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Download the Walmart App to Save Time & Money on Everyday Household Shopping! + Win a $25 Walmart Gift Card!

August 5, 2014Giveaways, Smartphones, Technologygiveaway, Smartphone Shopping, Walmart AppAlicia

I’ve been doing most of my household shopping online for the past few years. I buy everything from paper towels and schools supplies to cleaners and pet supplies online. I usually go to a store’s website on my laptop and often use a store’s app on my Android phone or iPhone to catch up on shopping while sitting outside or in the carpool line. I use an app because for some reason I feel guilty if I shop online during work hours even though I work from home. It’s when I sneak outside to get some fresh air (aka away from the kids) that I launch a shopping app and order the things we need that I don’t want to go to the store for.

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If you like shopping from the comfort of your home as much as I do, you’ll love Walmart’s shopping app! Walmart has a smartphone app for Android and iOS and it just might be my new best friend. By shopping for household items on Walmart.com or by using the Walmart smartphone app, you are giving yourself the option to shop wherever and whenever you want – at your own convenience.

Walmart iOS App

Convenience and Low Prices

I’ll be honest, I am not a fan of going to big stores to shop. I’d rather pay a little extra and have stuff delivered to my house – than sit in traffic, take the kids, wander around the store aimlessly looking for stuff, and then wait in line to check-out. Some things that I buy online 80%+ of the time are paper towels, toilet paper, detergents, cleaning supplies, pet supplies, office supplies, staple clothing for the kids like socks, and beauty supplies. It’s well known that Walmart almost always has the best price on everything, so why not take advantage of the low prices and not have to go into the store?! It’s a win/win!

Walmart.com offers the great variety and savings on everyday low prices that you’ve come to love at your local Walmart, especially on your favorite P&G products. We have P&G products in almost every room of our house and you probably do too. A few P&G products we use every that are available at Walmart.com at low prices are Tide 2x Ultra For High Efficiency Machines Liquid Laundry Detergent, Bounty Select-A-Size Paper Towels, and Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper Mega Rolls. When you select an item in the Walmart app you will see the item’s price, ratings and reviews for the item, store availability, an ‘add to cart’ button, ‘save for later’ button, product description, and related products.

Walmart Android app

About the Walmart App

Always visible at the top of the app in Android is the search function, share function, and your cart so you can see how many items you’ve added to your cart. Always visible in the iPhone app is a ‘List’ button, ‘Store’ button, and your shopping cart. Searching for products is not quite as easy in the iPhone app as it is in the Android app. Once you finish selecting items and putting them in your cart, simply click the shopping cart icon to check out.

You can choose to have your purchases delivered to your Walmart store for free delivery or shipped to your house free with orders over $50. If easy, at-home shopping and low prices isn’t enough to convince you to download the free Walmart app, the app recognizes when you’re in a Walmart store and provides easy access to the weekly ad, store information, new items, Rollbacks and more.

By using the Walmart smartphone app, you can easily build a shopping list by scanning all the products you’re ready to purchase again. This is great for things like my son’s body wash which he is really picky about and if I don’t get the right thing he’ll all but refuse to use it. I can just scan it and know I am adding the right product to my shopping list!

The Walmart app is free to download and will save you time and money on your favorite household products including P&G products!

We are giving a lucky reader a $25 Walmart gift card!

Enter using the form below. Entries accepted through August 18th, 2014. Winner will be contacted by August 20th. Entrants must reside in the U.S. and be 18 years or older.

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Bahama Breeze is the summer destination for good times! + A chance to win a $25 gift card!

July 7, 2014Food and Drink, Giveaways, New postsBahama Breeze, Food and Drink, giveaway, RestaurantsAlicia

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

There is nothing better than after a long day of work to go out to dinner at Bahama Breeze with your husband or some friends, Just sit on the patio, listen to some live music with a cool drink in your hand. That is why Bahama Breeze is the summer destination for good times!

Bahama Breeze Summer Beach Bash

This summer Bahama Breeze is having a new event called Summer Beach Bash.It features live music that brings the sounds of the Islands to the patio plus a new signature cocktail, called Bahama Breeze Ultimate Pineapple! So grab some friends and check out Summer Beach Bash where you can enjoy your favorite cocktail or try the new Ultimate Pineapple drink: the must have frozen drink of the summer served in a fresh cut pineapple! Plus on Saturday nights they turn up the live music and bring out a mojito bar where you can choose your fruit, your rum, and watch the bartenders muddle the perfect summer cocktail just for you!

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The Summer Beach Bash will run from June 23rd to August 3rd, so make sure you don’t wait too long to head on over!

Plus..

If you go to Bahama Breeze Summer Beach Bash, you can participate in the “Instagram Selfie Contest”! All you have to do is share a creative selfie of yourself and your friends enjoying your time at the Summer Beach Bash and use the hashtag #MyBBSelfie and you will be entered for a chance to win a $25 Bahama Breeze gift card!

To view Bahama Breeze’s fabulous menu of drinks, including my favorite the Dark and Stormy Bermuda, and food, or for a location near you click here. Don’t forget to visit them before the Bahama Breeze Summer Beach Bash ends on August 3rd!

Food Review + Giveaway: Fisher ‘Nut Exactly’ Dark Chocolate Dipped Snack Bites + $50 Costco Gift Card Giveaway!

April 24, 2014Food and Drink, Giveawaysfood, giveaway, snackAlicia

Every school day when the kids come home they run straight to the kitchen to grab a snack. My daughter will usually pick an orange or strawberries but my son prefers something crunchy which is mostly potato chips or those mixed snacks bags. I have been going over the labels on his snacks with him for the last few months and we both find the sodium and fat content in most of the salty snacks kids eat, alarming, not to mention the artificial flavors and ingredients. Yikes! One of his snacks has 230mg of sodium in one serving which is just 1/2 of a cup!

Fisher Nut Exactly Dark Chocolate Dipped Snack Bites

We were very happy to see that a new snack in our house, Fisher® Nut Exactly, has only 140mg of sodium and a serving is 10 big crunchy pieces! Having something substantial to eat, something that you don’t have to have a handful of to put in your mouth (like smaller snacks), allows you to feel like you’re really eating something, not just shoving a snack in your mouth.

This is Sebastian sitting down so share a bowl of Nut Exactly with his sister. 🙂

He thought he was really funny when Madelyn asked “can I have some?” to which he replied “nut exactly”.. and she was very confused.

At Fisher, they live for the little joyful moments in life that are about taking a break and sharing a bite. They love dreaming up and creating flavor combinations with a fresh twist. We live for morsels, nibbles, things that crunch. This is all right up my son’s ally. Except Fisher has done the work for my son and put an incredible combination of goodness together in one bite size snack, for him!

Fisher Nut Exactly popcorn almond chocolate snack

Each of the ingredients you see above make the delicious snack balls taste divine. My kids love popcorn, almonds, and chocolate so there wasn’t a chance in the world that they wouldn’t like Nut Exactly as you can see in the photo of my daughter devouring a Nut Exactly before I could get a good shot, below.

Fisher Nut Exactly at Costco

Fisher® thought long and hard about what makes the perfect snack. A satisfying crunch, a sweet yet savory taste and unlimited poppablitity. It’s not exactly almonds. It’s not exactly popcorn. It’s not exactly dark chocolate. It’s Nut Exactly. Every bite should leave you coming back for more. With NO artificial ingredients, Fisher Nut Exactly is a flavorful, sweet & savory snack that you can feel good about enjoying.

Fisher Nut Exactly at Costco

Be sure to enter our HTC One max giveaway too!

The best part? More doesn’t feel like too much. It feels like just right. It’s a snack you can feel good about enjoying. It’s a good thing my mom shops at Costco once a week and is kind enough to ask if the kids and I need anything while she’s there. I’ve been saying no for a few years since I discovered online ordering of paper towels, etc.. but now we’re saying yes please, Nut Exactly!

Costco stores throughout the Southeast will also have sampling of Fisher Nut Exactly on April 26th so be sure to drive to your nearest Costco and have a try!

Fisher Nut Exactly will be available at select Costco locations for a limited time beginning April 6, 2014, for $6.99 (15 ounce package).

Win A Fisher Nut Exactly Prize Pack Complete With A $50 Costco Gift Card

One lucky reader of The Mommy Insider will win a Fisher Nut Exactly prize pack that includes:

Fisher Nut Exactly
$50 Costco Gift Card

It is not mandatory to leave a comment to enter this contest but it will get you 10 extra entries!

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Entries accepted through 11am EST May 9th, 2014. Contest open to U.S. residents ages 18+ only. No P.O. Boxes. The Mommy Insider is not responsible for prize fulfillment and shipping.

I Am A Sprint Ambassador! Let’s Celebrate With A HTC One max Giveaway!

April 22, 2014Brand Ambassador, Gadgets, Giveaways, Technology#SprintMom, giveaway, HTC, smartphone, Sprint, Sprint AmbassadorAlicia

If you are a regular reader of The Mommy Insider (and my gadget blog) you know how much I LOVE gadgets and technology. I can’t get enough of the geniusness that is smartphones, tablets, streaming devices, and ereaders. Many people point out that kids spend too much time on smartphones, tablets or watching tv but I know that it is a parent’s job to stay on top of how much time our kids spend on these devices and that they can be very beneficial to our children when used and monitored properly! That being said, I am thrilled to announce that I am a Sprint Ambassador! During that time I am going to share my experiences testing various Sprint devices and service options with you.

Everyday we rely on our cell carrier such as Sprint to get us information we need when we’re on the go.

Our cell carrier gives us, including our kids, access to educational information that you and I would have had to search a 10 pound hard-back encyclopedia for when we were kids, even when we’re at ball practice at a field in the middle of nowhere.
Our cell carrier gives our kids access to educational games during long summer vacation road trips.
Our cell carrier helps us find the closest rest area when we’re on an unfamiliar highway and the kids really need to “go” using map apps.
Our cell carrier lets parents send a photo of our child’s band performance, during the performance, to family hundreds of miles away without wi-fi.
Our cell carrier lets us text our teen when we’re running late and need him to put dinner in the oven.

Kids and parents lead busy lives. Our cell carrier provides us with data when wi-fi isn’t available such as when we’re on the road, at a ball game, or at our child’s school. Cell carriers such as Sprint give us or our child access to the dictionary when our child needs to study vocabulary in the parking lot of her brother’s ball game, or when you’re at a store and you want to compare the price of a TV to the same one at an online store. These are just a couple of times we count on the data our cell carrier provides.

While cell carriers give us access to important data services, there has still been the issue of having the ability to call family and friends without breaking the bank. Something that I and many consumers have had with cell carriers in the past has been that while customers can put their family on a family-plan, the carrier doesn’t extend family to those who the customer might call every day such as their mother, brother, friend, or co-worker. The Sprint Framily Plan has changed the family-plan game.

What does Framily mean?

Framily =

Friends. Family Members. Co-Workers. Soccer Team Coach. You get it.

With the Sprint Framily plan, you and up to 10 friends, family members, and even coworkers and parents from the soccer team can be a part of a Framily group with unlimited talk, text and 1GB of data each, while on the Sprint network. Did you know that 1GB could get you 52 hours on Facebook, 11 TV episodes, over 40,000 email views, 12 hours of Skype, or over 100 hours of web surfing? Nice, right? If 1GB of data isn’t enough for you, you can always upgrade to 3GB or unlimited data while on a Sprint Framily plan.

Each of the members on the Framily plan receives a separate bill with no annual service contracts or early termination fees, all for as little as $25 a month per line when you have 7 – 10 members in the Framily group.

There are several people that I talk to regularly who are not in my immediate family and would be a great fit for a Sprint Framily plan such as my sister, my dad, and a few of my closest friends.

You might be saying to yourself.. but my friends aren’t with Sprint.

Under contract with another carrier? No worries!

You love saving money and having the latest gadgets, right? You’re in luck because for a limited time, new Sprint customers can bring their current cell number to Sprint and sign up for a Sprint Framily plan, receive up to $300 in credit for their current phone AND a Visa Prepaid Card worth up to $350 to cover those switching fees. This exclusive offer is available at Sprint stores and online at Sprint.com now through May 8th 2014.

To kick-off my #SprintMom Brand Ambassadorship, Sprint is giving an HTC one Max to one of my readers!

About The HTC One max Smartphone:

The HTC One max smartphone offers users a massive screen with a 5.9-inch display and amped speakers for watching videos or viewing pictures on the go. The feature-rich camera offers users the ability to take photos with a fun, artistic flair, and gives users news recommendations based on likes on social media, for breaking news that matters most to them.

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600 processor
Massive 5.9 inch display
Amped speakers for watching videos
Feature-rich camera offers users the ability to take photos with a fun, artistic flair.
Camera also gives users news recommendations based on likes on social media, for breaking news that matters most to them.
HTC BlinkFeed™: Create your own automatic updating home screen.
Up to 40% faster battery charging.
Backside sensor panel unlocks the phone with the swipe of a finger.

Giveaway Terms:

This giveaway is open to U.S. residents ages 18 and older. Giveaway closes on May 4th at 10am EST. The winner has 24 hrs to respond via email. Due to time sensitivity, if winner does not respond within allotted time, another random winner may be chosen. The Mommy Insider is not responsible for the shipping and/or fulfillment of the prize. Learn more about the HTC One max here.

Let’s get on with it!

You are not required to leave a comment to enter this contest, but it will get you 10 extra entries.

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TASSIMO T55 Review + A Quick Giveaway! {Enter through 12am Jan. 15}

January 10, 2014Contests, Food and Drink, GiveawaysCoffee, giveaway, TASSIMOAlicia

My husband, the kids and I love hot chocolate and I love a good cup of coffee that tastes like hot chocolate. 🙂 I was excited to be given the opportunity to try out a single cup coffee brewer by TASSIMO when they invited me to ‘Unlock a Perfect Cup this Holiday Season’ by sending me one of their new T55 brewers and a selection of T-disc’s to try out with it. I tried so many kinds of coffee in a span of a few hours that I was ready to conquer the world. (Don’t worry, I took sips of the different flavors and shared with my husband. I didn’t drink like 9 cups of coffee.) Then the kids got home from school and I was conquered.

The Tassimo T55: Easy High-End Brewing at a Mid-Range Price

While there are many high-end, feature-rich coffee makers available on the market, most tend to be extremely pricey for the average consumer. What’s more, many tend to be highly specialized and really excel at only one or two tasks. In truth, the vast majority of hot beverage fans are looking for a machine that’s a bit more flexible and middle-of-the-road. If you find yourself in that camp, the Bosch Tassimo T55 is more than worthy of your consideration.

Main Features & Functionality

For such a versatile appliance, the Tassimo T55 is surprisingly compact at just 8.7 inches deep, 11.26 inches wide and 11.14 inches high. Like its competitors from the likes of Keurig, the T55 boasts instant heat-up and zero power consumption on standby. It also features a removable 68-oz. reservoir fitted with a Mavea Maxtra filter for the purest water possible. In addition, it has a height-adjustable drip tray. Operating at 1300 watts, it can heat beverages to 185 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Tassimo T55 In Action

The real magic of the Tassimo T55 lies in its propriety T-Disc pods. To make the perfect chai latte, hot chocolate or cappuccino, just insert the appropriate T-Disc and press a button. The T55 will read the barcode on the T-Disc and adjust water quantity and temperature to ensure a perfect brew. A simple +/- button allows users to make their beverages stronger or weaker as they may prefer. I prefer a weaker coffee so I’m not found cleaning the carpet and painting the walls while my husband likes a stronger taste.

Overall Quality and Value

In terms of build quality, the T55 is a particularly rugged machine. Its attractive exterior is rather minimalist but sports chrome elements that make it look more expensive than it actually is. As a whole, this machine just feels incredibly solid and put up with quite a bit of use in a short period of time even at the hands of my 14 year old. I heard no complaints from the T55 so all is good! In the bargain department, the T55 is fairly competitive with other single serving coffee makers currently available. While the T-Discs are a bit expensive, they save quite a bit of time when you’re in a rush.

The Verdict

If you’re looking for a brewing powerhouse that can quickly churn out a variety of hot drinks that every member of the family can enjoy, the Tassimo T55 is a safe bet. Besides a high degree of versatility, the T55 boasts convenience and value as additional bona fides. Few coffee makers out there can match its combination of value and beverage quality. Pound for pound, it’s one of the best single serving machines you can buy.

Where to buy the TASSIMO T55

You can purchase the TASSIMO T55 on the TASSIMO website here or on Amazon.com here. Amazon.com offers prime shipping on the TASSIMO T55 through the link provided!