Product Review and Giveaway: Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers - great for a healthy lunch box!

Thanks to Del Monte, I received a wonderful gift pack of items to try out and review on my blog. Included in my gift pack were.

·         Two boxes of Fruit Burst Squeezers in apple cinnamon and blueberry flavor

·         One Del Monte lunchbox - we need constantly new ones since we all brown bag our lunch!

·         One orange-shaped eco-friendly shopping tote

·         One strawberry-shaped eco-friendly shopping tote - how cute is that in your purse!

·         One Del Monte magnetic frame

copyright Durhamonthecheap - my gift pack from Del Monte!

In addition to this new product,  Fruit Burst Squeezers, which are perfect for packing into school lunches, Del Monte also has a fantastic contest fitting the season of First day of classes. But more about this and the great giveaway later. 

The Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers are a great new product that come in a Simply Fruit variety and a Fruit + Veggie variety. The simply fruit variety comes in three flavors, Apple Cinnamon, which I received, Mixed Berry and Strawberry. The Fruit + Veggie varieties available are Peach / Mango and Blueberry, which was contained in my gift pack. For those moms concerned about nutrition, each package of Fruit Burst Squeezer contains 1 ½ servings of fruit or fruit and veggies and are an excellent source of vitamins A and C. Also important for moms concerned about artificial ingredients and sweeteners, the Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers contain no artificial flavors or high fructose corn syrup. 

We sampled the Blueberry variety because we wanted to find out how well the veggie flavor was covered. Del Monte did a great job of hiding the healthy vegetables. The content really taste like blueberry and I am glad to be able to include blueberry in our lunches without having to spend a fortune buying fresh blueberries. 

copyright Durhamonthecheap - Blueberry Fruit Burst Squeezer

As you can see from the image, the content of the blueberry Fruit Burst Squeezer do not have the fake blueish color of many other blueberry-flavored products. The color is more reddish and the tube is really easy to open, even for little hands. Best of all, if there is left over, which can happen with finicky eaters, you can close the tube again and store it in the fridge for another time. I have stored the Fruit Burst Squeezers in the fridge and I would recommend that you do the same because the colder temperature makes them so much more refreshing.

Because the vegetable flavor was not detectable, we also checked out the ingredient list. The blueberry Fruit and Veggie Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers contains pear puree concentrate, water, pumpkin juice concentrate, pear juice concentrate, natural flavors, carrot puree, blueberry puree concentrate, fruit and vegetable extracts for color, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), citric acid.

So I can highly recommend the Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers as an add-on to the lunch box. While you may want to alternate between regular fruit and the Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers, if your kids likes blueberries or strawberries, which will become impossible to pay for come fall, these Del Monte Fruit Burst Squeezers are a great way to include their favorite fruit in the lunch box throughout the year.

Now to the second part of this post, the Del Monte Facebook contest First Day of School Photo Contest. You can enter by simply uploading a picture of your kid's first day of school or maybe you can find your first day of classes photo and enter that. The top 20 Finalist photos will be posted to the Del Monte Fruit Squeezers website, and fans will have the chance to vote for their favorite photo. The winning entry will receive a $10,000 donation to a school of their choice.

Here is how to get started:

-          Submissions will be accepted now through through September 7 at 11:59 CDT.

-          From September 8, 2013 at 12:00:00 CDT to September 15, 2013 at 11:59:59 CDT, the public will be able to vote for their favorite Entry.

-          From September 16, 2013 at 12:00:00 CDT to September 22, 2013 at 11:59:59 CDT, the public will be able to vote for their favorite Finalist.

-          To submit your photo entry, you can visit http://www.delmontefruitsqueezers.com/

 
To keep up to date on Del Monte happenings, you can follow Del Monte on their Facebook page here and below is a video that recaps the Photo Contest for the First Day of School sponsored by Del Monte. The complete rules are shown here.

So to sum up, my wonderful gift pack from Del Monte contained:

·         Two boxes of Fruit Burst Squeezers (one Fruit + Veggies 4-pack and one Simply Fruit 4-pack)

·         One Del Monte lunchbox

·         One orange-shaped eco-friendly shopping tote

·         One strawberry-shaped eco-friendly shopping tote

·         One Del Monte magnetic frame

The best thing, Del Monte has agreed to make a second gift pack available to one luck reader on my blog. 

Which brings me to the third part of this blog entry, the Giveaway!

You can simply enter by following the instruction on this  Rafflecopter giveaway. 
Rafflecopter ensures that winning entries are selected fairly and I only require that you follow my blog, but you can gain additional entries by liking my new pages on Twitter and Facebook. 
Entries are due by 9-21-13 and I will need the full name and mailing address of the winner, since Del Monte will ship the prize directly to the winning reader of my blog. Good Luck everyone!
Sorry, must be a resident of the USA to participate!

copyright Durhamonthecheap - the good people at Del Monte will provide a second gift pack to the winner!

Disclaimer: The Del Monte products, information and two gift packs have been provided by Del Monte, but as always all opinions expressed on this blog are solely my own and have not been influenced by Del Monte or any third party.