Sambazon Product Review and Giveaway

Sambazon is a brand that I had actually not heard of before doing this review. It is a company dedicated to bringing nutritional food based on some of the exotic fruits and plants available in the Amazon. Its mission so to help the the Brazilian Amazon, and its people supporting sound environmental practices both fair trade and organic, and bringing quality nutrition to the rest of the world in the form of wonderful superfoods.

We have been trying really hard to adjust our diets to include more fresh healthy options. We are juicing, and making smoothies at home, eating more organic, adding more fresh, local and organic vegetables and fruits. 

Recently we were given the opportunity to try Sambazon's Protein Smoothie products through Moms Meet. Locally we could only find two flavors of the protein smoothie; we tried Chocolate and Vanilla. I say we because I included the kids on the review. They are a good indication on how good something is-especially if it has a label of healthy. 

The kids and I were all excited about trying these smoothies. First we opened the vanilla and they all liked it. To me is was okay, but the soy flavor kind of overpowered flavors in the smoothie. We opened the Chocolate next and I have to say I'm glad that is the flavor we decided to get two of. all of the kids were fighting over who was going to finish off the bottles. The chocolate was delicious. The soy was less prominent, and the chocolate flavor was rich and deep and true to chocolate flavor. They were both a little more sweet than I liked.

Although my focus is trying to include fresh local items in our diet, we are still a family of young growing children that is often on the go. These drinks would be a great addition to keeping our family on track , helping to remove the temptation of stopping at a fast food place while we are out and about.

Do you want to try Sambazon? 
Here's your chance, enter this giveaway. One winner will receive this great wooden bowl and spoon and vouchers to try it for yourself. Which Flavor would you like to try?

To enter:

Like Sambazon on Facebook/Go to their website and check out their products
Visit greenmomsmeet.com
Follow Handmade and Homegrown's Blog
Like Handmade and Homegrown on Facebook
Leave a comment on my blog letting me know which you would try first.

A winner will be chosen on Friday May 31st...Good Luck!
This giveaway is limited only to U.S. Residence. 



To learn more about the company and the products:
Sambazon.com
facebook.com/sambazon
twitter/com/sambazon
pinterest.com/sambazon
instagram.com/sambazon

Disclaimer: I received this product for free from the sponsor of the Moms MeetSM program, May Media Group LLC, who received it directly from the manufacturer. As a Moms MeetSM blogger, I agreed to use this product and post my opinion on my blog. My opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of May Media Group LLC or the manufacturer of the product.

Garden: First Harvest!

We came home yesterday from a mini vacation of sorts from Vicksburg, MS. Matt attended the Knights of Columbus Conference and while there the kids and I explored the town and saw a few sites. More on that to come in another post. This morning I was eager to get back to juicing some kind of fresh vegetable/fruit mixture, and looked out over the garden. It seems like everything doubled since the last photo. Yes, I have to brag a little about the beauty in our garden, not because I want anyone to feel bad, but because I don't think that we have ever had such a beautiful garden as we do this year. Timing worked out just right for us.
The cool start to spring set us on a perfect planting schedule and everything is on track...well mostly, our peas are a little behind, but I am hopeful. Our harvest included, several heads of lettuce, a beautiful bouquet of rainbow swiss chard, spinach, a handful of green onion tops, a lovely bunch of kale, a beautiful little basket of micro-greens(beet,lettuce,mustard, etc) and some endive.

Anyone else out there like endive? It is a great little plant for variety of flavor. It is a sharp, pungent, peppery flavor that gives your salad a little lift, kind of like a mustard, but different. The whole plant is great; leaves, flowers, and even the young stems are good to eat. The older stems get tough and stringy like asparagus. Endive is an early spring plant that will bolt when it gets too hot, so plant it early and continue to clip the new leaves and flowers for as long as you can and enjoy a different flavor in your greens. I was going to add a picture of our endive, but forgot to photograph it before I harvested. I will try to remember to add a picture.

Garden: Growing Beautifully

It's been really busy here with visiting family, First Communion, Baptism, school, making soap, the new chickens, the big chickens, the kids and activities, the gardens.
It has been very fast paced and hectic but for the most part lots of fun. One of the most enjoyable parts of the last couple of weeks was getting out to enjoy this beautiful Spring weather.


 Our family garden has really taken off in the last couple of weeks. We have been very excited with the progress and have even begun to taste the success of what we have toiled over. We have been able to harvest several bunches of spinach, the strawberry plants are beginning to explode with lots of little green berries that the kids are anxiously anticipating.




Swiss Chard has also given us some lovely colorful stalks that the kids have enjoyed straight out the garden.

This week we will pick one of our beautiful Romaine Lettuce heads.





The kale is growing by leaps and bounds and soon we will be able to add fresh from the garden kale to our juicing, salads, and future meals.






There are also lots of sprouts to thin that will soon become micro greens, lettuce greens for as long as they last before it gets hot, and hopefully a crop of beets. Sugar Snap peas are reaching up and grabbing onto their trellising, and everything else looks like it is making a great start.

The broccoli is amazing, it's the first time that I have had anything bigger than a sprout come up and manage to make it. Right now we have beautiful dark green leaves, and anticipating seeing flower heads soon. 

So Happy Earth Day to you all. Hope you went out there on this lovely, cool, sunny, Spring day and helped make our Earth a better place to live...

What did you do on Earth Day 2013?