Pretzel Crisps Review

We love pretzels and we love chips and now we can have the best of both worlds with Pretzel Crisps. The taste and texture of a pretzel and the ability to dip or stack like chips and crackers. The flavors are amazing. Cody's personal favorite was the Garlic Parmesan and the Chipotle Cheddar. I enjoyed all of the hot ones, they are so full of flavor. They offer ten different flavors: Classic, Supreme, Tuscan Three Cheese, Cinnamon Toast, Original, Garlic Parmesan, Buffalo Wing, Everything, Sesame, Jalapeño Jack, and Chipotle Cheddar. And for the holidays they have Dark Chocolate & Peppermint and White Chocolate & Peppermint. You can buy Pretzel Crisps at a local retailer or from Pretzel Crisps.

"Pretzel Crisps® are a modern twist on an old favorite.  They combine the best part of the pretzel – all the flavor and crunch – but lighter, crispier and more versatile than ever before.  Since 2004, Pretzel Crisps® have reinvented the pretzel category winning over the hearts and taste buds of snackers everywhere as the world’s first spreadable pretzel-shaped cracker.  With its thin, crunchy, high-quality ingredients and sweet and savory flavors, it’s no wonder Pretzel Crisps® are the go-to, better-for-you snack choice."

We would just like to say, we enjoyed every second of this review. This product has become a must buy in the Tate household and if you like pretzel we highly recommend this product. 

Disclaimer: We were sent these products for free from Pretzel Crisps® to review for our honest opinion. We only recommend products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Your opinions may vary from our opinions.

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Krave Beef Jerky Review

First off I have to say i was very excited to review this product, Krave Beef Jerky is right up my ally. I love meat, what can I say. I've tried not eating meat, it lasted about a week then I broke down and ate some delicious bacon. So when the wife (Aimee) came to me and said eat this meat and write a review for it I said "thank you." 

Krave jerky is awesome. They have a great variety of cool flavors that use all natural ingredients. I use to think that all jerky was dry and leathery strips of meat and that's how it was supposed to be. Man was I wrong, Krave Jerky is so moist and beautiful and tender. Oh how I wish there were more words in the dictionary, that I could think of at this moment, to explain the taste of this Jerky. It almost melts in your mouth, and you don't feel like you just ate something that was sitting in a vat of salt. Or something that was attached to a shoe at some point in time like some of the gas station Jerky I have had. The only time I have had something like this was when I have had home made jerky. But even then I have never had any with these flavors (Black Cherry Barbecue, Basil Citrus, Chili Lime, Garlic Chili Pepper, Lemon Garlic, Pineapple Orange, Grilled Sweet Teriyaki, and Sweet Chipotle) you can order them from KRAVE.

If you like jerky you will love this jerky, heck if you don't like jerky (like Aimee) you will more than likely love this jerky (like Aimee) it's just that good. 

Review by Cody Tate

Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from KRAVE to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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CaseApp Review

Ok I have to say that I love personalizing stuff with things I like, I mean who doesn't. So if you like that and you don't have a tendency of dropping your phone, then you need to check it out HERE.  If lack of protection is an issue for you on your phone then this may not be the case for you. That's why this case is great for me but not for Aimee, she drops her phone a lot.This case will keep the back of your phone from minor scratches but not sure how safe it would be to drop it and I'm not going to test it. As you can see from the pictures this case is more for the look and you can pretty much customize it with any picture, including ones uploaded from your owe computer.Their website is very easy to navigate and picking a picture is easy. I got the case pretty quickly after picking the image, took less than a week.

So let's get to this...

Style : Love it, it doesn't add anything to the phone bulk or weight and you can personalize it as you can see I picked my favorite wrestler CM Punk.

Protection : Very little so if you are a person that drops your phone a lot this is not for you but if you are like me and are very aware of your phone safety you should be good but just be careful, this case is very thin and has no protection for the front of the phone.

Price : $34.00 I guess this is for the personalization process, it's a bit much for my taste.

Overall : I love it, but I am very careful with my phone. The personalization is what attracted me to it, the price makes me second guess it, but if you want something personalized its a good deal. 

Review written by Cody Tate.

Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from CaseApp to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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VitaminsBaby.com- Blankie Buddy Review/Giveaway

Vitaminsbaby is an awesome company. Fast communication, fast shipping and great items. Vitaminsbaby has so much stuff on their website to buy. They have clothes for infants and toddlers, shoes, accessories, and books. Some of the outfits come with an adorable Blankie Buddy. The Blankie Buddies are also sold by themselves.  I was sent the Blankie Buddy Bear to review. 

This "Buddy" is absolutely adorable and is great for babies of all ages to snuggle with. My nephew, who is 1 1/2, and my great nephew, who is 1, loved it instantly. Its very soft and not at all cumbersome like other blanket stuffed animals. Another huge plus, its completely machine washable. There are many different Blankie Buddies to choose from, bear, bunny, giraffe, lion, monkey, puppy, dragon, elephant, and an owl. You get a 2-pack for only $16. You can find them  HERE. I was also sent a Blankie Buddy Superplush Bear to giveaway, which is a great value at $16. You can find them HERE. This is made of super soft material, 100% Polyester and also machine washable. Enter below to win this snuggly little "buddy".

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Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from VitaminsBaby to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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Scentsy Wickless Candles Review/Giveaway

  Candles are great right, everybody loves them. But they have their faults. There's the fire (which is dangerous) the smoke (which can't be healthy) and there's always unused wax on the bottom and sides of the jars. You always have to be careful when children and pets are around. That's where Scentsy comes in. Scensy is a great alternative to candles. You get the smell of a candle without all the draw backs. Scentsy uses a light bulb as the heat source instead of a flame. This is great cause this means the burners don't get to hot. You can touch the burner without burning yourself, you can even touch the wax itself. This is why its safe around your children and pets. And because its non-toxic.

  Within 15 minutes the wax will be melted, then the smell will feel the room. Scentsy has many different warmers to choose from. Plug-ins, small warmers, large warmer, sprays and even a Scentsy Buddy for kids. They have over 80 scents to choose from, and they even have some scents for men. All you have to do is get a warmer and then choose a scent. Each Scentsy Bar comes with eight wickless candle squares for only $5. The squares will last for over two weeks, depending on how long you keep it heated. After it on for about a hour you can turn it off and the smell will last all day. In my opinion they are a wonderful alternative to normal candles. And they make great gifts.
  If you want to win 2 free Scentsy Scent Bars, enter below.

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Tablet Review

The Kindle Fire HD from Amazon.com and the Apple iPad 2 are up next for review.

Aimee-
iPad 2- $399

Product Features
9.7" LED-backlit display with IPS technology
Dual-core A5 chip
Front and back cameras
Up to 10 hours of battery life
Built-in Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology
16GB flash storage
Over 65,000 apps made for iPad, available from the App Store

  I got my iPad as a birthday gift last July. I didn't get the 3G version because I really didn't think I would need Internet on it outside my house, that's what my iPhone is for. But the good thing is that a lot of places have free wi-fi now. Its like having a computer at your finger tips, without having to carry around a heavy laptop. I'm using my iPad to write this review.
  The ipad is a wonderful tool for many things reading books, games, searching the Internet, watching movies and tv and so much more. It comes with apps already installed to get you started. The iBook app, for reading books. You can download books from the iTune marketplace. In the App Store there are many other apps you can download for reading books, you can even download a kindle app to read kindle books on. There's apps for watching tv from various tv networks, there's Netflix and Hulu. So many apps to enjoy.
  Another great thing is the games. There are a lot of free/paid iPad games to download. I usually just get the free ones, they are very enjoyable. Every time I go see my four year old niece and one year old nephew they always get in my bag and pull the iPad out to play with. It's crazy how fast kids learn technology these days.
The iPad is about twice the size of a kindle which I don't mind. Bigger size is great for video watching but at night it makes holding it a little harder to read at night. This hasn't been a huge issue though. Over all I think the iPad is a great product and I recommend it.

Cody-
Kindle Fire HD- $199

Product Features
7" 1280x800 HD display
Exclusive Dolby audio
Dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi
Featuring Multiple In/Multiple Out (MIMO) technology
16GB on-device storage
High-performance 1.2GHz dual-core processor

  Looks wise it is cool, just the right size, not to big not to small. I got this as a birthday gift from Aimee it was a Kindle or a PSP Vita, I picked the Kindle. Do I regret it, no not at all. I knew that after a few months into owning the PSP I would be tired of it and then pick it up once in a while. On the other hand with the Kindle I can read books, comic books, watch movies, and surf the web. As long as I'm in a WiFi area.
  As far as reading function goes I have always been a hands on kind of guy. I like real books, the way they feel and the way they smell. So when e-readers first started coming out I scoffed at them saying "they will never last." I have said this about a lot of things before (CDs, DVDs, Blu Rays). And every time I'm wrong. My wife, Aimee, ended up getting an iPad for her birthday and after playing with it for a bit I was sold. Tablets are cool, very cool. I wasn't a fan of the size, or the price, but it's very cool and easy to use. So I wanted one. I did some research and decided on a Kindle. When I got mine first thing I did was download a bunch of books I have wanted to read. I also downloaded some I have already read (John dies at the End). I love it. A great thing about tablets is reading in the dark. This is great for when your bed partner is sleeping. It's the perfect size, and I like that I don't have to worry about messing my books up. It's not heavy, it's much lighter then carrying all the actual books around. It has some awesome apps it's almost as useful as my iPhone. Down side is, not 3g capable. Not that I would want to pay for a 3g plan anyway but it's nice to have the option for other people. But In my opinion it doesn't take any points away from the great product. I love it might not be the one for everyone but if you are looking for cheap and easy this is for you.


We have written all of our reviews on our respective tablets. Then we email them to ourselves to post them from the computer. We both love our tablets respectively. And recommend both. Choosing which all depends on what you want and how much you want to spend.

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Verizon Fios Home Monitoring Review

 We want to start off by saying we love Verizon Fios. We have our cable and internet through them and don't plan on switching anytime soon.

   

   A few months ago when we went into a Verizon store we noticed their new Home Monitoring System, $89.99 for the starter kit then $9.99 a month after that.  With the starter kit you get a gateway device (which is basically a router), an indoor camera, and an indoor light module.  There are also many add-ons you can get.  We got the deadbolt keypad lock for $159.99.  The thing that got us was that we didn't have to pay anything then, they could spread out the payments for the next three months of our Verizon bill.  If we had to pay right then we wouldn't have done it. We thought this would be a cheaper security system, no contracts and we do all the monitoring.

This sounds way more awesome then it is, let's not waste any time and get to  why we say such things. We are very handy and tech savvy people, Cody would even go so far as to call himself a handy man. So the physical installation was not a problem (Cody did most of it, lol) but when we got to the tech set up the website wasn't running right and we had to call the tech support team three different times. 2 out of 3 where helpful but one of them Cody wanted to smack them through the phone. No one is a fan of rude tech support people. Just because you know what you are doing doesn't mean that everyone does, especially  when your website is not working correctly.

   

   Anyway lets go for its function. It works but not the way it was explained to us. We were told that if the motion detector camera went off we would be sent a picture text message of what set it off. That is not the case. The couple times it was set off by our dog we didn't receive a picture of him jumping around being awesome and doing awesome things  just a text to a link. The link takes you to the website where you have to sign in and there is still no picture just a message saying that the motion sensor was set off at this time, on this date. They have a smart phone app, which is great for monitoring. Downside, you can only have one user monitoring  on the app at a time. So it's kind of a pain to try to sign in and not be able to. Then you text the the other person to ask if they are on, and sometimes no one was on but it wouldn't let you in. We got the Home Monitoring System to take some stress off Cody's mind but it just added more to it.

   

   All this being said we sent it back. We're not willing to pay for something that only works 50% of the time. This could be a great product but right now we feel that Verizon Home Monitoring is not worth the trouble. We have been trying to get our money back and our bill straightened out for the last 4 months. As of now we are still waiting for the refund, we haven't payed it but its still on the bill. They say its coming so we'll see what happens.

   

   This product was not for our family, but it might work for someone else's, that up for you to decide. This has been our honest opinion.

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Meeting The Tate's

   Hello, we are Cody and Aimee Tate. We live in Florida and have been married for 3 years. Recently we have decided to start doing product reviews, giving a male and female perspective. Along with the blog we also want to start a podcast and do some reviews on there. Cody is 33, born and rasied in Tampa, Florida. Aimee is 31, born in Tampa, Florida and raised in Brandon, Florida. No kids yet but we're trying. We have three dogs: Kaddy (11 year old dachshund), Colin (5 year old mini schnauzer), and Penny (1 year old rat terrier mix).

If you are a company that would want a man and women's perspective on great products please feel free to contact us at Bloggingwiththetates@gmail.com

We look forward to hearing from your company.

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