Cheerios® First Foods Blog Tour - Giveaway!

Even though I don't have children of my own yet, Cheerios is one of the brands that I trust when trying to find nutritious snacks (or breakfast) for the children I babysit or for my niece and nephew.

As a child, I enjoyed always enjoyed snacking on Cheerios (little did I know how healthy they were). Over the years, Cheerios continue to be popular with the children in my life. I remember one day last year when I was babysitting my nephew who was obviously quite hungry. Since I'm not used to having children in my own house, I'm not accustomed to having child-friendly snacks. But, I did happen to have Cheerios that day. My nephew being hungry and curious, wandered over to our pantry, opened the door and was excited to find a box of Cheerios sitting on the bottom shelf. I knew he loved them and I felt fine letting him have these fun little nutritious 'Os' for his snack.

Cheerios has a few great things going for it. First of all, it is adult and child friendly. The shape, size, and texture is perfect for little mouths (of course once they are able to handle solids); Cheerios are one of those snacks that just seems to melt in your mouth. It also helps that Cheerios taste great! Finally, Cheerios are made from whole grain oats, which means that they are a healthy choice for your whole family.

For those of you who already have children, BabyCenter.ca is probably familiar for you.  I have used it a number of times in the past to do research on developmental milestones of the children I care for.  Now, Cheerios has partnered up with Baby Center to offer a brand new Cheerios First Foods Section on babycenter.ca. The new section of the site has tons of valuable information for new and experienced caregivers. Topics include getting your picky eater to try new foods (great for some of the children I look after), Q&A for popular food topics, and more!

 *GIVEAWAY*

As part of the Cheerios® First Foods Blog Tour, I'm happy to offer a great giveaway for my Canadian readers!

What can you win?  One winner will receive a Cheerios Prize Pack, which will include a Cheerios On-the-go Tot Container, Cheerios playbook, Box of Cheerios, Bowl and utensil set and a $30 Cash Card. A total $50 value!

To enter, leave me a comment below telling me what you think about the *NEW* Cheerios First Foods section on Baby Center. This question must be answered to gain an entry in the giveaway.

Each of the following will give you one extra entry in the giveaway (unless stated otherwise). If an entry option is worth more than one entry, please leave the according number of comments.  Please make sure to leave a separate comment for each thing you do to gain the proper number of entries:
- Tell me about one of your experiences with Cheerios and the children in your life!
- Subscribing to my blog via email or RSS feed. 2 ENTRIES! 

- Adding my main button to your blog sidebar.

- Following me on Twitter (@ihchicky). Please leave your Twitter name in your comment. 2 ENTRIES! 

- Following me on Blogger / Google Friends Connect (publicly). 2 ENTRIES! 
- 'Liking' Everything Up Close on Facebook and leaving a comment on my Facebook Fan page saying 'Thanks for the Nescafé Giveaway!'  Please leave your name (First name and last initial) that is shown on Facebook for verification. 2 ENTRIES!

- Tweeting about this giveaway with a link to this page. Please leave a link to your tweet or your twitter name. You can do this once a day.

- Blogging about this giveaway on your blog. Please leave a link to your blog post in your comment. 2 ENTRIES!

- Talking about and linking to this giveaway in any public forum or on Facebook. If you do this, please leave your user-name and a link to the post. 3 ENTRIES!

Important Entry Details: The above entries (main and bonus) can only be submitted once per person (except for the tweet entry, which can be done daily). Please do not use more than one blogger account or add additional anonymous comments to gain extra entries. This is not fair to everyone else and this practice is strictly prohibited. If a person is found to be using more than one account to enter the same giveaway, they will be disqualified from that particular giveaway, as well as all future giveaways.

This giveaway will end on Monday, February 14th at 11:59pm (Central Standard Time). After the giveaway has ended, the winner will be picked randomly using random.org. EMAIL RULES: In order to win, you must provide a valid email. I will be notifying the winner by email only. Please make sure your blogger profile includes your email address and make sure that it is visible. If you do not have a blogger account, please make sure you have included your email address in your post. If there is no email address provided, to contact the winner, another person will be chosen. The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the winning email notification with their complete mailing address (I will be forwarding all this information to the sponsor), If this information is not received within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen.  

This giveaway is open to Canadian residents only.

Good Luck!

Disclosure - I am participating in the Cheerios First Foods program by Mom Central on behalf of General Mills. I received a gift card as a thank you for my participation.  The opinions on this blog are my own.