Do you remember your first date? Why not recreate the love this Valentine’s Day with a delicious restaurant style meal right in your home?
MyBlogSpark recently provided me with Macaroni Grill & Wanchai Ferry Boxed Dinners and $25 Gift Card to recreate my first date night right at home. I have to admit that I included our two little men in on this date, as much has changed in the past 11 years. My four-year-old was my helper and had fun helping made Wanchai Ferry’s Orange Chicken. It was very simple with clear directions. The only change we made in the directions was to put the cut chicken and seasoned cornstarch into a bag for my son to shake instead of coating it in a bowl as the directions stated.
The results? My family loved it! It really was like having restaurant style Chinese food right at home. I’m sure we’ll try this again and maybe even venture out into different flavors.
Want to try this at your home? One lucky reader will a Date Night prize pack that includes Macaroni Grill & Wanchai Ferry Boxed Dinners AND a $25 Gift Card.
Can't wait to try? Go HERE to print a coupon for $2.25/2 Macaroni Grill or Wanchai Ferry Dinner Boxes.
To enter, leave a comment telling about your first date or a tip for having a great date night at home. Be sure to include your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win!
You can also e-mail your entries to bargains4families@yahoo.com Winner will be chosen at random.
You have until 11:59 pm EST on February 5, 2011 to enter. I will email the winner and they will have 48 hours to respond to the notification email, or a new winner will be chosen. Open to US residents. Good luck!
Please note...I received a date night kit from Macaroni Grill and Wanchai Ferry through MyBlogSpark, and one will be provided to the giveaway winner. No other compensation has been received. This post is based on my own honest and uninfluenced opinions and experiences.
A great date night at home-no kids!
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We like to sit by campfire in the back yard after the kids go to bed, for a nice date night at home.
ReplyDeleteavennett AT verizon DOT net
Well, I don't remember my first date ~~ long long ago. So I'll just say a special date night for hubby and I is a nice meal and an outing(think movie, hockey game, movie, play, etc).
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I would love to recreate our first date but at home. I would have to make the Cookie Monster sundae though too! That was the best part! Thanks! janageers@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI do remember my first date with my husband. We went to a Chinese restaurant near our office. We sat there and discussed how we were just friends, of course. Neither of us would be so dumb as to go out with a co-worker. That was about 22 years ago, and we still enjoy a date night out with Chinese. :)
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My husband and I were set by a mutual friend, so our first date was at first a bit awkward. We planned to meet at a restaurant and I got there about 15 minutes early so I could freshen up in the bathroom. To my surprise, my date was already there! We talked all through dinner, then walked around the mall four times, just talking. By the end of our first date I was pretty sure I had just spent a few hours with the guy I was going to marry. I was right! This year we (and our 3 kids) will celebrate 8 years of marriage. Thank you!
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My fiance and I had already known each other for over 5 years before we went on our first date, so we had a lot of topics to talk about, but we were still a bit nervous. We went to Chili's for dinner and I ordered a shrimp salad because I wasn't overly hungry, and he ordered a taco dinner, because he was famished. When our dinner came out my salad was HUGE, and his tacos looked like the mini appetizer tacos. We still joke about it to this day.
ReplyDeleteThen when he told me I could pick the movie, I ended up picking a sequel to a movie that he had never seen the original to, starring an actor that he hates. He didn't say anything at the time, I found this out much later. What a good sport! That is just one of the many reasons why this spring, I will be marrying him on the 2nd anniversary of our first date.
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a roaring fire, wine, cheese, crackers and some old black and white movies can make for a nice evening.
ReplyDeletekarin56381@gmail.com
Brian and I had our "first date" in another state. He flew to Pennsylvania to see me after talking online and on the phone for two months, swept me off my feet, met my family and spent the weekend with me. That weekend, we decided I would fly to Michigan to meet his parents and a month later I moved to Michigan and a year later we married and this May we will be married 8 years and this Valentine's we will have been together for 9 years...We are a Valentine's couple, that is when we met..true love!
ReplyDeleteGreat Tip --
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are very different in our likes for movies (go figure, right?!) We like to catch a flick every so often on a date night, but we never can agree.
Well we've taken the guess work out of it (and removed the which-movie-would-YOU-like-to-see debate) by going to an arcade (we go to Ben & Ari's here in the Indy are).
We play a round of miniature golf and who ever wins, gets to select the movie. A little healthy competition goes a L O N G way!!
We love this!! And it keeps our evenings debate free! (And he doesn't whine because it's fair and square... too bad I was on the GOLF team in High School!!)