Snacktivate!

Recently I signed up with MomCentral, although I don't normally jump on the mom-group bandwagons. I don't know, maybe it's that whole "doesn't play well with others" thing I have goin' on, I don't know. But people, I LOVE this place!I signed up at the website and within an hour I received a personal email from one of the gals there, welcoming me to the group. It was not a form letter, it was not a blanket "thanks, nameless, anonymous person for signing up" email, it was an email from someone who had already visited my blog and had actually read a few posts. They totally had me at hello.

So along with being a member of MomCentral, you can sign up to do BlogTours for them. I don't spend my entire day online (although my husband would probably argue that one) so I don't get some of the invitations as soon as they come in and I miss quite a few, but I did manage to get invited to do the Snacktivate! BlogTour from Kellogg's. You know, the cereal people. Big tiger? Three little dudes that make your cereal talk? Yeah, that Kellogg's.

Monday the mailman (He's an actual man who carries the mail so I feel confident in calling him that, rather than "letter carrier". He seems like the kind of guy who would take offense to that term.) delivered a ton of boxes to our house. Two were from Ab's first online shopping adventure (more in another post) but the biggest one was from KELLOGG'S!It was a veritable hurricane of brown box and paper packing while we (meaning me) went berzerk getting to the goodies inside the box from the Kellogg's Company: Two - Two! - boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats and a cool snack cup for cereal and milk on the go. There was also a recipe for Sassy Sunpops, which we promptly made. Well, without the sticks to make them into actual "pops" and flax seed because I didn't have any in the house. Okay, so basically we just made the "Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies." Anyway, let me just say YUM. And with Sam's recent tummy troubles, this family can use all the help it can get with adding fiber to our diet.But the Snacktivate! website is what I'm really here to talk about.

Abby and I have spent several days looking over this site, clicking on links and seeing what we could learn and what other recipes we could find. I clicked all the way through to see how Kellogg's is involved in schools and how they do their part in making sure school lunch programs are healthier. Since my kids eat two meals at school, five days a week, nine months out of the year, that is a good thing. I also learned that Kellogg's PopTarts are better for you than breakfast pizza or even scrambled eggs. Who knew? See, Mom? I really AM doing a good job! Something else? Nearly 25% of our daily calories come from snacking, so it's kind of more important than throwing a couple of cookies and some kool-ade at your kid when they come in from playing. Abby printed out about 37,000 recipes (Okay, she printed five...) for us to try, so if it caught an 11 year old's attention it can't be bad!

Check out the Kellogg's Snacktivate! website and see what they're all about.

Make sure you check out MomCentral, too!