As a latina mom and member of various forum/community sites, I always stumble upon this website called Bodegamas and its numerous promotions. At first I thought it was spam or some sort of consistent advertisement or even a virus bringing link. But after a while, seeing and reading good reviews about it, I was driven to actually visit the site.
Bodegamas.com is a bilingual website that at looks site a big grocery catalog but is actually more like an interactive “Amazon” type of site for moms. I guess you’re wondering why I called it bilingual. The site first lands into spanish and be translated to english after one click in the language button.
Unlike other sites, Bodegamas don’t have forums or discussion boards. Instead, the webmasters brought a different approach to this site.
This Spanglish site is a leway to making a wise decision focused on budget and money handling. Once you’ve registered, a list of action buttons are presented to you: My account, My shopping list, My recipes, My coupons and My calculator. These tools help you organize all your financial spending and even share luscious budget-wise recipes to other members. The best recipe will be featured in the landing page of Bodegamas.
The Family button in the tabs also incorporates several news related to family care from health to business to homecare.
As for the prizes and promos, Bodegamas is more of a sponsor site which holds all these gimmicks. The latest I saw was the Huggies Pull Ups Dance contest which by the way was the one that moved me to check out this site. Kids were made to dance the Pull Ups theme song and the cutest ones will win a grocery card from the infamous Food 4 Less supermaket, a surplus grocery store in California. Although the prize is only worth 500$, if you think about it, it saves a big part of the monthly budget.
To win, videos uploaded must be criticized and reviewed by users. Surprisingly voters win a prize as well. Aside from this, regular raffle draws are hosted by Bodegamas just register.
I give this site three stars. Maybe its just a new site, but still it lacks some more functionality. Forums and groups are a hit in community sites. And since they started the video upload function, maybe they can put featured babies.
