October 10, 2011

Jif Peanut Butter and Amazon Kindle Winner

October 10, 2011/ Marta M. Darby

As I told you last Friday, I spent the weekend in Las Vegas and just got home a few hours ago.

Imagine my surprise (and delight!) to find so many comments on the post for the Jif^® Peanut Butter and Amazon Kindle giveaway! Thanks to all of you for sharing the peanut butteriness of your world.

I want to take a moment to thank the Jif^® Peanut Butter people for partnering with me to let me offer this very generous giveaway:

If you get a chance, please go back and read all the cool and elaborate things that people do with peanut butter. Who knew? (Apparently all of you did, but that's not important right now....)

There were some multiple comments by a few people, which I deleted (sorry, but I'm just counting single comment entries) even though some of you were just trying to get the details of a fabulous sounding recipe. So, if that was you and you'd still like to share your Favorite Peanut Butter Recipe, please feel free to leave a comment on THIS post. For the drawing, I had to limit the entries to one per person. You get that, right?

Better yet, why don't you have your kids enter the Jif^® Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest? Click here for more details.

I love that Jif^® Peanut Butter also has a Spanish site. Check it out right here.

As usual, I went over to Random.org and punched in the total number of entries into the Random Number Generator and it gave me this:

Congratulations to the 19th commentor and the winner of the Jif^® Peanut Butter Bag O' Goodies (<--not their official name. I just like how that sounds) and the Amazon Kindle.....

Please send me an email with HEY, MARTA! I WON STUFF ON YOUR BLOG! in the subject line and include your snail mail address so I can forward to the folks at Jif^® who will ship out your Jif Gym Bag, Peanut Butter Stuff, and Amazon Kindle.

And seriously, go "like" Jif^® on Facebook. Just because they're so very, very cool. =D

October 07, 2011

Peanut Butter and Jelly Time (A Giveaway)

October 07, 2011/ Marta M. Darby

I have to admit that when I was a child I didn't ever get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in my lunch.

And even though I usually got some kind of Cuban-food-of-awesomeness-leftover in my Barbie lunchbox, I confess that I was jealous of my little American counterparts who found those crustless sweet and salty offerings in their brown bags day after day.

As I got older, I didn't give peanut butter and jelly much thought, until I had a peanut butter and guava jelly sandwich. (ohyesIdid.)

It was a beautiful melding of the two cultures that have made me the person that I am today.

Are you wondering why am I waxing nostalgic over peanut butter?

The good folks at Jif Peanut Butter are celebrating Ten Years of Creativity in the Kitchen with a Jif^® Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest™.

Now through October 12, 2011, you can help your kids, age six to 12 submit their creative sandwich recipes for a chance to win a $25,000 college fund. Also, to mark the 10th Anniversary of the contest, this year’s Grand Prize Winner will also receive an additional $10,000 for educational products.

To find out more about the contest and/or to enter-click here. <--that, right there, is the link is to the Jif^® Peanut Butter home page. Who knew how many fabulous things you can make with this magical food?

Find Jif^® on Facebook or visit www.jif.com for more information, tips, recipes, contests and promotions.

And for my bilingual friends, you can also find the Jif site in Spanish.

I'm happy to announce that I've partnered with Jif^® to bring you this promotion and and they've provided me with a very cool and generous giveaway for MBFCF readers.

It's a pretty sweet Jif Branded Gym Bag, some Jif-to-go products (fabulous for lunches!), a Jif Picture Frame and an Amazon Kindle. (I know. Shut up.)

To enter the drawing for a chance to win that beautiful gift pack pictured above, please leave a comment on this post and answer one or all of the following questions:

What's your favorite way to enjoy Jif Peanut Butter?
Did you get peanut butter and jelly in your school lunches? (Lucky!)
Do you make something amazing and creative with peanut butter? Tell me.

I'll do a random drawing on Monday, October 10th at 7 pm Pacific Time.

I'll be in Las Vegas for the weekend and I won't be back until Monday afternoon, but that's not important right now. ;-)

{Disclaimer: I was given the same prize pack to facilitate this review. The opinions are my own.}

September 08, 2011

Why I * heart* Amazon

September 08, 2011/ Marta M. Darby

My family and I are all voracious bibliophiles.

Voracious.

Personally, I don't care either way if the book is the old-school paper kind or a good e-book. I love to read. Full stop.

I have been loving the free Kindle for iPad app because I can store dozens of books on my iPad and make notes and add highlights and do all the things I like to do when I'm reading a wonderfully informational or entertaining volume.

But sadly, my iPad with its digital screen is all but impossible to read in full sunshine.

I spend a lot of time in full sunshine. And I'm just spoiled enough now that I resent carrying big, heavy books to the beach, but that's not important right now.

So, Eric got me an Amazon Kindle (with built in Wi-Fi, thankyouverymuch).

It has an honest-to-goodness-reads-like-real-paper display. And it has been my best and most reliable Beach Buddy all summer.

But somehow, this past week when we were cruising, I must have dropped it or something, because suddenly my beautiful I-swear-it's-just-like-real-pages-in-a-real-book Kindle began looking more like an Etch-a-Sketch.

*insert really sad face here*

So I called Amazon.com customer service and told them about my new Etch-a-Sketchy Kindle and the great sadness it has caused me and inquired as to how would I go about replacing it.

"We'll send out a new one today and you just mail back the damaged one."

What? They actually said this. *hand on heart*

This conversation took place on Tuesday morning.

My new Kindle arrived on Wednesday morning. Shut. UP.