Love with Food December 2013

The Price: $10.00 a month

Ships out: Once a month

The Extras: For each box purchased, Love with Food donates a meal to someone in need.

First Look!

 This month's theme was "Winter Wonderland" I really like the card this month. Very cute.

 1 oz. Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato Tortilla Chips. I have seen these all around the place and have wanted to try them, but didn't want to purchase a big bag of them and end up hating it. I tried these out and I can absolutely justify buying a full sized bag of these!

As a side note, I'm not sure if these were supposed to be in the box or were added in at the last moment. This product was not listed on the card above that lists all the products. It could have just mistakenly been left off...

 Grey Ghost Molasses Spice Cookies These were soft and tasted really good. 

Desert Gardens Spinach Dip Mix This was really, really good dip. You mix the mix with sour cream and mayonnaise and you can dip just about anything in them. I liked them with crackers and lox. They were good with tortilla chips as well. The only thing I tried that I didn't like with this dip was radishes. I will most likely repurchase this dip mix. 

Donsuemor Chocolate dipped madeline

Lindt Excellence 70% Chocolate Diamond

 Madyson's All Natural Marshmallow topper

 I love the design of this! Such a simple idea that when created is genius. I still haven't tried this yet, because I feel like I need to have just the right time and place and perfect moment to have such a fancy marshmallow. Kinda weird, but thats just how it is. 

 34 Degrees Natural Crispbread cracker These crackers were paper thin and didn't really have a taste to them. If I were to eat these again I would need some dip to go with them, but since the cracker was so thin I am not positive that the cracker would hold up with the dip. 

Les Confitares a l'Aneienne hot chocolate I'm saving this hot chocolate to drink with the fancy Madyson's Marshmallows topper. 

 Angell Candy Bar from Betty Lou's in Dark Angell

St. Claire's Organics peppermints 

**Use code LF13 for 15% off St. Claire's products through 2/28/14.

Love with Food reusable tote. Not everyone received this tote in their boxes. I can always use more bags, I need to remember to bring them to the store with me though. 

I was happy with this month's box. I will eat or have eaten most of the products in this bag. A few of them I would repurchase. 

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Influenster Rose Vox Box

I was selected for the most rent VoxBox from Influenster.

Influenster is a website dedicated to product reviews. You sign up for the site and review all the different products on the site. Each review you submit and your activity on the site gives you points towards your Influenster score. The higher your score the more likely you will be picked to receive boxes from Influenster to try out and review. 

Every so often they curate a box of different products and send them out to a few lucky people that fit into the demographics they need. I was lucky enough to be picked for this box.

First Look!

This box was named the Rose VoxBox.

Lindt chocolate truffle. I an already fully aware of and familiar with this product. I have a Lindt store at the outlet mall near me and go in the store whenever I'm at the mall in hopes of getting a sample. Each time you go in the store the employees will walk around with a basket of chocolate and offer you a sample of whatever they are offering at that time. It's nice to not have to nonchalantly walk around a store with no intent to make any purchases, 'just coming in for a sample and leaving, ma'am'. Needless to say I like these chocolate truffles. I prefer dark chocolate- milk chocolate is also good - so is the white chocolate----its all good! 

Kiss Gradation Polishes in Film Noir. I was beyond intrigued to see this in the box.  I got a manicure a while ago with a purple gradation effect on my nails. I made sure to pay close attention to the girl doing my nails techniques to go home and try it out for myself. I wasn't able to get it just right. This kit shows you how to easily do it at home on your nails. 

I ripped open the box and did my nails.  The directions were easily understood and even more surprising was how easily it was to create the ombre look on my nails. Sure there are things that I will be doing differently - you can see the line of the second polish on some of the nails if you look really closely and I didn't follow the directions to the T. The directions state that you paint polish 1 all over your nails, 2 on the top 1/3 and 3 on the top 1/2. I correctly followed polishes 1 and 2's steps, but didn't put polish three on 1/2 of my nail. I ended up painting the whole nail after mixing the polishes. I thought that it looked nicer. But after it dried, I realized that by painting 3 on the whole nail the gradation look was not as prominent. It still looked good, but didn't have the wow factor with it. I will follow the rules the next time I do my nails to see how I like it. The only thing that I didn't like about this polish is that it chipped really easily. Even with a good topcoat ( my favorite is Seche Vite - which is a couple of dollars cheaper at Sally Beauty Supply than at Ulta -FYI )

Rimmel Scandaleyes Retro Glam Mascara in black. This is not waterproof, which is the only type of mascara that I will use. I have really short, really straight lashes and waterproof is the only type of mascara that will hold my curl. This mascara didn't even hold my curl long enough for me to finish applying the mascara. It also didn't last very long and I would have to wipe the bottom of my eyes all day long to get rid of the run off. I will not be purchasing this mascara and am thinking of even throwing away the tube that I have open now - this just isn't for me.

VitaBath hydrating lotion in Green Apple and White Lily scent Only a few of the Voxboxes were said to have this lotion in it. I"m happy that I was in that few. This lotion has a soufflé texture to it and doesn't really absorb into my skin very quickly. But I still like this lotion. I really like the scent. I usually like the fruity, tropical scents and this is right up my alley.  I think I remember VitaBath products being sold in Sears department stores like 10 years ago. I haven't been in a Sears in a really long time, so I'm not sure if this is the same brand or maybe it's being rebranded. 

Dr. Scholl's for Her Cozy Cushions shoe inserts. Dr. Scholl's has partnered with Influenster a lot, recently. This is the second Dr. Scholl's product that I have received from Influenster. 

Belvita Blueberry breakfast biscuits These were so good and I will definitely be purchasing these. The only thing I didn't like about these was that I wish there was more blueberries in each biscuit.

**I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.