Conscious Box Review and Giveaway

I'll admit, I was a bit out of the loop that subscription boxes even existed (five kids equals no life). Now i'm kind of addicted to them.  When asked if I was interested in reviewing Conscious Box I eagerly accepted.

Conscious Box is a monthly subscription where you receive a box full of eco friendly and sustainable products once a month.  We are one of those families who tries to be healthy and purchase environmentally safe, all natural, organic products, but don't always know what to purchase, so the Conscious Box is a fabulous way to sample many high quality products to see what works for you and your family.  To give you an example of how cool this box really is, my hubby took one look inside the box and was like a kid on Christmas morning.  He is hard to please so if he likes it then that's a big score for Conscious Box.  

I was actually pretty surprised by the amount of samples in one little box.  Some of the products included in the box were a gluten free/vegan cereal bar from Two Degrees, all natural cough syrup for kids by Zarbees, a little bag of gluten free, brown rice pasta from jovial, Cheeky Salve by Babytime, emily baby & adult skin smoother (probably my favorite sample in the whole box), Wheatgrass Boost, and a bunch of other really neat stuff.  

Overall I think it's a good value for your money and something that we would definitely purchase as a family.  In fact we are strongly considering ordering our own subscription.  

Enter my giveaway for your chance to win a 3 month subscription to Conscious Box!!!  That's a $59 value!  If you are ready to purchase a subscription now, use this code: LOVELIFE and receive a 25% off discount towards any Conscious Box Subscription! Vegan and gluten free boxes are available as well. You just select your dietary preferences.
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*Please note that I was not compensated for this review.  I did receive a Conscious Box to review.  All opinions expressed are my own. Your experience may differ. 

This recipe is so ridiculously easy, even I can do it!

If you've read through my blog then you know that I am a complete and total moron in the kitchen.  Baking is not my thing and I almost always find a way to screw up even the easiest of recipes.  Boxed mixes?  Yeah I can screw those up like nobody's business!

About a year ago one of my good friends who has Celiac's shared a gluten free peanut butter cookie recipe with me.  I had recently been tested for gluten allergies and my test came back positive for gliadin (a protein found in gluten).  I begrudgingly started my gluten free diet but I was dying for some sweets and the gluten free cookies in the store were nasty and extremely overpriced.  No thanks! I can eat cardboard for free!

My friend emailed me and said, "I have the perfect recipe for you. It's called the 3 ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe….and it's super easy".   Now I must mention here that my friend did not invent this recipe.  She found it on Allrecipes.com and it's a pretty popular recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Three-Ingredient-Peanut-Butter-Cookies/

I changed it up just a teeny little bit though as I use Crisco instead of parchment paper but it's up to you.

Here is what you will need:

1 cup of peanut butter
1 cup of white sugar
1 egg
Parchment paper or Crisco

Mix the 3 ingredients together and then lightly grease your cookie sheet with Crisco.  Then place the cookie balls on the sheet.   Take a fork and slightly flatten them and then make a criss cross pattern.

See, it's so easy even a 7 year old can do it! 

Ignore my ghetto fabulous cookie sheets!  

I don't invest much in bakeware since I hate to bake. 

Bake at 350 degrees (on the top rack) for approx 6-8 minutes. Mine are usually done by 7 minutes. Do not overcook these!  They will not taste very good and you will be pissed off that you wasted so much peanut butter since it does take quite a bit.  Seriously 6-7 minutes is usually all you need, and they should never take more than 8 minutes!   Then let the cookies cool before removing from the sheet or you'll have a big old crumbled mess (yes, I learned this the hard way the first time I made these and got anxious and tried to pry them off the sheet too fast).

This recipe makes about a dozen and a half cookies so I end up making 2 full batches because a dozen and a half cookies is NOT enough for a family of 7!  So my advice would be to double the recipe above.

These are the best peanut butter cookies you will ever eat and I love them so much that I can no longer eat peanut butter cookies from other places because they just don't compare and I find myself wanting to say, "My peanut butter cookies are better than yours".

So there you go!  A recipe so easy that even *I* can do it!!!!!  So you know it's gotta be easy right?!