Thursday, 8 November 2012

Win ~ Five Lunches, Five ways and 50 Shades of Green { Avo Fresh $50 Giveaway }

As I huge avocado lover I was very keen to give the " AvoFresh challenge - 5 Lunches , 5 Ways " go. 

When it comes to school lunches, parents pack lunches on average 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year …  you do the maths - that is a lot of lunches ! Then we have to think about our own lunch and the spouse's too.


The challenge is often packing a lunch that doesn’t have contents that boomerang back to the kitchen in the afternoon or me finding something 50 shades of green* in the bottom of the school bag or hidden weeks later.

I am slowly converting my tribe to eat it more willingly- they do in some things, not so in others - unless it's hidden.

Avocados are a  nutritious, delicious and versatile FRUIT - yes - I only learned this recently. The boys still think I'm tricking them.

AvoFresh is a story of three Queensland farming families got together to make fresh avocados more convenient.

They combined Australia's largest avocado groves with modern fruit packing techniques to bring you their AvoFresh range of plain, seasoned and spicy avocado products.

They guarantee you'll love the fresh avocado taste with the goodness of two avocados in every pack.

I love that they have removed the skin and seed for me.

The winning feature for me is that the leftover avocado doesn't go brown or end up dead in the bottom of the fridge and that I always have ripe avocado on hand.

We tried both the original and seasoned [light with fresh coriander and spices] but not the spicy [they have added fresh chillies(2%) and coriander(2%) and some spices(2%) I'd like it but not the boys]. 

It tastes like real avocado especially the chunky avo in the tub. I preferred the chunky tub compared to the tubes - as the 'Soft' tube had a too soft texture for me. In a salad I'd only use real sliced and diced avocado.


Lunch 1 - [We actually tested it as dinner here and then they some for lunch]

I squeezed and spread a bit inside our nori rolls & sushi as the kids don't like wasabi - it was my first attempt at rolling them - so no laughing ! I also used real avocado in mine.


Lunch 2. 
Spread or squeeze inside of pita pockets instead of butter, filled with cheese and lettuce ...be quick so they don't know it's good for them. [It was too dark inside the pocket : ) to get a pic ].

Lunch 3.
Fresh on a salad roll

Ok - this was my lunch - they had a Tortilla wrap with Avo fresh as a spread , diced ham ,cheese/a little salad.
Lunch 4.
 ...Chicken Schnitzel , rocket and avocado -  using the chunky avo fresh. [There is a firm avo fresh for slicing too but it wasn't available where I shopped]

This image is one I prepared last year
Lunch 5.
I mixed Avo fresh through left over pasta with chopped tomato, pesto and grated cheese - [Didn't get a picture of this either - they had to leave to catch the bus at 7.50am ].

As a super quick lunch for me too - the slightly seasoned soft avo fresh , with pesto - made a light, fresh creamy sauce for pasta in under 2 mins (after cooking or reheating the pasta)

I used the chunky avo fresh as an on the go snack - I took it to a play date at the zoo- for dipping celery, cucumber ,carrot sticks and rice crackers into. It tasted better and is healthier than a packaged dip.

Personally, my favourite is to spread it on toast for a quick breakfast or lunch.

It's good value considering it contains 2 avocados and there is no waste. It means I always have some avocado at the ready when others aren't ripe enough too. Avo fresh only add a little lemon juice so it's keeps fresh for four weeks sealed and up to five days from first use.

Got any other questions ?  ...best check the Avo fresh website for  FAQ's
Need more recipes and ideas ?


  
~ Giveaway ~ 
$50 Woolworths Giftcard thanks to AvoFresh

Tell me in 50 words or less - 
what is your best or worse lunchbox memory ?

 This is a game of skill. Each valid entry will be judged based on creativity and originality.

Terms and Conditions: 
1. Only Australian Residents are eligible to enter. 
2. Entries not answering the question in 50 words or less will be deemed invalid. The winner will be chosen by originality and creative merit, not by chance. 
3.There is one prize -  $50 Woolworths Gift Card
Judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into. 
4. Entries - Open 8/11/2012 - Closes 11.59pm  24/11/2012 AEST. The winner(s) will be notified by email, and posted to mylittledrummerboys.blogspot.com.au - the winner has 5 days to respond or prize will be redrawn.
5. Prize is not transferable, changeable or redeemable for cash. 
6. Prize sent out by PR firm directly will not be replaced in the event that it is stolen, lost or damaged in transit.
7. Additional entries if you share on FB or twitter but you must leave a second valid entry answering the question in 50 words or less. Also, please leave how you shared in the comment.

Disclaimer: I received a gift card to purpose Avo Fresh and for review purposes -  All opinions expressed are my own
These lunches were not consumed in 1 week - my kids are not that versatile and I'm not that organised - they have to catch the bus too early.
*  discovering live maggots in a roll left hidden by a child - true story !!

Winner : Michelle Young - 



 

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I make 600 lunches per year eeeeekkkkkk

My worst lunch memory. I stupidly told my mum one day that the corned beef I had had that day was particularly nice. Big mistake. I got it every.damn.day for the next 3 yrs!
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When I was a kid I wanted an egg and lettuce sandwich. Mum said we don't have lettuce, I didn't care - I wanted lettuce, so get it! We did have some carrots with green tops. So my egg and lettuce sandwich turned out to be - egg and carrot-tops.
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Michelle Young · 657 weeks ago

Would absolutely be Pecks Paste sandwiches; yuk! One flavour for each day of the week :( and even worse we lived in a very hot region of Australia, so the smell would go right through your school bag.
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The time in grade 5 when I was tracing the circular raised bit on my lunchbox absentmindedly and one of the girls in the group pointed out that I was fondling Dean Cain's crotch. Superman with Terri Hatcher was huge that year. 11 year old girls are mean!
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My worst lunch box memory is truly just one of the worst memories I have. I was in high school in the NT. It was Spring, so really, really hot. HOT.

I went on holidays for 6 weeks. When I got back some kids said some things to me about my locker. When I got to my locker it looked fine. But apparently in the days before, there had been a terrible smell coming from it. Mystified, I went and spoke to the janitor who had cleaned it. Apparently I had forgotten that I had BEETROOT sandwiches in there! I have no idea how I'd forgotten and for the life of me I never did remember taking them to school.

He had cleaned it out the day before and I saw the plastic bag. It was vomit inducing, seriously. And MORTIFYING. The kids at school didn't let me forget it for the rest of the school year!

It took me literally 15 years to eat beetroot again!
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Claire Lewis · 657 weeks ago

I can still taste the fresh grated carrot and cheese sandwiches my mum made me in primary school, I called them 'hay' sandwiches... They were delicious, and are still one of my favorites! Can't wait to make them for my little girl!!
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First day back after school holidays, mum said she had packed my lunch. Was sitting at the table with some pretty popular girls, opened my lunchbox to find an old mouldy lunch from before the hols! Mum paked my lunch, but didnt put it in my bag!!
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Jodie Parke · 657 weeks ago

My worst lunchbox memory - leaving fruit in my school bag for months (usually the end of term when Mum cleaned out my bag) until it turned into something. I had plums turning into prunes and grapes turning into sultanas. It was the most disgusting smell....
My best lunchbox memory is the one I enjoyed daily, a plain tomato sandwich on fresh white bread, with no butter or margarine. From prep, to year twelve I never ever tired or swayed from this favourite, loving it immensely (no matter how much my friends teased me)! Fortunately now I'm onto bigger, better, more delicious, unpredictable lunches!
Worst memory is grabbing my brothers lunch by mistake, to discover the error of my ways at lunch time when I found that horrid curried egg sandwich. Made worse by my teacher forcing me to eat my lunch, she thought I was making up stories so as to get out of having lunch. And I couldn't even go to his classroom and swap it over because at this stage he'd already moved on to 'big school' (high school!!!).
Lightly salted cucumber sandwiches on fresh white bread with the crusts removed. I'll never forget the first time Mum made me these sandwiches, they were the beginning of a life long addiction.
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Kelly Arndt · 657 weeks ago

I remember making lunches after the end of Christmas school holidays and discovering a forgotten lunch box still in my daughter's bag...Curried egg sandwiches now turning green and a spilled, half eaten tub of congealed yoghurt mixed with rotten slices of discarded mandarin... Perhaps a delicacy at Monster High...!
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Chloe Bowers · 657 weeks ago

Coming to school after the holidays in year 4 was the worst. I hadn't taken my lunch box out of my bag before the holidays and a cockroach had got in and laid eggs. As I was taking it out of my bag I was talking with my friends and not looking. I placed my hand into my lunch and all my friends started screaming and running away. I looked down at my hand and it was covered in tiny, baby cockroaches. One girl vomited. I still have never lived it down.
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Allie Apps · 657 weeks ago

When i was 8 and opening my new lunchbox to find a huge grey spider sitting on top of my lunch.
My older brother thought it was sooooo funny. I have a fear of opening any containers now.
I remember once finding a liquefied banana in my son's school bag at the end of the holidays.
I also have a story about a friend and her lunch. The night before she had made a peanut butter sandwich for her son to take to school, and a nice chicken sandwich for herself to bring to work. Both were wrapped in foil. At work, a half hour before lunch, she put her sandwich in the pie warmer to heat it up and at lunchtime retrieved it only to find a nicely warmed peanut butter sandwich.
warm jam sandwiches.

Our school bags were located OUTSIDE in the baking sun. Back in the day when apparently food poisoning wasn't invented yet.
Finding half a worm in the middle of my laksa noodles. Guess where the other half had gone :{~~~~
I always got the best packed lunches on sports days at school. I always loved an egg and lettuce sandwich. The worst lunch was when I realized I spread yoghurt instead of mayonnaise on my egg sandwich.
My mum once made me banana and bacon sandwiches as she was in a creative mood... the only problem was that she forgot to cook the bacon and put it on my sandwiches raw!
I loved that my luchbox didnt seem to have a bottom, I love eating and my friends used to laugh that I seemed to pull food stuff after food stuff out of my lunchbox, my lovely Mum made sure I was never hungry!!!
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Mary Preston · 657 weeks ago

My best memories were when we lived next door to the school. I'd pop home for lunch. I did not appreciate it until years later when faced with food that was positively radioactive from exposure to heat, moisture & time.
My worst memory would be having cheese and gherkin spread on my sandwiches at primary school and being teased that I had snot on my cheese sandwich.

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