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Deliciously Vitalicious {Giveaway}

September 4, 2009 By

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Vitalicious® Inc. is the market leader of innovative “vital and delicious” baked goods that promote a healthy lifestyle, without sacrificing taste. First to market with 100-calorie servings, Vitalicious® is leading the way to a holistic approach to maximize satisfaction with minimum calories, with products that are low fat and high in fiber and nutrients.

You know how a normal day goes: lots of errands to run and little time to sit down and prepare food, especially snacks. As a busy mom who is trying to lose weight, it is so hard for me to find quick, pre-packaged snacks that aren’t full of empty calories or chemically altered “fake” sugar (I’m a little paranoid about having high doses of that stuff). I first heard about Vitalicious through Hungry Girl’s site. Vitalicious was so kind to send me a SuperSampler box to try out their delicious products.

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The Super Sampler contains:
4 Low Fat VitaBrownies
2 Low Fat Chocolate Fig VitaTops NEW!
2 Low Fat Banana Nut VitaTops NEW!
2 Low Fat Double Chocolate Dream VitaTops
2 Low Fat Deep Chocolate VitaTops
2 Low Fat Fudgy Peanut Butter Chip VitaTops
2 Low Fat Golden Corn VitaTops
2 Low Fat CranBran VitaTops
2 Low Fat AppleBerry VitaTops
2 Low Fat MultiBran VitaTops
2 Low Fat BlueBran VitaTops

Vitalicious offers you delicious low calorie servings that are not only filling, but are a great source of vitamins. They are healthy, so don’t expect loads of sugar, but the quality and the calories saved makes up for the lack of tons of sugar. If you are really trying to slide by a healthy snack on your family, I say stick with the chocolate flavored Vitatops for some reason with chocolate it is a lot easier to hide the health factor. Their chocolate Vitatops are a big hit with Hungry Girl. My favorite of the non-chocolate variety are the CranBran and Banana Nut Vitatops. My husband isn’t a big fan of healthy snacks, but he ate the VitaBrownies and actually liked them. I was so shocked! I’m looking forward to trying out their VitaMix muffins, so that I can try to make their Carrot-Ginger VitaCupcakes and Blueberry Cheesecake Muffin. Here is a really cool fact – all it takes to walk off the 80-100 Calorie 2oz Vitamuffin or Vitatop is 13-15 minutes! Vitalicious products are Kosher Certified & all Natural with no artificial additives or preservatives.

Two Busy Mom readers will win a SuperSampler Pack and a pound of Vitalicious’ new coffee.

How to enter (required):
• Fill out this quick entry form: Busy Mom/Vitalicious Entry Form. Come back here and let us know you filled it out.

Extra entries (make sure to make separate comments for each):
• Subscribe to Busy Mom through email (you must activate) – 1 entry
• Favorite Busy Mom on Technorati (leave your username) – 1 entry
• Follow Busy Mom on Twitter AND tweet about this contest. “@busymomblog is giving away a Vitalicious SuperSampler Pack and 1 lb. of Coffee – 2 winners http://bit.ly/2rXdW” You can tweet once daily. – 1 entry per day
• Follow @Vitamuffin on Twitter – 1 entry
• Blog about this giveaway and include a link to Busy Mom and Vitalicious. – 5 entries

Vote for Busy Mom at Divine Caroline! – 1 entry By Parenting

Sorry, but this giveaway is only open to US Residents only. Contest ends on Sun., Sept. 27, 2009 at 11:59pm EST.

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Here are your random numbers:

127
52

Timestamp: 2009-12-08 19:04:56 UTC

The winners are…

127 – Cathy W. says:

September 9, 2009 at 8:56 pm (Edit)

I follow on Twitter (taterbugtx) and tweeted.
http://twitter.com/taterbugtx/status/3877770366

52 – whimsy*couture*sewing*tutorials says:

September 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm (Edit)

I filled out the entry form from Vitalicious!

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Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

August 21, 2009 By

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A few months ago I had tried a Chicken and Gnocchi soup at Olive Garden that I really liked. Gnocchi (pronounced nyoh key) is a potato dumpling. The other day I was sitting at home craving the soup and decided to take it upon myself to find out if anyone else has figured out how to make something similar at home. The great thing about this recipe is that when you are planning to make the soup – you can chop up the veggies the night before and pre-cook your chicken or buy chicken that is already cooked. The soup cooks pretty quickly, so it is an easy meal to make.

Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

Ingredients:

  • 3-4 chicken breasts, cooked and diced
  • 4 cups of chicken broth
  • 1 stalk of celery, diced
  • 1 garlic clove, chopped
  • 1 carrot, shredded
  • 1/2 onion, diced
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon of thyme
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 16 ounces of potato gnocchi (found in the grocery aisle with pastas)
  • 1 1/2 cups of half and half
  • 1/2 cup of heavy cream
  • 1 cup of fresh spinach, chopped

Directions:

  • Saute the onion, celery, garlic, carrot and onion in oil over medium heat.
  • Add chicken, chicken broth, and thyme. Heat to boiling, then add gnocchi. Gently boil for 4 minutes, then turn down to a simmer for 5 minutes.
  • Add half and half and heavy cream and simmer for another 5 minutes.
  • Add spinach and cook for another 1-2 minutes until spinach is wilted.
  • Serve and enjoy!

Recipe adapted from Recipezaar

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Monkey Bread Recipe

August 9, 2009 By

monkeybreadMy boys woke up WAY earlier than I’d hoped this morning, but what’s a mom to do? I cleared off the dining room table, made myself a cup of hot chocolate, and sat back and watched my boys make me breakfast!

Monkey bread has been one of my favorites since I was a little girl and it’s so easy that even my 3-year old and 5-year old could do it with minimal assistance.

We enjoyed our monkey bread with a glass of cold milk but I’m told it’s good with coffee too. The boys could not be prouder that they made this themselves!

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. Cinnamon
  • 4 Cans of refrigerator biscuit dough
  • 1/2 Cup butter
  • Optional: Chopped pecans or raisins

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease or butter the inside of a bundt pan or tube pan.
  3. Combine cinnamon and sugar in a large Ziploc bag or a bowl with a tight lid.
  4. Break each of the raw biscuits into 3-4 pieces and drop in the cinnamon/sugar mixture a few at a time. Seal the bag or bowl and shake to coat all pieces. Drop the coated dough into the pan.
  5. If you’re using nuts or raisins, sprinkle them evenly around the pan after about half of the dough is in.
  6. When all of the biscuits are coated and in the pan, melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture and bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
  7. Pour the cinnamon/sugar/butter “syrup” evenly over the dough in the pan.
  8. Bake for 30-40 minutes. The top should be slightly crunchy and the biscuits should be done.
  9. Let sit in the pan for a few minutes to cool, then carefully turn out onto a cake plate. Be very careful as any “syrup” that drips out of the pan will be VERY hot and VERY sticky.
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