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Time's running out! Today is the last day to enter my giveaway for a Deni Ice Cream Maker . Contest ends at midnight (PST) tonight! Click here for details and to enter. There are a couple of other giveaways going on at the moment, hence the title of this post. Check out Bitt's giveaway for a two-pound bag of chia seeds and Love Veggies and Yoga's giveaway for a jar of Naturally Nutty. On a separate note, I'm bummed the men's US hockey team lost the gold today but they did awesome anyway! Congrats on the silver! And congrats to Canada for the win! (sorry, I can't be a poor sport to my buddies up north). Enjoy the last bit of your weekend!

I have two reviews* to share with you today. Yay! First up, a dvd. Recently, I was reminded of the movie Food, Inc. when reading Sarah's blog at Living the Fruity Life , which you can read her review here . Like she points out, the movie's message isn't about veganism/vegetarianism or raw foods but about where your food comes from and how it's grown. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I was upset, with tears welling up in my eyes at times, watching this. For those who are conscious about the where, why, what, how, read labels, etc. won't see many surprises or big revelations when watching this but it's still definitely worth seeing. One to share with others for sure. No doubt there will be naysayers who will view this as propaganda but I believe if those same people watched this film they'd think twice about their food, checking labels, etc. - I hope they do. What angers and saddens me most are the many people out there who have little choi...

Happy Monday! Let's start this week off right and have a contest! Woot! Woot! As I mentioned in a previous post , CSN Stores ( cookware.com and allbarstools.com ) has generously offered to sponsor this giveaway so for one of you this could be your lucky week ! When Lauren over at Ginger is the New Pink was giving away a Deni Ice Cream Maker, I was all over that. Sign me up! But alas, I didn't win (sniff). However, I do know it made its way to a good home with my pal Bitt , who loves making desserts, including ice cream. Well, apparently it was my lucky day shortly after when I was given the opportunity to give one away too. Yes! I am giving away a Deni Automatic Ice Cream Maker ! It's nearly spring after all and that means it time for lots'o d-lish frozen treats! Also, the reason for its happy green color - I couldn't resist. ;) How to enter : -Must live in the US or Canada to enter . Sorry everyone else! -required entry : go to cookware.com and/or allbarstool...

I'm just hammering out the last bit of the details for my giveaway so be on the lookout a little later today for it. Don't want you to miss it! I saw the following PSA video today that really got me (I'm a softie). Hopefully, ALL of you wear your seatbelts all.the.time but if you sometimes don't maybe watching this video will move you enough to never hesitate again to put it on.

So I’m sitting on one of my kitchen bar stools this morning thinking, it’s been awhile since I’ve hosted any sort of giveaway. It’s time for another, dontcha think? The very nice people at CSN Stores have offered to sponsor my next giveaway. Now, before you get too excited and jump to the comment section to enter the contest, WAIT! This is the unofficial announcement – a teaser. Hee hee! I’m just alerting you to check back for the official post about this particular giveaway, which will be in the near future . In the meantime, please feel free to peruse CSN’s websites www.cookware.com or www.allbarstools.com ; this might come in handy for the contest. ;) Now, for some other fun stuff: The other day I received my lovely gift from HippieMom that I won from her blog recently. This prize to me is extra special because it’s a “just because” gift. She handpicked some of her favorite items of hers to give away to some lucky person, which so happened to be ME! Uh yeah, this weekend there ...

I finally made my way to our local raw vegan store and picked up some basic supplies and of course, some goodies. One of those goodies just so happened to be some Dr. Cow's cream cheese . I haven't had any of Dr. Cow's products but have heard good things about it in my blog travels. I was tempted by the cream cheese variety so I picked up one to try. Susan, the co-owner of the store said to buy two! Okay, so I did and picked up some Mauk Family Farms raw breakfast crusts and hickory & paprika raw flax seed crisps to go with it. I'm a cheese n'crackers kind of gal. I was good and waited till I got home to sample with hubby (sometimes I'm not so patient and rip open packages to sneak in a bite or two). My first little nibble of the stuff, by itself, I wasn't real sure about. I had to get the thought of typical cream cheese out of my head. I tried it again with the crisps first and NUM! And then I tried it with the breakfast cracker and NUM! Good stuff!...

When I went a'visiting to Debra's blog at Vegan Family Style , she had posted a trailer for a new documentary coming out this summer. I just had to share with you as well. I love that there seems to be more documentaries out focusing on health and talking about the (true) epidemics facing us - that most illnesses, conditions, and diseases can be cured/reversed if we're willing to change our habits, most of which are our daily diets. So many people don't get this . Anyway, Forks over Knives is the documentary and features Dr. T. Colin Campbell (co-author, " The China Study ") and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (author, " Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease ") as well as many other doctors and nutritional experts, including Dr. Neal Barnard who is part of the Blog Posse at Crazy Sexy Life . By the way, love the title of this film. So fitting. Below is the trailer but in case you're somewhere you can't view it, here is the synopsis .

Updated: The girls over at Pure2Raw are having a giveaway ! Yippee! Check it out. Crazy days! I've had lots of things going on lately so as per my usual, I haven't been writing a whole darn lot. :) I sure enjoy visiting many of my blog friends though. Always a treat. Seeing/reading all of your blogs I AM SO EXCITED to get back into the kitchen and start whipping up some raw culinary delights! Currently, I'm not where I want to be with raw yet and since I'm nursing still I want to be careful with how I venture back into it. I also have a plan to do things differently to ensure success: i.e. menu planning, designated prep and D-days (dehydrating) and also storage (making extra of stuff to always have on hand). Print: Peter Seal Today, I received my sample pack of The Morrocco Method shampoos and conditioners and other fun goodies. If you're familiar with Kristen's Raw she did a review of the line here . And if you're not familiar with Kristen's Raw, WHY?...