Over the summer, I was introduced to Olly vitamins thanks to a branded partnership we did for the Picky Eaters Club. The partnership was mainly to promote their kids’ vitamins but they also sent Mike and I a variety of their adult vitamins too.
It is rare that in my middle age, I adopt a completely new habit, but that, my friends, is what has happened. I am an Olly vitamin convert and I have been taking them every night since last summer, well after my free supply ran out.
Mike is an Olly vitamin convert too which makes the vitamins that much harder to keep in stock at our house. We both hoard the Olly Restful Sleep vitamins on our sides of the bed so that we have control over the supply. THEY REALLY WORK. We’ve doubled up in both the apartment and the summer house because we miss them when they aren’t there. On trips to Target, checking if we are low on Undeniable Beauty, Endless Energy and Ultimate Immunity has become standard procedure before we head out the door.
“Any chance you are working with the Olly people again?” Mike always asks when he notices he’s out of the Men’s Multi. So, he might have been the most excited when I told him Olly had reached out again. I believe his exact response was— “WOOHOO!!! WHEN CAN I PLACE MY ORDER????”
Your next question might be— What is so exciting about Olly vitamins?
Well, for starters, they are delicious.
Did I say delicious? I meant GOOD FOR YOU.
Well, actually both.
Olly was created to make the vitamin category fun, because you have to admit— choking down horse pills and gagging on fish oil should not be the key to a healthy lifestyle. Every time I’ve tried to start a vitamin regimen in the past, I failed because of one thing only— I don’t enjoy taking vitamins. It’s a chore and so I’d often skip days. Or I’d run out and I wouldn’t be particularly motivated to replenish.
Olly vitamins are mostly gummies, some plain and some with a light coating of natural cane sugar, in exciting flavors like blackberry blitz, grapefruit glam, sweet clementine and tropical mango. They use only natural sweeteners, flavors and colors with nothing artificial.
Their names are more fun too. Each variety is simply titled by the benefit you get from taking it, like Solid Bones, Vibrant Skin, and Hello Sunshine, which means you don’t need to have a PhD to pick your poison.
I’ve gotten into the habit of taking Beauty, Skin, Bones and the Woman’s Multi every day. Mike takes Energy, Sunshine and the Men’s Multi. We both take Sleep and Immunity when we need it.
You know when 10pm rolls around and you’ve already had dinner and maybe a little snack or dessert after and then you’re like— I just need a little extra something…
Olly vitamins fulfill that need perfectly.
When we received our recent shipment, I pulled open the box, and happily unearthed my favorites plus a few new ones like the Mega Omega-3 and Purely Probiotic.
Mazzy and Harlow gathered around the box, watching me pull out each package. When I was done, I set them all up together.
“WHAT?!!!! No Kids’ Vitamins?????!!!!!”
“Sorry, just adult vitamins this time.”
Did I mention Mazzy and Harlow are converts too?
GIVEAWAY:
Today, I’m giving away a $250 Target gift card and a basket full of $70 worth of Olly products. Just follow the simple rules below to win.
1) You must be a subscriber to the Mommy Shorts newsletter. If you do not already subscribe, you can do so here.
2) Check out the variety of products on the Olly website and then leave a comment under this post telling me which vitamin you really need the most.
Winner will be announced on June 2nd.
Good luck!
Special Offer:
You can buy Olly vitamins at Target or get your picks delivered to your door monthly (or as often as you like). If you sign up now using the code MSFREE, you’ll get one item in your first box free. You can cancel anytime, but I don’t think you’ll want to! Offer expires on December 31. 2016.
Winner Update:
Congrats to Brittany M! Please contact annie@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize.
I definitely need the pre-natal vitamins since I’m expecting my first baby! And the restful sleep wouldn’t hurt either 😉
I need the sleeping beauty combo. With a 3 year old and a 1 year old I’m not feeling too rested or beautiful these days.
Would love to try the Beauty for me and the Men’s Multi for hubby. Hate taking horse pills! 🙂
I gotta go with the Round the Clock Mama batch….as a single mom working full time, doing side work for a friend AND launching personal Pampered Chef sales while getting a soon to be kindergartner off to school an HOUR earlier than she started pre-school I NEEEEEEEEED this!!!!! Throw in the fact that said soon to be kindergartner would eat PEAS daily and only eats other veggies under protest, and the Kid’s SuperFoods would be a dream……PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!! LOL (Love your site, BTW….)
Can I say all of them?!? Given the fact that I pretty much couldn’t get out of bed this morning because I was so exhausted, I’d have to say restful sleep.
I totally need the Round the Clock Mama. Such a great combination. Definitely want to give these a try.
Definately Restful Sleep!!!!
I’m going with the Super Food multi + beauty. I feel like it’s a challenge to get the right balance in my diet when I travel so much for work…
Oh man, my husband and I definitely need the sleep ones. With a three year old and an 8 month old plus a long commute to and from work our sleep patterns are not exactly great. Would love to try these as, I too have trouble sticking with vitamins.
Hard to choose but the Kid Happy Tummy one looks like a top pick!
I’m already taking the Women’s multi & LOVE it! I’d love to get my husband on board w/ the Men’s multi or incorporate the Sleep one into my routine.
I need the prenatal! I’m pregnant with my third child and honestly forget to take my vitamins all the time. Plus they are boring and huge and I kind of dread the thought of taking them!
I want to try Endless Energy — there are never enough hours nor enough energy for my days!! Also while looking through the kids’ section, I can’t help but wonder if I can/should try Super Brainy as well. ?? Regardless I’m taking advantage of the subscribing option and trying the multis and bones…turned the big 3-9 yesterday and I need to starting thinking more about my bones!!
SLEEP! And, the round the clock mama combo. I love the look of all of them, so I was shaking my head – “yes, that one; and, that one. Oohh… that one”
I NEED Restful Sleep!
Definitely need Round the Clock Mama , with 2 active daughters (3 &5) and working full time I am always drained. Will be checking these out at my next trip to Target
Sleep, for sure! Falling asleep and staying asleep can sometimes make my nights long…and exhausting. It stinks when the kid are all finally sleeping through the night and I’m still up!
Restful Sleep for sure. I love my toddlers, but when are they going to let me sleep:)
I am a nursing mother and still take a prenatal daily. I would love to try a version that was less like a horse pill! My son needs to take a probiotic daily and I’m sure he’d love the Kids Multi.
Would love a bottle of the prenatal!
the vibrant skin! but I would probably take any – I hate regular pill form!
Endless Energy! We just had a baby (our third) and I need all the help I can get in the energy department!
I’d use the restful sleep the most!
I’m coming off of nearly 4 years on prenatal vitamins after having 2 kids and nursing, so I need a regular old multi-vitamin now that I’m done having kids!
I would go for the sleeping beauty combo for sure!
I think I need a women’s multi and an energy one. My family hasn’t gotten into the habit of taking vitamins but I think we really need them. My daughter probably needs the multi vitamin too. If I can get my husband to take something good for him that doesn’t taste bad, I’m all for it!! He probably needs the multi and restful sleep, he works overnights so his sleeping patterns are all crazy. Thanks for doing this giveaway!!
Immunity, to keep me healthy when all my kids are sick!
undeniable beauty- bc hair is awful after baby #2
omega 3- bc dinner is silently showing in whatever scraps remain from kids dinner , so need some “healthy fats”
balanced belly- bc see above i eat like a child/ what a child left out and would not even eat
Women’s multi! Nice and simple… Love the packaging- so cute!
Pre-natal – trying for #2!
Sleeping Beauty bundle sounds wonderful to me!
I would love to try either the round the clock mama or vibrant skin.
I would love to try the slew and energy!
Restful sleep. Lots and lots of it. With a 5 year old and a three year old I haven’t recovered from all of their night waking. A night where I actually woke up and felt refreshed is literally my holy grail.
I’d love to try the Women’s Multi and also Hello Sunshine during New England’s winter months. I’m always trying to start a vitamin regimen but am turned off by horse pills too. These look easy and tasty!
I would love to try the “Hello Sunshine”! I could use it after our dreary spring in the Midwest!
I started using the Women’s Multi after your last post about them… but Target is far away from my house, so I run out on occasion and have to switch back to One-a-Day until I drag my rear end back to Target.
If you have any pull, can you get the Target people to build a Target in my town??? 🙂 Pleeeeease????
I would love the Energy vitamin — I am trying to give up diet Coke and need another boost!
Plus Beauty and Bones!
I would love to try totally calm or restful sleep. Being a mom can be stressful and test anyone’s patience so if a vitamin can help I’m all for it! Restful sleep for when you’re laying in bed thinking of all the things that still need to be done.
I’d love to try the Endless Energy. If it works, it’s worth every penny. Although I also saw a pre-natal…maybe that is best.
I would love the Endless Energy or the Restful Sleep. Having a toddler can take them both away like nothing else haha.
I would love to try the Beauty Sleep package. I’d also be interested in the Energy vitamin!
Hello Sunshine. That Vitamin D would probably make people like me more when I’m sun (and happiness) deprived in the dead of winter. I swear by the probiotic and the restful sleep though. My dessert every night!
I probably need all of them haha, but restful sleep would be amazing!
I definitely need the Calm. With two kids, a full time job, and a husband who works nights, I am always stressed out. The Calm would help me relax a little a maybe feel a little less frazzled!
Sleeping and beauty!!! After this colicky newborn, I could use both!!!!!
The Round the clock Mama sounds amazing…..do they make a “restful sleep” for the little kids? Wishful thinking!
As a new mom I could definitely use Endless Energy and Ultimate Immunity (because moms don’t get sick)!
I love the look of these vitamins from Olly-I’m all about the women’s multi and energy and hello sunshine. Beauty looks pretty awesome too! Would love to get my hubs (who loaths taking pills) on the men’s multi and probiotic!!)
I’m going to be purchasing Balanced Belly + the Perfect Women’s Multi stat!
I need Restful Sleep!
The “Round the Clock Mama” combo for sure- active 2yr old boy, dog, husband, answering questions/putting out fires during my ‘day job’… I need all the help I can get!
We’re trying to get pregnant, so I’m very excited to find that Olly makes prenatal vitamins too! I have a very hard time swallowing pills and the last time I was pregnant I could barely choke them down.
I definitely would like to try the Restful Sleep!
I really need the Mega Omega 3. That’s one area where my nutritional needs are lacking in my diet. Getting omega 3’s in a gummy instead of fish is definitely more preferable!
I would love to try Endless energy! I need every little bit of help I can get to keep up with my toddler and full time job!
All of them! especially Calm:)
Definitely ‘Round the Clock’ Mama and Restful sleep for me!
I really need a combo, but most of all probably endless energy or vibrant skin.
Prenatal because I’m still nursing.
I’m dying to try the Vibrant Skin (because, I mean, WHO DOESN’T WANT THAT??), plus the kids’ multivitamins for my little ones!
Definitely the Omega-3! I hate fish oil but really need to incorporate it
Restful sleep!
But as a parent of a 16 month old I think all varieties could be applied lol?
I would love to try the endless energy or restful sleep! I have a toddler and a baby at home who wakes all night!
They all look amazing!! I think I would first go for the beauty and sunshine. And the women’s multi! Will definitely keep Olly in mind when my kiddo is old enough to start vitamins 🙂
I would definitely need the Endless Energy! My 2.5 year old seems to have an endless amount of it and I’m convinced she’s siphoning off mine! lol!
I need the sleep vitamins!
Vibrant skin for sure…
I really just need a good multivitamin for women. So I’d have to go with the woman’s multi. And restful sleep, I think that will help a lot with my sleeping patterns!
I need to Kids Multi + superfood one. My son is the pickiest eater and I always worry he isn’t getting proper nutrition.
I could totally use Calm! Working 50+ hours a week, 2 year old twins and running a household leaves my mind racing at the end of the day! I’m constantly doing a run through of my internal check list. It would be great to have something to help me unwind when I’m ready to get some rest.
We need the restful sleep vitamins in my house.
The women’s super food multi.
With school just ending and three kiddos I could use some endless energy!
Well now I’m worried about myself because I’m convinced I need all of them. Women’s Multi, restful sleep, balanced belly, endless energy and hello sunshine.. Just to start….
I need the restful sleep! As a college student constantly struggling to fall asleep even when I have the time to do so, it would be amazing to get that extra help
Restful Sleep! I am so sick of my husband complaining that he doesn’t get any restful sleep. This may help finally stop complaining and save our marriage! The multi-tasking vitamin!
Restful Sleep and Endless Energy! I need to go buy more vitamins and i think i’ll check these out over the Vitafusion gummies I’ve been buying!
Restfull Sleep for sure!
With the kids getting sick left and right over the past several months, the Ultimate Immunity would be a welcome new addition to our household. Will be looking for these during the next Target run!
I would love Women’s Super Foods Multi.
With three kids under 5 I need Endless Energy for sure!
Purely probiotic
Pick only one?! They all seem fantastic and I’ve checked them out at Target numerous times … just never put them in my cart for one reason or another. I think I’d pick Endless Energy because my hubby just started a 5-5 job so I’m on solo duty with our energetic 3-1/2 year old and 7 month old. Anything to help kick my behind in gear!
I could definitely use the Round the Clock Mama combo as I have 3 little boys 5 and under, and we just moved for the 3rd time in a year for my husband’s work. I can use all the help I can get!
Boy could I use some Endless Energy or a multi-vitamin that doesn’t have Fred Flintstone on the bottle.
I am most excited to try their pre-natal vitamins! I’ve just completed my first round of IVF and am anxiously waiting for my results!!! ❤️???
I’ve been wanting to try their kids vitamins… for my kids haha not for me. Endless energy would be nice with a newborn too haha
I need the multi vitamins. With eating the wrong things and not taking care of myself, l need HELP!
Prenatal. Baby #2 is on the way:)
Omg! Restful sleep! I need these vitamins in my life.
Restful sleep! Restful sleep!
I need the round the clock mama and the women’s multi. I have a huge problem taking vitamins too. They are always too big or too bad tasting to get into a routine of taking them. This is a giveaway my body would love to win!
I can’t decide between Endless Energy or Totally Calm.
ANY AND ALL OF THEM! I would take the women’s multi vitamin.
endless energy, because 3 boys, 3 very active boys and 1 tired mama!
Restful sleep for sure.
I would like to try Endless Energy or Mighty Immunity for my kids.
Bonifide Babe with some Vibrant Skin. I’ve reached an age where I need to start thinking about my bones and the kids have given me worry lines!
Ultimate Immunity hands down! Kids bring home all sorts of yuckiness! Momma’s gotta stay healthy and strong!