pizza and a movie.
Earn extra entries by following The Mommy Insider (@mommyinsider) on Twitter and Facebook (1 extra entry each), follow Totino’s Facebook (1 extra entry), follow Redbox on Twitter, blog about this giveaway on your own blog (in your own words) then include the link to your blog post in the comments below, Tweet about this giveaway once up to every 8 hours (include the text #Giveaway, @mommyinsider, and @redboxtweet in your Tweet) – (3 extra entries each), then tell us what you did in the comments below.
Contest entries accepted through 11:59 EST November 10th, open to U.S. residents ages 18+, and no P.O. Boxes.
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Totino’s through MyBlogSpark.
Congratulations to our Modify Watches winner, Tina M!
Modify Watches make great gifts and imagine how easy it could be for you to stuff all of your kid’s stockings this holiday.. just drop a Modify Watches watch in each stocking, even Dad’s, and wahlah.. you’re done! I’m all about easy (and fun) stocking stuffers. You can even build your own Modify Watches based on your kid’s personalities. My 12-year-old son is all about having that one piece that will make him stand out just enough to get a bit of attention but not too much. You’ll usually find him wearing one accessory that stands out, like a necklace or a ring. He loves my Modify Watches watch but said he’d prefer to have the ‘Business Line’ collection as he’s particularly fond of the argyle and striped faces.
You can mix any face and strap to make a combination to match your outfit and/or mood. You can start by buying a small or large starter set for $55 or $85 respectively. Or you can just buy one face and one strap for $45. Then add more faces and straps as you want. The watch straps are made of silicone and the watch faces are made of acrylic and aluminum.
Modify Watches are large. The face is a little larger than 1.5 inches square. Wouldn’t it be so cool if we could slip a photo of our kids (or a pretty flower or maybe a tiny version of our to-do list – joke) into the watch face? That’s an up-side to the face being larger than average.. there is potential for Modify Watches to do some amazing things with that wrist real estate. I would love to see Modify Watches make a slightly smaller size watch though. Maybe about an inch square. I can see myself wearing the watch on a more regular basis if it was just a tad smaller.
Because Modify Watches introduces new face and strap designs often, you can buy a new face and/or strap to go with the latest fashion trend or your new-found mellow or not so mellow personality, for example. Your teenager will love having the ability to swap out his/her watch face and strap to match their outfit every day and you’ll love not having to spend $100+ on a new watch every time their style changes which is very often during the teenage years, right?
Modify Watches make a great accessory for everyone in the family, even the dog! Check out some photos of the world’s coolest people (and non-humans) wearing Modify Watches here.
What what? Did someone say GIVEAWAY?
I just did!
Let’s do this!
We are giving a lucky reader one face and strap from Modify Watches and in the spirit of spontaneity, we are not going to tell you what style or colors you’re getting.. actually we don’t know what the winner will get.
To enter to win a Modify Watches face and strap leave a comment below telling us which face style is your favorite. You don’t have to include a link to the page just describe it with your most descriptive words.. ever! Here’s a link that will open the face options in a new window.
Earn extra entries by following us on Twitter and Facebook (1 extra entry each), follow Modify Watches on Twitter and Facebook (1 extra entry each), blog about this giveaway on your own blog (in your own words), Tweet about this giveaway once up to every 8 hours (include the text #Giveaway, @mommyinsider, and @modifywatches in your Tweet) – (3 extra entries each), then tell us what you did in the comments below.
Contest entries accepted through 11:59 EST October 23rd (my birthday!), open to U.S. residents ages 18+, and no P.O. Boxes.
I have been on a quest to learn about wine for a few years. Over the last few years, if you asked me what effort had I made to learn about wine, and if I answered honestly, I would say “Not much”.. until the opportunity fell into my lap a few weeks when I received two bottles of wine from The California Wine Club.
Before I received the two bottles of wine The California Wine Club sent, I wouldn’t buy wine for home, choose wine at a restaurant, or drink wine because I was ignorant about how to really ‘taste’ wine, how to choose wine, what glasses to use, etc..
So here I am, on my quest to learn about wine and I realized that the first and most important step for me was to…stop worrying about it! Worrying about which type of wine to choose and which wine glasses to use kept me from buying or trying ANY wine. What fun is that? That sure didn’t get me very far.
I was thrilled when I received my first of three monthly wine shipments from California Wine Club, last week. After I received the shipment, I planned two of our week’s meals according to the wine. The first of which you’ll see in the photograph above. I paired a pasta & alfredo sauce meal with a Chardonnay.
I was sent two bottles of wine via California Wine Club’s Premier Club membership, their oldest and most popular wine of the month club. The Premier Club is a great way to learn about wine and the California wine scene, perfect for the wine novice (that’s me!) or aficionado. Just $36.45 per month plus shipping, handling and applicable sales tax.
I enjoyed the first bottle of wine with my husband. We probably didn’t use the right wine glasses, but that’s ok.. I’m just getting my feet wet with my wine education. I prefer fruity wines and this Chardonnay served just that. This is a light wine with tropical fruit flavors and a hint of vanilla. The delicate crispness went of this wine very well with our pasta meal.
CWC Food and Wine Pairing iPhone App Screenshot
Want to impress your husband and friends? You can become an instant wine and food pairing expert!
California Wine Club has a new iPhone/iPad app out called CWC food and wine pairing wheel (iTunes download link).
This, free for a limited time, food and wine pairing wheel app makes it easy to find the right wine to go with your meal. Next time you go out for a date night, don’t rely on the server to tell you what wine would go well with your meal. Decide for yourself by using the food and wine pairing wheel app. It’s simple to use, just choose a meal type from the list across the top of the app; poultry, seafood, pasta, starters, cheese, or dessert, and then spin the wheel below the list to choose the type of food you will be enjoying. Under each type of food, Lobster for example, you will get a list of results. For Lobster, the recommended wine is Chardonnay and two types would be Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc. Easy, isn’t it? Don’t forget to use the app while you are grocery shopping.
The app is now free so hurry and download CWC Food and Wine Pairing Wheel app before CWC begins charging for this very useful and easy to use app.
1. Use code mommyinsider to get 10% off every gift order you place. Wine makes a fabulous holiday gift.. don’t forget to stock up for Thanksgiving!
2. If you would like to try The California Wine Club, you can use the same promo code and not only will you get 10% off your first month, but you will also get an extra bottle of wine in your first month’s shipment just for being a The Mommy Insider reader! There is no obligation to stay past the first month.
Win a One Month Premier California Wine Club Subscription! {Ends 10/18}
We are giving a lucky reader a one-month Premier subscription to The California Wine Club.
Then leave a comment below telling me which you did and why you’d like to win.
3 extra entries:
Blog about this giveaway as a separate blog post on your own blog
Add a comment to any non-giveaway posts on this site (must be relevant to the post you are commenting on). Tell me in the comments below what post you commented on.
Tweet about this contest (up to 4 times per day). Your Tweet MUST include the name of the item being given away, my Twitter handle (@mommyinsider), the word giveaway, and a link to this post.
Example tweet: “I entered to win a 1 month California Wine Club membership from @mommyinsider! You can enter here: http://wp.me/plszx-2tV #Giveaway”
***** Contest Rules
This contest is open to U.S. residents 21 and older. Utah residents are excluded from this contest. No P.O. Boxes.
Entries accepted through 11:59pm EST October 18th.
The winner will be chosen at random and will be contacted via email. Winner must respond within 24 hours or a new winner will be chosen.
One IP address per household.
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Disclosure: I was offered a one month subscription to California Wine Club for review purposes. My opinions are 100% my own and are not influenced in any way. I write only about products and services that I have used and enjoy, unless otherwise stated. You can read my full Disclosure Policy here.
