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I am a fan of gift baskets. Where else can you get lots of yummy food and have it be called a present? It is also pretty nice when everybody in the house can enjoy something from it.  Hickory Farms gift baskets don’t disappoint.  We had one of these to try over Thanksgiving, and everybody loved it!  Besides the excellent cheese and sausage (which we are still munching on a week later), my husband is in love with the cheese cutter that this basket comes with.  How many gift basket come with what you need to cut the contents with?

The basket itself comes with (besides the slicer):

2 – 12 oz. Beef Summer Sausages
- 12 oz. Ham Summer Sausage
- 10 oz. Original Cheese Ball
- 7 oz. Pennsylvania Dutch Edam
- 2 – 6.5 oz. Apple Pie Cheddars
- 10 oz. Sweet Hot Mustard
- 5 oz. Flatbread Crackers

I have to admit that I loved the apple pie cheddar cheese.  It was beyond yummy.  That is a flavor I can readily admit I’ve never had before.  Bill was super excited about the mustard because well, he loves mustard.  My only complaint is that this doesn’t come with enough crackers!  This makes a great gift for a get together or house that is fan of cheese of sausage (which would be mine!).  If anybody wants to know what to get me for Christmas, please send me another! 

“I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Hickory Farms and received a Hickory Farms gift basket to facilitate my review.”

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I’ve always been a fan of Crystal Light.  I can’t stand drinking plain old water and the flavor Crystal Light adds to my water is what I need.  I do have to admit that I was shocked by the new packaging they now are using.  I am so use to the old cups that it floored me that they changed.  With that being said, I do like the change.  The packaging is much more modern looking.  Instead of the cups, there are easy to open packets.  There is also a clear window on the packaging, so now you will know when you are running low.  The best part is that this new packaging will use 250 less tons of packaging each year.  That’s a lot of trash!

Crystal Light has the same great taste — just in a much more environmentally friendly packaging.  Go check it out!

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If you want to send a great gift and brighten a solder’s day, then you need to use Bake Me A Wish.  Five percent of each cake they sell goes to a program they created called Operation: Birthday Cake, which sends cakes to our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on or close to their birthdays. Every holiday Bake Me a Wish! ships hundreds of cakes to the soldiers to add some sweetness to the holiday and offer a taste from home too.

How do they taste?  Yummy!  We tried the brownie cake and I have to admit it was very rich.  It was like no other brownie I’ve ever tried.  The topping on the brownie made it all the better!  I would definitely order another one of these again!  It will definitely take a couple of days to finish off one of these, but you’ll enjoy every single bite.

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My kids LOVE this. I just can’t say LOVE enough. Capitalizing LOVE doesn’t even describe it. Basically, what the Moo Mixer is a push button mixer.  However, it’s easy enough for both my kids (2 and 5 to use).  They actually fight over who can do their milk first (I also have chocolate milk lovers in my house too).  This is how easy this is:

Add milk:

Add chocolate:

Hit button to stir:

It is that easy! Granted, a spoon is much cheaper, but nowhere near as fun.  We actually hide it from the kids when not in use, because otherwise, all they would do is play with it.  I would recommend the Mr. Twister Moo Mixer for any house who has little ones that like chocolate milk.

How do you store your coffee?  Did you know that the way your store your coffee most likely is shortening its shelf life?  Do you know what is causing the bitter and stale taste you’ve noticed with your coffee?  There are 4 things that destroy the flavor of coffee: trapped CO 2, light, air and moisture. Most likely, you weren’t storing it correctly.  There is only one coffee canister that eliminates the flavor loss in whole beans and ground coffee and that is the Coffee Savor. The Friis Freshness Valve on it vents away trapped carbon dioxide gas created during the roasting process and blocks out moisture, light, and air to seal in flavor.  It holds 16 oz of coffee of any kind and is super easy to use.  You just put your coffee in and close.  Then once a month you change the freshness value (and you get several to start with).  How much easier could fresh coffee get?

This is a must have for any coffee lover in your family, so that they can have rich, satisfying flavor every morning.

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