Celebrate Halloween with These Spookily Delicious Gifts and Treats!

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Halloween is always a great time of year to share some spooky spirit with friends and family. Whether hosting a party, vying to be the most popular trick-or-treat destination on the block, or looking to send scarily delicious gifts to loved ones, let me suggest a few spook-tacular treats that are also DELICIOUS from The Popcorn Factory and Cheryl’s Cookies.

The Popcorn Factory, makers of premium quality gourmet popcorn, and Cheryl’s Cookies, creators of delicious cookies and baked goods, offer a wide variety of creative, fun and unique products that can help make this Halloween season a truly-frightening delight!

Sick of handing out the same old candy on Halloween night? Then check out this Spook-tacular Candy Alternative for Trick-or Treat

While handing out candy has been the tradition for many years, this year be the best on the block by passing out something spook-tacular!

The Popcorn Factory’s 30 Count Zombie Kettle Corn and Cheryl’s Cookies’ Premium Halloween Cookies are ghoulishly good candy alternatives.

The Zombie Kettle Corn is such a fun and spooky idea for handing out this Halloween! Great for trick-or-treaters, parties or for keeping the zombie hordes at bay, this gift box is packed with 30 single-serve bags of our very popular with the undead Halloween Kettle Corn. Serves 30.

And you can never go wrong handing out COOKIES! These Premium Halloween Cookies come in a signature bow gift box overflowing with delightful buttercream frosted pumpkin, Frankenstein, ghost cookies and Jack O’ Lantern cookies, buttercream frosted candy topped peanut butter cookies, cinnamon pumpkin cookies, salty caramel and a tasty Halloween assortment of popular Cheryl’s flavors. Didn't eat them all?? Don't worry - the cookies freeze great so stock up for the season!

And if you are looking for a Ghoulishly Good Halloween Gift, look no further than Cheryl's Cookies and The Popcorn Factory as well!

Halloween is always a great time of year to send some spooky spirit to the important people in our lives. Cheryl’s Cookies’ Frankenstein, Bat, Cat and Jack-O-Lantern Trick or Treat Totes make great gifts for the little ones on Halloween night!

Each high quality felt tote includes delicious assortment of celebration chocolate chip, old fashioned sugar, fudge frosted peanut butter with candy and buttercream frosted ghost, pumpkin and jack o lantern cut-out cookies along with candy corn and mini decorated sugar cookies. 15 pieces. 8“ tall

And for all the popcorn lovers in your life, The Popcorn Factory’s Happy Halloween Popcorn Tins  will help make the wickedest time of the year that much more wicked!

These Happy Halloween Popcorn Tins offer the perfect Halloween treat for popcorn lovers. Choose between three or four flavors of scary-delicious popcorn: Butter Cheese and Caramel for 3-flavor tins; White Cheddar, Butter, Cheese and Caramel for 4-flavor tins. A great value, for just $5 more, our 3.5-gallon tins hold 24 more cups of popcorn over our 2-gallon tins.

Re-invent Halloween this year with cookies and popcorn from Cheryl's Cookies and The Popcorn Factory and it will definitely be a night to remember for children and adults alike!

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Products to Help Families Head Back to School!

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Whether your children have already headed back to school like mine have or you still have a few days left of summer vacation, eating healthy is a must!

Today I am featuring three great companies that will help us get through the school year whether you are the child or the parent! Check them out below:

Emmy’s Organics

Made with nothing but premium organic ingredients like fresh ginger and fair trade cacao powder, Emmy’s Organics cookies are a tasty, healthy treat both kids and parents can enjoy. These superfood snacks are gluten-free, vegan, soy-free, grain-free and have 6g sugar or less per serving. 

I love that these cookies are grain-free and organic! Finally, cookies that I can feel good about giving to my children and including as a special treat in their school lunches!

And let me tell you....MY CHILDREN LOVE THESE (and so do the adults in the family!). They beg for these every day and it is hard not to give in every day when I know they are full of goodness and without the icky stuff!

Great for an after-school snack or on-the-go grab, Emmy’s flavors include: Chocolate Chip, Dark Cacao, Lemon Ginger, Raspberry, Vanilla Bean, and Peanut Butter.

Purchase online from the Emmy's Organics shop. 

Crunchies

And for an easy snack on the go or for snack time at school is Crunchies! Packed with nutrients and a satisfying crunch thanks to their unique freeze-drying method, Crunchies are an easy way for kids to enjoy their fruits & veggies. 

Unlike chips and other processed snack foods, these tasty single-ingredient snacks have zero sugar added and are gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO, and kosher and halal certified. 

This is such an easy and tasty way to give children their fruit servings each day! I love taking them on road trips and packing them in their lunches!

Available in strawberry banana, mango, blueberries, beets, and more, Crunchies are great atop smoothies, sprinkled in oatmeal, or as a sweet treat straight from the bag.

Purchase Crunchies from their online shop. 

Community Coffee Company

And for the adults who have children headed back to school, school means COFFEE and lots of it! And Community Coffee wants to help with that! 😊

As the largest family-owned and operated coffee company in the U.S., Community Coffee Company offers high-quality blends featuring 100% select Arabica coffee beans in a variety of yummy flavors.

This is my brand of choice every day and you can bet I will be drinking lots of cups of Community Coffee as my kids head back to school AND I head back to teaching!

From the intense, bold flavor of their French Roast to the smooth, velvety taste of their Private Reserve Sumatra blend, Community coffee is sure to help make mornings for mom and dad a little easier. Community also offers an annual Cash for Schools program that helps participating schools earn money by collecting UPC labels! Get your school signed up today!

You can purchase Community Coffee online or at your local retailer. 

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Unique Easter Gift Ideas from @cookiesbydesign

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Easter baskets are a must-have in my households during Easter time. If you are looking to change up and re-invent the Easter basket this year and make it even tastier and more fun, check out the super fun and delicious Cookie Bouquets from Cookies by Design! These colorful cookies are a fun way to celebrate the Easter season! Made of sugar cookie dough and iced with their signature icing, they offer "gifts that taste as good as they look!

These would make great gifts for children, adults and even just as dessert and decoration for Easter dinner! It almost looks too cute to eat...ALMOST! :)

I received a cute Bunny themed Easter cookie BouTray.

What's a BouTray™? Well – it's the best of both worlds! A BouTray™ combines their delicious hand-decorated iced cookies from our namesake "Bouquets" with premium assorted specialty gourmets on a "Tray"… and thus the name "BouTray™".

These cookies are baked fresh daily and hand-decorated at each location. The cookies included in the BouTray were especially soft and delicious and they were gone before I even got to try some of them!

These Cookie Bouquets and BouTrays are definitely a fun, delicious and unique gift idea this Easter!

Buy It:

You can purchase all BouTrays and Cookie Bouquets from the Cookies by Design website.

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New Delicious Treats from @otis_spunkmeyer!

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One of my favorite things to watch happen in the food industry is when a company realizes that some of their ingredients are harmful, icky and not needed in their foods and they MAKE A CHANGE!

I have loved watching Otis Spunkmeyer, one of my absolutely favorite treats brands, make this change and it has made me and my body SO HAPPY! Their baked goods are still absolutely DELICIOUS but they have the “No Funky Stuff” promise, meaning no artificial flavors, colors or high-fructose corn syrup.

Otis Spunkmeyer is also turning 40 this year and they are celebrating with some new foods in April and others continuing throughout the year. From Mini Brownie Bites and Frozen Cookie Dough, to new Loaf Cakes and seasonal foods, Otis Spunkmeyer is excited to expand their popular retail line that launched in 2016. All the new foods will have this same “No Funky Stuff”promise!

The first two new foods, Super Cookies and Strawberry Crème Cakes will be launching in early April and I can tell you from experience - THEY ARE DELICIOUS!

My husband loves two things - strawberry and cake so the Strawberry Creme Cakes quickly became his favorite. And for me, the Super Cookie was a dream come true! This soft chocolate chip cookie is big enough to share with friends and family..but you won't want to!

Otis Spunkmeyer once again surprises me with more NEW delicious treats and I am once again so thankful they have their No Funky Stuff promise!

Buy It:

You can purchase all Otis Spunkmeyer treats at your local retailer.

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Conquer Valentine's Day With These Gift Ideas!

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, everyone is thinking about what to get their loved one this Valentine's Day! Whether buying for a spouse, friend, child or parent, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. family of brands has some exciting products to choose from as gifts this Valentine's Day!

Whether you’re into premium chocolates from Fannie May, gourmet cookies from Cheryl’s, gourmet popcorn from The Popcorn Factory or elegant gift baskets from 1-800-Baskets.com, there’s a whole lot to love from 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.’s brands this Valentine’s Day!

Check out my favorite gift ideas below:

Valentine’s Day Gift Tins from Cheryl’s Cookies are a perfect way to show love to someone special. With several festive tin themes and the ability to choose your recipient’s favorite cookies through a customizable assortment of up to 12 flavors, including NEW Dark Chocolate Cherry, this keepsake gift is sure to leave a lasting impression.

This delightful Valentine’s Day gift tin is filled with your choice of cookies! Choose from NEW Dark Chocolate Cherry, Chocolate Chip, Sugar, Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Chocolate, Buttercream Frosted Heart Cut-outs, Devil’s Food Chocolate, Buttercream Frosted Strawberry Sugar, Buttercream Frosted Chocolate Chip or Salty Caramel. Cheryl's cookies are some of my favorite cookies of all time - they just melt in your mouth! I LOVE the new Dark Chocolate Cherry cookie and you just can't go wrong with any of the flavors!

Celebrate this Valentine’s Day with the perfect couple! Fannie May’s Pixies & Dixies assortment features a delicious combination of their signature Pixies and Dixies, featuring silky-smooth caramel covered in fresh pecans. These two delicious classics make for one incredible Valentine’s Day.

This really is a most delicious and perfect couple!This delicious combination of  signature Pixies - crunchy pecans and buttery caramel covered in rich milk chocolate - and Dixies, featuring silky smooth caramel covered in fresh pecans make such a great gift for the chocolate lover on your list! You can't go wrong with these wo delicious favorites that make one incredible valentine.

Fall head-over-heels for The Popcorn Factory’s Popcorn Bites Kissing Booth this Valentine’s Day, featuring a charming kissing booth-shaped gift box filled with NEW Popcorn Bites - plump kernels of secret-recipe Caramel Corn covered in luscious milk chocolate. This brand-new gift is absolutely irresistible!

This is such a fun and DELICIOUS gift for the special someone on your list! How fun to give a little kissing booth to the one you are kissing this Valentine's Day!

Charm someone special with this lovable My Valentine Bear & Sweets Basket from 1-800-Baskets.com. A very cute plush teddy bear is surrounded by delights from their famous brands including Cheryl's Chocolate Chip Cookies, a Fannie May Milk Chocolate Bar, Harry & David Milk Chocolate Truffles and Harry & David Moose Munch Dark Chocolate Mix. Presented in a red Valentine's box with a burlap ribbon. An adorable gift for your sweetheart, family member, college student or friend!

Your valentine will be charmed by this lovable sweets basket. This makes an adorable gift for your sweetheart, family member, college student or friend!

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Tasty Gift Ideas from @1800flowers

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I love receiving tasty gifts for the holidays and I know many of the people on your list will too!

I am so excited to feature four of my favorite tasty treat companies from 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Gourmet Food and Gift Baskets brands, including Cheryl’s Cookies, Fannie May premium chocolates, The Popcorn Factory gourmet popcorn, and 1-800-Baskets.com. Each of these brands are featuring holiday collections and gift basket ideas that will delight the senses with beautiful and indulgent treats.! Check them out below:

Fannie May

One of the most enjoyable activities and aromas of the holiday season is baking for friends and family. To bring people's favorite tastes and smells into their own kitchens, Fannie May is introducing the Apron & Spoon Collection. This collection includes mixes to bake at home, hot cocoa spoons, powdered cocoa mix, artisan marshmallows and coffee flavors inspired by our classic recipes, which are perfect gifts for others and yourself.

They are offering fun gift ideas like this Pixies Caramel Coffee, Hot Cocoa Tin and, sure to be a hit with the kids, the Cookies for Santa Gift Set!

These make great gift ideas for teachers, friends and family this holiday season!

All Apron & Spoon collection items available from FannieMay.com

The Popcorn Factory

The Popcorn Factory features several tasty gifts the whole family can share with favorite seasonal varieties arriving in gallon iconic tins.

Two of their top flavors this holiday season are Holiday Kettle Corn, that is a little bit salty with a whole lot of crunchy sweetness, and Peppermint Bark, where they cover their premium kernels with luscious creamy white coating and sprinkle with refreshing peppermint pieces.

Holiday popcorn varietes available from thepopcornfactory.com

Cheryl's

Cheryl’s Holiday Cookie Jars are packed to the brim with delicious seasonal varieties that will have the whole family feeling the holiday spirit. Even better, once all the cookies have been enjoyed, the recipients will have a great keepsake that will be a beautiful addition to their kitchen and can be filled with goodies again and again for years to come.

This is one of my favorite companies because their cookies are DELICIOUS and I love the Collector's Edition Snowman Cookie Jar set we received! I can't wait to use the Cookie Jar every year for our own homemade baked cookies!

This delightful keepsake cookie jar is hand-crafted from high quality ceramic and arrives with a yummy assortment of Holiday goodies! They’ve also included an assortment of their famous buttercream frosted cookies – perfect for sending Holiday wishes!

13” tall. includes 10 cookies.

Available for $39.99 from Cheryls.com

1-800-Baskets.com

1-800-Baskets.com recently unveiled their brand-new “Snack On This” collection, featuring nut gift boxes with a zesty kick that are perfect for both self and shared consumption.

The collection currently offers jumbo fresh peanuts in twelve outrageous flavors like Coconut Curry, Whiskey, Irish Stout, 5-Spice, Cherry, Spiced Cocoa, Guinness and more.

We tried the Honey & Sea Salt flavor and it was absolutely DELICIOUS and hard to stop eating!!! :) It also comes in a nice tin container so it is perfect for gift giving too!

Available starting at $15.99 from 1800baskets.com

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