Being a former Californian who relished the rich agriculture of the Golden State more than its shore lines, I jumped at the opportunity. :)
To read more, see a bento-friendly olive "recipe", and check out a truly fabulous giveaway (really, it's a great one!) CLICK HERE.
*** This giveaway is now closed. Thank you again, California Olives!
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 258 Newer› Newest»My kids love olives on the english muffin pizzas we make. California Ripe Olives would be perfect for this -- they also love them alone as a snack!
I don't love olives but I have a 5-year-old who loves them and she takes her lunch to school every single day. She would be in heaven with this.
We love olives! Yum.
Olives are their own food group for my daughter and I! We're reviewing all school lunch ideas today because she starts 1st grade tomorrow! Olive are a major component to many of our lunchboxes! Fingers crossed!(11 or 16 "California Ripe Olives" in the post I counted!)
I'm a big fan of olives! I love them so much! Black olives are my favorite. Thanks for the chance to win this great prize from California Ripe Olives!
mami2jcn at gmail dot com
P.S. I think the phrase "California Ripe Olives" was mentioned 17 times in your post, plus once more in the title.
I love olives best on pizza. Awesome giveaway!
I love olives in salad- yum!
I love olives plain! My hubby would eat olives on everything and my boys love to eat them the classic way- off of their fingers! lori at lawrencemonsters dot com
We love eating olives on our homemade pizzas!!
We absolutely love olives on everything! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Twoprincebakery@yahoo.com
I feel bad saying this but we could honestly eat our weight in black olives and we eat them plain. I will chop them into sauces but mostly we just add them to salads or plain into our lunches. In fact, my daughter has olives keeping company with her bean burger and cauliflower in her lunch today :)
we load up on olives in salad here!
dkburroughs21 at gmail dot com
Olive tapenade with roasted red peppers! Goes great as a spread on crostini... also great for bento lunches!
In Cali right now enjoying olives in our fresh, green salads :)
I like olives on pizza. Thanks for the great giveaway and all of your lunch inspiration! {maendeyo at hotmail dot com}
My family and I love to eat California Ripe Olives straight out of a can as a snack mostly!! We also love to pile them on when we make our homemade pizzas. Yum!!
I like olives on this cool cheesy tart appetizer - diced up small on top - and hubby likes them on his subs. (I think I counted 11 besides the title?) :D
We love to put them in a hamburger cheesy dip that we make in the crock pot. Delish!
We love olives here! My oldest daughter loves when I put them in her lunch. We also like a simple dinner with soup, rolls, cheese cubes and olives!
We are an olive family! We love them eaten off our fingertips. We love them on pizza. We love them in pasta salads! :)
Olives make the best eyes, and are also good on pizza and in salads!
I love to eat my California ripe olives in salad, yummy!!!
I love olives!! my favorite way to eat them is right out of the can :) thanks for the chance to win!!
Thanks for the chance! We love olives best on salads here.
julia_draper@hotmail.com
Oh my!!!! California Olives are THE BEST!!! I like to pair my olives with a nice aged cheese and some gluten free schar table crackers!
My family eats olives any way we can get them. In pasta salad, on pizza, in regular salads or just plain olives! We love it all!!
My daugher loves them on her pizza!
meldavus@yahoo.com
I love to make a tapenade with any kind of olives, but a mix of black and green olives seems to give the best flavor. Eat with pita bread or a nice Italian loaf and you have a winning combination!
We are not big olive eaters, but I want my daughter to try them. She has Type 1 diabetes and olives are a carb free snack!
I love eating California Ripe Olives on pizza, plain, in any Mexican-ish dish, and did I mention plain?! :) My girls also like them, but their favorite way to eat them is the classic stick-them-on-your-fingers-and-eat-them-off technique.
We love eating olives on our finger tips! We were also just at a BBQ where someone had put black olives in a potato salad, it is my new favorite potato salad.
Shannahyork at hotmail dot com
Hello
Thanks for the informations. I have to try these olives. I don't eat one since I leave France!
Let me test them?!
Have a nice day.
Love your blog so inspiring for my daughter's lunchs!
Celine
My girls LOVE California Ripe Olives! They eat them whenever possible. My 3 year old will go to the pantry in the morning and bring me a can of olives and tell me she wants them for breakfast! They are a must in our family! :)
I like to just eat them plain. They are always in our relish tray at holidays!!
We Love olives! We use them on everything! From salads to pizzas, to sandwiches to pastas! Yum!
Mmm...California Ripe Olives! Most delicious on my hubby's famous pasta salad, but I also LOVE watching my 4 girls stick them on their fingers and devour them! And I counted 20 "California Ripe Olives" (that includes the title, and the contest info at the bottom)!
We like them with fish and capers! Yummm
I have been a silent follower of your blog since I found it 6 weeks ago. I find it inspiring and it has changed the way I pack my kids lunches. That being said, my kiddos love olives. We eat them in salad, on pizza, and just as a snack. My son also loves olives with hummus. Yum!
We LOVE California Olives around here! We love to put lots of them on our homemade pizzas, in salads, and in our bento lunches. My kids favorite bento lunch is Angry Birds (an idea from right here on this blog) with big black olives as the bomb birds. We love your olives!
We are tapenade people at our house...black olives whirred with garlic makes most things SUPER-YUMMY. :)
All 5 of my kiddies <3 olives!!!!! How eaten best????? On all 50 fingers of course!!!!! Too yummilicious to resist!!!!! You cannot just pop one and be done!!!!!
We love them on our chicken tacos, always with extra on the side!
oops, hopefully you'll need this... emily dot harry at gmail dot com
We love olives here! My daughter will eat the whole can if I don't keep an eye on her. Thanks for the great giveaway!
My kids LOVE olives. I strugle to get my son to eat the veggies in his lunch, but I bet he'd eat this! Thanks for the recipe!
My kids LOVE olives. I strugle to get my son to eat the veggies in his lunch, but I bet he'd eat this! Thanks for the recipe!
I personally don't like olives but My hubby and my daughter LOVE them. Especially in Arroz con pollo :)
We love to put olives in pasta salad! And we love them stuck around carrot sticks. Thanks!
Yum! I love olives and now that love has been passed on to my 3 year old. Great recipe too! Thanks for the chance to win this fun giveaway.
My husband loves olives on just about anything and my 2 little boys love to eat them off their fingers or dipped in ranch :)
We love olives! My daughters' favorite way to eat California Ripe Olives is on a pick with a slice each of tomato, mozzarella, and basil from the garden.
We enjoy them on salads and pizza..:)
Both my son & I could eat olives by the can :)
We like to eat California ripe olives straight from the can! We eat them in salads, and my kids get them in their lunches. Yay California ripe Olives!
My kiddos love to stick the olives on their fingers and eat them. They really do love olives - so yummy!
I grew up in california, and I LOVE OLIVES! We love them on nachos!
My daughter and I put olives on our fingers and pretend they're people. We make them dance, and she giggles. I love it! :)
Plain. That's the best way.
California Ripe Olives are a staple in this house, on fingers, on pizza, in salads, in sandwiches. You said it!! (17 times)
We love olives around here. My kids favorite way to eat them is off their fingers :)
I've never grown out of one of my fave childhood snacks...black olive fingers! Just pop one olive on each of your fingers, wiggle them around, then eat them! Ha! The simple things...
Fingers. Mostly the fingers. Although we have been known to eat them on pizza, in tacos, in pasta dishes and on salad. ;)
Olives are best when they are stuck on your pinkie finger!
I think they are great on pizzas and salads! My mom still eats them off her fingers :)
My daughters love them as much as daddy does. An love to eat them in/on anything an plan. yummm!--nicole.nmvance5@yahoo.com
In salads, on fingers or on a pizza with onion and mushroom! yum
Love eating them right out of the jar! Thanks so much for this great giveaway!
shannon boyer
shannonboyer_1@yahoo.com
I love olives and my kids eat them in salads, in pizzas or just snacking. Thanks for the giveaway
Our favorite way to eat ripe olives is in salad, thanks for the chance to win. We love your blog and all the great info we get about healthy, waste-free lunches.
We love olives!! Thank you so much for the great giveaway (to you and California Ripe Olives!)
on pizza!
One of my sons and I are the only ones in our family are the only ones who like olives, but between the two of us, we'd be able to eat a full can of California Ripe Olives without any trouble at all!
We eat them in pizza and nachos!
We eat them in pizza and nachos!
My kids love to eat California Olives on their fingers!
I love black olives! On pizza, sandwiches, salads or right off our fingers!
I love them on pizza and tacos...or just straight out of the can!!
We love olives here. Well all but one kiddo :) We like them in picadillo, salads, or inside yummy bread. The best is with mushrooms on pizza!
I'm a sucker for putting them on my fingers & enjoying their bite sized goodness!
My kids devour this on the side in tacos and just as a snack. I personally enjoy them in a chopped salad. Would love to win this!
My kids put them on their fingers to make "alien hands" and them just chow down. Our family of 5 could kill a whole can in a matter of minutes. :)
California Ripe Olives are perfect for filling with blue cheese! It makes a great appetizer!
Love eating olives! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
We love California Ripe Olives in our taco salads and on our Mexican Fiesta Bake!
Wanna know a little secret? I never totally empty the can, i sneak a few to snack on while cookin ;-)
The only way to eat olives in this house is on our hands, one for each finger :)
We love them on homemade pizza!
I agree with the Crafty Runner. My kids love just eatting them off each finher. Love 'em in pasta salads too!
I love them on sandwiches and pizza!
My daughter puts one on every finger and eats them plain as a snack; she LOVES them!!!
We love olives right out of the can, in casseroles, on pizzas, bruscetta, as a tapenade and on salads. Olives make our meals a little more fun with a fantastic, one of a kind flavor!
I would eat olives on a brick! Love them and would love to include them in my girls' turkey and cheese wraps for school lunches.
I like olives on pizza-yum!
We love them on pizza and in quesadillas!
How do I most like to eat olives? Let me count the ways; 1. plain, 2. tacos, 3. pizza, 4. Greek salad, 5. any way.
I use a ton of olives in my pasta salad. Yummy!
I love getting inspiration from your blog-- for my son's lunches... but have yet to get any bento supplies. These pizza tarts are awesome, I will try that recipe soon!
My favorite way to eat olives is as a topping for pizza. I also enjoy baking plantains when they are ripe in the oven... kind of like a lasagna except layering with ripe (yellow) plantains instead of lasagna noodles. I do the plantains, ground meat, and add olives in there. Sounds great but it's super tasty. My son loves it too but my daughter complains it's an acquired taste. :)
Our whole family loves black olives, especially my four year old son. He would have them in his lunch every day if he could.
I never really have olives, But my mum is crazy in love with them. She likes to eat them out of the jar. And on salads.
I absolutely love California Ripe Olives in any and all forms! Yum, yum! My littlest kid calls them "balls". I like to make kebobs with cheese cubes, salami, and olives as part of our lunches.
I like CA Ripe Olives in sub sandwiches I make at home. Some turkey, multigrain sub bread, cheddar cheese, mayo, black olives, banana peppers. YUM!
Love CA Olives on pita with cucumber dressing and Greek chix. Yummy~!
Our entire family of six is gaga for olives! We eat them on a daily basis in so many different ways. The one time we could not find a can in the pantry it was a major family crisis. The kids favorite thing to do is to put one on each finger and pretend they are frogs.
My husband LOVES to slice them up and put them on pizza before we cook it (on both homemade pizza or by adding them on a store bought frozen one because there are never enough on frozen ones). We also ALWAYS have them with our relish tray for holidays. Our three year old also likes putting them on her fingers. We would love to win this California Ripe Olives giveaway.
I love olives on their own as a snack or in salads. Yum.
making pizza with olives tonight!
My boy loved olives as a baby, dropped them from his food repertoire around 2, and is now taking them back ... would love to add them to his lunches!
we love them california ripe olives, on pizza, on tacos, as a snack right out of the can, etc.
CLACH at northpark dot edu
You said it 15 times :D
Olives are great in salads, spaghetti, on pizza, on their own, on sandwiches, nachos, the possibilities are endless. My daughter would LOVE it if we won this giveaway!
my favorite way to eat California Ripe Olives will always be by sticking them onto each of my fingers and popping them off one at a delicious time! Who gets too old for that?!
My husband makes an awesome Chicken, Mushroom and Olive dish that we LOVE!! :)
This is so exciting! I would LOVE a laptop lunchbox!!
Thanks for the chance to win!! :)
Our kids usually put them on their fingers, then eat them off one by one! I'd love to win this giveaway!
Allyson
Blissemt@gmail.com
I think the best use for olives is pasta salad: mix together rice shaped pasta, halved cherry tomatoes, olives, torn basil, and goat cheese. Drizzle with a little bit of extra virgin olive oil. Yum!
We usually like to have our olives on Pizza or in Greek Salad. thankyou for the oportunity
We love to eat olives on our homemade pizza! yum!
We, of course, love them on pizza, and in mexican, but my 4 yr old's favorite thing is to put one on each finger and have "gecco fingers" :)
That was a fun recipe. I love olives... I hope my kids learn to!
My son loves olives EVEN MORE than I do (didn't know it was possible!), but would never expect to see them in his lunchbox. Mommy will get bonus points now! Thanks for the opportunity to win that awesome olive/lunch package. :-)
I LOVE black olives! I eat them plain!!
My favorite thing with olives is olives chopped about one small can, 2 bars of light cream cheese, 15.5 oz jar of salsa and 1/3 cup mayo. Add 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese mix well bake at 350 for an hour in a 91/2 by 11 baking pan. Yum!!!
Lisa Red....
We like to eat olives with a stick of Parmesan through the middle. Yumminess!
we alway have a couple of cans of olives in the pantry for quick additions to pasta and rice salads, pizzas, spaghetti sauce and deviled eggs
These are the only kinds of olives I'll eat! They're best plain, and simple. :)
Love the olives in taco soup!
I have been adding diced olives to my lunch salads recently and it's been an amazing addition. It would be supercool to have a bento box that matched my lunch.
My little one loves to put olives on her fingers and pretend she's a frog :) Awesome giveaway !! :)
Layer #7 on my famous Seven Layer Dip!
My little girl loves olives!! In fact they are a staple in her lunches! She can't get enough of them.
California ripe olives on nachos.....mmmmm
This is probably strange, but I only like to eat olives by themselves. I love them! But in or on anything - no thanks!
Olives are a lunch staple for us. What kid doesn't love one for each finger/thumb at lunch time :). Those California Ripe Olives are perfect!
I have this recipe for summer squash and grilled sausage--it involves yellow squash, zucchini, olives, capers, grilled sausage, tomatoes, onions, basil, parsley, and sometimes sweet corn.
My daughter and I love to put the whole olives on our finger tips and eat them one by one. My daughter also loves to put whole olives in the egg slicer to create sliced olives to add to any dish.
Mmm olives on pizza... that sounds delicious!
On all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs....that's how my lil ones roll with their olives one by one off they go popped into their mouth yum yum yum!- Tara- taranicholepickell@yahoo.com
Olives any way we can get them - a seven layer dip, on a pizza, an olive tapenade, but most of all on each finger! Can't wait to try your recipe - wonder where to find the phyllo cups in a standard grocery store?
I LOVE eating California Ripe Olives right out of the jar! They go great on pizza, dips and warm sandwiches! Tracy - tray709@gmail.com
We always have a big bowl of olives on the table at family dinners. The kiddos love them!
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My kids like to put an olive on each finger and then eat the olives off one by one. What a great giveaway, thanks for a chance to win.
Catherine
jcrcis at yahoo dot com
We love ripe olives on our pizzas and in our pasta salad! Yum!
When my daughter first tried olives she was only 18 months. I have the cutest pictures of her with one on each little finger. Even now she likes to eat them off her fingers. (Just make sure you tell her they are olives. She mistook them for grapes once and wasn't very pleased).
I still enjoy them on my fingers. :)
I love olives in pasta salad, and of course, just on their own.
Olives on fingers are the best :-)
We love olives in our house, plain, on pizza, or made into a fantastic olive spread.
I love ripe black olives tossed into a salad, in chicken caccitore, and in Salvadorean tamales, but my favorite way is plain- unadorned, to savor their rich yumminess!!!
I love olives on pizza and on top if 7 layer dip!!! Thanks gor hosting the giveaway.
I love them on salads, especially taco salad! Yum yum yum yum yum.
Oh, we love olives in our house!!!! I like black olives, but my hubby and son can eat a jar of green in one sitting!
I don't like olives, but my hubby does. Straight up!
I love eating olives off my fingers :) My son thinks they are all for him, so we both eat fast when they are around!
I don't think my son has ever tried olives. It might have be one of his new foods this week!
Ohhh, I think I'll sneak some olive to my girls tacos.
Its my little one who loves olives! Such a timely post, as we just discovered this love over the weekend! Thanks!
Its my little one who loves olives! Such a timely post, as we just discovered this love over the weekend! Thanks!
We love olives on almost anything. But mostly on fingers. :)
We love olives on salads, pizzas, tacos, nachos.....Today we had Olives on our spinach, black beans, and corn salad. Yummy! Would love the gift pack for my kindergartner! Thanks for the inspiration! NancyLspangler at yahoo dot com
My 4 yr old would eat the olives straight out of he can he loves them sk much! He would love this bento kit for preschool in 2 wks! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
My six year old loves olives! Her favorite way to eat them is off her fingers, of course! We also love to make our own spaghetti sauce with lots of olives. We already pack our lunches bento style, and are grateful for a chance to win!
we love olives! our faves are on our pizza & in sandwiches! thanks for the chance!
we love them on pizza and in spaghetti sauce :0)
We love to put the whole olives on our finger tips! :-). They are also great in chicken cacciatore.
Love them on pizza and plain.
Love them on pizza and plain.
Right out of the can, off of my two year old's fingers, mixed into salsa, and on nachos!
I also like them just out of the can, but I also like them on pretty much anything else too!! I have LOVED them ever since I was a little girl. My grandmother was a vegetarian and she used olives in all sorts of creative ways. She sort of made them be the 'meat' of a lot of dishes.
what a generous givewaway! i'd love to win. my kids have all their bento lunch supplies, but i'd really like these things just for me. ha!
On pizza! Just bought our first bento this year and love it. Need two more for the other kiddos now. :)
We love them on salads.
Mmmm, olives! We love them on their own, in salads, and on the occasional pizza!
My FAVORITE way to eat Califonia Ripe Olives is on mini pizzas! It's my kids' favorite too!
Chi at pelo@madisontelco.com
I like them on chicken enchaladas!
dejsmommy@hotmail.com
We love California Ripe Olives. Esp. on pizza :)
family74014 at gmail dot com
My favorite way to eat olives is in Greek salads. I don't particularly care for Greek olives, but California olives are delightful. I, too, am a fan of eating them off my fingers. lol
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to olives and can't gush about them. My bf and his mum like them though, so I have to trust that some people do~
Our family likes eating olives straight off our fingers!! Finger food is always the best food ;)
Pizza all the way! Mmmm!
I love olives on my salads!
I love olives just as they are. Straight out of the can. And my 3 year old son loves them off his "olive fingers" :)
On mexican casserole. :)
Want to make dinner time fun for toddlers, using olives? Whip up some spaghetti, toss in olive oil infused with garlic and a splash of lemon juice. Slice off the bottom part of the olives so you have two holes on both ends of the olive. Toss them in. My son loves threading the spaghetti through the olive and making a necklace out of it. Makes great fine motor skills practice. And tastes yummy, too!
Want to make dinner time fun for toddlers, using olives? Whip up some spaghetti, toss in olive oil infused with garlic and a splash of lemon juice. Slice off the bottom part of the olives so you have two holes on both ends of the olive. Toss them in. My son loves threading the spaghetti through the olive and making a necklace out of it. Makes great fine motor skills practice. And tastes yummy, too!
We eat olives right off our fingers!
We LOVE olives at my house! We eat them on salads, in pasta, on pizza, in tacos and just plain! Love putting them in luchboxes with cute little cupcake picks. My son loves olives in a tortilla with pepperoni, perfect for his lunchbox.
My son puts a whole olive on each one of his fingers and eats them one at a time off each finger:) We get at least 10 olives each when we eat them.
My son puts a whole olive on each one of his fingers and eats them one at a time. We each eat at least 10 olives each:)
We love olives straight from the can! Thanks for the chance! mariajones1010 at hotmail.com
I'm not a big olive fan, but my son enjoys putting them on his fingers, and then eating them one by one.
My son loves to eat them off his fingers.
I love them in a taco salad! I love them on Thanksgiving too.
We often eat them straight out of the can.
love them in a mediteranean pasta!!!
I love them in my enchiladas. I mix diced ones with the cheese to go inside the tortillas, and then I put some sliced ones on top to make it all look yummy.
My daughter LOVES olives. In fact, we're sad we didn't name her "Olive"!
We took her to France (her grandmother lives in Paris) six years ago when she was not quite 3. At the farmers markets in Paris as well as Provence, the vendors could not believe that a girl so young enjoyed tapenade so much!
To this day, she eats as many olives as she can get her hands on. Today for her school lunch I made her a bento of an herb turkey wrap, carrot sticks, sliced cheddar cheese, olives, and organic thin mint cookies. She was pleased as punch when she saw what I was packing.
And, for what it's worth, this girl's favorite way of eating California Black Ripe Olives is by slipping a finger into each olive hole so they sit atop them like little black heads. Then she pops them in her mouth and asks for more!
We love making our own pizzas and black olives are a must for toppings
I love eating olives right out of the jar! Yum! Once polished of half a jar while watching a movie with my kids!
We all love eating olives right out of the can. The other night my son said they were as good as dessert!
I still love to put olives on my fingers & eat one at a time :) they're also great as a topping to Mexican dishes, or mixed with cream cheese & used as a dip. Very good for you.
I actually haven't tried an olive in forever (but would give them another shot!) but my hubby and kids like them! We'd love to win!
Nicole Rao
email: nicolerao83@yahoo.com
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