Saturday, July 16, 2011

Day 28 and Today I Ate A Rainbow Giveaway!







Today marks the last day in the All You Grocery Challenge! I can't believe what a difference it has made in our family. Within the first couple days it became clear that my biggest hurdle would be to improve the eating habits of my almost 3 year old daughter, Salma. Her idea of a varied diet included different chicken nugget shapes and deciding between chocolate milk or chocolate ice cream. Then I had an inspirational moment  to make it a game and challenge her to eat the rainbow everyday! She loved it and took to the "game" right away. The theme of our family's challenge became "eat the rainbow everyday."
Imagine my surprise and excitement when I stumbled upon a whole kit to help parents teach their kids to eat the rainbow everyday! Kia Robertson, the brains behind this ingenious product, created the Today I Ate A Rainbow Chart to keep track of her daughter's eating habits and found it to be a fun and interactive tool to help her daughter make healthy, varied choices. 
Kia generously sent me a kit to review and it is exactly what my family needed to motivate them and visually track how we were doing in eating the rainbow. With three kids' eating habits to track, it wasn't easy to know if they were all eating the rainbow! Kia's kit makes it super easy! 

I love that each kit comes with enough magnets to track up to 4 children. Salma quickly picked the star shape, Eissa wanted the triangle and I used squares for our 10 month old. The chart can be put on the fridge and with a quick glance I was able to check if the kids' were eating the rainbow and what color they were lacking in; surprisingly we were lacking in yellow and that was fixed easily with some bananas. Although I found the kit late in the challenge, it's going to be key in helping us maintain our new eating habits.

Kia has generously offered to give one lucky reader their own Today I Ate A Rainbow Kit!

One lucky reader will win the following prize package worth $25!
  • 1 Today I Ate A Rainbow chart
  • 4 sets of magnets 
  • 4 achievement magnets
  • 2 fridge magnets
  • 1 color coded shopping list
  • 1 The Rainbow Bunch book
  • 1 Rainbow bookmark
This contest will end Friday, July 22, is open to residents of the US and CAN only. I'll announce the winner the next day.

Every participant can have up to 4 entries! For each method of entry make a new comment to this post letting me know you did.

Mandatory entry: Leave a comment below!
1 entry: Follow me @thefrugalette on twitter-leave your twitter name in comment
1 entry: Subscribe to my blog via Google Friend Connect
1 entry: Follow my blog via Networked Blogs (click follow button on sidebar)


Good Luck!

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the blog Isra!! Im always interested in ways to cut our grocery bill and save some money....keep it up, im loving all the awesome info!!


shazia

thecatinthetree said...

I would love to win this! I'm trying to get a little more organized and I think the visual of what the kids are actually eating during the course of the day would be a great help.

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Jeanette said...

I just found your blog and I think the eating a rainbow everyday idea would work well for my Halima. Hope I win :)
Salam,
Jeanette

Dannelle said...

I follow you -- the whole way thru the challenge.
:)
Dannelle from Operation $40K

Dannelle said...

I follow you on NW blogs too~!

Dannelle said...

I follow you on GFC

Stacy said...

Salaam Isra! Nice Blog! :D

StacyG

Stacy said...

OK,

- Following you on Twitter now (stacygraff)

- Subscribe to Google Friend Connect

- Following on Networked Blogs

:)

Anonymous said...

My daughter is 3 also and I think she would like this. It's cute!
Laura
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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

What a great concept for explaining to little ones about eating well. This would be so easily accepted by all my kids.

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Anonymous said...

I am a GFC follower-Danelle Johnson

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I follow/like you on Twitter- danellejohns.

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Naida said...

I love ideas on how to save on groceries!

Anonymous said...

So need to add some rainbow technique for our 3 year old! Thanks for this great blog, Asra!

I follow you you on email.

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Kim said...

What a great idea! I love it - and I'm all about nutritious eating so this is perfect!

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Kim said...

following on GFC as Kim Berly

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katklaw777 said...

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Colorful giveaway, thanks!

katklaw777 said...

New follower on twitter w/ katklaw777,

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New follower on GFC.

stracey2010 said...

i would love this! what a great way to track what my son eats
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pridelandmama said...

This would be so great to make my kids excited about getting all different colored veggies.
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dailymom said...

Great giveaway to encourage healthy eating
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Michelle H said...

I love ideas to get kids eating more healthy!
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~ Sam ~ said...

Great giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity! My kiddos would love this!
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chelsea mckell said...

I'd LOVE to win this!!
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thanks!! :)

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I follow you on GFC! :)
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Laurie said...

Would love to win this-my daughter and nephew would love it!

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Laurie said...

I follow you on Twitter under frugalwahms

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Nancy said...

This is a great way to encourage healthy eating!

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Rachel said...

I would love to win this to try to get my 4 year old to eat better! We are trying to eat healthier as a family too so this would help!

Great blog!

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Raggedy Baby said...

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