September Foodie PenPal Reveal Day

Welcome to month 2 (for me) of the Foodie PenPal program! This month was exciting for me as the person sending to me was someone I know! We actually used to live very close to each other and first met when we were both planning our weddings! We now both have 2 kids close in age, and prior to me returning back to work after maternity leave, we would hang out at open gym drinking coffee while our kids played! Hayley is a fantastic woman who is now pregnant with baby number three (my fingers are crossed for a girl!) 

If you’re new to the program, I’ll sum it up for you. Simply sign up, the amazing Lindsay over at The Lean Green Bean Blog pairs you up with another Foodie PenPal within your country (currently this takes place in Canada, the US, and the UK!), you connect with the Foodie PenPal that you’ll be sending to (and your Foodie PenPal will contact you), then go shopping! Package up your goodies with a hand written note or card, or recipe, and impatiently patiently wait for your package to arrive! Easy peasy!

I like to open my packages with my kids as they like getting mail nearly as much as I do. Foodie PenPal day is always a good one in our house! Look at those perfectly behaved children who were clearly not bribed into being good and posing nicely with what ever goodies lie within the package!

A big huge thank you to my Foodie PenPal Hayley for your thoughtfulness! Hayley packaged up a couple things specifically for the kids and they were more than thrilled to open up their very own packages. Their packages consisted of kid friendly fruit snacks, angry birds stickers (my kids love angry birds!), cool flavoured raisins, and a lolliepop! 

Nah…. They don’t look excited at all!

The “adult” portion of the package was such a great selection of stuff! These sesame squares were a great snack that I had no choice but to share with the kids. We all loved these! 

We also got these cool raisins! They’re called WOW raisins and they’re flavoured! We had wild berry, sour apple, and mango! Mmmmm! These didn’t last long at all!

 

We also received a delicious chocolate bar, toasted coconut and cashew, as well as a bag of amazingly flavoured coffee! Can’t wait to try it!
Thanks again Hayley! I hope your foodie penpal spoiled you as much as you spoiled us! Thanks so much!

-Sign up Here on or before October 4th.
-On the 5th of every month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.
-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!
-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is $15. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!
-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)
-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you are to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.
-Foodie Penplas is open to US & Canadian residents. Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa.

If you’re interested in participating for September, please CLICK HERE to fill out the participation form and read the terms and conditions.