Dishing out ice cream bowls on a warm summer night is pretty familiar in our house. We each have own favorite flavors, and we take turns on who gets to choose the ice cream for the week. For someone like me, who could eat a bowl of ice cream for every meal, I need to watch how much I eat… I can get carried away! So it is good to know there are ice cream options out there with less calories.
I’ve found that Dreyer’s / Edy’s Slow Churned Light Ice Cream has all the rich and creamy taste of regular ice cream, but half the fat and one-third fewer calories than that of regular ice cream! And if you look in stores, you’ll notice on the carton something pretty cool. The Dreyer’s / Edy’s people are giving children even MORE reason to smile.
A REASON TO SMILE CAMPAIGN
Did you know, every three minutes a child is born with a cleft? Often they are unable to eat, speak, socialize or smile. Operation Smile, is dedicated to restoring the gift of a smile… and Dreyer’s / Edy’s is taking part and helping them do so!
This summer Dreyer’s / Edy’s Slow Churned Light Ice Cream is giving away 25,000 scoops of ice cream during their "A Reason to Smile" campaign. They are traveling around the country, giving out free scoops of Slow Churned ice cream and capturing the smile on folks’ faces when they realize the ice cream they are eating has all the flavor, but half the fat. For every smile photo captured or uploaded to the Dreyer’s / Edy’s Facebook page, $5 will be donated to Operation Smile. 
MY SMILES
I posted my smile for the campaign, to give a smile to someone else! Here I am capturing a delicious moment of ice cream heaven! To join in, I just uploaded the smile pic to the Edy’s Facebook page, and $5 was donated to the foundation! How awesome is that!
HOW YOU CAN HELP {GIVE A SMILE}
You can join in on the A Reason to Smile Program- it’s easy! Just capture your ice cream smile on photo and upload it to the Edy’s Facebook page. When you do, Slow Churned will donate $5.00 to Operation Smile… Oh, spread the word too… tell your friends and family!
THE GOAL
The goal is to give away more than 25,000 scoops of ice cream, capture 25,000 ice cream smiles and gift 500 surgeries/smiles to children by the end of this summer. The campaign will run through August 31, 2012. So if ice cream didn’t already give me enough reason to smile, this awesome initiative to go along with it sure does!
COMING TO DENVER
The Denver County Fair is being held this weekend, August 10-12, 2012 and Dreyer’s is a sponsor of the Fair! What that means is they are going to be dishing out scoops and smiles to all the folks at the fair! Here is a link to the website: http://www.denvercountyfair.org/ – I’ll see you there!
- Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Dreyer’s/Edy’s and received a product sample to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for participating.