Back to School 2010 Giveaway: Streamlining Your Morning Routine (5 Winners) [CLOSED]

This fall, we will have three children to get up and ready for school instead of one. The thought of it is making me rather nervous. This is uncharted territory for us. Getting our 6 year old son up, ready, and to the bus stop on time was challenging enough last year, but now we will be adding getting our 3 year old twins up, dressed, fed, and to preschool on time as well.

This contest could not have come at a better time. I do have a list of things I plan to do to streamline our mornings, but I really could use some more tips!

My Tips for Streamlining Mornings During the School Year:

• Help your children pick out their clothes and lay them out the night before, including matching socks.
• Make sure all homework and anything else that needs to go to school are already in their school bags.
• Take the empty lunch bag from your child when they come home from school, repack it immediately with the following day's lunch, and put it in the fridge.
• Leave the school bag unzipped to remind you that you need to put the lunch or snack in there the next morning.
• Leave the drinkware, flatware, and dishes needed for breakfast out on the counter the night before.
• Serve your children something for breakfast that is nutritious, but can be prepared easily and quickly, like the new Eggo Real Fruit Pizzas. They offer your child a hot breakfast with just 1-minute in the microwave.
• Serve your child something you know they will like to eat to avoid a battle at breakfast. Save the experimenting for the weekends.

Thank you to Eggo for sending us sample product free of charge to base this article upon and for providing additional product for our contest prizes. This article was written for a paid campaign for TheMotherhood.com .

What you can win:
FIVE lucky readers will each receive one box of each of the two varieties of Eggo Real Fruit Pizza.

One reader from all the participating blogs will be chosen to win the Grand Prize, containing one of each variety of Eggo Real Fruit Pizza and a Pair of Kellogg's Mugs.

Limitations:

This giveaway is open to U.S. entries only. You do not need to be a blogger to enter, but you must have a valid email address and be age 18 years or older. Multiple email addresses are not allowed. If you enter anonymously and do not include a valid email address in your comment entries, I will not be able to notify you should you win this random drawing. Anyone who has won an Eggo Real Fruit Pizza contest on another blog is not eligible to win.

How to Enter:

Leave a comment with your single best tip about how to streamline one's morning routine. You MUST do this to be eligible to win this contest.

(Only one entry per person.)

Random Drawing:

This contest will be closed on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 11:59pm EST. A random number drawing will be held shortly after. The winners will be announced here and will be contact via email or through their blog. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours, a new number will be drawn.

Good luck in the drawing!

Review: New Kellogg's Eggo Real Fruit Pizzas

Multitasking is something we do throughout the day everyday. So it makes sense to combine several parts of breakfast, such as the cereal, fruit, yogurt, and bread, all into one kid-friendly product. Leave it to Kellogg's Eggo brand to come up with a product that accomplishes this. Their new Eggo Real Fruit Pizza is starting to show up in the frozen food section in supermarkets across the country.

This innovative product comes in two varieties . . . Strawberry Granola and Mixed Berry Granola. I think this is a great idea, but in this case, the idea is only as good as the product tastes. Well, I made both varieties for my picky eaters. They were surprisingly open to trying these since they love Eggo Waffles so much.

Below are photos of the frozen Real Fruit Pizzas and then what the pizzas looked like after a minute in the microwave each . . .

I cut each pizza into four slices, so that I and each of the children could try one slice of Strawberry Granola and one slice of Mixed Berry Granola. I was a little concerned about our 3 year old twins being resistant to eating these. They are so picky when it comes to food and they often do not like several things intermingling in their food. I was so pleasantly surprised that both twins finished both slices of fruit pizza. Our 6 year old son, however, did not finish his Mixed Berry Granola. He thought it was too tart.

I think the family is divided about the Eggo Real Fruit Pizzas. My 6 year old and I prefer the Strawberry Granola. It is sweeter and lighter tasting with just the yogurt, strawberries, and granola. The twins, however, both preferred the Mixed Berry Granola. They have an affinity towards jam and I believe the berry variety has jam mixed in with a bit of yogurt under the toppings.

Overall, the Eggo Real Fruit Pizzas were a hit with my children. I do recommend that you microwave them for the maximum amount of time because I do not think they crisp enough with just one minute.

You should be able to find Eggo Real Fruit Pizza most places where Eggo products are sold. If you need help locating Eggo products, just enter your zip code into Kellogg's product locator.

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Eggo Real Fruit Pizza and received a sample of the product and a $20 Amazon gift certificate to facilitate my review.