Pop...corn...chips??

Crunchy snacks work wonders for Em, my Aspie kid who craves carbs.

"Popchips has created an innovative snack that delivers the crunch and the taste, but without all the calories and guilt of greasy potato chips. In fact, a single-serve bag of popchips containing nearly 20 crave-crushing chips is a mere 100 calories and 3.5 grams of fat. This means you get all the flavor and less than half the fat of regular fried chips. Made from all-natural ingredients, these treats are popped – not fried or baked - proving popchips a truly revolutionary snack and a worthy indulgence!"

Flavors range from salt & pepper and cheddar, to the more classic sea salt & vinegar, barbeque, original, sour cream & onion and many more. All the flavors were YUMMY!! And everything was such a light, yet fulfilling snack. Kasia loved the sea salt & vinegar and barbecue. Em loved the salt & pepper and sour cream & onion flavors. And I loved the original and cheddar ones!

Go“like” popchips on Facebook .

And I'll have a giveaway for a “Get Popped” box of popchips, just like I received. Post here and tell me your favorite crunchy snack and flavor that you like. AI will randomly choose a name and contact you so I can send in your info and you will receive your packet, too!

“I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of popchips and received a “Get Popped” box of popchips and a $30 gift certificate to thank me for taking the time to participate.”

Sugar Rush!

Well, Halloween is over.  All the little spooks and goblins and rappers and *gasp* Hannah Montanas (EEEEK!!) are back home and probably still have bellyaches from all the candy they consumed since Halloween night.  

But aha - it's not just bellyaches that plague those tykes.  (Yeah, I'm so freakin' old, they're tykes and whippersnappers.)  Apparently there's statistics and you know, those statistics show kids miss 51 million school hours each year because of dental-related illness, and pediatric dental disease is the #1 chronic childhood illness. (Miss school due to dental illness?  Maybe just having to go to the dentist during school hours?  Who knows!) 

Now for the formal spiel: 

Anyway, Listerine and Reach created "October Oral Care Challenge" for kids 6 and older to take with their parents—a great tip to get kids to imitate good oral hygiene routines. To complete the challenge, kids and  Moms have to brush, floss and rinse every day, twice a day for three weeks—a key step in building a strong oral care foundation. We all hear about the importance of regular brushing and flossing for your oral care routine, but rinsing with a therapeutic mouthwash for 30 seconds twice daily, an additional but essential activity, helps reach those other parts of the mouth that harbor germs.

The makers of Listerine and Reach have also teamed up with America's Toothfairy to launch "Trick or Treat for America's Toothfairy," a campaign to raise awareness of pediatric dental disease and help provide life changing care to underserved children. You can visit www.AmericasToothfairy.org to learn more. 

Yeah - we brushed and sang "brusha brusha brusha" from Grease and lots of other stuff...my kids are 10 and 13, but the 10 year old has sensory issues (Asperger's - the gift that keeps on giving) and HATES to brush her teeth.  I've tried for years and even holding her down isn't conducive to good dental habits.  But I digress...

We received Agent Cool Blue, Smart Rinse (whoo - a variety!), smart flossers, toothbrushes, and such neat stuff!
She loved the Barbie swishy stuff (as she calls it) and chose her own "chubby brush" and really liked the "blue goo" that shows on your teeth (pre-rinse) to see where you need to really concentrate on brushing.  Yeah, that lasted for about a week.  Hey, I tried

But it helped some - and it's always great to get things moving.  Kasia and I really got into it and are having a blast with the floss, neato brushes (she got Batman.  I got Batman and Plastic Man!  Remember him?)  So hey - two out of three isn't bad!  

Disclosure: I wrote this review as part of a blog tour by Mom Central on behalf of Listerine and received samples, received a Global Giving gift card, and a gift card as a thank you.  It's me.  I'm real.  And I'll blind you with my smile.  ;P