I recently had the opportunity to try Organic Bistro’s Wild Alaskan Salmon Entrée, and Helen’s Kitchen Thai Yellow Curry.  I’m not normally one who likes organic or healthy foods. Well, I like vegetables and fruit and they are healthy for you, but I don’t normally purchase organic meals or anything like that. Now that I’m getting older however, I am trying to eat a little healthier, so I decided to give these a try.

Let me start off with what I didn’t like. I didn’t like that I had to travel 50 miles in order to redeem my coupons for these products from a health food store. I live in a small town, and we do have a health food store but they don’t currently offer either of these products. I have asked them to see about carrying them in the future, and was told they would look into it. Hopefully they actually do, because I really did like the entrée’s.

I thought that I would be getting something made out of tofu, but I was pleasantly surprised. No tofu! Yippee! I don’t care what anyone says, you can’t make tofu taste like anything, and it still has a horrible texture. Anyway, the Organic Bistro entrée wasn’t tofu, so I was happy. The salmon cake was tasty; it wasn’t grainy as some salmon can be. It came with a decent size portion of vegetables (three bean medley), and confetti rice pilaf, also a decent size portion. It sells for about $6.00 (at least where I redeemed my coupon), so the price is reasonable in my opinion.

The Thai Yellow Curry from Helen’s Kitchen also came with decent size portions. Now, remember I stated that I didn’t like tofu, and you couldn’t make it taste like anything like people claim? Well, this entrée did have tofu steaks in it, however, that being said it wasn’t bad. Combined with the other ingredients (organic broccoli, red bell peppers and basmati rice) I really couldn’t complain about the tofu. Also, when I think of curry I think that the item is going to be spicy, well this was tasty but not overly spicy. I would eat this again. It sells for about $5.00 (at least where I redeemed my coupon), so the price is also reasonable in my opinion.

So, the consensus is, buy them and try them, I think you’ll like them. You won’t know if you like them unless you try them.

 BONNIE

Who doesn’t love waffles? Well I guess there might be a lot of people who don’t, but I know for certain that I love them. Recently, I was sent a coupon to try Smucker’s Snack’n Waffles. I tried the blueberry ones, but they also come in cinnamon, chocolate chip and maple. I was a little surprised as when I hear the name Smucker’s I generally think of jam and jelly, definitely not waffles. I’m not really sure how much I can explain how good these were, so I’ll just spit it out, they were really good! We ate ours without syrup, but I imagine they’d be just as good if you put syrup on them. You only get four in a package so with a family of five like my own; you really need to get more than one box. They are sold at Target and other area stores. To find a store near you that sells them visit this site.

Smucker’s Snack’n Waffles brand waffles has teamed up again with mom-of-seven, Hannah Keeley, a lifestyle expert and host of the national public television series, “Hannah, Help Me!”  She will share her fresh, all-in-one simple solutions on how to get the day off to a smooth and healthful start and keep busy mornings stress-free.

Through November 17, 2011, I encourage you to visit www.snacknwaffles.com and vote for their favorite morning tips. One voter will receive the Grand Prize of an all-in-one morning routine makeover (ARV: $5,000) which will include a one-on-one consultation from Hannah Keeley herself.

How cool is that? I think pretty cool, another chance to win something! So get on out there and vote; YOU could be the big winner.

BONNIE