Danielle graciously turned down the Conscious Box when she learned that she would be receiving one to review on her blog. As a result, we have a new winner…
Please forward your mailing address to me [ gretchen (at) veggiegrettie (dot) com ] and I will have Jameson place your Conscious Box in the mail.
Congrats!
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There was tremendous interest in the Conscious Box Giveaway and I wish I could send all of you a Conscious Box, but a winner had to be chosen. The winner of the Conscious Box chosen at random is:
Congratulations Danielle! Please forward your mailing address to me and I will have Jameson mail out your winnings.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Gretchen
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PlantFusion is my absolute favorite vegan protein powder. Their products taste amazing and on top of that they have:
So many of the vegan protein powders are chalky and have an aftertaste which can scare away those who are new to a plant-based diet. Everyone that I have recommended PlantFusion to has really liked the taste.
PlantFusion recently came out with a new Chocolate Raspberry flavor that is rocking my world! When I was little one of my favorite truffle flavors was Chocolate raspberry and PlantFusion’s new Chocolate Raspberry protein powder definitely reminds me of that…yum!
PlantFusion has also recently introduced convenient single serve packets of their yummy protein powders. I plan on keeping a few in my purse for those times when hunger strikes and I haven’t planned ahead…simply mix with water and you have a highly nutritious snack or meal replacement.
Since this is the season of giving, the wonderful people at PlantFusion would like to send one lucky reader a gift bag containing a 1lb canister of PlantFusion along with some individual packets of their different flavors!!!
One entry for EACH of the following:
REMEMBER TO COME BACK TO THIS POST AND LET ME KNOW WHICH OF THE ABOVE YOU HAVE DONE. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY 12/16/11.
***Only open to those in the US and Canada.
Click HERE for the supplement facts
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Jameson Morris of Conscious Box has graciously provided DECEMBER’S Conscious Box as a giveaway to one lucky Veggie Grettie reader. I previewed the box and you will love the contents (picture below is November’s box).
The winner of the box will be chosen at random, and you will gain one entry for each of the following:
PLEASE REMEMBER TO COME BACK TO THIS POST AND COMMENT LETTING ME KNOW WHICH OF THE ABOVE YOU HAVE DONE.
***Please note that this contest is only open to those in the US including Alaska and Hawaii***
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Congratulations to the winners of the So Delicious Giveaway –
Lauren at EverydayRevelry
Evan at TheWannabeChef
Both have won a coupon entitling them to Any one So Delicious Dairy Free item!!!
Lauren and Evan…please email your mailing address to me at gretchen (at) veggiegrettie.com
Enjoy!
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The holidays came early to my house. I received my first present of the season when FedEx dropped off So Delicious’s Seasonal Coconut Milk Beverages to my doorstep this morning. So Delicious contacted me to tell me that the milks would arrive this morning and I seriously think the FedEx man must have thought I was coo coo because I was literally waiting at the door when he arrived.
OH MY GOSH they are good! Then Nog is so flavorful and pours thick like a “real” nog does, but without the guilt and oodles of fat that accompany the dairy version. When I was about 5 years old I consumed a half gallon of egg nog on my own and as you can imagine, I have avoided the dairy version like the plague since (I am shocked I did not have a heart attack right then and there!). So Delicious has come to the rescue and provided me with an option that I like and does not conjure-up bad memories for me. Yay!
As you can imagine, the Mint Chocolate is out of this world. I think I will need to pour some into an opaque container so I can save some for myself since I know the kids are going to absolutely decimate it when they get home from school. I so want to cook and bake with these milks! I am thinking the kids will love the recipe for the Vegan Nog French Toast (breakfast tomorrow!). I love that they included recipes on the carton.
The beverages will retail for around $2.99, which I consider to be very reasonable. I know my fridge will be stocked with them. Click here for nutrition information. Click here for a store locator.
GIVEAWAY
So Delicious has generously provided the readers of Veggie Grettie with a nice giveaway… TWO coupons for a “FREE So Delicious Dairy Free item.”
To Enter:
1. LIKE the So Delicious Dairy Free Facebook Fan page (http://facebook.com/SoDeliciousDairyFree)
AND / OR
2. FOLLOW them on Twitter (http://twitter.com/so_delicious)
3. Come back to this post and leave me a comment letting me know you have LIKED their page and let me know which flavor you are most excited to try.
Nice and simple.
I will announce the two winners (each will receive 1 coupon) on Thursday of next week 10/27/11.
Congratulations to Lynette who is the UNPROCESSED giveaway winner!
Right now I am on my way to a wonderful event, the Back Bay Stand up for CF (World Champion Dave Kalama will be there!). I will be there representing NEXT by Athena and can’t wait to try my hand at Stand Up Paddle (SUP). This is sure to be a fun day for the family and it all goes to a good cause, the Cyctic Fibrosis Foundation’s Pipeline to a Cure.
I’d love to see you out there today. I will be there from approximately 10:30am-12:30pm. Come one out for a good time and good food (I believe Wahoos will be there).
Newport Aquatic Center 1 W hitecliffs Dr · Newport Beach
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Chef AJ and Julieanna Hever recently contributed a Guest Blog for Veggie Grettie where they showed us how to make Chef AJ’s Hail to the Kale dressing (click here to view the post). Earlier this month I was contacted by Chef AJ and invited to attend one of her cooking classes. It was great fun to meet Chef AJ in person. She is wacky, zany, full of life, passionate, knowledgeable, friendly, and kind. Interesting fact – Chef AJ was once on Johnny Carson playing two flutes with her nose while standing on her head and blowing bubbles out of her nose (I told you she is wacky)!!!
Chef AJ has been a vegan for over 30 years, but has only been a “healthy” vegan for the last 7 years. During the class Chef AJ took a moment to tell her story and explain why she is so passionate about eating a whole foods unprocessed plant-based diet. She explained that her typical day was filled with big gulp slurpies (embellished with 8 pumps of vanilla syrup), Dr. Pepper, sugar, pastries, and other forms of JUNK with the occasional serving of steamed broccoli on the side. Eventually it caught-up with her and her health suffered in a major way.
In January of 2003 (There is no way to say this delicately) she went in to the bathroom to have a bowel movement and ended-up with a toilet filled with blood. With a strong family history of colon cancer and bowel obstructions she finally woke-up after finding out that she had multiple nasty adenomatous pre-cancerous polyps in her sigmoid colon. Her colon was so ill that they were not even safely able to remove the polyps. This was her official wake-up call.
Chef AJ sent herself to the Optimum Health Institute in San Diego (Their organic gardens pictured above) for a total body overhaul. She ate a 100% organic raw diet while there and it wasn’t easy as she suffered mass withdrawal symptoms within the first 3days . Despite the discomfort of withdrawing from sugar, oil, and salt (what she deems the “Evil Trinity”) she committed to the program and 6 months later she had the colon of a newborn baby without having surgery or taking meds…what a testament to this way of life!
Chef AJ knew that this was the lifestyle for her and enrolled in culinary school at the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in order to learn how to make health promoting food as palatable as possible.
The class she that I attended focused on just that. Chef AJ teaches classes out of her home in Sherman Oaks with the goal of teaching her health promoting ways to as many people as possible. In the picture below she is channeling her Johnny Carson days while performing a song about health (her sous chefs are also back-up singers / dancers).
During the 3 hour class I attended she made:
It’s Easy Being Green Smoothies loaded with kale and mint…my new favorite green smoothie ingredient
Nutrient Rich Chocolate Smoothies, fresh almond milk (forgot to take a picture!)…
Nutrient Rich Smoky Black Bean Soup where she added all the veggies WHOLE to a pot of water and then just used the immersion blender at the end (Why didn’t I ever think of that???…MAJOR time saver!)
Raw Dream of Tomato Soup
One of my favorites…Hail to the Kale Salad
Fresh Banana Ice Cream in her Champion Juicer that was so creamy and amazing (I need to get me one of those!). I have made this in my food processor and it is really good, but NOTHING like what the Champion Juicer makes. It was crazy good.
Chocolate FUNdue…so good. I make this regularly and keep it in my freezer in single serve cups otherwise I will eat it all in one sitting! The picture below is the FUNdue in the processing stage. It is such a great dip for fruit, truffle filling, or sauce for desserts.
And last but not least, her version of a very popular Starbucks drink, a Caramel “Fake”iatto (I also forgot to take a picture of this!)
I was also sent home with a giant slice of her German Chocolate Cake that was eaten before I even had a chance to take a picture of it!
To learn more about classes with Chef AJ click here. I believe she does not have any classes on the schedule at the moment because she is traveling to promote her new book, however you can check back regularly for updated class listings.
* GIVEAWAY * GIVEAWAY * GIVEAWAY *
Chef AJ’s Book Unprocessed
Chef AJ generously provided me with a signed copy of her book Unprocessed as a giveaway. To enter the giveaway simple leave a comment at the end of this post about either of the following topics. One entry per comment, so you have LOTS of chances to win…enter as many times as you’d like.
1. What was your own personal health wake-up call?
2. Ask me a question for my Ask Grettie column on Chic Vegan. You never know…your question might be featured!
BONUS ENTRY
If you are not an e-mail subscriber of Veggie Grettie, become a subscriber, leave a comment in the comment section that you are now a subscriber, and that will count as an additional entry.
The giveaway winner will be announced Sunday, October 9th.
Organic garden picture courtesy of Optimum Health Institute
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Congratulations to Ann whose comment below was randomly chosen as the Teatulia Giveaway winner:
Ann – I left comments on both Facebook pages, don’t use twitter, already on email list, and here’s the final step 
Teatulia recently sent me some of their 100% organic tea to try. I was sent samples of their Ginger Herbal Infusion and Lemongrass Herbal Infusion. I know we shouldn’t judge a product by the packaging, but I have to say that Teatulia’s teas are gorgeous. Each tea bag is shaped like a pyramid (made of biodegradable silk) and clearly made from high quality ingredients.
The lemongrass herbal infusion was really refreshing and light. I found that I didn’t even want to add any sweetener to it. I also really liked the ginger tea and found that it was slightly peppery (reminiscent of a mild chai). I did add some stevia to the ginger tea since I really like a sweet ginger flavor. I drink A LOT of hot tea once the weather cools down and am looking forward to adding Teatulia’s teas to my arsenal this Fall.
I really like the fact that Teatulia is a socially conscious business. They don’t just talk the talk when it comes to social responsibility, they also walk the walk:
Teatulia is no ordinary tea garden. Started in 2000 to give back to our community, we sought an enterprise that would give the most people a living wage while protecting/strengthening our environment. Not content with the social programs already in place, our Teatulia Cooperative has established revolutionary education, health and cattle-lending programs for the people working in the garden and surrounding areas. All sales of Teatulia Organic Teas contribute to this mission, helping to better the lives of Bangladeshi men, women & children while rebuilding the local ecosystem.
GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Now…here’s the exciting news…Teatulia will give away one canister (of the winner’s choosing ) to a Veggie Grettie reader (only open to readers from the US and Canada).
You can earn a separate entry for each of the following:
I will announce the winner NEXT Friday 9/23. Good Luck!!!
***I also encourage you to sign-up for Teatulia’s newsletter (on the bottom right of their homepage)…they will reward you by giving you a 20% discount!
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