In the Crate And Barrel giveaway, out of 9 vaild entries ...the winner is...
JCFeb 10, 2012 03:25 PM
My Winter Cocktail is a Homemade Irish Cream
Monday, February 20, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Winner is...
In the General Mills Cereal giveaway, out of 39 vaild entries ...the winner is...
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Discover Your Winter Cocktail Blog App PLUS Crate and Barrel Giveaway! ENDS 2/19!
In celebration of the winter season, Robb Report presents the Discover Your Winter Cocktail Blog App. Everyone has their favorite cocktail, but have you wondered what winter cocktail fits you best? Take theDiscover Your Winter Cocktail quiz and you can find out by answering a few simple questions!
Chocolate Snowball
Ingredients:
2 oz coconut rum
2 oz Irish cream
1 oz hazelnut liqueur
3 1/2 oz melted chocolate
3 1/2 oz cream
1 dash chocolate syrup
Preparation: Place the chocolate syrup around the glass then place the other ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Strain into glass.
Spring Fever
Ingredients:
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz mango syrup
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz blood orange juice
Preparation: Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, and strain into a collins glass half-filled with crushed ice.
Winter Breeze
Ingredients:
1 oz creme de cacao
1 oz vanilla schnapps
1 oz Irish cream
milk
Preparation: Pour liquors into a beer mug, and fill with milk. Stir, and serve.
Want a chance to win a Hendrick’s Gin Golf Umbrella and an amazing $20.00 Crate & Barrel Gift Card?
To Enter:
Just take the quiz and post your results!
Winner will be Drawn on Monday 2/20, no entries accepted after 11:59pm cst 2/19.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
General Mills Whole Grain First Ingredient Giveaway! Ends 2/12
"Disclosure: The information, and giveaway have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark."
Ringing
in the New Year often means new eating habits. We know whole grain is important
to you, and the Dietary Guidelines recommend choosing products with a whole
grain listed as the first ingredient. Now every cereal with the white check has
more whole grain than any other single ingredient with the same great taste.
You will see “whole grain” as a part of the first ingredient on the ingredient
list, indicating that whole grain is the first and most prevalent ingredient.
According to Dr. Travis Stork, emergency room physician and host
of “The Doctors,” identifying whole grain products can be challenging. Shoppers
can look for nutritional cues on the front of the box, but they need to read
the ingredient list to know if they are getting enough whole grain. Ingredient
lists detail ingredients in order of prevalence, and if the words “whole grain”
are followed by a grain like wheat or oats, it means the food contains more
whole grain than any other single ingredient. Here’s how to determine if your
cereals have whole grain as a first ingredient:
With all the health messages facing grocery store shoppers, it
can be confusing to translate what appears on food labels into nutritional
needs, and hard to determine which foods have a meaningful amount of whole
grain. Dr. Stork has some additional recommendations to help you include whole
grain easily into your diet. They include:
- Start Early! The Dietary Guidelines
recommend people get at least 48 grams of whole grain in their daily
diets. Get a jump-start on the day’s nutrition by incorporating whole grain
into your morning routine. For instance, when choosing cereal make sure
whole grain is listed as the first ingredient. One easy choice is cereal
with the white check, which have more whole grain than any other single
ingredient.
- Make Simple Swaps. Choose whole grain
versions of the foods you love. Great options include whole wheat pasta
and whole wheat bread or even whole grain crackers. Also, try different
types of whole grain. Use brown rice instead of white rice as a side dish
at dinner or popcorn, which is a whole grain, for a snack.
- Don’t Judge a Food by Its
Cover. The
front of food packages provide good nutritional cues, but don’t forget to
read the ingredients and check the nutrition label and side labels for
additional health information. Cereals with the white check even include
the amount of whole grain per serving on packaging.
To help with choosing products with whole grain, General Mills
developed “Fast Lane for Whole Grain,” an online educational game. Consumers
can navigate virtual grocery store aisles and identify products that have whole
grain as the first ingredient, with the option to enter a sweepstakes to win
one of each of the 50 cereals with the white check.
Make a commitment to add more whole grain to your diet by simply
pouring a bowl of cereal with the white check including Cheerios®, Lucky Charms®, Cinnamon Toast Crunch®, Honey Nut Cheerios® and Total®.
~The Prize~
5 boxes of General Mills cereal with the white check
To qualify for your first entry (and any extra entries) you MUST first tell me which of the cereals is your fav? and leave your email address!
For extra entries you can:
each one equals one extra entry unless otherwise marked
- •Friend me on Google Connect on this blog
- Friend my main blog on Goggle Connect
- Subscribe to this Blog on RSS or Email
- Subscribe to my main blog on RSS or Email
- Follow me on Twitter
- Tweet about this Giveaway, YOU MUST include a link to this post and the hashtag #myblogspark
(each tweet = 1 entry, can tweet up to twice a day)
THAT'S 7 Different ways for you to enter! Just make sure to do the Mandatory entry first!
AND be sure to submit a new entry for every method you use!
Also remember to include your Twitter username when submitting a Twitter Follow Entry!
Thanks to MyBlogSpark and General Mills for providing the materials for this giveaway!
Open to US and Canada residents only please. Entries will be accepted until 11:59pm CST Sunday 2/12. The winner will be chosen via a random number generator Monday 2/13 and announced that same day before noon CST. The winner will be notified by email and required to claim the win within 48 hours. Name, address, and phone number will be required to pass on to MyBlogSpark to get the prize to you.
"The Worldwide Dessert Contest!" A children's book and musical CD all in one (what a deal)!
"Publishers Weekly" raves: A little bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a dash of Homer Price's donut maker, this novel pays homage to the longstanding rapport between children and sweets. John Apple longs to win the Worldwide Dessert Contest, but all his delicious desserts have a penchant for changing into something else at the last minute. The way he overcomes this difficulty and takes first place involves a search for the greatest chef in the world, the defeat of the thieving title-holder of the contest and a run-in with a judge who has, thanks to John, a caramel apple bonded to his cheek from their last encounter. Elish writes with a sure hand of this sugary world, his tongue squarely in the area of his sweet tooth. For his ability to praise desserts in an endlessly original fashion, he deserves a blue ribbon. Ages 9-11.
First published in 1998, "The Worldwide Dessert Contest" by Dan Elish is now an enhanced e-book with an original musical score by a theater veteran included as part of the story!
White House Pastry Chef Ann Amernick adds, "The Worldwide Dessert Contest by Dan Elish is a "dElish" ride on apple everything’s!.....an apple pancake trampoline, an apple soufflé balloon, and flying and skating apple pies, to name a few. The wild adventures of Johnny Applefeller and his friends is a delectable journey filled mouthwatering desserts and seasoned with his Aunt Harriet’s simple and wise sayings. But even more fun is clicking on the interactive links to YouTube videos of the musical the author wrote several years after the book was written. As Aunt Harriet says, “The importance of desserts must never be underestimated.” Glorious!
Check it out at:
http://www.amazon.com/
OR
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Learn more about enhanced ebooks at: http://:www.AlinaAdamsMedia.
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