This month I have been using my new cool Fitbit Wi-Fi scale to track my weight on my account on the Fitbit.com website. On the Fitbit website you can track your weight among other things I find handy. In addition to being able to keep track of your weight by using the Fitbit scale or logging your weight in yourself,  you can also keep a log of the foods that you eat. This isn’t any normal food journal either. Once you start typing the name of food, it will give you a list of suggestions to choose from. You then select the amount that you ate and the website will then calculate your daily totals such as calories, fat, fiber, carbs, etc. As you log in each of your meals, it will then keep a calorie intake of the last 30 days.

This Food area of the site gets even better. If you want you can create your own meal plan too!

After you have logged in your food for the day, you can also log your daily activities. By logging your activities, the site will be able to keep track of the calories you have burned. I have a free account but when you buy a Premium membership you have access to an easy-to-read analyses of your activity levels,a break down of your caloric burn over your favorite activities, it can show your historical trends, and more.

Next on the things you can do is keep a journal. For those that want to keep track of how they are feeling, there is an area called “Journal” where you can log your current mood, energy or other notes for the day. When you happen to have the other products like the FitBit Activity Tracker you have the option of viewing your sleep stats.

There is also an area to track your heart rate, blood pressure and glucose.

For those of you that are dieting or trying to keep track of your heath, this site is perfect. You don’t have to have all these fancy Fitbit products, but it definitely makes using the site more fun!

To find the products you can use with this site, visit: https://www.fitbit.com/store

Disclosure – I received a product sample to provide you with this post. The opinions stated herein are 100% my own.

You know the Box Tops For Education coupons you see on various products at the grocery store? If you don’t collect them yourself, you have probably seen them and even threw them away…

I bet you didn’t know I have been collecting those  COUPONS for over the last DECADE!

Ever since my oldest daughter started pre-school, I have been collecting the Box Tops coupons on everything I buy that has them and maybe even longer. I remember when I was in grade school, my Nana used to save all the Campbell’s Soup Labels for me to give to my teacher. I remember it feeling rewarding being able to help the school get supplies or money or whatever they got in return for those labels years ago.

I just LOVE how the Box Tops For Education program works. This program started in 1996 and has helped raise OVER $525 million dollars for schools. What feels good is knowing that I have contributed over the last decade in helping Box Tops for Education make that record setting funding over more than half a billion dollars for our schools across the country! More than 90,000 schools use the cash to purchase supplies for the school such as computers, library books, art supplies, playground equipment and more.

What is great is the schools that make collecting these coupons fun for the students. There are so many budget cuts at our schools that these type of programs really are important to hep schools with their basic operating needs. At my daughter’s elementary school, they count how many coupons each class as a whole turns in. Then they reward the top classes with some sort of party. I know this gives my daughter the motivation to help clip those coupons and save them for her school.

What is neat about this program is that General Mills created this as an experiment on boxes of Cheerios in California with the first year earnings of only $1 million. On average today, schools in the U.S earn around $900 annually through the program but there are many schools though that earn $20,000. There are currently over 240 brands participating and over 75,000 volunteer Box Tops for Education coordinators who motivate the local school communities to collect those Box Tops.

Things you might not know:

• Each school can earn up to $20,000 a year
• Each Box Tops coupon is worth 10 cents for the school
• More than 90,000 K-8 schools participate
• Earn eBoxTops for shopping online
• You can find Recipes, Coupons and more on their website!

To learn more about the Box Tops for Education program, visit: www.btfe.com.

Disclosure – I received a product samples with the Box Tops for Education post to provide you with this post. The opinions stated herein are 100% my own.