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Red Robin provided all the information and gift cards for this post and giveaway. All opinions are my own.

Friday giveaway! That’s two giveaways this week, don’t say I never gave you anything! 🙂 I am excited about this giveaway, and I think you will be too! Did you know May is National Allergy Awareness Month? Me neither! But it is, and as the proud (ok, not really) owner of a food allergy and the parent of a kid with a food allergy, I was very happy to “celebrate” this month by checking out Red Robin® Gourmet Burgers’ Interactive Allergen Menu. It is, in a word, AWESOME. And in two words, super convenient!

Red Robin® provided me with a gift card so my family could dine in the restaurant after first accessing the super-convenient interactive allergen menu. I chose Mother’s Day for us to eat out, because OF COURSE I DID! What better day to get some allergen-free eats that I didn’t have to cook? We went after church and on my way, in the car, (while my husband was driving!!) I pulled up Red Robin’s Interactive Allergen Menu on my iPhone. Using it is SO simple. You just select the ingredients you want to avoid (for me, wheat/gluten, for Jonah wheat/gluten/milk):

And then voila, the interactive menu will tell you what’s safe for you to eat and/or what substitutions you can make. It is that easy. I decided what Jonah and I would order before we even got to the restaurant!

First you pick what category of the menu you want to eat from. Here, I clicked on fire-grilled burgers, and voila, the burgers appear telling me which ones I can have and how I need to modify it. If you click on “options” it also tells you whether there are substitutions such as gluten-free buns, etc you can order to enhance your meal.

FYI, I ordered the bacon cheeseburger on a gluten free bun with sweet potato fries – YUM!

Next, I hopped over to the Kids’ Meal section of the Interactive Allergen Menu and decided Jonah would feast on a hamburger (gluten-free bun, no cheese) and mandarin oranges for lunch. It was his very first hamburger and he loved it, especially after we introduced him to ketchup!

We had a great time and all LOVED our Mother’s Day meal at Red Robin® Gourmet Burgers. Plus, the service was excellent! “Allergen Alert” was printed boldly on our order and I know the specially-trained Red Robin staff were careful to meet our special food needs. Since ordering for Jonah is often a pain at restaurants and it was a total breeze here, we will definitely be back as a family soon!

And now, it’s time for a Red Robin® gift card giveaway! One of you lucky readers will win a $25 gift card to Red Robin® Gourmet Burgers! To enter, head over to Red Robin’s Customizer Hub, where you can customize your meal whether you have food allergies or not – you can even customize according to nutritional value – and  just leave me a comment telling me what menu item you’d most like to try when you eat out at Red Robin® Gourmet Burgers.

One winner will be selected next Friday May 30 at 6 pm EST. Good luck and bon appetit!

Even though I’ve been gluten-free for almost a year and a half now, I am still continually challenged to find great GF products. Now that Jonah is gluten-free AND dairy-free, that challenge has gotten even more…challenging! So when Canyon Bakehouse asked if Jonah and I would like to try their gluten-free dairy-free breads, I may have responded IN ALL CAPS because I WAS SO EXCITED!!

The Canyon Bakehouse box o’goodies arrived and I tore into it…I tried the 7-grain bread and Jonah tried the Cinnamon Raisin bread (I don’t like raisins, so I picked them out – but he LOVES them.) They were both totally delicious and SOFT. Canyon Bakehouse is definitely Jonah’s favorite bread of all the kinds we’ve tried so far. He always wants seconds!

I was also really, really, excited that Canyon Bakehouse included a loaf of their Rosemary-Thyme Focaccia bread in the package. I hadn’t had any sort of specialty bread in a LONG time and it was a REAL treat. (I also LOVE Rosemary, so yay!) It is so, soooo, sooo soft and delicious. Definitely the softest, tastiest GF bread I’ve ever had. I LOVED it. Mmmmm I wish I had some more RIGHT NOW! I was sad to see that loaf go (well, not too sad, because it was in my BELLY!) I am definitely going to need more of this.

I have to give these breads two enthusiastic thumbs up! And I am super-happy that I get to GIVE AWAY a box of Canyon Bakehouse goods to one lucky winner! All you need to do to enter is head over to their website and look around, then leave a comment below telling me which variety you’d like to try.

Contest ends Wednesday April 30 at 6 pm EST. GOOD LUCK!! And thanks Canyon Bakehouse!

It’s almost Easter! Like most holidays, the best part about Easter (besides the whole resurrection thing) is the FOOD! I have a whole Pinterest board dedicated to it.

I’ve cooked a couple of big holiday meals at our house in the past few years, and I will admit – Easter stressed me out much less than Thanksgiving did. Because ham.

Ham is so much easier to cook than a turkey! Or, at least, it was less intimidating to me. I have cooked ham many times, and it’s a great way to feed a crowd, holiday or not.

You know what makes it even easier (and foolproof!)? HoneyBaked ham. If you’ve ever had one, I know you’ll agree with me that they are moist, tender, and delicious. They are available in all sizes, so you can get the perfect one whether you’re having a small gathering or inviting the whole fam damily. (Of course, remember to order enough to ensure leftovers!)

They come fully cooked and ready to serve, so you can turn your attention to other stuff, like side dishes and desserts. Especially desserts.

However, if you’d rather turn your attention to centerpieces or an egg hunt or a glass of wine, HoneyBaked can handle the side dishes and desserts part too. In fact, they have more than 20 varieties to choose from.

And, if you have a weirdo in your house like I have in mine (not naming any names but it rhymes with Fate) who doesn’t like ham (shudder), HoneyBaked also has turkey. Who knew?

Stop by your local HoneyBaked store or visit locator.honeybaked.com to reserve your Easter ham asap! To help you with that, we’re giving one lucky reader a $50 gift card for HoneyBaked Ham. To enter, just leave a comment telling us what HoneyBaked item you’d order first. The contest will end on April 14 and we’ll pick a winner at random.

Good luck!

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This post was sponsored by HoneyBaked and they are providing the giftcard prize as well.

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