VegNews Celebration GIVEAWAY!

01Jul09

What up, what up, pups? Guess what today is…MY SIXTH MONTH BLOGIVERSARY! That’s right, SnackFace has been here to entertain you for six whole months now! A little overview of what’s happened:
-I acted in a play, Autobahn
-Modeled in a Five Star notebook photo shoot
-Almost got cast in a Long John Silver’s Commercial (thank goodness I didn’t, right?)
-Started and ended a loving relationship
-Celebrated MamaJ’s 50th!
-Watched my best friend achieve her biggest goal: she’s Editor-in-chief of our university’s newspaper now!
-Watched my baby bro graduate
-Chose between an internship at Cincinnati Magazine and VegNews Magazine
-Finished my Junior year on top (Dean’s list, yo)
-Moved out to San Francisco to live out a dream working for VegNews
-Started to become a runner
-Partied throughout these six months and loved every single minute
-Made incredible new friends I couldn’t live without
-Met Irishmen who have made me appreciate simple things like a brew and a laugh
-Ate delicious food and lots of it!
-Made the enormous decision to become vegan
-Am living the best days of my life
-Met all of you through writing about my days. I don’t care if they’re boring sometimes; I’m still sharing!

And who knows what else is going to happen! I have loved every moment of blogging, and I can’t imagine stopping doing it. That’s why I’m celebrating with a HUGE GIVEAWAY! Wanna know what you can win? Read through to the end of the post!

That’s right, you have to suffer through what I ate today first. Actually, I ate delicious food, so it shouldn’t be too bad! I’ll make it snappy.

After a lovely run and interval session, I showered, robed, examined a crop of zits on my chin (the hell..???) and then made a breakfast bowl:

Fruit and Kaboch

In the bowl: 1 juicy pear, four strawberries, about 1/4 cup kabocha and a Coconut Almond Butter Spice Sauce (almond buttah, shredded unsweetened coconut, almond milk, pumpkin pie spice). Oh yea, amazing!

Then, ya know, I went to work. I was pleasantly busy all the way until I had to make lunch. I made several firsts for me today:

I made lunch, yo!

What I’ve never done before this lunch: make rice in a rice cooker, use chipotles in adobo, make guacamole, fly by the seat of my pants when making lunch for others. It was fabulous! No, I’m not full of myself; I’m just proud! Look at zeese:

Ah!!! GUAC!!!

I can’t even believe I made guac. I’ve never played with avocados before, but I love how easily they scoop out! I mashed two avos with two roma tomatoes, one chipotle with adobo sauce, chili powder, paprika, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Delicious! I served it with a green salad, long brown rice, and a black bean-corn-roasted sweet potato chipotle salad. Heaven.

In the afternoon, I wrote stories and researched for a feature news story that I’ll pen for the website soon. After all the work, I came home hungry and wanting one thing:

Nutha Fu Floor Salad

Okay, gotta cut me some slack. I had zilch produce: romaine, last of my cucumber, last of my carrots, pan-seared tofu (just cooking spray today) and TJ’s bomb Peanut Ginger whatevuh dressing! After dinner I had 12 pounds of Stacy’s pita chips with Sabra’s roasted garlic hummus. Clearly, I’m back to my SnackFace ways! Told ya

GIVEAWAY TIME!!!!
To celebrate six months of blogging, the ever-fabulous VegNews magazine and the start of the 2009 Veggie Awards (VOTE!), I bring you… The Ultimate VegNews Gift Bag!

The winner will receive this bossy gift:
-One oversized VegNews tote bag (I use mine for my massive Trader Joe’s Trips!)
-An American Apparel VegNews tee (I don’t have one, but I want one so badly)
-Six JUMBO Alternative Baking Company cookies (I know these have two servings in one, but I love to eat the whole thing)
-The most recent issue of VegNews…and…
-A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO VEGNEWS MAGAZINE!!!!!!

I so want that giveaway, too! HOW TO WIN:
1) Comment on this post! Tell me what your favorite SNACK OF ALL TIME is. I don’t curr if it’s pita chips and hummus or Cooler Ranch Doritos. I wanna hear!
2) If you have a blog, linkback to this post. Ya’ll have more readers than I do, probably, and this is something everyone would love! I wouldn’t mind a SnackFace addition to your blogroll, either. I won’t peer pressure you, though. Just lemme know what’s poppin’!
3)One more chance for ALL: Comment again on this post to let me know that you voted in the 2009 Veggie Awards! Tell me your favorite category!

DEADLINE: You have ONE WEEK to win this veggie-ful giveaway: from July 1 to July 8, 11 pm!

Wow, I can’t even handle all the exclamation marks in this post. But it’s exciting, yaaa mean? The Veggie Awards polls open July 1 at 9am, so please vote. I’ll be posting the link every day this month It’s just not up yet! Okay, bedtime! Good luck, party people!

Ciao for now,

Kailey

 

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