Giveaway: Think Color As You Eat Gift Box from Just Tomatoes - CLOSED

We’ve posted a review before about Just Tomatoes, Etc. products.  Last time it was a review of Just Strawberries, Just Raspberries, & Just Corn.  We loved them!  They are delicious, nutritious, and convenient.  And they use no additives or sulfates!  This time, Just Tomatoes, Etc. has generously offered to sponsor this review and a great giveaway for one of our readers to enjoy!
They sent us 2 packages each of Just Fruit Salad, Just Tomatoes, and Just Peaches along with a recipe booklet of great recipes featuring their tomatoes.  We were quite excited to try everything! 
We tore into the Just Fruit Salad first.  It contains a variety of freeze-dried fruit including pears, apples, peaches, bananas, strawberries, & red grapes.  It’s a great snack mix with good fruit flavors.  Some of the fruits are crisp and crunchy and others are a little chewy.  I’m partial to the crisp & crunchy ones, myself.  This mix, like other fruit varieties, is great added to yogurt or cereal. 
Next we tried Just Peaches.  I am a huge fresh peach lover; Mr. Diner is not because of the texture of peaches, but was happy to sample the freeze-dried version.  The peaches have a great fresh peach flavor, but are quite crunchy.  Most of the pieces are the size of a typical peach slice, maybe an eighth of a peach.  I would prefer if they were sliced more thinly; the size makes them a little hard to bite into for kid-sized mouths.  Otherwise, they were great!
Last, we tried Just Tomatoes, which we were told were better as a recipe ingredient than as a snack.  We tried them as they were, anyway.  The tomatoes are dehydrated instead of freeze-dried.  I am not big on tomatoes, but these are quite good. They are flavorful and even on the sweet side.  I do agree that they are best as an ingredient, although they are not bad on their own, either.

The recipe booklet has some great ideas on how to use Just Tomatoes both dry and rehydrated.  We tried making Basil & Dried Tomato Pesto (shown above) and mixing the pesto with cream cheese to make a dip (shown below).  Both were excellent.  The company’s suggestion of using the dehydrated tomatoes as a chip substitute was a good one, too.  There are so many uses for their dehydrated tomatoes including sandwiches, soups, seasonings, and more.  These are perfect for adding to your favorite panini!

You can buy Just Tomatoes at many stores including Whole Foods, Good Earth, & Sunflower Market.  You can also purchase them from Just Tomatoes’ online store or on Amazon.

Just Fruit Salad Average Fork Rating:  4 Mr. Diner:  4 Mrs. Diner:  4 Amazing  Diner:  4 Sweet Diner:  4 Little Diner:  4

Just Peaches Average Fork Rating: 3.2 Mr. Diner: 3 Mrs. Diner: 4 Amazing Diner: 2 Sweet Diner: 3 Little Diner: 4

Just Tomatoes Average Fork Rating: 3.4 Mr. Diner: 4 Mrs. Diner: 5 Amazing Diner: 3 Sweet Diner: 2 Little Diner: 3

Just Tomatoes has provided a Think Color As You Eat! Gift Box ($22.95 value) for one reader to win!  The gift box features a selection of twelve fruit & vegetable snack packages as well as a kids activity book, markers, & book mark.  Winner must have a US address.
To Enter: You must like Just Tomatoes on Facebook and follow/subscribe to Rate the Plate Utah.  Please use the form below to enter, not the post comments.
Giveaway Closes: 11:59 pm MST on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Winner will be emailed and announced Monday, Aug. 29, 2011.  Good luck!
The product reviewed, as well as the giveaway products, were given to us by Just Tomatoes, Inc. However, all opinions included in this review are our own honest review.