Sep 27, 2009

Yoplait yogurt review and a Giftbag giveaway

Did you know that ....
  • 76% of the population does not get enough vitamin D into their body systems?
  • 72% of the population does not get the required amount of calcium in their diets?
  • There is only 1 brand of yogurt that is rich in calcium AND vitamin D? I didn't! Yoplait yogurt is that only brand!

Ok so it has vitamin D...what's so big about that?

Did you know that you need vitamin D to help your body absorb the calcium you intake, to build and maintain strong and healthy bones?

People till the age of 50 need to absorb a minimum of 200 units of Vitamin D while people between the age of 51-70 require 400 units and above the age of 70, need atleast 600 units. Now if you have a cup of Yoplait yogurt you get 10-20% of your required units in that 1 cup, now isn't that an easy way to down those units?

I am partial to a cup of strawberry flavored yogurt but if you have a palette that likes flavors with a little twist then you should try their blackberry pomegranate, orange creme, harvest peach, white chocolate raspberry or even their boysenberry flavors. (You have 24 flavors to choose from!) I personally have not tried these flavors because I still steer towards strawberry, strawberry and only strawberry!

So there you have it- a yummy, healthy cold treat filled with the calcium and vitamin D you need!


All set to win a 'Get Strong & Healthy' gift bag?'


2 winners will have a chance to win a 'Get Strong & Healthy' gift bag each. The gift bag includes:
  • A coupon for free Yoplait yogurt (Unfortunately this coupon is not valid outside the United States or within these States-ID, LA, ND, NJ, NV and TN but you can enter the contest to win the other goodies!)
  • A neat exercise mat (getting the right amounts of calcium and vitamin D is not enough. Pair the two with exercise and you will have the right solution for 'strong & healthy' bones!
  • A Yoplait carry bag to hold your mat and
  • An autographed copy of Nancy O'Dell's new book 'Full Of Life' (Mom-To-Mom 'wish I knew when pregnant' tips!)
I think Bunny girl loves the exercise mat more than me. I've had to hide it away because 3 days in a row she'd run to pull it out just before leaving for school and say in her 'big lady tone' " I'm sorry...you just have to do your exercises right now! I'm sorry."

Thanks to
My Blog Spark we received this wealth of information, the healthy yogurt to sample and the gift bag for review.


Here's how you can win it:

1. Mandatory entry (without this, all other entries will be disqualified)-

Tell me how you incorporate calcium and vitamin D into your family's diet.

Additional ent
ries:

- 2. Subscribe to my blog (remember you need to activate the subscription if you subscribe via email) or Follow my blog & leave a comment stating that you subscribe or follow.

- 3. Blog about this giveaway (leave a comment with a link to your blog post)

- 4. Tweet about this giveaway and add the hashtag #ebmr at the end. (You can do this daily)

- 5. Add the link to this giveaway on a Mr Linky on a blog giveaway site, forum, carnival. (leave a comment with the link)

-6. Snag my Blog button and leave a comment with the link


This giveaway is open to US residents, 18 years and above.

2 winners will be chosen with the random.org generator on October 17 2009 at 10 pm Central time, so enter before that. The winners names will be posted thereafter. Please note if any winner does not get back to me 48 hours after his/her name has been posted, I will pick a new winner.

133 comments:

  1. I try to make sure we all get enough sunlight. That's a great way to get vitamin d!

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  3. My children are Milk Lovers (thank goodness) and they love the go-gurt. It's nice to have good eaters. Thanks for the giveaway.
    Bridgette Groschen
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  4. I subscribe to and follow your blog. Thanks!
    Bridgette Groschen
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  6. I am only able to aid my own diet..my son and his wife eat what they want mostly. I keep a lot of cheese and yogurt around to snack on. I walk the dog for my vitamin D. Also take calcium and D supplements. And, of course, Ice cream for a snack.

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  8. I LOVE this giveaway! I honestly am not very conscious about my families Vit. D and calcium intake. My kids get milk every morning with breakfast, and every evening with dinner. They usually have a yogurt after school for a snack. But now, thanks to your info, I will probably pay more attention. Thanks!

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  9. I'm a follower!

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  10. My kids are not big milk drinkers, so I try to make sure they get plenty of sunlight (Vitamin D) and we love green veggies (calcium)

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  11. We eat LOTS of Yogurt, and drink Milk and OJ.

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  12. my kids love cheese so we eat a lot of cheese. They love yogurt too. If I add some little candy sprinkles to it or mini m&ms, mini chocolate chips etc then it really becomes a special treat. They love smoothies for breakfast...1 C yogurt 1 C milk 1 C frozen fruit.

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  13. I buy alot of yogurt and add crushed almonds to it for a haealthy snack for us. We also eat alot of brocolli and get at least ten minutes a day in the sunlight.
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  14. I am a subscriber by email.
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  15. The baby gets Vitamin D milk and we all go outside at least an hour a day. For calcium we eat cheese, yogurt, drink milk, veggies,etc.

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  17. We drink a lot of milk and get sunlight every day.
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  18. I subscribe and I'm a follower.
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  19. My kids do not like milk, but they love cheese, so we try to add cheese to lots of different dishes.
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  20. I subscribe by email
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  21. We get our vitamin d through milk, cheese, and yogurt. They are favorites in our house!

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  22. We do a lot of cheese, milk and yogurt, and my husband lvoes cream cheese. *lol*
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  23. I'm also a follower
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  24. We are big cheese eaters. Cheese makes everything better! Plus, we drink milk, yogurt and take our vitamins.
    Thanks!

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  25. We eat a lot of cheese and drink milk. But we also take daily vitamins
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  27. We drink milk, chocolate and skim usually, and we eat cheese and yogurt quite often.

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  28. We drink milk and take a multi-vitamin. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  29. We drink a glass of milk at every meal.

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  31. We all like milk and we love cheese. It is easy for us to get enough calcium.

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  33. We all love to drink milk, eat yogurt and cheeses - tonight's dinner is baked ziti with rigotta & mozzarella cheeses. :-) Our cereals are fortified with Vit D. We eat salmon & tuna for Vit D, and we try to be outside when we can to get Vit. D from the sunshine.
    My Mom used to line up her 8 kids every Sat. morning for tsp. of cod liver oil for Vit D. I couldn't escape it. :-( When I had kids, I couldn't do that to them.
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  34. We drink milk with our meals.
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  35. my family loves to be outdoors, and everyone enjoys milk.
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  40. I amke sure we get calcium through yogurt, cheese, milk and ice cream as well as incorporating vitamin D through some SUN exposure every day!
    Thank you for the giveaway :)
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  41. I follow your blog!
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  42. The Vitamin D is easy. We spend a whole lot of time outside. Never a problem doing that. The calcium we get by drinking milk at our meals and having fruit smoothies made with yogurt and oj with calcium.

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  43. A yogurt a day keeps the doctor away plus helps to boost our calcium and vitamin day intake.

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  44. Orange Juice is the secret!
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  45. A glass of milk with breakfast and a cup of yogurt as a snack. We also take supplements.

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  46. We get orange juice with calcium and take supplements. Of course, yougert is also a part of our diet.

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  47. I take calcium supplements but my kids drink lots and lots of milk

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  50. Ensuring adequate dairy intake and moderate sun exposure are how we get calcium and vitamin D in our diets. shreve_mary@yahoo.com

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  51. I subscribe to your blog. shreve_mary@yahoo.com

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  52. We all love yogurt so we stock up on it by that! :D

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  53. Well my daughter does most of the cooking, until she and her fiance find a house--which may be very soon. Anyway, I eat yogurt almost daily and I love Yoplait. No kidding--I've got four in the fridge right now. :)

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  55. They drink lots of milk and eat plenty of yogurt. We also always try and get at least 15 min outside each day (hard to do in Oregon at times).

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  57. By drinking a lot of milk. Love it

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  59. We drink milk and go to the beach

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  61. We usually get our calcium & vitamin D from milk. My children know the "rule" is that they must drink milk at mealtimes.

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  62. I tweeted! http://twitter.com/amweeks/status/4713337230

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  64. Cheese-lots of cheese!Also sunshine.
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  65. I incorporate calcium and vitamin D into our diet by feeding the kids a yougurt in the morning with toast before school and a glass of milk at dinner time.

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  68. It's easy in my family because we all love cheese, milk, and yogurt.

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  69. Mac and cheese made with whole milk and eaten in the beautiful Hawaiian sunshine gives my family enough calcium and vitamin D.

    Nancy in HI
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  72. My kids like to make sugar-free pudding. We are outside a lot to get sunshine-we have a pool & horses. They are also required by their Dr. to take calcium supplements. Thanks!
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  73. We drink a lot of milk and I keep a lot of cheese and yogurt in the fridge

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  74. We eat alot of yogurt and cheese. My kids also love milk.

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  75. I subscribe.

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  78. We drink milk, juices and snack on Yogurt.

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  79. I signed up to follow you on Google.

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  81. follow you on blogger also love this stuff!!!

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  83. My whole family loves cheese so we eat a lot of cheese in our house. That is our way of getting calcium and vitamin D

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  85. We all love milk and all dairy products so it is easy to do.
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  86. I try to eat a serving of yogurt every day.

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  87. Milk and Calcium added orange juice!

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  89. We eat lots of calcium rich foods like cheeses, milk, yogurt. We try to get out in the sun, but stay aware of the exposurer time. I take Vitamin D supplements since there are day I know I can't get enough.

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  90. We love milk and yogurt around here. So we get our calcium an vitamin D. Thanks for the chance.

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  91. I serve them a lot of dairy products milk and cheese. I make sure they spend time outside in the summer. garrettsambo@aol.com

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  92. Dairy products, especially cheese on sandwiches and pizza and milk.
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  93. Subscribed!
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  94. My family drinks milk and eats yogurt.

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  95. My family eats tons of yogurt--usually Yoplait, and we love to drink milk.

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  96. we do eat lots of yogurt i buy a bunch with coupons each week and we love all dairy products we eat alot of those

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  98. By drinking lots of milk and eating yogurt and cheese also.

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  101. We drink lots of milk and eat lots of yogurt.
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  102. We get a lot of it from the sun. We try to do alot of activities from outside. We also eat a lot of cereal. THank you

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  103. I am an email subscriber. Thank yo

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  105. we drink lots of vit d milk

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  106. I subscribe

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  107. my little one gets her calcium from her formula i get mine from cheese and yogurt.

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  108. Even my babies have loved yogurt. We don't get enough sunshine here in the North country.
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  109. We get them from vitamins and milk mostly

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  110. We go through a lot of milk in this family. I also take Vitamin D tablets.
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  111. I follow your blog.
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  112. I tweeted.
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  113. We get our calcium and Vitamin D by drinking milk and indulging in great yogurt. The whole family loves yogurt.

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  114. Plenty of milk and yogurt.
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  115. I incorporate calcium and vitamin D into my family's diet by milk, cheese, yogurt, dark greens & Vitiams.

    For me I need the extra womans vititams to make sure I get enough!

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  116. I subscribe!

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  117. Milk, cheese, beans and leafy greens :)

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  118. We eat,cheese,lowfat milk and yogurt.We also take a multi-vitamin

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  119. I incorporate calcium and vitamin D into my family's diet by cooking with dairy foods like yogurt and cheese.

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