The Kids Food Festival, in partnership with Cooking Light celebrates its 2nd festival hosted at Citi Pond at Bryant Park and in collaboration with the James Beard Foundation.
Featured chefs include:
Ellie Krieger, Healthy Living
Candice Kumai, Cookbook Author & TV Personality
Jehangir Mehta, Mehtaphor
Grayson Schmitz, Oliver Cheng
James DiStefano, Rouge Tomate
Cricket Azima, The Creative Kitchen
This Family event to help combat childhood obesity by teaching about balanced food choices through hands-on cooking, sampling, and family-friendly activities and entertainment is all put together by The Creative Kitchen.
The Kids Food Festival is excited to support Cooking Light’s charity partner, FoodCorps, a nationwide team of service members who help kids build an enduring relationship with healthy food.
The Kids Food Festival is a celebration to educate families about making balanced food choices to help create wholesome lifelong eating habits for both kids and parents. The weekend-long event will offer a host of family-friendly activities including:
Cooking classes
Food demonstrations
Live entertainment
The Balanced Plate Scavenger Hunt for kids with goody bag prizes
Food sampling
Huge giveaways
Special appearances by Yo Gabba Gabba and Super Why! characters
Saturday & Sunday March 2nd & 3rd 10:00AM – 5:00PM Citi Pond at Bryant Park, 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York, NY
The event is free and open to the public for General Admission. But you need to purchase tickets for the hands-on cooking classes in the James Beard Foundation Future Foodies Pavilion can be purchased at: http://bit.ly/KFFtickets ($25 per child & 1 Adult)
Check out our facebook post to enter to win a family 4 pack to Sunday 11am session Benjamin Towill from The Fat Radish making Banoffee Parfait.
Has you’re family seen HOP yet? no, good cause at the end of this post I’m raffling off a set of four movie passes to see the show. If you have you’ve children might be loving them some funky new easter bunny. Thats where the very smart people of Kodak come in they’ve added some really awesome HOP designs to their Picture Kiosk (found almost everywhere at this point). Create HOP themed Photo Books, cards and more. Use our Print from Facebook feature to access your pictures right from the kiosk. Visit http://www.kodak.com/go/kiosk
So if your kids are big HOP fans then a little special photo book with their new favorite character might be an awesome idea for the basket. Otherwise it’ll go great as a gift for grandmothers everywhere with that special Easter theme.
Want to win those tickets – Check out DaDa Rocks’s Facebook page http://facebook.com/dadarocks this weekend as we’ll be doing a Friday Fun Day giveaway of the tickets.
Disclaimer: Kodak is proving the tickets to see HOP.
Diego travels the globe rescuing animals in Go, Diego, Go!: Diego Saves The World [Amazon], a six episode compilation DVD. Throughout his adventures, he receives help from his sister Alicia, animal pals, Rescue Pack Click the Camera (voiced by Rosie Perez) and the viewers at home. Created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, Go, Diego, Go!: Diego Saves The World will be available on DVD April 12, 2011, for the suggested retail price of $16.99.
Go, Diego, Go!: Diego Saves The World Episode Synopses:
Diego the Hero
Alicia’s boat gets stuck in the ice as she takes some sick and hurt penguins to the Snowy Rescue Center. Diego and Baby Jaguar set out to help Alicia, but they’ll need the help of their friends since the Rainforest is far away from the Snowy Coast.
Cotton-top Tamarin Cave Rescue
Diego has a surprise for the lonely cotton-top tamarin singing in a cave. Alicia and Baby Jaguar have been planting lots of trees for the Tamarins so they can move back to the forest. When the Bobos accidentally block the cave’s entrance, Diego sets out to find another way out of the cave so he can reunite all the tamarins.
Bengal Tiger Makes a Wish
Diego is in India helping animals after a big rainstorm when he meets Benji the Bengal Tiger. His mother had told him that if he ever got lost, she would wait for him at the Wishing Tree, but he doesn’t know how to get there! Diego sets out to the Wishing Tree and along the way helps many animal friends who have wishes.
Diego Saves Baby Humpback Whale
A baby humpback whale is beached on a rocky island and can’t get back into the ocean! Diego sets off to save the humpback whale, running through a rainforest obstacle course and swimming with Tuga the Leatherback Sea Turtle past jellyfish and sharks. When Diego reaches the baby humpback whale, he leads the other humpback whales in making big waves to lift the beached humpback whale into the ocean and back to her mommy.
Jorge the Little Hawk Learns to Migrate
It’s getting really cold and Jorge the Hawk is ready to migrate to the Warm Forest. Diego must help build a bird place to help Jorge fly home. On this sky-high adventure,Diego and Jorge catch a ride on the warm windy wind, fly through the foggy fog, avoid a lightning storm, and finally make it all the way to the Warm Forest.
Egyptian Camel Adventure
Diego visits his friend Medina in Egypt to learn all about camels when they realize the river in Medina’s town is drying out. They must find a way to fill it up again for the camels and other desert animals to have enough water to drink. They learn of the legend of the golden cloud, which can bring water back to the river, and head out to find it.
Go, Diego, Go!: Diego Saves The World Fast Facts:
Street Date: April 12, 2011
DVD SRP: $16.99
Catalogue: 821774
DVD Running Time: Approximately 146 Minutes
I will totally admit I like dora a bit better then diego, but what I love about diego is that he does teach my son about animals. Over all the episodes on this disc feature 3/4 different areas of the world and with that comes a good selection of animals. Clearly it’ll be entertaining for your child to watch and plus with 146 minutes of run time you might want to pickup a chapter of a book if they really just get into it. I say 45 minutes tops before you have a little one tugging at your leg.
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59pm EST. April 8th, 2011.
2 Lucky people will win Diego DVD! Tell us your favorite character on Diego and please include some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email).
You get 1 extra entry for tweeting about this contest (you can do this daily). Must contain the following information: @NickelodeonDVD @dadarocks – http://dad.tc/i7x30y and you must also comment with the link to your twitter message.
Example: I want to win the #DiegoSaveTheWorld DVD from @dadarocks & @NickelodeonDVD – http://dad.tc/i7x30y
Being a parent there are certain things you’re going to have to buy diapers and milk. Neither comes cheap and neither are used sparingly. There are points post breast milk, post formula that I was going to the store more then once a week to pickup a gallon of milk. I’m sure I’m not alone… This week we’re taking care of the Milk for one lucky fan, who knows maybe next we’ll take care of the diapers (yah thats not such a subtle hint at whats to come).
Let’s get to the details we’ve got
3 x Reusable latté sleeves
3 x Cereal bowls
3 x Insulated to-go cups (w/ lid and straw)
1 x Coupon booklet for a year’s worth of free milk (well its 52 gallons but since its almost april you need to use coupons before 1/31/12 so it’s not really a year – just 52 gallons!)
Each coupon is for $4 (off a gallon of milk) which on many brands would make it free. AWESOME GIVEAWAY?! right – I know. Let’s just quickly do some math $4 times 52 equals 208 dollars we’re saving you.
If you want to learn more about milk (sure you may want to know about all those great vitamin D facts like…) Milk is one of the few food sources of vitamin D. In fact, it’s the leading source of vitamin D in the American diet. The recommended three 8-ounce glasses of lowfat or fat free milk provide 75 percent of the daily value for vitamin D. Milk also provides eight other essential nutrients, including calcium, potassium and vitamin A, which many Americans also lack.
Research shows that nine out of 10 Americans are missing key nutrients. To help close this nutrient gap, Milk has launched an education initiative to encouragepeople to “Pour One More” serving of milk for their families every day.
Want to give back the Milk Mustache Campaign Facebook page –http://www.facebook.com/MilkMustache – where people can “Pass a Glass” to friends through April 11th (for every glass passed, $1 goes to Feeding America for their hunger relief efforts).
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59pm EST. April 2rd, 2011.
Leave a comment below with who drinks milk in your family and please include some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email).
You get 1 extra entry for tweeting about this contest (you can do this daily). Must contain the following information: @MilkMustache @dadarocks – http://dad.tc/hKwE8z and you must also comment with the link to your tweet.
Example: I want to win a years worth of #milk from @MilkMustache & @dadarocks – http://dad.tc/hKwE8z
You get 1 extra entry for following @dadarocks on twitter – www.twitter.com/dadarocks You must comment that you’re a follower.
You get 1 extra entry for following @MilkMustache on twitter – www.twitter.com/MilkMustache You must comment that you’re a follower.
You get 1 extra entry for becoming our FAN on facebook – www.facebook.com/dadarocks You must comment that you’re a fan.
You get 1 extra entry for becoming their FAN on facebook –www.facebook.com/MilkMustache (and leave a note saying that www.dadarocks.com sent you) You must comment that you’re a fan.
You will have 24 hours to reply before we pick another winner!
Disclaimer: Milk for this contest was provided by Got Milk.
The Backyardigans are setting sail with four exciting pirate adventures on this brand new DVD, The Backyardigans: We Arrrr Pirates [Amazon]. Preschoolers will learn to mambo with Sinbad and become heroes when they rescue King Pablo and his knights from the No-So-Nice Dragon. Created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, The Backyardigans: We Arrrr Pirates DVD hits shelves March 8, 2011, for the suggested retail price of $16.99.
In every episode of The Backyardigans, five high-spirited neighbors meet in their adjoining backyards and use their imaginations to transform themselves into different locations for epic adventures. Each half-hour episode of this Emmy® Award-winning show features a unique music/dance genre with four original songs, along with real choreographed movements recreated in animation.
The Backyardigans: We Arrrr Pirates Episode Synopses:
Pirate Camp
Captain Austin trains Uniqua and Pablo at Pirate Camp with garage-band music blasting. But training takes a turn for the worst when a fearsome ghost (Tasha) captures the great pirate captain.
Pirate Treasure
Captain Uniqua and Captain Austin sail the high seas in search of treasure with reggae playing. If they don’t beat Captain Pablo and Captain Tyrone to it, they will have to walk the plank!
Sinbad Sails Alone
Set sail for adventure and mambo as Sinbad (Tyrone) encounters rough waters, Siren (Uniqua), and Medusa (Tasha)! The fate of the ship is in bumbling First Mate Pablo’s hands.
The Tale of the Not-So-Nice Dragon
The Not-So-Nice Dragon snatches up King Pablo and his Mighty Knights. Now it’s up to the Flighty Fairy (Tasha) and the Grabbing Goblin (Austin) to rescue them!
The Backyardigans: We Arrrr Pirates Fast Facts:
Street Date: March 8, 2011
DVD SRP: $16.99
DVD Running Time: 98 Minutes
We’ve been playing this for the last week and the kiddo loves the episodes and really whats not to love about these stories which feature Pirates and Knights. Its truly a DVD thats a little bit more designed for boys then girls. The stories will be a big hit with all kids no matter if their boys or girls but I’m betting the boys like just a wee bit more.
How to win it… Contest ends 11:59pm EST. March 7th, 2011.
2 Lucky people will win Backyardigans DVD! Tell us your favorite character on Backyardigans and please include some method for us to contact you in the comment (twitter or email).
You get 1 extra entry for tweeting about this contest (you can do this daily). Must contain the following information: @NickelodeonDVD @dadarocks – http://dad.tc/fcpkfv and you must also comment with the link to your twitter message.
Example: I want to win the #Backyardigans DVD from @dadarocks & @NickelodeonDVD – http://dad.tc/fcpkfv
