Naptime Blog

For families looking for new products at a great value – just head to Sam’s Club or visit www.samsclub.com.  Sam’s Club is announcing the availability of three new private label brands found exclusively at Club locations nationwide: Simply Right™, Artisan Fresh™ and Daily Chef™.

The introduction of these brands is a direct result of customer feedback and research conducted by Sam’s Club.  The brands provide a range of products from personal care to cooking essentials to made-from-scratch favorites. As an introduction to the brands, during September Baby Month at Sam’s Club, Members can sample and take home Simply Right diapers, wipes and formula  on Saturday, September 17, or receive free formula samples at www.simplyrightformula.com.

Over the past 13 years, Wal-Mart’s Parent’s Choice Infant Formula has helped write the earliest chapters in millions of success stories by allowing parents to provide their children with outstanding nutrition at affordable prices.

Now the folks at Parent’s Choice will help one student and one family write another important chapter with the launch of the Parent’s Choice Infant Formula Savings Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes, created in partnership with PBM Products, LLC, a Perrigo Company, will provide one lucky winner with a $10,000 college scholarship in the form of a College Savings 529 Plan.

The Parent’s Choice Infant Formula Sweepstakes was officially launched  June 15, and will run through 11:59 p.m. on August 15, 2011.

More information, rules and an entry form is available at http://parentschoicesweepstakes.listrak.com

Parent’s Choice Infant formula is Walmart’s private brand formula and is available exclusively at Walmart locations nationwide and online at www.walmart.com.

Parent’s Choice is conducting a short on-line research survey related to the your infant formula buying decisions.  They would like to include your opinions in this study, which will drive key decisions regarding infant formula availability and future promotions.

Please click here to participate.  The survey should take less than a few minutes to complete!

Parent’s Choice is giving away 2 $50 gift cards at random to those who complete the survey!

If you are benefitting from WIC, then you should really read this! For the first time in over 30 years, the nutritional guideline in the Women, Infants and Children program are going to change! Your children will very soon be able to have better balanced meals during the day!

Beginning in October, 2009,  families will be able to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, canned beans and more!

First, the new voucher for fruits and veggies won’t have any specific foods listed. Instead, it will  have dollar amounts of $6, $8, $10, etc. Federal regulations require that all authorized vendors stock at least two different varieties of fresh fruits and two different varieties of fresh vegetables. The client will also be able to pay anything over their WIC allowance so they can receive their full benefits. No potatoes except sweet potatoes and yams are allowed. Clients may choose any fruit without added sugar, and any vegetable without added sugar, fats or oils.

Whole Grains are also allowed. This includes cereals, bread in 16oz units. CHildren are allowed 32oz per month. Some states have added 16oz packages of brown rice and whole grain tortillas as alternatives to bread.

Infants at 6 months of age will now receive 32 4oz containers of baby fruits and vegetables per month. They must be Stage two and single ingredients. They will no longer receive juice.  Exclusively breastfed infants will receive 31 2.5 jars of baby meats, and the amount of infant formula will vary with age, but over the full years, will receive less than they are currently allowed.

Another change is to Dairy products. If your child is over 1 year old, you will need to switch to low-fat milk. You will also receive less milk and less cheese as you have in the past. You may now substitute calcium set tofu in 16oz packages for milk.

A few other changes to the program will be, less juice allowance (64oz containers) and less egg allowance. Now, there will be an increase in fish allowance from 24oz to 30oz and Salmon is now allowed. Canned beans are also allowed now as a substitute for dried beans.

As always, I highly recommend discussing any questions or concerns with your local WIC office. For more information on how to apply for WIC, or what their food packages are, please go to the WIC homepage

~Monica Brady- Mommy Brain Reports