Back to School Cravebox Review

It has been like a Cravebox overload this week! Due to an error in shipping with the limited edition Back to School box, it showed up  a little late and just a few days before my Tasty Favorites Cravebox. The awesome people over at Cravebox made right the shipping error by generously giving EVERYONE their Back to School box for absolutely free! And let me tell you, I would not at all have minded paying the measly $13 for this box. It was filled to the brim with awesome products and well exceeded the amount I would have payed for it had we not been offered the refund. Here is what was in the box:

A full size bottle of yummi bears DHA vitamins for 

healthy vision & brain function. These retail for $21.99 (Drugstore.com)

so the box had already paid for itself with this one product.

My kids and I all enjoyed the taste and have been taking 

these vitamins daily!

 A coupon for a free Lunchables lunch combination.

                                   We are not a lunchable kind of family, but I love

 that they are trying to healthify their options and we

    will definitely give the new lunchable with the fruit  

smoothie a try with our free coupon!

Pocket size Kleened. I love that you open this up 

and take them out of the middle. Then it reseals. 

So it is super convenient to grab a tissue!

I am always up for free writing utensils. My kids 

     are all at the age where they are interested in writing,

 my husband is a serial student and I love to write,

   so these bic mechanical pencils are awesome.

I love that they are cute, but not too cute that

my husband wouldn't consider using them. I also

love that they are thicker than most mechanical

pencils and have a great comfort grip for your fingers!

retail price: $5.79 (Office Max)

Halo oral antiseptic is a new innovative product

designed for keeping the germs away. You spray

it in your mouth before you go somewhere (store,

work, airpline, school, ect.) and it works for up

to 4 hours to keep the germs at bay. Watch

Cristi's Reviews for more info on Halo and

a great giveaway coming up this week!! :)

Halo has a retail price of $12.99 (CVS.com)

More Bic products! This time it's Bic Atlantis Colored

pens! My kids and I love these. Because sometimes you

just need to write in pink! Retail price: $3.28 (Walmart.com)

Fruit of the Earth Aloe Vera Gel

This is pure aloe vera gel. No added 

ingredients, which is great for those of

us who try to stay away from chemicals

and stuff. Retail price: $5.99 (Drugstore.com)

And last, but not least one Little Pim's Spanish

Language DVDs. They have several videos in each

language to expose your kids to something new. 

This video retails for $17.95 (LittlePim.com)

As you can see, SEVERAL of the products cost more than the cost of the entire box! There was just so much fun stuff in this box, my kids and I have really enjoyed it. This has definitely been my favorite limited edition box from Cravebox yet! I will continue to sign up for these! You can too! Check out Cravebox.com and click on the link for limited edition boxes to be signed up when they become available. You do not have to be a monthly Cravebox subscriber to sign up for the limited edition boxes!

*Disclaimer- I was not compensated in any way for this review. All opinions are 100% my own.

                             

Summer BBQ Cravebox Review

I was happy to see that my Cravebox arrived the other day. If you don't know, Cravebox is a subscription box. For $10 you get an array of products in a box, some full sized, some sample sized, all usually pretty cool. I hesitate to say it is a "monthly" subscription box. It is not news to anybody that has been following this blog that I LOVE Cravebox and blog about it quite often, but my one complaint would be lack of consistency. The next box may come in a month, but it may be closer to six weeks. Of course, for $10, I can't really complain, I just love getting the boxes so much, I just wish it happened every 4 weeks so I would know that I could look forward to getting them a little more often.

With that said, I really enjoyed the Summer BBQ Box. It had some really great products in it. I was excited to see True Lemon in the mix. I am not usually a fan of powdered drinks, but this one was awesome! It TRULY tasted like lemonade, only has 5 calories and it 100% natural. NO artificial sweeteners here, which makes me a super happy person! Another product I really enjoyed from the Summer BBQ Box were the Mozaik appetizer plates and cocktail forks. I happened to be having a party with a fondue pot in the mix, so we used the Mozaik plates and forks for that and my guests RAVED over them. I will definitely be using both of those products again!

Also in the box was a sample of Mighty Leaf tea. I am not a tea drinker, so I will be passing that along to a friend. There was also a Bic Flame Disk, which is a pretty neat little thing to put on top of a charcoal grill- no charcoal needed. It would be a fun addition at a camping trip or for a backyard that had a charcoal grill. There was also a coupon for a bic multi purpose lighter. I already have 3 or 4 of these at my house. Not only would they be great for lighting up a grill, they are wonderful for lighting candles!

Overall this wasn't my favorite box, but they can't all be and the fun thing is there were still a few products I discovered that I love-which is the whole point of a subscription box! So I still love Cravebox and I will be looking forward to what surprises lie ahead in the next one!

Don't forget to check out the Cravebox website for more information on how to join!