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Okay gang, I have decided to give away all three containers of the Click so you can be like the good little Energizer bunnies I know you can be.
With the help of The Randomizer, I am picking the winners at nap time today because it's quite like chaos in here right now.
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I have two seven day sample packs to give away. If you'd like one, comment on this post please.
Because? The spouse is home today, and won't quit doing his homework on the Mac, and I wanted to be lazy and pull names on video. And, the kids are coming home right now, which means chaos will ensue in approximately twenty minutes.
Wanna Free Shaker Cup? Click here and fill out the questions. I'm doing it now, because, I'm all about a free shaker cup. As for the protein, um, it's been about four years since I tried Spiru-tein. I remember it being the FIRST protein powder I ever tasted while freshly post-op, in serious physical pain from my weight loss surgery and nauseous.
When I see the containers of Spiru-tein at the store, I equate it with OMG, The Pain! The Vicodin! So. I haven't reviewed it. Maybe it's time.
I have, in my possession, a whole lot of Low Carb Specialties newest bars, which are described as:
"Decadence at a whole new level! The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Bar tastes and feels like a dark raspberry truffle. It melts in your mouth for an absolutely divine experience."
I had to giggle, because Jimmy Moore is on the wrapper of these bars. Jimmy Bars.
I opened, sniffed, I expected an over-whelming raspberry smell. It was a good mix of chocolate and a slight touch of raspberry. The bar looked great, nice and creamy. I immediately broke it by accident. These raspberry bars, as opposed to the other Low Carb Specialties Chocolate Bars, are much softer in texture. You can see in the photo that I cracked it and put it back together. :x
My first bite was taken a bit apprehensively, I wasn't sure if the "raspberry," would be intermingled in the chocolate, a "jelly," or something else, and I wanted to be completely neutral about my reaction. I bit into it like it was going to be a jelly donut, waiting for a squirt. It didn't happen.
What did happen - was a delightful surprise - the center of this bar? A dark chocolate raspberry truffle-like filling. It's not so much like a truffle, where the layers are totally separate, this chocolate is all mingled together, but it was different enough inside that I enjoyed letting it melt on my tongue.
Initially, I ate half a bar, to test the "digestive features" of this fiber-filled sugar-free dark chocolate bar. NO ROOM CLEARING GAS WAS PRODUCED. That's because, partly, due to the fact that there is no maltitol in Low Carb Specialties Products, but, with the fiber, it can cause gas, so I test the products in smaller quantities. I've eaten two full bars since, and I'm good! No farts! *happy dance* (Only on a weight loss surgery blog can we get away with discussing the farts caused by foods.)
I'm loving the Livin' La Vida Low Carb Dark Chocolate Raspberry bars.
Want some chocolate? Subscribe to my feed, and leave a comment on this post, I'll pick some names at random and announce them next week with a video post.
Here's another review from About.com, and one of my older reviews of the original Chocoperfection Low Carb Chocolate Bars, and also 77 reviews from Netrition.
And, some chocolate porn, (I realize that I could never be a criminal, my fingerprints are all over food photographs on the internet):
I tried to make a video for this giveaway, because I've been prompted to, "please, make some stupid videos, we like them, you're silly," but you know this sounds like an excuse: "I can't get the flipping camera to work on my laptop."
I am hereby giving the laptop about 60 give or take days to die completely, at which time Bob will wig out because he will be in a new class in his online college courses, and we cannot. share. our. toys. and he'll need to buy mama a new computer. I mean, this one was a replacement too, but, you get what you pay for, and when are technology companies going to come out with waterproof and kid-proof and Beth-proof product?
I need a portable, water-proofed, nearly in-destructable, anti-spam, anti-terrorist, super-duty, super-huge memory, wicked-fast, photo-editing, music-holding, baby-sitting, dinner-making, wireless computer that I can take camping and to the hospital for various infusions of body liquids that won't whimper at the sight of needles and burn my legs.
Anyway! On to important things! Like SNORTING POWDERED PEANUT BUTTAH!
VIDEO TO COME IN THIS VERY SPOT, IN DUBBED OVER BETH. I'm going to make in on his iMac which has a audio problem still. ;)
PS. If you didn't win this time - I am going to be giving away more, a lot more, PB2 in a few days.
Congratulations, Sarah (Sarahlicious07 at Yahoo Dot Com)! You win a big box of goodies.
I woulda taken photos of the event, but my winner picker went to bed because she did naughty things and she was super tired by the time I go to this, so I sorta just went down the list with my eyes shut and went "Eenie, meenie, miney, mo, this one."
Your box is ready. I am waiting on one more item to add, and it's off. Email me with a mailing address.
PS. The next contest will be very soon, come back to check and ready for more reader-participation, I am going to make you work.
If you're a fellow WLS'er, chances are, don't have much belly space for pasta, if at all - and if you do - it's got to be the good stuff. Pasta choices have grown exponentially recently with lots of great additions like, Ronzoni's Healthy Harvest Line. I will be posting a review, family-style of these pastas very soon. (As for us, we only eat whole grain pastas, so this is old hat to my house. My kids don't even bat an eye anymore.)
You want get a free box - or win a stash? Read on?
"Every four years, Leap Day gives us an extra 24 hours. This year, on February 29th, RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST® wants you to use that extra day – which is also the last day of Heart Health Month – to your heart’s advantage!
RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST® is encouraging everyone to take small leaps to heart health, so we’re offering a FREE box of RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST® pasta to every household in America on Leap Day! It’s easy to make the leap to whole grains with RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST®, already a great tasting whole-wheat blend pasta and now with ALA Omega-3 fatty acids. With flaxseed, six grams of fiber per serving and more than 70% of your daily requirement for whole grains, RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST® pasta is a healthier way to enjoy your favorite pasta dishes.
Simply purchase a box of RONZONI HEALTHY HARVEST® pasta at your local retailer on February 29, 2008 and mail in your receipt by March 15, 2008 with the downloadable claim form to receive your rebate! Then congratulate yourself on making a small leap to healthy!"
If you would like to be entered in the drawing for several boxes of Ronzoni Healthy Harvest, comment on this post with an example of something you've done to help your heart lately, or a healthy recipe. Good luck!
I had twenty three comment-ers on that ChocoPerfection post. I have twenty four bars.
You all win, sort of.
Email your mailing addresses, please, to me because I can't fit the bars through my modem.
(I am having another giveaway very soon, check back, like - tomorrow.)
Ends today.
For you, I have chocolate. Sinfully sweet, with no refined sugar, low carb ChocoPerfection.
You want some? Comment on this post with a link to your space on the interwebz. Don't have a blog yet? Why not? Go, make one.
Everyone has a story to tell. You may think your everyday life is boring and no one else would want to read about it - you are wrong - it's those stories that are usually the best to follow. Just think about the most successful blogs out there - they are so simple and yet - can you pull away? One that comes to mind for me? The Pioneer Woman. Simple, right? Yet, I read her feed as soon as it pops up. Simple living, simple recipes, gorgeous photos, that's it.
Other blogs bore me instantaneously and I scroll through posts looking for interesting or apparently "simple" things to read. Some blogs make you want to take an overdose of Benadryl, the droning on about housework and Little Madison's newest success on the potty! I realize I write a lot of stupid crap like that too, but it's not what I like to read, I am a supersonic scroller, thanks to my non-ADHD I tend to look for the most special-est part of a page and move on. Gee, I'm rambling...look a chicken!
So whassa point? Link to your own blathering in the comments. I have two dozen chocolate bars to give away. I don't know if I want to send one to each or a half dozen to four winners, let me choose, I like choosing things, it's my favorite.
*Blogger + Wordpress - they're free. Typepad has levels of free and not free, I think. If you feel the urge and I don't make you want to poke your eyes out with string cheese (that wouldn't hurt too bad) link to me.
Did you know Fiber One provides 57% of the average adults daily fiber requirement, has 0 grams of sugar and 60 calories per serving? And, you can hide it in your food, and your kid's food.
Not that I made a fiber-y meatloaf, I'm just sayin'.
(I do, and nobody ever notices.)
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