Minute Maid Fruit Falls vs. Capri Sun Roarin' Waters

If you're like me, you (and your kids), probably enjoy the convenience of juice boxes, especially during beach and picnic season.  The problem with juice is all that sugar!  I was so ecstatic when I found out about the Capri Sun Roarin' Waters while vacationing in Tampa last year.  The common assumption was, "It's just water, so they can have as much as they want."  FALSE! 

On a recent trip to the grocery store I compared the labels on the Capri Sun Roarin' Waters and the Minute Maid Fruit Falls.  I was shocked at my findings!  I expected them to be identical.  Truth be told, the Minute Maid Fruit Falls are the better choice. 

The Capri Sun option contains 30 calories and 7 grams of sugar per serving, whereas the Minute Maid option contains 5 calories and less than 1 gram of sugar per serving.

Here is the nutritional information for the Berry flavor of each beverage from each company's website, however, the box of Capri Sun that I looked at in the store listed High Fructose Corn Syrup as the second ingredient.  ACK! :

Our 2nd Giveaway

It is about time for our next giveaway!!! This giveway will be a Crayola gift pack which will include the Crayola Twistables that we featured several weeks back. The post can be found here: http://navymomthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/03/toy-of-week-crayola-twistables.html

There are a two ways to enter this giveway: 1) Share our blog with your friends and have them post a comment that you directed them to us. They will get an entry and you will get an entry. 2) Share with us your favorite rainy day activity that you do with your children or if you don't have children, maybe one from when you were younger!!

A random winner will be chosen on Sunday, May 16th via random.org. We will then make a post as to who the winner is and then we will contact the winner to arrange delivery.

Good Luck

*If we don't receive shipping information from the winner by Tuesday, March 23rd, the initial winner will forfeit their prize and another winner will be selected via random.org.