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Win $500 for Groceries in our Prego FUN with FOOD Photo Contest

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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.

Prego® Porcupine Meatballs

From: Campbell’s Kitchen
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Serves: 5

Rice-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 Sauce

Directions:

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.

Ready… Set… Go!

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Add Your Photo Entry Blog Post Link Here

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About Janice

Janice is co-founder of 5 Minutes For Mom.Along with her twin sister Susan and their mother Joan, Janice also owns two online toy stores -- one specializing in Ride on Toys and the other in Rocking Horses.Janice has a spunky little girl and a rambunctious boy who love to make it difficult for her to work from home.

144 Comments

  • 101
    November 13, 2008 | Permalink |

    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!

  • 102
    November 13, 2008 | Permalink |

    What a fun contest. I entered this one. Thanks for hosting it!

  • 103
    November 13, 2008 | Permalink |

    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!

  • 104
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    :) thank you so much for the chance to share pics of one of my lil ones in all his sweet all American messy li’l boy glory :) It was hard to choose just one pic, but I did…sigh ;)
    *crossing fingers that we make it into the finals*

  • 105
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    This contest is a great idea! I loved looking at all the cute pictures parents took and put up on here!

  • 106
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Thanks for the chance to win and share my pic of my baby. I love your site!

  • 107
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    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.

  • 108
    Carrie Lim
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    I am not sure what Mr Linky is, but I posted on my blog.
    http://sweetmommydreams.blogspot.com/

  • 109
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Jam Face – My daughter Adelaine enjoys toast and jam for breakfast. My entry for the Food Photo Contest.

  • 110
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Thanks so much for the contest! It’s been fun looking at all these cute kids having so much fun with their food.

  • 111
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    I think I’m starting to feel a little hungry after looking at all these pics!

  • 112
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Here is our entry..got it posted & linked back to you.

  • 113
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    The pictures I submitted are for our Halloween Party 2008. They are in my myspace photos. Thanks so much for this chance to win!

  • 114
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Ok I’m in,just under the wire. Thanks! Good luck everyone.

  • 115
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Thanks for this great contest! Can’t wait to look at all the pictures.

  • 116
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Definitely could use grocery money! Thanks for the opportunity.

  • 117
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Great contest. Thanks!

  • 118
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    This is such a great contest, and I really am enjoying checking out everyone’s Fun with Food Pictures. Thanks!

  • 119
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Now we can have more fun. Thanks!

  • 120
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    What a great contest!!!

  • 121
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Thanks for letting us have this opportunity!

  • 122
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Just posted my entry. Thanks for the chance!

  • 123
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    This is a really nice idea. Thanks for the contest. I have entered.

  • 124
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Great contest…hope I am not to late!

  • 125
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Great idea for a contest!!

  • 126
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    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!

  • 127
    nicole schellhas
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    such cute photos

  • 128
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Here is my entry. Good luck to everyone!

  • 129
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Such a neat contest! I love looking at all of the photos.

  • 130
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    This is a really fun contest. Keep up the good work.

  • 131
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    This is an awesome idea for a contest!

  • 132
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Photo contest are so much fun!

  • 133
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    What a fun contest. Fun with food pictures are always amusing to look at.

  • 134
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Great contest! Very cute entries everyone! Good Luck =)

  • 135
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    great contest! who does not want free food these days and some of these cute kiddo and baby faces could sell ANYTHING!

  • 136
    November 14, 2008 | Permalink |

    Woohoo! A chance to show off cute pictures of our kids. Thanks!

  • 137
    November 15, 2008 | Permalink |

    GREAT contest!

  • 138
    November 15, 2008 | Permalink |

    Thanks for the contest! :o ) I posted mine wrong… new to all of this. :o ) You can still see the pic and comment though.

  • 139
    November 15, 2008 | Permalink |

    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!

  • 140
    November 17, 2008 | Permalink |

    What a great contest and who doesn’t need $$ in today’s economy? Thanks for the chance!! Hugs!! :)

  • 141
    November 18, 2008 | Permalink |

    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.

  • 142
    Amanda
    November 18, 2008 | Permalink |

    Have the finalists been picked? I can’t wait!!

  • 143
    November 20, 2008 | Permalink |

    how do we vote?

  • 144
    December 14, 2009 | Permalink |

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