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Review and Giveaway: Macaroni Grill

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Working full time while raising two daughters, while quite rewarding, can be extremely hectic! My husband and I have a fairly rigid schedule of responsibilities when we get home from work which includes bathing the kids, ironing clothes, washing bottles, packing lunches and of course, playing with the girls. So, easy dinner meals are always a huge help to us.

macgrillThanks to My Blog Spark, I got to review one of the four new dinner kits inspired by the chef’s at Romano’s Macaroni Grill! I received the Creamy Basil Parmesan Chicken and Pasta along with a colander, a serving spoon, a cheese grater and 3 coupons for FREE boxes of Macaroni Grill’s dinner kits.

From the Press Release:
“The dinner kits include everything needed to create a high-quality meal in one box including premium ingredients such as such as vine-ripened tomatoes, select cooking wines, specialty herbs and 100% semolina pasta. All you have to do is add one pound of chicken or your choice of proteins such as shrimp or Italian sausage. Varieties of Romano’s Macaroni Grill Restaurant Favorites dinner kits include Garlic & Herb Chicken Penne, Creamy Basil Parmesan Chicken & Pasta, Chicken Alfredo with Linguine and Chicken Marsala with Linguine.”

The fact that a tasty, hot meal can be made in 20 minutes was enough to appeal to me!  I decided to prepare our Creamy Basil kit tonight for dinner.  The instructions were very easy to follow and all of the ingredients were provided except chicken, butter and milk.  From start to finish, I was indeed finished in 20 minutes and it smelled great! I couldn’t wait to enjoy one of our restaurant favorites at home!

My husband, Lily, Aubrie and I sat down to enjoy a nice Italian meal together.  Both my husband and I really enjoyed the taste of the meal.  And the real testimonial is that BOTH of my girls cleaned their plates!  This NEVER happens in my house unless I am serving chicken nuggets.  So, you can imagine my surprise when even my 1 year old could not get enough of the pasta!

I can’t wait to use my coupons to try out the next variety!  Please take a minute to watch the slideshow of our meal prep and tasting!

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Want to try the Macaroni Grill dinner kits?  I have THREE “What’s For Dinner” prize packs including the dinner kit, a colander, a serving spoon, a cheese grater and three coupons for FREE Macaroni Grill dinner kits for my readers!

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How to enter:

1.  Visit Romano’s Macaroni Grill Favorites and let me know which variety you would like to try!

Additional Entries (please leave each entry as a separate comment):

1.  Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog.

2.  Follow me on Twitter and tweet this giveaway.

3.  Favorite me in Technorati.

4.  Subscribe to my blog.

5.  Tell me how often you and your family eat dinner together!

Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on April 30th. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited.  Open to U.S. Residents only.

456 thoughts on “Review and Giveaway: Macaroni Grill”

  9. I’d really like to try the Garlic and Herb Chicken Penne. It looks so yummy to me. Thanks for doing the giveaway!

  64. We eat dinner together almost every night, the exception is when my hubby works a late shift, but the kids and I still eat together

  70. I would love to try the Chicken Marsala. I usually make it from scratch so this would be a great short cut.

  72. I would like to try the “Chicken Marsala” as long as there’s nothing weird in it like mushrooms.

  75. Of course I’d like to try all of them, but since I can choose only one, I’d say the Chicken Marsala with Linguine.

  81. Since my children are grown with their own families, the only times we are likely to all be together is at holiday time. But I do often have 1 or 2 of them and/or the grandchildren here for meals.

  82. The Garlic & Herb Chicken Penne would make my taste buds explode!! I LOVE garlic, and herbs give foods such wonderful, unique flavors! Gimme chicken anytime! Thank you for the contest!

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  133. I would love to try the Chicken Alfredo as my husband and son love that and that would make them happy!

  149. My favorite would be CHICKEN MARSALA!! Love it but can’t make it from scratch so this would be great!!

  162. We eat dinner together every day! Twice a week with the Grandparents as well. The kids are still young so it is still possible!

  168. We eat dinner together every night. There are nights when my oldest daughter has to work and can’t sit down to dinner with us, but I do cook dinner every night.

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  205. ~ And my boyfriend and I make sure to take time for dinner together, every night — no matter what is going on in our schedules.

  206. I would love to try the Chicken Alfredo …Yum! Thanks for the great giveaway!

    hottmomma_03(at)yahoo(dot)com

  223. I’d love to try the Chicken Alfredo with Linguine.
    Thanks for the great contest. We love Macaroni Grill but unfortunately the closest one is about 70 miles away so we don’t get eat their as often as we’d like.
    gugel98atgmaildotcom

  224. We eat dinner together almost every single night. At the very minimum I’d say 5 nights a week. Weekends are always our really big, special dinners. I usually make the meals that take a couple of hours to make on weekends b/c I just don’t have the time during the week or DH bbq’s. He will bbq in the rain, snow, doesn’t matter to him. He just loves that grill of his and he loves him some steak, lol.
    Thanks again

  225. My family would Love Love love the Romano’s Macaroni Grill Garlic and Herb Chicken Penne! YUMMO! Hubby would not get Bored with this! He is a chicken LOVER!
    Thanks for The chance to win!
    Leslie

  226. With my busy lifestyle and work, the chicken linguine sounds yummy, perfect way to get the family to eat together and not have alot of prep time.
    I know my family would LOVE the ROMANO’S CHICKEN AND LINGUINE, This is my style of cooking, easy prep, low mess easy cleanup and DELICIOUS,
    Sounds perfect to me.
    Thank you for the chance to win this, what an awesome giveaway

  241. Would love to try their Chicken Marsala with Linguine, it sounds to delicious.
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  243. We try to eat dinner together every night during the week but sometimes the outside activities get in the way but we dinner togtheer every weekend night.
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  254. We eat dinner together almost every night. Occasionally one of us needs to eat earlier or later because of something going on, but otherwise, it’s all of us.

  276. I would love to try the Chicken Alfredo with Linguine Dinner. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com

  277. Due to our alternate schedules, we eat together only 1 night a week on average. We do have breakfast together more frequently – its like our dinner! Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com

  293. I’d love to try the chicken alfredo, it’s my favorite when I go to the Macaroni Grill!

  295. The GARLIC HERB CHICKEN PENNE sounds good; I like that it has yummy cheese taste but it doesn’t have creamy sauce. Sounds good!

  307. I think I would really like the Chicken Alfredo with Linguine and I’d love to try it. Thanks for hosting this great giveaway. Hope to win.

  319. I think the chicken linguine alfredo looks delicious!

    What a wonderful contest – thanks for posting!

  334. My family eats dinner together about 5 or 6 nights a week, it’s great when everyone can get together and talk!

  341. Let’s go with the garlic and Herb Chicken penne. And here’s what’s on my mind – I think grown adults who say ‘tweet tweet’ should be kicked in the tuckus!

  352. I’d like to try the Creamy Basil Parmesan Chicken & Pasta. Sounds esy and fast, and it would taste good too! Thanks!

  355. I would like to try them all but would try the Chicken Marsala first.
    Thanks for the yummy giveaway.

  363. As a family we hardly ever eat together. It seems that one person eats at one time, another eats at another, etc.

  370. I’m always looking for new ways to prepare chicken, and the Chicken Marsala sound like a good try. Thanks for this offer.

  372. Every time we are both home during dinner, we sit down and have a meal as a family. Happily, this usually ends up being about six or seven nights per week!

  384. My kids are into sports and eat a lot of pasta.
    I would love to try them all but my first choice is the Chicken Marsala with Linquine

    Thank you

    camper223[at]live[dot]com

  387. With sports, marching band, regular band, advanced classes and online advanced classes also a husband who works 7:00 pm – 7:00 am we still manage to eat together pretty much every night, we also eat ot together once a week.

    Thank you

    camper223[at]live[dot]com

  403. We eat dinner together once a week on Friday. The other days we are running here and there, and I am trying to get my homework done.

  409. I would like to try the Garlic and Herb Chicken Penne! They all sound great! Thank you for the sweeps!

  410. It’s hard to decide but I think the Chicken Marsala would be nice to make.. It’s been a long time since I have had it and I don’t think I have ever made3 it so would be fun

  415. I would like to try the alfredo. My children are partial to alfredo, when we go out to eat at Ramanos, one of them usually orders it.

  422. My husband works a mile away from our house so we eat together even at lunch. It’s twenty times a week because Fridays at lunch we do different things. It’s a lot of cooking!

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