Hain Celestial Group is offering a giveaway filled with healthy snacks and free coupons to help spread the word about the Take a Healthy Bite out of Reading back to school promotion.  Hain Celestial has teamed up with Barnes & Noble to help inspire reading through healthy eating. The Take a Healthy Bite promotion is a receipt redemption program, where you can send your receipts for any products from Garden of Eatin’, MaraNatha, West Soy, Earth’s Best and Health Valley in exchange for gift cards from Barnes & Noble: a) $5.00 card for $15 worth of products and b) $10 for $25 worth of products. Separately, there is also a sweepstakes available and one parent will win $500 worth of free books from Barnes & Noble for their local school library. You can enter the sweepstakes either automatically through coupon redemption or through the sweepstakes entry page at http://www.takeahealthybite.com/sweepstakes/index.html/entry/enter.

For healthy snack tips and kid friendly recipes from Keri Glassman, R.D., visit www.takeahealthybite.com. You can also sign up for the “Healthy Way of Life” newsletter to receive valuable coupons.

The Prize

This contest is for an assortment of natural and organic products from Hain Celestial Group, including Garden of Eatin’ blue corn chips, Health Valley granola bars, Earth’s Best Tots juice boxes and coupons for a free jar of MaraNatha nut butter, free 32 ounce West Soymilk and free Earth’s Best Sesame Street frozen pizza. (Total Value $25)

How to Enter

If you’d like to enter this contest, simply leave a comment below. For an extra entry, you can tweet about the contest with a link back to this post. You must leave a separate comment with a link to your tweet for your entry to count.

All entries must be in by Saturday, August 15th at 12 pm (noon) EST. The winner will be chosen using Random.org that same evening and will be notified via email. (Please be sure to provide a valid email address with your comment.)

Note: This is not a review. I have not tried these products myself. I’m simply informing you of the promotion and hosting a contest. Good luck!

Updated 8/16/09: Contest is closed. Winner has been picked and notified.