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The economy right now is no fun. Trying to stretch the budget to cram in enough groceries to feed our families? Definitely not fun.
BUT, as moms we don’t have the option to give up. We need to find ways to survive — and have fun while we are doing it! Life is in the journey and we must ensure the journey is fun for our kids.
So, we are going to have some FUN with FOOD and celebrate our families in this Food Themed Photo Contest sponsored by Prego®.
Prego® understands that it can be hard to make delicious and nutritious meals at home on a budget, but with their variety of Italian Sauces they want to remind you that you can whip together dinners that taste great and help you save money in the grocery aisle!
Here is a fun home cooking tidbit: Did you know that replacing one restaurant trip per month with a homemade pasta and sauce meal can save hundreds of dollars per year? For example, for a family of four to eat at a restaurant could easily cost $50, but a complete pasta and sauce meal can be as low as $10. $40 savings x 12 months = $480.
Check out some fantastic, low cost, healthy recipes at Prego.com like the recipe for these Prego® Porcupine Meatballs.
From: Campbell’s Kitchen
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Serves: 5Rice-studded turkey meatballs simmer to tenderness in Prego® Traditional Italian Sauce.
Ingredients:
1 lb. ground turkey
2 cups cooked regular brown rice OR regular long-grain white rice
1 egg
3/4 tsp. dried oregano leaves, crushed
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1 jar (1 pound 10 ounces) Prego® Traditional Italian Sauce OR 1 Prego® Tomato, Basil & Garlic Italian SauceDirections:
Thoroughly mix the turkey, rice, egg, oregano, garlic powder and black pepper in a large bowl. Shape the mixture firmly into 25 meatballs.Heat the sauce in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Add the meatballs and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the meatballs are cooked through.
Serving Suggestion: Serve with a Caesar salad and sautéed broccoli rabe with garlic or broccoli flowerets. For dessert serve oatmeal raisin cookies.
Nutrition Information:
Calories 375, Total Fat 13g, Saturated Fat 4g, Cholesterol 114mg, Sodium 758mg, Total Carbohydrate 40g, Dietary Fiber 5g, Protein 21g, Vitamin A 13%DV, Vitamin C 5%DV, Calcium 5%DV, Iron 15%DVusing Prego® Tomato, Basil & Garlic Italian Sauce Calories 345, Total Fat 11g, Saturated Fat 3g, Cholesterol 114mg, Sodium 595mg, Total Carbohydrate 38g, Dietary Fiber 5g, Protein 21g, Vitamin A 13%DV, Vitamin C 3%DV, Calcium 5%DV, Iron 15%DV
Now, on to the Photo Contest FUN…
This contest is about celebrating our families through our FUN with FOOD photos. The winner will receive a $500.00 grocery card for a grocery chain in their area.
The photos can be anything to do with food – kids with food, animals with food, you with food – whatever you can dream up. Just have fun! 
To get you in the mood, here is a shot of Olivia with her very first taste of cake.
This shot was from her birthday, a week before Olivia and Sophia had their First Birthday Party. Olivia had never tasted icing, cake or anything like it before.
She was quite impressed!
How to Enter
Here is how our “FUN with FOOD” photo contest/carnival will work:
- For the next two weeks, we will accept entries. We are looking for photos that are fun, family and food related. Entry deadline is Friday, November 14th, 3pm Eastern.
- If you are a blogger, post your photo on your site and then come back here and add your link to the Mr. Linky. In your post on your blog, you can explain that it is a part of this contest and link back here.
- If you are not a blogger – you can still play!!! Just email us your photo, with the subject line FUN with FOOD Photo Contest, to 5minutesformom @ gmail dot com. (Please add your image into the copy of the email so that we do not have to open attachments.)
- Please enter only one photo in the contest.
- We will post the finalists on Monday, November 17th. We will use Democracy Poll for readers to vote on their favorite photo. Please Note: Democracy Poll only allows one vote per IP address.
If you are selected as a finalist, feel free to announce it on your blog, facebook, twitter, etc and get your friends to vote for you. That is fair game. But please play fair and do not use proxy servers or other black hat methods of increasing your votes. If we do discover unfair practices, we will have to disqualify the parties involved. Remember the spirit of our site and play nice! - Voting will end Friday, December 5th, 3pm Eastern. We will announce the winner the same day!
This contest is open to US and Canadian shipping addresses.
Representatives for Prego will supply the winner with a grocery card for a grocery chain in their area, in the amount of $500. If they are unable to secure a grocery card that works for the winner, they will supply a cash card for $500.
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GREAT contest! God knows we could *all* use free groceries!
Another fun contest, and for one of our favorite foods! Thanks!
I love your giveaways..Olivia looks so cute with those icing. such an angel..
Great contest…always fun to look at pictures of families, and food!
Great contest! Thanks!
Oh my gosh, well that certainly is a challenge for our family. [I don't think I should have linked yet, sorry, as I haven't posted yet]
However the point is that around here ‘food’ and ‘fun’ are not words that are generally [or even specifically] associated with one another. Nevertheless I shall put my thinking cap on and see what I come up with – I’ll be interested to see what [if anything] 5 min for special needs moms will come up with for their ‘picky eaters’ issue.
Best wishes
This is a GREAT contest, especially in today’s economy!
What an easy contest to find a picture for! Who doesn’t have fun food pictures they’d love to share with the world?
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love free groceries this time of year being unemployed and all
Thanks for the great contest! I loooove your photo contests!!
Thanks for another great opportunity! As always, Olivia wins.
She’s just too cute for words.
This was a fun contest to enter, I enjoyed looking back at all the messy faces pictures of my kids. There are already some really cute photos so I do not envy those who have to chose the finalists!!!
What a wonderful prize!
Don’t forget me! As a mom of two sets of twins, I need all the help I can get with food preparation! I posted a picture of Greta on July 4th eating a cupcake to celebrate the birthday of the USA and she got a BIT messy!
What a fun contest. I’m looking at all the entries so far. What’s more fun than looking at cute pictures of kids having fun with food?
Thanks for the chance!
Just came across your site! Awesome. Thanks for the chance at the groceries!
Oops, delete my link…I meant to link to the Halloween photos and accidentally linked to this contest instead.
I could use it for xmas
Oh this is so much fun! Good luck everyone! I’m sure we all could use some extra cash for groceries!
Thanks so much…this was fun!!!!
-Barb
[crossing my fingers now!]
So much fun
ktgonyea at gmail.com
I love pictures of kids and food! My two favorite things!
Thanks Prego and 5 minutes for mom for offering us a great contest!
Exciting contest!! I am excited!
Wow! what a great contest, cool kid pics, and a prize we could all use. Hope my family wins.
What a fun giveaway! My photo is definitely not anywhere near professional but it’s fun anyway! Thanks for letting us show off our cute kids!
Great contest!
I LOVE everyone’s pictures! This is so fun!
Thanks for doing this contest. How fun!
Great contest! Thanks so much.
Wow, this is such a great contest!! Such cute pics from everyone! Thanks!!!
Thanks for such a fun contest! I’ve loved checking out the other photos!
this was a hard one to pick a pic for… what a fun contest
awesome contest! entered my link.
WOW! I have never seen this website before until today. My friend had it on her blog. Thanks for thinking of moms – what a great contest.
Very fun idea, it was hard to pick my favorite amongst all my messy kids’ cooking & eating shots.
What a fun contest!! My little one enjoys cake so much especially on his 1st Birthday.
Very Cute idea! I first thought of this picture of my little girl. I thought it was very fitting since it is a Prego contest.
What a fun contest!! Thanks
This is so much fun! Thanks for this contest!
I love a good food fight, thanks for the chance to win
How fun! Thanks!!
This is really fun! Thanks for putting this contest on.
Super fun contest! I just love looking at all of these fun food photos. Thanks for the chance at an awesome prize.
I love taking pictures of the kids when they are eating, the only issue I have is i cant fit all 7 kids into one picture so even if I cant be a part of the contest for having two pics, I still love your contest and its such an awesome prize. Being a SAHM of 7 kids knows what it is like to shop on a budget. Great contest thank you!
Done and dusted, although not your everyday kind of fun with food I’m afraid.
Cheers
This is a GREAT contest! I have so many pics of my kids eating but I put up one of my faves! My youngest LOVES to get/eat messy! lol
Awesome contest!! I have TONS of cute pictures of Brynn eating fun foods but I’m following the rules and only submitting one!!
Great contest…can’t wait to see the finalist. Could really use the grocery money…thanks for the opportunity.
What a great idea! I put my favorite Meat Cake pic in the contest.
oh please please please pick me!!! Wow could we ever use $500 in groceries!
Great contest. Can’t wait to check out all the photos. I really had a hard time picking just one “food” photo to submit.
Great contest! I loved looking at some of the cute pictures of kids having fun with food. I can’t wait to see more!
What a fun contest. I love pictures of kids enjoying there food.
I love all of the cute pictures, and who doesn’t like groceries?
i hope to win this contest. to get more from my messy eater aside from laughter will be nice. my entry is here.
How fun! I can’t wait to go look at everyone’s photos!
please remove my entry in #112. i have change my mind. my entry is here. sorry for the inconvenience…
What a fun contest! After flipping through my pictures I realized I take lots of pictures of my child eating ice cream, LOL. I think I need to document that she really does eat other food! I’m off to check out the other pictures. AJ
This is such a fun contest and what an awesome prize! I have so many pictures with my kids and food I had a hard time picking just one to use.
I had fun looking back through old photos of Meghan, I remembered the Pebbles pictures and chose one fo them.
I look forward to seeing all the other sweet babies.
Nothing makes better memories than fun with food..and travel!
Lots of really cute photos! Thanks for a cool contest.
What a great time looking through all those photos!
What a great offer, thanks Prego!
This is a great offer – and clearly on of my son’s favorite foods! Thanks for hosting this contest!
i too had a hard time picking just ONE food photo. but the birthday cake inspired me. (since my son just turned 1.) looks like many had the same idea!
I almost missed this one. Thanks to my friend Becky, I made it just in time!
Looking forward to seeing the results of this contest! The pictures are all so great!
I enjoy entering these. I have linked my picture above!
Who couldn’t use free groceries in these tough economic times?!??!
Awesome contest! I e-mailed my picture in since I don’t have a blog. Thanks! 
Thanks so much for such a great contest. We all know that any of us could use this anytime, but especially during this time of year.
I did mr Linky, but i just linked to my blog and not the post, here’s the post
http://3boys1girlandadog.blogspot.com/2008/11/fun-with-food.html
What a fun contest! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the contest, it was fun looking through cute pics of my kids!
Fun, fun stuff.
thanks for the contest…i think everybody could use a $500 grocery gift card, especially this time of year!
What an awesome idea, I linked!
Thanks for hosting this great contest:)
I linked. Hope I did it right. This is my first contest like this, but I knew that little boy’s face full of pudding that he had stolen from the trashcan would be a perfect fit! May my frustration turn to laughter and $500! thanks for the contest.
My entry! What a great contest!
can I vote for Kennedy number 151.
Great Idea for a contest! My youngest loves ANYTHING related to food and always makes meal time fun!
Thanks for this contest! Love to share pictures of my kids!
Hooray!! We could sooooo use this at our house right now!!!!
Our’s is a photo of Rhett on his second birthday. DANG he dug into that cake. You can click on the picture to see it full size….You have too, I have NEVER seen a kid eat a cake like he did!!
Thanks!!!
This is a photo of our son’s first experience with biter biscuits. I am a messy eater and I am hoping that he is not taking after me in that department.
Fun contest! After recently starting our own business, the gift card would be so helpful!
What a fun contest! Here’s hoping we get lucky.
Had lots of fun with this one.
Well, I could certainly use $500 towards groceries…they are getting sooo expensive! I’m In!
Correcting my link…sorry…
This is *the* contest to win. I hope my photo makes the final cut!
great contest – love the pictures
This is my first contest to ever enter like this! How fun!
What a fun contest! Thanks for hosting!!!
Yay for crazy photo contests! Thanks for hosting such fun events!
Loving the photos! So funny!
Great contest and great entries!
My entry –
Would you like to try some?
Great contest! I’d love the groceries that’s for sure
What a fun contest!
What a fun contest – and who couldn’t use grocery money?!!! I’m excited to see all the finalists!
The pictures are of my 20 month old daughter, Morgan, after she got ahold of a leftover can of icing while I was baking cupcakes for my 4th grade class. She carried that can of icing around everywhere, and was covered in “cockate” by the time she was done!! It was hilarious!
What a fun contest. I entered this one. Thanks for hosting it!
I love food pictures! Chelsea was in the hospital getting chemo and she couldn’t leave her room, but give her some pink icing and a sugar cookie and she was content!
*crossing fingers that we make it into the finals*
This contest is a great idea! I loved looking at all the cute pictures parents took and put up on here!
Thanks for the chance to win and share my pic of my baby. I love your site!
How fun it this. I love contests like this; it gives me a great change to look over old pictures and I could definitely use the groceries.
I am not sure what Mr Linky is, but I posted on my blog.
http://sweetmommydreams.blogspot.com/
Jam Face – My daughter Adelaine enjoys toast and jam for breakfast. My entry for the Food Photo Contest.
Thanks so much for the contest! It’s been fun looking at all these cute kids having so much fun with their food.
I think I’m starting to feel a little hungry after looking at all these pics!
Here is our entry..got it posted & linked back to you.
The pictures I submitted are for our Halloween Party 2008. They are in my myspace photos. Thanks so much for this chance to win!
Ok I’m in,just under the wire. Thanks! Good luck everyone.
Thanks for this great contest! Can’t wait to look at all the pictures.
Definitely could use grocery money! Thanks for the opportunity.
Great contest. Thanks!
This is such a great contest, and I really am enjoying checking out everyone’s Fun with Food Pictures. Thanks!
Now we can have more fun. Thanks!
What a great contest!!!
Thanks for letting us have this opportunity!
Just posted my entry. Thanks for the chance!
This is a really nice idea. Thanks for the contest. I have entered.
Great contest…hope I am not to late!
Great idea for a contest!!
Everybody has such cute pictures! I share a blog with my big sis, Jennifer, so hopefully it’s ok that we each submitted an entry…One blog, 2 different people! We signed mr. linky separately. Thanks for the fun contest!
such cute photos
Here is my entry. Good luck to everyone!
Such a neat contest! I love looking at all of the photos.
This is a really fun contest. Keep up the good work.
This is an awesome idea for a contest!
Photo contest are so much fun!
What a fun contest. Fun with food pictures are always amusing to look at.
Great contest! Very cute entries everyone! Good Luck =)
great contest! who does not want free food these days and some of these cute kiddo and baby faces could sell ANYTHING!
Woohoo! A chance to show off cute pictures of our kids. Thanks!
GREAT contest!
Thanks for the contest!
) I posted mine wrong… new to all of this. 
) You can still see the pic and comment though.
So much fun! It made me peruse the memories even though it was only 5 months ago, they grow so fast, sometimes too fast, sometimes not fast enough!
What a great contest and who doesn’t need $$ in today’s economy? Thanks for the chance!! Hugs!!
I forgot to leave a comment after linking the other day!!! Sorry about that. I commented on Sunday night. Hope I didn’t mess things up.
Have the finalists been picked? I can’t wait!!
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