I will keep you all posted on how this turns out and who wins!

Growing up I have a very distinct memory of sitting at our breakfast bar in the kitchen and eating oatmeal. I must have been around 3 or 4 since that is the age we lived in that house. I completely remember it being made with Quaker Oatmeal, with the man on the round container. My mom would add brown sugar and pour milk on it. So yum!
And here I am today with that same container in my house for my kids and family. We use it for cereal, cookies, in my mom’s delicious turkey meatloaf recipe, heck you can even use it as a facial scrub. We love the Quaker man!
That is why I am so excited to be part of Quaker Oats’ 25 Bloggers 25 Days Program to help the hungry. Here how it works…
1. This contest will only run for 24 hours, that’s from February 5th starting at 9 a.m. Central Time to February 6th 9 a.m. Central time. So time is of the essence…are you excited?!
2. This contest is ALL ABOUT YOU, the Ohana Mama readers. It’s your mission, if you will :)
3. What to do: Your mission if you choose to accept it, is as follows (don’t ya love the drama)
- go to the Quaker Oats Facebook page (you can also find official rules here) www.startwithsubstance.com
- download the image of the Quaker Man & print it out **You can use a Quaker man from a product in your house or take a picture with the Quaker man on your computer screen if your printer is broken***
- take a photo or video of you or your family with the Quaker Man
- upload it to the Facebook page
- AND submit the FACEBOOK link of your photo in a comment on this post
Phew! THAT’S IT!
So What Do You Win? A Whole Lotta Feeling Good, that’s what!
Here is THE BEST part and why it’s ALL ABOUT YOU and HELPING THOSE IN NEED! 25 blogs are hosting this event over 25 days. The one blogger with the most comments with this mission completed will get to choose a Hunger Charity of their choice to receive $5000!
That’s a wonderful amount that could feed a lot of hungry folks!
Quaker has also given me two coupons, each good for $1.00 off any 2 Quaker Oats’ products to giveaway. Who couldn’t use a coupon huh? AND, they are donating a case of oatmeal for a local food bank here in Maui on Ohana Mama’s behalf. Mahalo Quaker!
I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Come on, what are you waiting for? Go print out the Quaker man and have fun (keep it kid and family friendly of course) have to link to a photo of them on the Facebook page with the Quaker Man.
And please tweet the heck out of this if you can!
















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Cam loves Quaker!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2096277&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=725133063
Henry likes Quaker… I think the guy creeped him out a bit though!
http://photos-g.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2188/65/32/555651212/n555651212_1880118_936.jpg
Thanks for doing your part! You are number 2957 to feed a person in need. The ticker will be updated at 10 AM and 6 PM CST every weekday.
Now for the picture….don't laugh!
http://www.facebook.com/Quaker#/photo.php?pid=5825650&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=654290432&oid=58028250774
Please let this work. LOL. Jason and Spencer had too much fun with this project!!!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=2043785&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=812180549
Lee
Okay this is almost embarrassing…but I want to support you and Quaker…here goes…
http://www.facebook.com/Quaker#/photo.php?pid=30157925&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1087122375
Here's ours! Ryan looks skeptical, but I promise we love quaker!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=1274138&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=689223955
This made me hungry good thing I had my Quaker oatmeal squares handy!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=2569468&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=579585405&oid=58028250774
mmmm makes me want some oatmeal just thinking about it!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=all#/photo.php?pid=30320902&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1236730079
That was fun! My printer ran out of ink so I had to go hunt down the quaker man in my pantry. lol Good luck! I hope you win so you can help the charity you want to help.
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=1377809&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=781837794&oid=58028250774
We love Quaker Oats at our house!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=1263053&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=666413373
Bean loves Quaker too! (That's her new way of smiling with her mouth open.) We just made oatmeal raisin bars yesterday…they're almost gone!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30260199&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=1326154195&oid=58028250774
http://tinyurl.com/b3ez6x
Here it is!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=2027475&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=692447227
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=1203375&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=631889521
don't look, it's scary! but i do love my quaker oats.
oh, and….
Thanks for doing your part! You are number 2985 to feed a person in need.
My family loves Quaker oats!
The twins just finished having dinner so my daughter looks a little messy in the pic- oh well!
http://www.facebook.com/Quaker#/photo.php?pid=30039995&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=1250610034&oid=58028250774
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=293969&l=5a7d2&id=1313780060
Ford Family – Present at the table! :)
You know I did a video. LMAO at being the only video!
http://www.facebook.com/Quaker#/video/video.php?v=1103790593461&oid=58028250774
This was after a long day with no shower ahahah
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30382819&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=99000019
Done!! http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30338045&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1216787102
Morgan is very excited about her Quaker Oats
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30266393&l=e423e&id=1366586178
OK – the first post was on my facebook page, but then I saw that I needed to post this on the Quaker Oat site. Sorry for the confusion.
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=all#/photo.php?pid=30266393&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1366586178
This is my terrible photo for Quaker. Here I am sans makeup, double chin and all!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30118551&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=1167670720&oid=58028250774
OK, I think I finally figured it out!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=5634615&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=663305634
My kids LOVE Quaker oatmeal… as you can tell from the FOUR BOXES in the picture!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user
getting all the monkey's into a picture at once is hard alone, add in the fact that it is close to bed time, and well you can just forget about it, lol! Close enough, here is the results….
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=2095648&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=738788337
Wait… this is the link. Not sure what the other link I posted is to.
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30239064&op=1&o=user&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1432354129
I'm not sure exactly what to post?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2071142&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=663092811&oid=58028250774
*WooooW*
A contest. I love contest.
but I don’t like to eat quaker oat.
What a great idea! I uploaded my (slightly terrible) photo. We love Quaker around here!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1416080&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=761558681&oid=58028250774
You've got to forgive the fact that I've been up for 20 + hours, and am in my pjs!
here's my girl with her Quaker cereal!
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=all#/photo.php?pid=100290&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1333213900
Quaker man with my kids.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003874&id=1224194393&saved74
shawn
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=100290&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1333213900#/photo.php?pid=263613&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1346744179
ok, this was a challenge for me as my printer is out of ink and we ate all our oatmeal about 2 weeks ago and I haven't bought anymore! So here is a pic of me with Mr. Quaker on my screen saver. I'll be looking at him for the rest of Feb :)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1905320&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=707871614
Here is Captain Chaos with aall of the Oatmeal in the house, yeah we like oatmeal here.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30118495&id=1159165771&op=1&view=user&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&saved
Quaker is a big hit at my house. I am trying to figure out how to uplaod a pic.
Got it, lol. Here is my pic http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=30031380&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1255873698
Crap, apparently I'm too late. I still uploaded my photo…
http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=58028250774&view=user#/photo.php?pid=305090&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&oid=58028250774&id=1216030213
Victoria love Quaker!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1870194&l=50081&id=517046721
I got this in at 8:45am central! WOO!!
This is wonderful!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=33179878&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=58028250774&aid=-1&id=193304551&oid=58028250774
When do you find out if you won? That was really fun to participate in.