If it were up to me, I would live off of macaroni and cheese, Cheese-Its, bread, fettucini alfredo, waffles, and coffee.

I’m very unadventurous when it comes to food, and I always have been.

Then I met my fiance’, Morgan, who witnessed my first foray into the world of sushi, taught me how to use chopsticks, showed me that eating veggies wasn’t all that bad of an idea, and most of all, is diabetic.

Did you notice that there is absolutely ZERO meat up there in the list of things I would live off of?  SUPER healthy, right?  Go ahead, roll your eyes.  I deserve it.

So, for me, preparing to marry the man of my dreams also means learning to eat in a way that is healthy and supportive of the way he currently eats – low carb.  Meat.  Veggies.  You get the picture.

So, when the Walmart Moms were offered the chance to try out the new Johnsonville Brat Patties, my initial instinct was to turn it down.

And then I remembered my sweet fiance’.  And I sent him the email with one word in it.

“Interested?”

2 minutes later came the response, “YES!  These are awesome. Johnsonville Brats are seriously my FAVORITE brat.  These look awesome!  Let’s do it.”

See?  I told you he was excited.  I mean, really. How cute is he?

So we headed to Walmart to pick some up.  We were having a cookout with family, so we actually got a bunch so we could share.

We whipped up a few on the grill, and made brat and sauerkraut burgers.  They were SO yummy.  Seriously everyone devoured them.

He may not marry me after he sees that I’ve posted this photo. But hey, he posed.

We liked the Johnsonville Brat Burgers so much that we actually made them AGAIN two days later.  This time, we made a little video to share with you so that you could check out our experience with them.  Also, of note, super cute cameo by my kiddo.  Of course, I’m totally partial, but I doubt you’ll disagree!

So what do you think?  Will you try the new Johnsonville Bratwurst Patties?  Do you have any great recipes to share?  Let us know!

Disclosure:  This is a sponsored post on behalf of Johnsonville Brat Patties and the Walmart Moms.  All posts always have been and always have been filled 100% with my thoughts – that’s how I roll.  If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email.

I love it. LOVE.  My hobbies are reading, swimming, shopping, and makeup.  Seriously.

I mean, not that you’re surprised.

Maybelline approached the Walmart Moms and offered us the opportunity to review their new product line-up for 2011 and I was all “duh”.  Because, you know, makeup is my hobby.

I started with the new Maybelline Fit Me! product line, which includes 18 different foundations, 6 different concealers, 12 different shades of blush, and 3 shades of bronzer.  This lightweight formula is meant to allow your face to breathe which hopefully means fewer blemishes and breakouts, plus skin that is much, much healthier.  All of the different available shades allow you to completely customize your complexion to find the best shades that “fit you”.

I liked the Fit Me! line, and if you watch the video below, you can see me apply the line in real-time – and you can see how smoothly it evens out my complexion.  The Fit Me! line is very affordable and I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

Now, I’m a bit of a mascara freak, so it takes a lot to impress me.  I’m a big fan of anything that makes my lashes big, bold, and sorta out of control.  My all-time favorite is Dior Show Mascara, but it costs a whopping $28 a tube, and as a very famous makeup artist once told me “you should never have to pay that much for mascara”.  So, for the past year I’ve been on a mascara “diet” – hopping around trying to find the perfect one and I really, really think that I’ve found it in Maybelline’s One by One by Volum’ Express Mascara.  This mascara coats and separates every single one of my lashes with no clumping.  One coat is enough to make me feel like hot stuff, but two coats is enough to make me feel va-va-voom!

The last product that I tried from Maybelline is their SuperStay 24 Lipcolor – a 2-step color that lasts for 24 hours.  Let’s be honest – I was super skeptical.  According to Maybelline, this unique formula has 5 years of research and 10 US patents backing it up – and it won’t crumble, cake, fade, feather or transfer.  24 hours?  That’s a long time.  The first time I wore the color, I remember walking into the bathroom after eating lunch with friends and being shocked that my lipcolor looked like new.  Like I had JUST applied it.  That afternoon I brought my daughter home a few cupcakes from her favorite bakery, and we devoured them together – while my lipcolor stayed put.  So far we had made it though 8 hours and it looked great.  I started to notice a little fading around the interior of my lips, but nothing worth complaining about.  My fiance’ loves it too – he used to go in for a kiss to tell me how pretty I looked and then quickly pull back to avoid messing up my lip gloss.  Now he smiles and says “24 hour stuff?” and kisses me anyway.  That’s a keeper in my book!

Check out the video to see more of my experience with these three great products – and leave any thoughts that you have in the comments section!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Walmart as a part of my role in the Walmart Moms.All opinions are, and always have been, my own.

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