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NoGii Products – A Review

NoGii Products - A Review
NoGii Products – A Review

NoGii Products – A Review

Note:   I received this product for free from the sponsor of the Moms Meet program, May Media Group LLC, who received it directly from the manufacturer. As a Moms Meet blogger, I agree to use this product and post my opinion on my blog. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of May Media Group LLC or the manufacturer of this product.

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NoGii Products – the details

  • Certified Gluten Free
  • A variety of Protein Bars
  • Paleo bar choices
  • Protein powders (great for shakes and smoothies)
  • Does not contain any trans fat, hydrogenated oils, or high fructose corn syrup.
  • Made with sustainably sourced and premium ingredients.
  • Each bar has an ideal balance of protein, fat, and carbohydrates.
  • Great for active lifestyles.
  • Healthy products the whole family will enjoy.

As an example of a specific bar’s details, the NoGii’s High Protein Peanut Butter & Chocolate Bar:

  • Certified Gluten Free
  • Non-GMO
  • Contains 20g of high quality protein
  • Retails for $2.50 to $2.99 for one (1) 1.93oz bar

NoGii Products arrive in the mail – Time to start the Review!

I had been told I would be receiving samples of the entire product line.  I was not expecting the size of box I received.  I have loved being able to sample the different bars with my husband and four boys.  Guests in our home who have sampled the bars said they were good, did not taste “different” (since the bars are Certified Gluten Free), and were indeed healthy.

NoGii Products - A Review Copyright Adrienne Z. Miligan
NoGii Products – A Review

 

So many varieties of bars to choose from…

I like these bars as they are high in protein.  Sometimes it is difficult for me to get my boys (or myself) to want a snack with protein.  These bars are great!  We can grab one on the way out of the house.  Or eat one when we are tempted to graze the kitchen.

This photo below is of my third son holding his latest bar.  This is the NoGii “Nuts About Berries” Paleo Bar which he said was “Yummy!”

 

NoGii Products - A Review  this is a NoGii "Nuts About Berries" Paleo Bar Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
NoGii Products – A Review this is a NoGii “Nuts About Berries” Paleo Bar

 

My family enjoying NoGii Products

I grabbed this photo of my two little boys eating their NoGii “Nuts About Berries” Paleo Bar.  (My oldest two boys ate theirs before I could get the camera.)

My two little boys eating NoGii "Nuts About Berries" Paleo Bars for NoGii Products - A Review Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
My two little boys eating NoGii “Nuts About Berries” Paleo Bar for NoGii Products – A Review

 

Here is a photo of my third son eating his NoGii Paleo Bar (he picked which bar he wanted):

My son eating a NoGii Paleo Fruit Bar for NoGii Products - A Review Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
My son eating a NoGii Paleo Fruit Bar for NoGii Products – A Review

 

I plan on making some cheesecake using the NoGii Vanilla Bean Protein Powder once the weather cools.  Yes, cheesecake made with protein powder.  Check back for photos and my recipe!

Enter the NoGii Tablesetters Contest to win lunch with a friend and Elisabeth Hasselbeck in New York City!

Be sure to enter the NoGii Tablesetters Contest before the deadline!

The winner will receive a trip to New York with a guest.  Winner and guest will have lunch with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

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NoGii Products – A Review

I hope you have enjoyed learning more about NoGii Products.  My family and I have had fun taste testing the samples Moms Meet provided.

Please let me know if you have had NoGii Products.

~Adrienne

 

Prepper Broadcasting Giveaway

Prepper Broadcasting Giveaway - pic Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
Prepper Broadcasting Giveaway

Prepper Broadcasting Giveaway

Prepper Broadcasting is hosting a GIVEAWAY from today, June 26th, through July 20, 2015.

 Note:  This post contains a referral link.  For each person who enters the giveaway from my link, I will receive an extra entry myself.

The Prepper Broadcasting Network

The Prepper Broadcasting Network offers online radio shows 24/7.  Be sure to check out their articles and resource links.  I plan on tuning in soon to some of their radio shows.  How about you?

Prepper Broadcasting Giveaway – the details

One First Prize winner will receive a Survival Medicine Trauma Bag from Doom and Bloom.

The Survival Medicine Trauma Bag features:

  • Contains common and some not-so-common medical supplies.
  • Natural remedies like RAW unprocessed honey, cayenne pepper powder, and silver first aid antimicrobial gel.
  • Two solar blankets
  • Contents packed into a Voodoo medical bag.
  • Instructions for using contents.
  • Weighs only six pounds.
  • Full content list is shown here.
  • Valued at $219.00.

Three Second Prize winners will receive a 3 DVD Super Package of Educational DVDs with a combined value of $55.00 also from Doom and Bloom.  (DVDs are only usable with a computer.)

This 3 DVD Super Package includes:

  • Complete Wound Care Suture/Staple Class DVD
  • Survival Medicine DVD
  • Guide to Medical Supplies DVD

Great prizes for this Giveaway

Wow!  I have bookmarked the page for the Survival Medicine Trauma Bag.  I know my family needs to have one of these bags on hand for emergencies.

I have also bookmarked the DVD set.  I am a strong believer in knowledge is power.  I want my family to be knowledgeable in many areas of emergency preparedness.

Have you entered the Giveaway yet?

Would you like more than just one entry?

Share this Giveaway for additional entries!

Yes, you can get more entries to increase your chance of winning!  Your own unique link for the Giveaway is given after entering the Giveaway.  For each share on Facebook and Twitter, you will receive an additional entry.

I am happy to promote this Giveaway by Prepper Broadcasting.

I love learning of new products and companies which can help me, my family, and my readers (you!) become more prepared.

If you win, please let me know by leaving a comment.

Good luck!

~Adrienne

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake

Peanut Butter Bash

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake

The Peanut Butter Bash is a monthly dessert challenge which uses peanut butter and a “mystery” ingredient.  Each month the “mystery ingredient” changes.  (Yes, group members are told about the ingredient in advance.)

June’s challenge:  The special mystery ingredient is coconut!

Note:  This blog post contains affiliate links.  For more information, please see my Disclaimers.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Since June’s Peanut Butter Bash special ingredient is coconut, I was wondering what to do for this month’s post.  I did not immediately think of this milkshake or any other yummy item to make.  I asked fellow PB Bash bloggers what they were doing and got some ideas.

I decided to make a milkshake.  It has been warm here lately so a milkshake sounded great.  I still was unsure of the ratio for peanut butter to coconut.  I did not want it too strong of either coconut or peanut butter.  I wanted a nice blend of both ingredients.

While shopping the other night, I came across the So Delicious Coconut Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream.  This ice cream is made with coconut milk instead of cow’s milk.  It is dairy free, soy free, gluten free, and Kosher Parve.  If you are allergic to peanuts or coconut, please find a suitable substitute for this recipe.

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
So Delicious Coconut Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl for Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake

This particular Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake can be made with or without dairy.  It depends upon the type of milk you use.

I did use cow’s milk to do this milkshake.  You can also use coconut milk, rice milk, soy milk, almond milk, or hemp milk.  Use what you are able to consume.  If you can have multiple kinds of milk, make several to see which tastes best.

Blender or milkshake machine?

Growing up, my mother used her Hamilton Beach DrinkMaster Drink Mixer to make milkshakes.  This is the “home” version of the large commercial ones found in restaurants.  Below is a picture of mine, which almost looks like the one my mother has at her place.  The “milkshake machine” as we called it growing up now comes in chrome or black as well as the white.

I have used a blender for milkshakes.  I have found I still prefer to use my “milkshake machine.”  Perhaps as it reminds me of getting milkshakes (“real’ milkshakes made with hard ice cream) at restaurants.  I love the metal container with the rest of my shake, just waiting for me to pour into my glass.

Hamilton Beach DrinkMasterake Machine Photo Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
Hamilton Beach DrinkMasterake Machine

 Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake (recipe below photo)

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake - PB Bash June 2015 Copyright Adrienne Z. Milligan
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake – PB Bash June 2015

 Recipe for Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake:

5.0 from 2 reviews
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Coconut Milkshake
Author: 
Recipe type: Drinks
Cuisine: Milkshake
Prep time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • 1 carton of So Delicious Coconut Milk Chocolate PB Swirl Ice Cream
  • Milk (can be cow, rice, coconut, hemp, soy, or almond) - enough to blend ice cream to make milkshake to desired consistency
  • Whipped cream, optional
  • Hershey's Chocolate Syrup, optional
  • Hershey's Caramel Syrup, optional
Instructions
  1. Place ice cream and enough milk to allow ice cream to blend into a milkshake.
  2. When milkshake is at desired consistency, pour into a tall glass.
  3. Top with whipped cream and drizzle with syrups, if desired.
Notes
For more gluten free recipes, please visit http://glutenfreepeppers.ifmysuitcasecouldtalk.com/recipes/.

Join me next month for July’s Peanut Butter Bash!

Go to our Facebook page at Peanut Butter Bash and join.  (This group is open to bloggers.)

Are you a Peanut Butter lover who does not blog about food?  Join us at The Peanut Butter Recipe Box on Facebook.

We use #peanutbutterbash to make it easier to follow our posts.

The special ingredient for next month is bananas!  Anyone have a suggestion or a request for me?

~Adrienne

P.S.  If there is a dessert you would love to have yet do not know how to make it gluten free, please let me know.  I would love to try and make your recipe gluten free.

 

 


Motivate Your Child Action Plan

 Motivate Your Child Action Plan {Book review}

Disclaimer graphic for Motivate Your Child Action Plan
Disclaimer graphic for Motivate Your Child Action Plan

Note:  This is a sponsored post.  I was provided a copy of the book, Motivate Your Child Action Plan, and monetary compensation for my time to read the book and write the review.  This post contains affiliate links.  For more details, please see my Disclaimers.  

I have four children.  Four boys.  Since I have had four, I have felt I have most things “parent-child” related under control.

I applied to do the review for Motivate Your Child Action Plan by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN, to see what suggestions might be offered for the “teenage years” which my oldest two are in or will be shortly.

I really appreciate the tone of the authors and how it is more of a workbook for the struggling parent than a “you have been parenting wrong all of these years” approach.  The later type of parenting “guide” really does not set well with me.  In fact, those types of books are the ones I put down never to read again.

I have read Motivate Your Child Action Plan and do plan to read it again and again.  The stories of parents and children alike with their struggles and successes were heartwarming and encouraging.  Each chapter builds on the previous ones and walks you through which steps to take and when – or when not to take.

Since reading this book, I have noticed more of how I act (and react) to my children.  I need to work on myself some and I know Motivate Your Child Action Plan can help me focus on the areas which will benefit myself and my children the most.

I found while reading this book that I started looking back on my own childhood. I began recognizing how things played out versus how they could have played out.  I have also been recalling past situations with my own children to determine how to better our family life in the future.

I look forward to reading this again with each son in mind.  I have put some of the suggestions to practice and they do work!  This motivates me to read this book again to learn more about how I can improve our family.

I know I will be able to pick up this book late at night to search its pages for answers on how to help me Motivate My Child and myself to be more positive and loving.  I guess you could say it is like having a family counselor in the home for those questions you just want some advice on here and there.

I hope you will check out Motivate Your Child Plan and pass this along to those friends and family members who might need some positive parenting encouragement.  This book is available from the book’s website or from Amazon.

Motivate Your Child Action Plan
Motivate Your Child Action Plan

I was happy to provide this book review.  All thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are my own.  Receiving the book and monetary compensation did not affect my views of this book or what it offers.

~Adrienne

 

 

Gluten Free Flour Blend

Gluten Free Flour Blend

Over the years, I have baked with several different Gluten Free flours.  Each Gluten Free baker likes (and dislikes) different flours and have their favorite Gluten Free flour blends.  Gluten Free cookbook authors (like myself) are no different.

Gluten Free flours I have used in the past:

  • Sorghum flour
  • Brown rice flour
  • Teff flour
  • White rice flour
  • Corn meal
  • Sweet rice flour (normally used to thicken, different than white rice flour)
  • Corn flour
  • Potato starch (not to be confused with potato flour)
  • Tapioca starch (also referred to as Tapioca flour)
  • Coconut flour
  • Millet flour
  • Potato flour
  • Quinoa flour
  • Amaranth flour
  • Fava-bean flour
  • Corn starch
  • Garbanzo (chickpea) bean flour

One by one, these flours have either been removed from being used or are now a favorite of mine.  Some of the flours including sorghum, the bean flours, millet, and Teff have been removed from my pantry due to how I personally feel after consuming food made with them.  I no longer use potato starch and potato flour as I am nightshade allergic.  I try not to use coconut flour as it requires an additional 20% increase of liquid in the recipe.  My goal is to keep my wheat-based recipes the same and make Gluten Free by changing the flours (and any obvious substitutions as needed, like a Gluten Free soy sauce).

My current Gluten Free Flour Blend consists of the following flours with my most-used percentages:

  • Brown rice flour (35% – I mill my own and use a super fine grind.  This is a whole grain.)
  • Tapioca starch (25% – I like this as it is not a nightshade like potato starch.  This is a starch.)
  • White rice flour (25% – I mill my own and use a super fine grind like the brown rice flour.  This is a starch.)
  • Amaranth flour (15% – I mill my own.  Amaranth helps bind everything together and is considered a whole grain)

I use these four flours from my Gluten Free Flour Blend in different ratios depending upon what I am making.  I first started using amaranth in my flour blend when trying to get my Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies to not run all over the pan without the use of Xanthan Gum.  Now, I have removed Xanthan Gum from the recipe by using a small amount of amaranth flour.

Other Gluten Free flours I like to use

Corn meal and corn flour are the two flours I use in addition to tapioca starch when making my Gluten Free Cornbread.  Corn starch is what I sometimes use to make gravy or when I need a thickener.

The fun part with my favorite Gluten Free Flour Blend is I can change the ratios based on what I am baking, how the ratio worked (or did not work) the previous time, and what I have on hand.  (I mill my own flours using a Country Living Grain Mill and there are times when I have more of certain flours than others.)  This Gluten Free Flour Blend works with store-purchased flours, too.  My family chose to purchase a mill to save on the cost of flours with a family of six.

What is your favorite Gluten Free Flour Blend?

Please share!

~Adrienne