20% DISCOUNT CODE: It's PEEPS® Season! Got Yours Yet?

Easter Falls On April Fools Day This Year!

There will be plenty of fun chances to prank your kids with foil wrapped grapes that look like chocolate eggs, and empty egg hunts

When you're done with the tricks, bring on the treats! We've got a great 20% discount on PEEPS® products for our readers, no fooling. ChiIL Mama has partnered up with Peeps on sponsored posts for years now, and we're back at it again. Peeps have evolved into a plethora of flavors and shapes, and even fun merchandise like soft stuffed animal peeps and bunnies or beach towels & beach bags if you're longing for summer.

This year I let my teens get creative with designing Easter Baskets & playful, fun layouts for our Peeps photo shoot. My daughter, Sage (14) did the arranging and my son, Dugan (17) took the photos. Let Peeps products spark your creativity this spring too. 

Peeps are perfect for Pinterest worthy shots. You can personify Peeps so they can make the social media scene scene. 

Float Peeps in cocoa or coffee for a playfully tasty treat. (Blueberry dunked in Chocolate-Mom's fav)

Get beach dreamin' and create a pinwheel with a bunch of bunnies or build a candy sand castle on a Peeps beach town!

You can even use a Peeps beach bag as an Easter basket that can become a favorite reusable bag year round!

Peeps now come in a rainbow of colors, flavors and shapes... Some are even dunked in chocolate. Yum! Show your Peepsonality. 

ChiIL Mama's readers get a discount! Head over to www.Peepsandcompany.com and enter “EASTER18” for a 20% discount on merchandise – pick up fun gifts like the PEEP-On-A-Perch gift set or the new PEEPS® In Pajamas bedtime story!


Thanks to PEEPS® for sending us a plethora PEEPS® treats, all available this Easter from their website at a 20% discount for ChiIL Mama's readers! From PEEPS® to Jelly Beans, they’ve got you covered.

PEEPS® Easter offerings:
·PEEPS® Filled Delights™ Neapolitan Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Delights™ Marshmallow Chicks Dipped in Milk Chocolate
·PEEPS® Delights™ Blueberry Flavored Marshmallow Chicks Dipped in Dark 

Chocolate
·PEEPS® Delights™ Coconut Flavored Marshmallow Chicks Dipped in Dark Chocolate
·PEEPS® Delights™ Strawberry Flavored Marshmallow Chicks Dipped in Crème Flavored Fudge 

·PEEPS® Delights™ Lemon Sherbet Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Delights™ Orange Sherbet Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Sour Cherry Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Fruit Punch Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Sour Watermelon Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Party Cake Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Marshmallow Chicks Rainbow POPs
·PEEPS® Large Marshmallow Bunnies
·PEEPS® Sugar Free Chicks
·PEEPS® Milk Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Giant Pink and White Bunny Marshmallow Pops
·PEEPS® Cotton Candy Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Pancakes & Syrup Flavored Marshmallow Chicks
·PEEPS® Mystery Chicks (#1, #2 and #3)

·MIKE AND IKE® Easter Treats, 5oz Theater Box
·MIKE AND IKE® Assorted Fruits Jelly Beans, 14oz Lay Down Bag

Easter PEEPS & COMPANY® Giveaway, Coconut Nest Recipe, and Discount Code

Here at ChiIL Mama we've loved partnering up with PEEPS & COMPANY® for Christmas, Valentine's Day and now the holiday that started it all... Easter. We have a sweet recipe below, a great giveaway, and a rockin' discount for all our readers. 

Disclosure: PEEPS & COMPANY® provided us with complimentary products for review and for our givewaway, all information and discount codes. As always, all opinions are our own.

Spring has sprung and that means a plethora of PEEPS & COMPANY® fun for every taste! Easter is early this year, March 27th, so get hopping. 

ENTER HERE  Enter Here through midnight 3/24 for your chance to WIN!
(U.S. residents only, no P.O. boxes) 

One of ChiIL Mama’s lucky readers will receive ALL the PEEPS & COMPANY® candy items listed here to use as Easter goodies!! 

• PEEPS® Orange Delight Flavored Marshmallow Dipped in Orange 

• PEEPS® Marshmallow Chicks

• PEEPS® Marshmallow Bunnies

• PEEPS® Decorated Eggs

• PEEPS® Party Cake Flavored Marshmallow Chicks

• PEEPS® Sour Watermelon Flavored Marshmallow Chicks

• PEEPS® Chocolate Dipped Mousse Flavored Marshmallow Chicks

• PEEPS® Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Chicks

• PEEPS® Rainbow Pop

• MIKE AND IKE® Easter Treats

• MIKE AND IKE® Jellybeans

• HOT TAMALES® Jellybeans

(*NOTE: Pictured PEEPS® PEEPSTERS®, PEEPS® Lime Delight Flavored Marshmallow, PEEPS® Chocolate Mousse Flavored Marshmallow Bunnies, and PEEPS®  Sugar Free Marshmallow Chicks are currently unavailable. Giveaway winners will not receive the 5-inch PEEPS® Plush, PEEPS® earbuds, or PEEPS® luggage tag, though these are available for purchase.)

All of ChiIL Mama's readers are winners with this discount code! 

Discount code: EASTERTREATS

valid for 20% off your purchase at through April 15, 2016 HERE

Want something fun that will outlast the sugar overload? PEEPS & COMPANY® Easter products include earbuds, soft plushies, and even a 
luggage tag! 

PEEPS & COMPANY® challenged ChiIL Mama to design a unique Easter basket, that would playfully display all the tasty treats they sent us. So we bought an adorable PEEPS & COMPANY® bunny bucket at our local Walgreens and multicolored, paper Easter grass to match. Do we know how to rock a theme or what?! I could see this PEEPS & COMPANY® bunny bucket having fun adventures with little ones in the garden this spring, the beach, and beyond, instead of being stored away with the Easter decor!

Peeptacular Toasted Coconut Nests

An original recipe by ChiIL Mama
(makes a dozen nests)

This Easter favorite is simple to DIY and it's extra tasty with PEEPS & COMPANY® jelly beans. 

 

Hot Tamales and Mike and Ike Jelly Beans by PEEPS & COMPANY® 

1 (11.5 oz.) bag of milk chocolate baking chips

2 cups shredded coconut 

1 tablespoon butter

Parchment paper or wax paper

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray and spread coconut in a thin layer. Coconut spray is a healthy alternative that goes great with these treats. Preheat oven to 350°. Place in the oven for about 8-10 minutes, or until coconut is light brown. Keep an eye on it toward the end of your toasting time and stir it a bit if necessary. Remove from the oven.

Line counter with parchment or wax paper in a square big enough for 10-12 nests. Melt chocolate chips and tablespoon of butter in a microwave safe bowl, stirring every 30 seconds till melted. Do not over cook. Remove from microwave.

Mix toasted coconut into chocolate mixture and spoon onto the parchment or wax paper. Shape it into a nest and press in on the center. Shape and add MIKE AND IKE® jelly beans and/or HOT TAMALES® cinnamon jelly beans (our favorite!!) once all the nests are on your paper. Let them cool down and enjoy!

This was such a tempting treat, I left them to cool down and all the nests vanished before I could snap a shot!  Somehow I don't think the Easter Bunny snuck them into a sack for delivery Sunday. I'm going to try to make more today and get my photo shoot in before the kids appear and these all too tasty nests disappear.

EASTER'S FOR EATING ALL THE PEEPS!!

PEEPS & COMPANY® 2016 Easter Offerings Information

5-inch PEEPS® Plush: Spread the joy of PEEPS® when you give this plush PEEPS® chick as a gift to those of any age (assortment of colors).

PEEPS® earbuds: If you need a sweet bit of time to yourself, let your favorite yellow PEEPS Chick take you away with your favorite music through these PEEPS earbuds. Get a dose of stress relief, in stereo, every time you put them on and crank up the tunes!

PEEPS® luggage tag: From candy to cute accessory, these PEEPS® luggage tags add a pop of color and whimsy to your gear (assortment of colors).

PEEPS® Orange Delight Flavored Marshmallow Dipped in Orange Fudge: These three Chicks are orange delight flavored and dipped in orange fudge to enhance the flavor. Share them with your friends or keep them for yourself!

PEEPS® Marshmallow Chicks: The five and 15 count packages of the iconic PEEPS® Chicks are available in classic Easter colors including yellow, pink, blue, lavender, green, and orange Chicks! The 10 count package of Chicks is available in all of the classic Easter colors as well as white.

PEEPS® Marshmallow Bunnies: The four count bunnies come in classic yellow, pink and blue colors. The 12 count bunnies come in classic colors as well as lavender, white, green and orange. The 16 count are packaged in classic colors plus lavender and green.

Chicks: Back by popular demand, PEEPS® offers a sugar-free Chick! The Chick is perfect as an Easter basket essential and baked good enhancement.

PEEPS® Decorated Eggs: Nine white eggs iced with pastel colors in 3 unique designs, these eggs are great for recipes, crafts and immediate consumption.

PEEPS® Party Cake Flavored Marshmallow Chicks: Ten delicious vanilla cake flavored marshmallow chicks sprinkled with fun rainbow confetti.

PEEPS® Sour Watermelon Flavored Marshmallow Chicks: Sweet and sour flavors collide to create a burst of watermelon in these ten green chicks with a blush pink center.

PEEPS® Chocolate Dipped Mousse Flavored Marshmallow Chicks: Three delectable chocolate mousse-flavored Chicks dipped in either creamy milk or dark chocolate.

PEEPS® PEEPSTERS®: Bite-size combination of delectable chocolate and delicious marshmallow flavored crème. Available in creamy milk chocolate or rich dark chocolate varieties. 

PEEPS® Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Chicks: Individually wrapped marshmallow chicks covered in either milk or dark chocolate.

PEEPS® Rainbow Pop: Four chicks in colors yellow, green, pink and blue marshmallow on a stick- it’s like a colorful PEEPS® lollipop.

MIKE AND IKE® Easter Treats: Bring chewy, fruity goodness this Easter season with a 10 oz. gift bag of MIKE AND IKE® Easter Treats flavors. Filled with grape, pineapple-banana, strawberry, lemon-lime, and cherry-flavored MIKE AND IKE® candies – and all made with real fruit juice – this gift will put a spring in anybody's step as the bright new season gets underway.

MIKE AND IKE® Jellybeans: The Assorted Fruits MIKE AND IKE® JELLY BEANS are a fan favorite. 

HOT TAMALES® Jellybeans:  Celebrate Easter with our cinnamon-flavored jelly beans (14 oz. package)

Disclosure: PEEPS & COMPANY® provided us with complimentary products for review and for our givewaway, all information, and discount codes. As always, all opinions are our own.

 

Get Crafty for a Winning Valentine's Day With PEEPS & COMPANY® #PEEPSONALITY #ad

Enter to WIN PEEPS & COMPANY® 

Valentine's Day products and learn how to DIY a 

Swedish Heart Basket right here!

ChiIL out with ChiIL Mama and PEEPS & COMPANY®, for a creative craft, a discount code, and some tasty treats for Valentine’s Day 2016.

Disclosure: We're pleased to partner up with PEEPS & COMPANY® once again, for this promotion.  PEEPS & COMPANY® provided us with the information, samples, giveaway products and discount code for our post. As always, all opinions are our own.

This iconic little yellow guy has come a long way. Now PEEPS® come in an array of flavors for all your favorite holidays! ChiIL Mama's readers can use the discount code: SWEETHEART for 20% off your next purchase at http://www.peepsandcompany.com., no minimum required, through February 29, 2016. 

Love is in the air, and PEEPS & COMPANY® products are a fun way to indulge your sweet tooth and treat the ones you love. Pick up some HOT TAMALES® Hotties for your hottie or some PEEPS® for your peeps! There's even a MIKE AND IKE® Passion Mix! 

ENTER HERE ENTER HERE through midnight 2/9 for your chance to WIN a gift pack full of a variety of (5) five PEEPS & COMPANY® products to use as Valentine's goodies! Open nationwide to anyone in the US.

Here at ChiIL Mama, it was our pleasure to try: 

• PEEPS® Valentine Hearts
• PEEPS® Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Crème Flavored Chicks
• PEEPS® Marshmallow Hearts
• PEEPS® Strawberry Crème Flavored Marshmallow Hearts
• PEEPS® Cherries Drizzled and Dipped in Chocolate
• PEEPS® Vanilla Crème Flavored Marshmallow Hearts
• PEEPS® Chocolate Covered Raspberry Flavored Heart
• MIKE AND IKE® Passion Mix Candy
• HOT TAMALES® Fierce Cinnamon Candy
• HOT TAMALES® Valentine’s Lollipops
• PEEPS® Plush Valentine’s Day Bunny

Our family's feelin' the love and celebrating by making Swedish Heart Baskets full of treats and snuggles for friends and family. Here's how you can do it too.

Make a Swedish Heart Basket

• scissors
• colored paper
• glue stick
• fun goodies to stuff in your Swedish heart baskets

• Fold two pieces of paper in half and cut an inch strip off one of the shorter sides for a handle.

• Cut 2 tall arch shaped pieces.

• Cut strips into both arches approx 3/4 of the way up.

• Weave strips in and out of each other.

• Glue your handle to opposite sides of the inside of your Swedish Heart Basket and stuff with fun candies and cuddles. Play around with the spacing of the weave to create different patterns in the hearts. You'll have a creative craft your sweetest will love!

Additional Peeps & Company® 

Valentine Product Details:

PEEPS® Valentine Hearts: Express your love with eight sparkly red marshmallow mini hearts. This new item is adorned with a write-on tag for personalized gifting!

PEEPS® Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Crème Flavored Chicks: Three delectable strawberry crème flavored marshmallow chicks dipped in smooth milk chocolate – perfect for the ones you love.

PEEPS® Marshmallow Hearts: Available in 2 or 6 count packages, these pink heart shaped marshmallow hearts help show your sweetheart that you do know the way to their heart!

PEEPS® Strawberry Crème Flavored Marshmallow Hearts: Nine red marshmallow hearts with the delicious taste of strawberries and cream are perfect as a Valentine’s dessert treat or as a fun accent to your favorite craft or recipe.

PEEPS® Cherries Drizzled and Dipped in Chocolate: Three cherry-shaped marshmallow flavored cherries dipped in and drizzled with decadent chocolate, perfect for sharing with that special someone.

PEEPS® Vanilla Crème Flavored Marshmallow Hearts: Nine vanilla crème flavored marshmallow hearts sprinkled with red flecks are a perfect snack to share, or delicious as a fun topper for hot cocoa.

PEEPS® Chocolate Covered Raspberry Flavored Heart: Individually wrapped raspberry flavored marshmallow heart covered in milk chocolate makes for a treat you can keep to yourself or share with your Valentine!

MIKE AND IKE® Passion Mix Candy: Feel the love of the season with the limited edition MIKE AND IKE® Passion Mix – a fruity and chewy assortment of Paradise Punch, Strawberry, Grape and Cherry in festive holiday colors.

HOT TAMALES® Fierce Cinnamon Candy: Spice up the special day with the original bold and fiery flavor of HOT TAMALES® Fierce Cinnamon! The festive box features a personalized tag – perfect for gifting in the box or using to craft something spicy for your favorite “HOTTIE”.

HOT TAMALES® Valentine’s Lollipops: If you’re feeling extra bold and spicy this Valentine’s Day, the HOT TAMALES® Valentine’s Lollipops are sure to deliver! Available in circle and heart shapes, this fiery treat is a cinnamon-lovers dream!

PEEPS® Plush Valentine’s Day Bunny: These fluffy 5-inch bunny-shaped plushes are squeezable and soft – perfect for hugs and cuddles. Available in red and pink, with a stitched heart that will show a special someone how much you care.

Disclosure: We're pleased to partner up with PEEPS & COMPANY® once again, for this promotion.  PEEPS & COMPANY® provided us with the information, samples, giveaway products and discount code for our post. As always, all opinions are our own.