FREE Birthday Gift from Zoes Kitchen

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When I signed up, I received a coupon for a FREE 1/2 pint of chicken salad (offer expires 14 days after date sent) via email after signing up.

About a week before my birthday, Zoes Kitchen emailed me a free gift - A FREE ENTREE with the purchase of a Second Entree (offer expires 21 days after date sent)!  I think that is a pretty great birthday freebie.

I've never tried their chicken salad, but we are big fans of their fresh Greek Salad and the Chicken Kabob and Steak Kabob entrees.  Braised White Beans with fresh rosemary is our favorite side.  The hummus is also delicious and instead of eating it with pitas, I like to top it on the Greek Salad, yum!

Tip:  We also use their app, where they often give out free goodies (coupons for freebies)!

We stumbled upon Zoes Kitchen Restaurant, while out shopping and it became a fast favorite!  We love their fresh Mediterranean dishes and with kids their fast casual approach to dining works well for us.

Have you ever tried Zoe's Kitchen restaurant?  If so, let me know if you have a favorite menu item that's different than ours.  I always like to find new favorites!

Creative Baby Proofing - Securing Kitchen Drawers

I love using magnetic baby locks for our kitchen and bathroom cabinets and drawers. They are more expensive than traditional safety door latches, but they have been worth the extra expense as they don’t allow pinched baby fingers or noisily banging cabinet doors open and shut. Their best feature is that they can be switched on and off, so when our son outgrew this stage I was able to turn them off for a few years until our daughter was born and we again needed extensive baby proofing. My husband likes that they don’t need to be uninstalled when children outgrow the baby stage. In fact, they are also useful if you have guests visiting with little ones. Unfortunately we didn’t discover magnetic door latches right away with our first child, so they aren’t installed on every kitchen drawer and cabinet in our home. Since our daughter is a little explorer, she quickly figured out which drawers were not locked. As we found out the hard way, she can make quick work of emptying their contents all over the kitchen floor! Until we install another pack of magnetic door locks, we needed a quick baby proofing solution. I initially thought a yard stick would do the trick, but we didn’t have one of those on hand so my husband creatively grabbed a few of our son’s Discovery Kids building sticks from the playroom.

What was once used to build a fort, igloo, or rocket ship is now a creative way to keep our baby from getting into the kitchen drawers! It has worked great for several weeks.  I’m moving up the installation of more magnetic baby locks on the to do list, because it’s only a matter of time before our baby figures out how to work around this temporary baby proofing fix.