$25 Safeway Gift Card and a Betty Crocker baking set Giveaway!!!!

Spring is here and that's a great time to bake up some wonderful memories in the kitchen with your family. Using Betty Crocker® SuperMoist Cake and Traditional Brownie Mixes, and with a little help from the Safeway family of stores, you can serve up special treats that will have you and your little sprouts ready for springtime!

For great spring recipe ideas, visit BakeSweetMemories.com today. Bake Sweet Memories has delicious recipes for fun desserts using your Betty Crocker favorites, including Easter Bunny Cakes and even morning brunches, like the Impossibly Easy Breakfast Bake, which are sure to brighten any morning! 

To celebrate Mother's Day and spring, My Blogspark, Safeway and Betty Crocker are giving away a springtime baking set here on my blog! Here's what you can win!

 A silicon baking pan, A stainless steel mixing bowl, An oven mitt, Betty Crocker mixing spoon, and a $25 Safeway gift card.

Mandatory Entry (First entry)
Please go to the BakeSweetMemories.com site and then leave a comment here telling us about what recipe  you want to try or a favorite memory of baking with someone you love.
To earn extra entries, you may do one or all of the following. Each one of these counts as one extra entry but please leave a separate comment(s) for each thing your do.

• Follow me on Twitter AND leave your Twitter name here.
• Tweet about this giveaway and leave a link to your tweet (Can tweet once per day!)
• Place my button in your sidebar- leave 3 comments/entries.
• Mention this giveaway on your blog with a link back here.
• Follow this blog. If you are already a follower, just leave a comment telling me that. 
• Follow the Buttercream Lane Baking Blog
• FOR 5 EXTRA ENTRIES - Blog about this giveaway, with a link to my blog. Come back and leave the link to your blog post. Post FIVE separate comments that you've blogged about this. 

I will post the winner on Wednesday, May 12th, so get your entries in.

FTC  disclosure :  In adherence to the recent FTC changes pertaining to blogger product reviews and sponsored postings  it  is necessary  to list any compensation I receive in return for posting about a company or product. I was sent from My Blog Spark:  A silicon baking pan, A stainless steel mixing bowl, An oven mitt, Betty Crocker mixing spoon, and a $25 Safeway gift card and a coupon valid for a free Betty Crocker product. They were provided free of cost to me for the sole purpose of product testing. This review has not been monetarily compensated and is based on my testing and opinion alone. My opinions reflected in this post have not been influenced by the sponsor in any way. If I'd hated it, I'd tell you!

And the winner is................

The winner of the Old El Paso  is comment number 2- Sprite's Keeper. Stop over and say hi to her! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Enter a lower limit:	1
Enter an upper limit:	7
Random Number:	2

And the winner of the progresso gift pack is...............

Drum roll........

I want a number between 1 and…

Result: 6  and the sixth comment was-  marybeth at www.babygoodbuys.com

Congratulations, Marybeth!!!

Thanks to My Blog Spark and Progresso for providing this prize.

Win a Progresso Prize Pack & A Soup Review

You could win a Prize Pack from Progresso and learn about their new high Fiber soup today.

Eat more fiber. You've probably heard it a million time. But why is fiber so good for your health?
First of all, dietary fiber is found mainly in whole grains, fruits, vegetables,  and legumes. The one thing that you probably know is that fiber is good at preventing or relieving constipation. But did you know that dietary fiber can lower your risk of diabetes and heart disease? It does it by lowering your blood cholesterol and controlling your blood sugar levels. It can even help aid in weight loss because dietary fiber helps keep you feeling fuller longer.  An easy way to add fiber to your diet is with the new line of Progresso High Fiber soups.

An easy and tasty way of getting more fiber is by eating Progresso’s new High Fiber soups.  The High Fiber line offers four delicious varieties that all have no added MSG, or artificial flavors and have 28% of the recommended Daily Value of fiber (7 grams) per serving. The new varieties include Chicken Tuscany, Creamy Tomato Basil, Hearty Vegetable and Noodle, and Homestyle Minestrone.

My Blog Spark and Progresso sent me a can of their Chicken Tuscan soup to test and review.
I've got to say, I was a bit skeptical because most things that are good for you don't always taste good. This soup proved this theory wrong. It tasted like great soup. It had chunks of carrots, beans, celery, zucchini, tomatoes all in a wonderful, homemade tasting chicken broth. It had lots of flavor and was really filling. It's the perfect lunch. I really enjoyed it and will be trying the other flavors on my own. Any time I can add some nutrition and or fiber to my diet I do, and this is a really easy way to do it. 

In addition to the soup, they also sent me a set of these great soup bowls and spoons and you can win a set for yourself!!!
They will send a Progresso Prize Pack to one lucky winner, here from my blog, which includes: two branded soup mugs and two branded spoons.

To enter:
Mandatory Entry (First entry)
Please go to the Progresso site and then leave a comment here with which flavor you'd like to try.

To earn extra entries, you may do one or all of the following. Each one of these counts as one extra entry but please leave a separate comment telling me what you did for each of these that you do.

• Subscribe to my feed.
• Follow me on Twitter AND leave your Twitter name here.
• Tweet about this giveaway and leave a link to your tweet (Can tweet once per day!)
• Place my button in your sidebar.
• Mention this giveaway on your blog with a link back here and to Progresso.
• Follow this blog. If you are already a follower, just leave a comment telling me that. 
• Follow the Buttercream Lane Baking Blog
• FOR 5 EXTRA ENTRIES - Blog about this giveaway, with a link to my blog. Come back and leave the link to your blog post. Post FIVE separate comments that you've blogged about this. 

I will post the winner on Wednesday, November 11th, so get your entries in.
FTC  disclosure :  In adherence to the recent FTC changes pertaining to blogger product reviews and sponsored postings  it  is necessary  to list any compensation I receive in return for posting about a company or product. I was sent one can of soup and the set of bowls and spoons from My Blog Spark. They were provided free of cost to me for the sole purpose of product testing. This review has not been monetarily compensated and is based on my testing and opinion alone. My opinions reflected in this post have not been influenced by the sponsor in any way. If I'd hated it, I'd tell you!

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Clothespins aren't just for clothes anymore! Household tip

I use clothespins for everything in my house. Yes, I do use them to hang clothing that can't go in the dryer but, the place that I use them the most is in the kitchen. Yes, you heard me right, in the kitchen.  I use clothespins to close up bags of chips or cookies in the pantry,

to close non- zip plastic bags, to seal up brown sugar and powdered sugar bags, chocolate chip bags and my favorite use,  to close the bread bag. I hate those little tabs, they rip the bags, always get lost and frankly they just don't seal that well. I take off the tab and if it has the expiration date on it I drop the tab into the bag and then I use a clothespin to seal and reseal the bread bag. They hold firmly, seal well and are really easy to take on and off. 

Since we have a stainless fridge, I can't use magnets to leave notes for my kids, instead, much to their annoyance, I use a clothespin to hang notes from one of the down lights in my kitchen. They can't miss it!
I also use clothespins in my closet. When I run out of skirt hangers, I use 2 clothespins to clip a skirt onto a regular hanger.

Take a look on Etsy and you'll see some really cute painted and decorated clothespins that would be so fun and stylish to use.

A give-a-way to check out!

I found a great give a way today at Sophie Isobel Designs. She is one of the bloggers participating in the Photo of the day contest and I'm so glad to have found her blog. She will be giving away one of her new Brooches that she sells in her Etsy store.
To go into the draw to win one of these lovely brooches straight from my studio, just leave a comment on her post and tell me what is your favourite City in the world and why.