Van's Cereal Review {and Giveaway}

We love cereal at our house but finding gluten free cereal my kids love has not always been easy. Thankfully, Van's has a great variety of breakfast cereals and recently added TWO new varieties:

Blissfully Berry and Cocoa Sensation! We were lucky enough to be able to taste them both and I highly recommend looking for them at your supermarket. We loved the chocolatey taste of the Cocoa Sensation and I had to buy another package to take pictures while the kids were in school. If it is in the house, they will finish it in one sitting. We also greatly enjoyed the Blissfully Berry and especially I appreciated the fruity flavor!

No matter if you eat cereal for breakfast or...

...pack it as a healthy snack to-go, we love having two new varieties of Van's Cereals to choose from.

As always, Van's cereal delivers 17g of nutrient-dense whole grains along with 5g of fiber per serving!

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Penny & Jelly - The School Show - a Literary Lunch

This lunch is also posted over at The Little Crooked Cottage as a Literary Lunch. Head over to the fabulous blog of four children's book authors and check out the wonderful Literary Interviews with Mr. Pig himself! 

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Have you met Penny & Jelly from the new book Penny & Jelly - the School Show by Maria Gianferrari and Thyra Heder?

Having a best friend to help you pick a talent for the school show is the best feeling in the world.

But what talent will they pick? Penny is having a tough time deciding on what talent she might have. Jelly, her dog, tries to help her decide. Penny tries out various talents—from dancing to unicycling, fashion designing to snake charming—with disastrous results. But in the end she finds the best talent of all. Can you guess what it is?

We packed a fun lunch to-go in our Kid Konserve Bento- perfect for snacking on during a school show:

•  a Penny Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich (pun intended)
• Peanut Butter and Jelly bars (because friends stick together)
• apple and cheese & chicken and cheese skewers (because stripes complement each other)
• and of course Jelly, sitting on a heart shaped cup of sweet dried banana chips (because friendship is sweet)

Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast - a Literary Lunch

This lunch is also posted over at The Little Crooked Cottage as a Literary Lunch. Head over to the fabulous blog of four children's book authors and check out the wonderful Literary Interviews with Mr. Pig himself! 

Ever wonder what's going on in your fridge once you close the door? Find out in Josh Funk's new book LADY PANCAKE & SIR FRENCH TOAST. The book is beautifully illustrated by Brendan Kearney and painted the mysteries of the fridge perfectly. 

Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast are best friends until rumor has it that only one drop of maple syrup remains in the fridge. The friends race to see who would get to the syrup first and enjoy the last of the sweet treat. To find out who wins and if friendship wins over competition, you will have to read the book yourself. My kids love this book and it is a fun addition to our home library!

To celebrate this book, we packed what was in our fridge today in our Easylunchboxes:

• A Sir French Toast 
• A Lady Pancake chocolate sandwich
• the sought out almost empty bottle of maple syrup
• and some carrot, red pepper, green grape and home made chicken nuggets onlookers.