Wildtree with Erin Review and Giveaway by Ashley

Hi Everyone! This is Ashley. I recently received a jar of Wildtree Hearty Spaghetti Sauce Blend in the mail. I don't know about you but I had never heard of Wildtree until my package arrived...so to the internet I went. My Wildtree product was sent to me by Erin Girard, a Wildtree consultant. If you're like me, you may be thinking..."What is Wildtree?" Well, today I'm going to teach you something new!
Wildtree is a direct selling company that launched in 1999. Before its launch, its founder made products out of her home and attended fairs and shows with her products. It was founded on the premise that food should be natural, nutritious, delicious, and easy to prepare-all at the same time. {I found this info from Wildtree's catalog.} Wildtree offers over 150 food items, including breads, soups, culinary blends, sauces, dressings, salsas, marinades, desserts, and the finest expeller pressed Grapeseed oils. Just from reading the info on Erin's site, I learned that Grapeseed oil is better for you than olive oil. After looking at the catalog and browsing online, I was instantly hooked. What is even better about Wildtree is that there are no additives, preservatives, MSG, nuts, or dyes in their foods. In a world, where almost every single person is allergic to something, it's nice to know that Wildtree offers products that are safe and healthy for your family. My son cannot eat or drink foods with certain red dyes so I'm appreciative of Wildtree's efforts.
On to the product review, Erin sent me the Hearty Spaghetti Sauce Blend. All I had to do was combine 1 tbsp. of the blend with a 28 oz. can of crushed tomatoes (I used diced.) and I had instant spaghetti sauce. I cooked it for a little less than 20 minutes, added some angel hair pasta and diced Italian-seasoned grilled chicken to it, and I had the best meal. It felt so good knowing what I was eating was actually healthy for me. Take a look at the pic. Of course, I had to top it with some grated parmesan cheese.

Look at the picture of the Spanish Style Garlic Shrimp and the Crab Cakes!!! You will definitely be hungry after visiting Erin's site. I love that her site also has the recipes for all these yummy dishes made with Wildtree products. The catalog has some delicious recipes, too. In this busy day and age, it's handy when recipes do not require much time and effort. Wildtree not only can help you with that but it lends healthy products to your meals, making family mealtime more meaningful.

If you've fallen in love with Wildtree then there are several options for you, you can start by entering the giveaway below. Sign up for a chance or several chances to win your own Hearty Spaghetti Sauce Blend from Erin. You can also join the Wildtree family for just $99. As their catalog says, if you find out that Wildtree doesn't fit you, then you can always eat your kit. :) You can also host a tasting party, skype tasting party, online party, or a freezer meal workshop. For those who just want a few items, shopping online is a definite must. For those that LOVE to shop online, then you might want to consider becoming an online Culinary Club Member. Contact Erin today at wildtreetoyou@yahoo.com

Gold Canyon Review and Giveaway

I don’t know about you, but I love to come home to a good smelling house, especially one that smells like food. I am talking about cinnamon rolls, pie, and lemon bars. However, I hate cooking, so I like to find things like candles and warmers that will make my house smell good like that. I leave the cooking up to my sister.

Knowing how much I love for things to smell good my sister asked me to try out the Gold Canyon Scent Pod Warmer. I was really excited to try out something new…I have been using another wax warmer, and I’m sure that you can all guess who makes it.

Gold Canyon’s warmer is a little different. The scents come in little pods, and all you do is remove the lid and stick them in the warmer. I chose the Lemon Bar scent surprise, surprise. All I had to do was take my pod and pop off the lid and stick it in the warmer.

                                            Here is the Zebra Warmer I got!

The cool thing is that the warmers have timers on them that you can set, so you don’t have to worry about forgetting to turn them off. You can set it to turn off in 4, 8, or 12 hours. I set mine for 8 hours and went about my business. When I came home the house smelled amazing. It smelled like I had been baking for hours.

There are a few things that I wasn’t thrilled about. There is not light bulb, so you don’t get that additional light or “feeling” of a candle, but on the upside you don’t have to worry about replacing a bulb. I also wasn’t crazy about the pod because it stuck out over the top of the warmer and you could see the plastic. However, the pod does make clean up super easy because you just let it cool down and then throw out the entire container. Gold Canyon also says that you can dump out the wax and re-purpose the pods for storage containers, which is much better for the environment.

There were some really great things that I loved. I really loved the fact that you could set a timer and have it go off when you wanted it to. Then you don’t have to worry about whether or not you left the warmer on, or you could set it for a little bit and have the house smelling nice when you come home. That would help to extend the life of the pod, which is 20 hours. I also thought that it smelled really good! My mouth was pretty much watering. It smelled that much like lemon bars.

Do you want to win your own Gold Canyon warmer and pod? Enter below using are awesome new entry system! Let me say, you will LOVE all the different scents they have to offer and the awesome timer on the warmer.

Thanks to Dani at High Heels Survival Guide for doing this guest blog. Make sure to stop by her blog to see how she lives the "Good Life" on the "Poor Man's Budget"