First Year Anniversary Giveaway! May 1st - 8th, 2014!
*This contest has ended. I hope that those who entered will stay awhile! 🙂
And to announce the winner!!!
Congratulations to Becky Nichols! I'm sure she will have many fun-filled afternoons in the kitchen and enjoy cooking from this cookbook!
Wow. I can't believe it's been a whole year already! Plus 100,000+ views on my blog, and over 10,000+ people following my page on Facebook - - three major milestones all came together at once! 😀 I'm shocked and amazed and I sincerely thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart!!
I think that all of this calls for a celebration, don't you? 😀 So I've decided that I'm going to have my very first Giveaway! This will be open to ALL, (and not limited to the U.S.), who have completed just three simple things to qualify!
The 3 Simple Rules:
1. You must Like my Facebook page.
2. You must subscribe to my blog.
3. You must post a comment to this blog page and tell me why you'd like to win this book, or simply just say hello! 😀
*This Giveaway will be running from Thursday, May 1st 8am EST, through Thursday, May 8th noon EST. Contest winner will be announced on Friday, May 9th, at noon EST and will be chosen by random drawing.
**Also note that email addresses for blog subscribing are for my eyes only, are kept PRIVATE, and NOT shared to any other parties whatsoever.
I think that about covers it and should be pretty easy! 😀
Since I'm not a big-time-pro-blogger and don't receive extravagant gifts like Kitchen Aid mixers or $250.00 gift cards from high-end companies, this is something straight from me that I purchased myself that I just thought a lot of people would really enjoy, especially this time of year! *Taste of Home magazine has nothing to do with this Giveaway, this is just from me, personally. 😉
So, for my First "Blogiversary", I've chosen to give away a brand new hardcover copy of....
~ * ~ Taste of Home's "Healthy Cooking 2014 Annual Recipes" cookbook! ~ * ~
This fantastic, 272 page, hardcover cookbook has over 400 recipes including 60 lightened-up desserts, and even 50 never-before-published recipes!
*Taste of Home has taken the time to provide nutritional facts, diabetic exchanges, and uses icons to point out low-sodium, low-carb, low-fat and even meatless dishes to help you find what you're looking for even easier!
Would you like to take a peek inside? Here's a sneak peek at just a few of the categories that randomly caught my eye! There are 17 categories total! And by the way, this book is beautifully illustrated and every recipe has a photo! 😉
I even went so far as to make and test an easy recipe myself for you just for fun yesterday afternoon on a whim, that I literally closed my eyes and opened the book to! (*Not kidding!) I had everything on hand, as there were no difficult nor odd ingredients, and it was truly delicious!! The recipe for this outstanding, low-fat and diabetic friendly, "Ranch Chicken Salad Sandwich", can be found on page 47! Here it is below! :
And here are 5 Top Recipes of my own that were among the Most Popular this year from my Blog! 😀
Grilled Stuffed Pineapple with Sausage, Peppers, Red Onion, & Sweet ‘n Sour Poppy Seed Sauce
Restaurant-Style Prime Rib
Summertime Beer-Battered Fried Zucchini with Honey-Mustard Ranch Dipping Sauce
Walkin’ Wings!™
Best Old-Fashioned Nooks ‘n Crannies Apple Cake with Pecans & 5-Minute Homemade Caramel Sauce
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So gosh....I guess this concludes my first year!! Wowzers. 227 recipes in one year!! I have worked VERY hard! And what an amazingly fun journey it's been! I'll be sprucing up my blog for you soon, and my first change and goal will be to provide a more updated and better way to print out my recipes! I promise! And I always keep my promises!! 😉 😀
Thanks all so very much for being here with me, helping me and supporting me, and making my first year a success! But most importantly, I hope that I have helped even just one person. That's what it's all about. 😉 I hope to do even better this next year! 😀 Love to all! 😀 ~Kelly
Thanks all for participating! Hope you've not only enjoyed the Giveaway, but have enjoyed reading a few of my blog posts while you were here! I hope that you'll stick around and that I continue to provide you with recipes for all occasions! May you have a most wonderful spring day! 🙂
love cookbooks of all kinds......
Taste of home is my favorite go-to cookbook. I have a lot of them, but not this one yet. Always awesome recipes and easy.
This would be an awesome cook book to win! Full of great healthy recipes!
Lots of tasty recipes.
I do not have many talents, but the one that I do have is cooking. I would love to win this giveaway to share with my daughter and daughter-in-law.
Happy Anniversary...liked you on facebook and subscribed to your blog! Would love more healthy recipes and this cookbook would be GREAT!!! 🙂
Happy Anniversary:) Thanks for hosting an awesome useful giveaway!
sara rai
I liked you on facebook, I subscribe to your email and I would love to win this cookbook!
Hi, Happy 1 year blog anniversary! I would love to win this because I love Taste of Home, and I'm always looking for new and healthy meal ideas to feed my family.
I have enjoyed your recipes many times. Some I find unhealthy and glad your give away is healthy recipes. Since my bariatric surgery of 'sleeve" partial gastrectomy, I still like to cook for my family but want them healthier and smaller portions as I have been forced to do with this surgical tool. Tasty and healthy too is the key I believe.
i am sorry for posting before congratulating you on your anniversary! congratulations! no surprise to your success as you post amazing recipes. here's hoping there are many more anniversaries to celebrate.
what an awesome triple play!!! your wonderful facebook page, blog, and taste of home healthy cookbook! i would love to win this because, simply, for health reasons. being a heart patient and having emphyzema, i am also terribly overweight...obese according to my doctors. because of my medical conditions, i am not able to exercise enough to help with the weight problem, the best way to help myself is through an improved diet. i spend a lot of time looking for healthier meals and having a book with healthy meals from you and taste of home, would help a lot. good luck to all those who enter. and thank you for offering such a great contest.
Hello. I love taste of home and you have a neat blog. XOXO
Hi, Congrats on so many followers, I am doing the same, a giveaway when I reach 500 likes, I just started following your great page, I love to bake and cook, this book would be a great addition to my collection..Thanks so much for the giveaway:)
A big congrats on you anniversary Kelly. The pictures of this cookbook look so tempting, and your posts are wonderful!
The healthy cooking concept ties in very well with our slimming clubs. Our goal is to help people gain back their lives by living a healthy one. What a treasure!
This style of cooking ties very well with our program at slimming clubs. Our goal is to help people gain back their lives by living a healthy one. What a treasure!
I use so many of your recipes< both from the old days at the 'zaar and your newer ones)on a regular basis. You're a regular at our table! keep up the good work.
I have been following you almost from the start & really tried hard to help you win the "mushroom disaster" contest. I feel you really put your heart & soul into everything you post and I would be PROUD to own your cookbook <3
You have inspired many meals.
Hello,
I love to try new recipes! My family has been trying to eat healthier, less processed foods, so always looking for something new to try!
I love Taste of Home and I am a subscriber, and I collect cookbooks. But I don't have this one. 🙂
Happy Anniversary Kelly! Such Beautiful foods and great photography - keep up the great work! 🙂 Diane
I love seeing your recipes every day on FB. I LOVE to cook for my family, and having 3 kids who are NOT picky eaters, I don't have to fear trying new recipes. The bright colors in your cookbook make me want to have that open on my kitchen counter every day. Congrats on 1 year!
I'm always looking for great recipes for my family because my kids are VERY picky and it's hard to find stuff they like and from the few recipes I've seen I know my kids would eat at least one if not more
What a great accomplishment and so highly deserved. Your posts all look so mouth watering... Thanks for the opportunity to win this wonderful cookbook ~ Marlys.
Would love to win, the picture on the front of the book is soooooooooooo tempting and looks so good I can only imagine what the rest of the recipes are like. 🙂
Thanks for a great year all!! And good luck to each of you! 😀
It's always fun to win something. A healthy cooking book is (light) icing on the cake!
I love Taste of Home! Thanks for doing this giveaway. Love your Blog