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I get asked all the time how I save money on products that have no coupons, like meat and fresh veggies. And although I have mentioned using overage and catalinas, I recently was introduced to this amazing company called Zaycon Foods.



How does Zaycon Foods manage to provide such high quality super fresh meat and produce to its customers at such low prices? The answer is strength in numbers. And not our numbers, yours!

Zaycon Foods can sell its products at bulk rate prices to individual consumers and families because our unique sales event business model brings lots of people together, adding all their purchasing power into a combined bulk food purchase. And when you buy as part of a group that’s committing to such a large purchase, the power is in the hands of the purchaser! It’s the ultimate group buy in terms of both price and consumer empowerment.

You can pre-select exactly what you want to order from a given Zaycon sales event – sometimes you may want to stock up on our amazing meaty back ribs and sometimes it might be all about the Zaycon bacon – and then, on the day of the sales event, you and a whole big bunch of your neighbors will find yourselves in a nearby parking lot watching as an entire tractor trailer’s worth of high quality natural food is unloaded into all of your cars! You will be amazed at how quickly one of our refrigerated trucks goes from being filled with natural, fresh chicken or hundreds of gallons of grade A non-homogenized milk to being empty and back on its way to the farm!



A Zaycon Foods truck sales event often lasts less time than you would spend on a trip to the grocery store, yet you will leave with a whole lot more food than you’d get at the market, and for much better prices, too!

When you use the Zaycon Foods sales event as your preferred place to purchase meats, milk, and any of our other fine products, you get advantages even beyond the bulk pricing that comes with our special sales model. You also have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what you’re going to get! A trip to the grocery store can involve wasted time wandering around looking for various foods spread out across the store; at a Zaycon Foods parking lot meat truck delivery (or milk or berries or fish delivery, too!) you have pre-ordered your foods, so all you have to do is show up and wait for our friendly staffers and volunteers to load up your car.

Also, unlike in the grocery store, the prices you will pay for a Zaycon Foods product are locked in on our website, so you will know how much you are going to spend before you have committed to a purchase.

At a supermarket, you might pay one price for chicken on one day, and then a higher price on another day. With Zaycon, you decide that you want to order a case of our fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, you check the price and then you commit to it, knowing that from that moment on, we are committed to getting you your fresh, natural food!

To Get Started, visit http://zayconfoods.com.

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Huzzah! On June 22, Mike the Knight™ and his friends are galloping into Mall at Stonecrest for special live performances of Mike the Knight and the Mission for Hidden Treasure. The free 20-minute interactive musical adventure will also feature Mike’s dragon, Squirt, from the beloved television series on Nick Jr., and includes meet & greets, photo opportunities, giveaways, and a preview of the first Mike the Knight toys from Fisher-Price debuting in Spring 2013. Performances will be held at 12pm and 2pm.

It’s time to be a knight, and do it right! Mike the Knight and the Mission for Hidden Treasure follows Mike, Squirt, and friends, as they piece together clues to discover hidden treasure. To help Mike accomplish his mission, audience members are invited to take on special fun-filled challenges alongside Mike and Squirt, and learn lessons in knightliness. After the show, young knights in training will have the opportunity to tell Mike the Knight what knightly deeds they have done and participate in a special knighting ceremony.

Each 20 minute show will be followed by a meet and greet with Mike. In addition to the two performances, guests are encouraged to come dressed in knight and princess attire and participate in all of the fun.



Mike the Knight is a new CG-animated preschool series that invites viewers into a fantastical world of castles, quests, dragons and trolls that centers on Mike, a young knight-in-training, with a bright future ahead of him. The son of the King and Queen of Glendragon, he is determined to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a brave and noble knight. Co-produced by HIT Entertainment and Nelvana, the series currently airs on Nick Jr., Monday-Saturday, from 7-8pm. Additionally, a new line of books featuring Mike the Knight was just released from Simon & Schuster, an all-new toy line from Fisher-Price will debut at retailers in May, and Mike’s first home entertainment title, Knight in Training, releases on DVD June 4th from NCircle Entertainment.

Not only are there special performances, but you can also enter to win a Mike the Knight DVD, sword, and shield!
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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dr. Sofa, as part of a Mommy Hot Spot Army of Moms Campaign. All opinions are 100% my own.




If your furniture is showing signs of wear, you may think it’s time to toss it. But not so fast, this can be wasteful and expensive. Instead of replacing worn furniture, you may try to have it reupholstered instead.

The transformation that can occur with re-upholstery is truly amazing. And as long as your furniture is still structurally strong and sound, you can give it new life by reupholstering it.

1. Save Money:
This is my number one reason! New furniture can be costly, especially when you have champagne taste, but a beer budget. Often your existing furniture still has many more years of life in it, except for the surface wear. In these cases, you can save money by reupholstering your high quality furniture instead of replacing it when it isn’t structurally necessary. Even when hiring an expert reupholster company, like Dr. Sofa, to do the work, the cost is usually less than it would be to replace your furniture with all new pieces.

2. Save Your Furniture:
When you love your furniture, but you can’t stand the unsightly wear, reupholster can be the ideal solution. Sometimes the style and lines of your current furniture become so familiar that you just can’t stand the idea of parting with your comfortable old couch or chair. In this case, you can have new life breathed into the tired furniture through re-upholstery, making it possible to continue using it for many more years. If your house is anything like mine, then you have rambunctious little ones that jump on everything and may need to reupholster couch cushions and pillows.

3. Preserve Antiques:
If you have antique furniture that needs some help, re-upholstery can be an effective method for preserving these pieces. To ensure that you don’t damage or destroy the furniture in the upholstery process, find a professional who specializes in reupholstering antique furniture. Dr. Sofa specializes in re-upholstery of all types.

4. Choose Your Fabrics:
Sometimes your interior decor needs just the right color or design, and this can be difficult to find in the ready-made furniture market. Instead of purchasing new furniture that won’t fit into your existing decor, consider reupholstering. The reupholster process will enable you to select just the fabric you want that will fit your design and decor scheme.

5. Learn New Skills:
If you have the time and inclination, you can learn this skill yourself. But why when Dr. Sofa has the skills already and tons of coupons to bring the cost down even further!

I was compensation for sharing this post, but all opinions are my own.

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Child Safety and Baby Proofing go hand in hand. We want our little ones to be safe. But there may be some things we don't know. Here are my tips for Baby Proofing. And an awesome giveaway from SANUS.

1. Get Down On Your Child's Eye Level: First thing you should do is get down on your hands and knees and see what is in your child's eye line. One of the things we think of as parents is the plug outlets, but what about those outlets that just have to have something plugged in it? I recently had the opportunity to test out the Secure-Connect Outlet Safety. I use my 'work' laptop in our living room because I seem to get more work done when I am on my laptop instead of the iPad. Issue: it needs a new battery so it has to stay plugged in. And although using my laptop is beneficial in one way, I worry that the girls will unplug it and some how hurt themselves. So I have seen many of the benefits of this unique safety item.

2. Think About The Next Stage: So your child's crawling, but what comes next? Pulling up. And oh that coffee table with jagged edges looks really great to use to pull up on, Mom! My friend Liz over at Funny PostPartum Lady shared a review of Roving Cove Safe Corner Cushion. What is so cool is they also make items for the fancy glass round table that you may have thought was a good idea when you bought your living room set.

3. Think About Daily Chores: Okay so you have to feed these people, right? And does your oven get hot? What about if they grab the handle. The toilet sure looks like fun to take a dive in. I am a HUGE fan of baby gates and shut doors with covers on the handles to solve these issues. We have a Summer Infant Sure & Secure Walk Thru gate for our kitchen. When I'm cooking, no little ones are allowed in. And as far as the covers on the door knobs, Hubby got over them quickly and realized they were a necessity, yours will too.

4. Consider a Curious Mind: Children get themselves in every kind of predicament you can imagine. So try and think on their level when baby proofing. Consider every detail and what they might use to put in their mouth, untie, wrap around, etc.

5. Look Up: What do you see? Ooo the bright colors on the TV sure look fun to try and touch!
For many Americans, a flat panel TV is a great way to enjoy family time and entertainment. However, most parents are unaware of the safety risks that flat panel TVs pose for kids. Due to increasing size and new ultra thin designs, today’s flat panel TVs can easily tip over when bumped or pulled, toppling off of furniture and causing injury or even death. In fact, A 2011 US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) report on flat panel TV safety revealed a child is killed every three weeks from an unsecured TV! Yes, killed! From a television falling on them. And, every 45 minutes a child visits an emergency room due to a TV tip-over related injury. Reported cases have increased almost 25% from 2006 to 2010, and over the last 10 years, injuries have increased by 31%.



SANUS, the leading designer and manufacturer of flat panel TV wall mounts, has partnered with Safe Kids Worldwide to bring this information to our attention. Their hope is that by educating consumers on the risk of unsecured flat panel TV’s, SANUS and Safe Kids Worldwide that the number of TV tip-over related injuries and fatalities is reduced.


The SANUS mounts have an easy 1, 2, 3 installation with a wall template to ensure even placement. They also share an online video walkthrough of simple installation available at any time. And there are no additional tools necessary – all required installation hardware is included in package!

If I haven’t convinced you, take a look at this video they created.



SANUS would like to offer one Nanny to Mommy readers a complimentary flat panel SANUS TV Tilting Mount. The reader can receive a mount that fits their respective TV. *Please note that this will not include the actual installation of the equipment.* Easy RaffleCopter entry of the giveaway. All entries are verified. Open to US only.

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