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Charlotte Rock & Read 5K {giveaway}

October 15, 2012 6 Comments

As a kid I LOVED to read. My ideal Saturday was spent curled up in bed with a good Goosebumps book, followed a couple years later by marathon Fear Street sessions. Then I went to college, and my love of reading was overshadowed by the ominous presence of textbooks in my life. I managed to squeeze in the Harry Potter series toward the end of college, just before the CPA exam invaded my life, leaving in its wake an intense repulsion for books. I guess you could say I broke up with books for a few years. I didn’t really feel like I was missing out on anything until someone introduced me to the Twilight saga… and that old love came fluttering back ripping me away from that desolate bookless place. I never looked back. Next to work and home, the library is the place I visit most each week. Memoirs, books on cd, cookbooks, books about chefs, books about learning to cook, books about anything involving food whatsoever—all of them have a daily presence in my life now, and I can’t imagine how I survived without them.

Since moving to Charlotte, my love of the library has exploded. This could be due to their awesome iPhone app, or that I can walk there on my lunch break, or that when I tweet the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, they tweet back. (yes!)

Given this obsession, I’m very excited to participate in the 3rd annual Charlotte Rock & Read 5K on Saturday November 3rd. All proceeds for the race benefit the books and materials budget of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Besides the great cause, the Charlotte Rock & Read is an awesome race to run because there will be music at every mile and a festival at the finish line including FOOD and MIMOSAS!

Giveaway

The Fresh Expo – Ticket Giveaway

September 25, 2012 4 Comments

The Fresh Expo, Charlotte’s Healthy, Natural, and Green Living event, is happening October 13th!

The expo will feature healthy living presentations and cooking demonstrations plus healthy tastings, product samples, and swag bags chock full of fresh goodies. Exhibitors will include Healthy Home Market, Edible Charlotte, Food Matters, Coconut Bliss, Earth Balance, Luna’s Living Kitchen, Earth Fare, and TONS more all with the common goal of making Charlotte a healthier city through foods, products, and health and wellness services. I am super excited for this event, and I’m even more pumped to offer TWO FREE expo tickets to ONE lucky reader!

Giveaway

Frugal Foodie Cook-off {Food Lion Gift Card Giveaway}

September 19, 2012 45 Comments

Last week, I channeled my inner Top Chef and threw down with ten other food and mom bloggers in a Frugal Foodie Cook-off hosted by Food Lion.

The competition:

Prior to living in Charlotte, I’d never heard of Food Lion supermarkets, which was founded in North Carolina and has over 1,100 locations.

Don’t let the smile fool you–I came ready to compete!

The challenge: prepare a four-person dinner in under thirty minutes using less than $15 worth of groceries.

Giveaway, Restaurants

A Big Fatz Giveaway

February 27, 2012 18 Comments

I remember the first time I drove by a Fatz restaurant. I’d never heard of Fatz, given the chain is central to the south, with locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Admittedly, the thought of dining at a place with “fat” in the name didn’t sound too appetizing, and I’d written it off without so much as glancing at the menu. Who am I?!

Then I got an email from Fatz asking if I’d like to come in and try the new Fatz Lite Side menu. I was more than intrigued. A light menu? At Fatz? How could this be?! I hit the web for details and was completely caught off guard by the huge selection of food Fatz offered. The new light options menu was like the fat-free icing on the chocolate cake.

This weekend we finally got to check out Fatz firsthand.

Giveaway, Product Review

NuGo Slim Bar Giveaway!

November 15, 2011 31 Comments

I’ve been on the hunt for a tasty low-sugar bar for months… strike that. YEARS. I am hypoglycemic, so I’ve been making a real conscious effort to regulate my daily sugar intake in an effort to avoid peaks and valleys in my sugar levels. Every low sugar bar I’ve tried to date has come up short. Quest Bars, Think Thin Bars, Atkins Bars… all absolutely horrible in my opinion. The most common failures for these low sugar bars are the texture and that horrible taste fake sugars give things. Blegh! I hate that… just thinking about it makes my teeth hurt! Not to mention that the sugar alcohols always seem to upset my stomach and make me regret eating the low sugar bar in the first place.

A few months back Shanna from Shanna Like Banana told me about a new low-sugar line of bars from NuGo. I was super excited to try them out, but I was cautiously optimistic. I’d had SO MANY failures that I’d kind of reached the conclusion that low sugar unavoidably resulted in an awful taste.

Enter The NuGo Slim line, which consists of three flavors: Roasted Peanut, Brownie Crunch, & Raspberry Truffle:

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