Apples, Quinoa & a Giveaway!

Today I’m hungry for my 1st giveaway!!   When I started blogging on June 7th with less than 30 followers on Twitter, I decided I’d have my 1st giveaway once I had 100 followers on Twitter.  Well, I have about 170 followers now and I’m overdue for this giveaway!  I know 170 followers isn’t a lot compared to many of the bloggers out there but I’m proud of my blog growth and truly appreciate each of my readers.  If you read and don’t comment, please say hello sometime or email me.  I’d really love to hear from you.

You can read this post to learn more about my jump into blogging and my decision to attend the Healthy Living Summit (HLS) in Chicago one week from today!  In honor of all this goodness, I’d like to shout out to Kath since her blog is the 1st one that hooked me.  Her dedication to blogging and choices to live a healthy lifestyle inspire me everyday.  There are countless other bloggers who inspire me as well, including Caitlin over at Healthy Tipping Point.  Did you see her on the Today Show yesterday morning?  Awesome interview.  Yesterday I bought a copy of her new book, Operation Beautiful.

On the shelf.

Brought it home.

The Marketing Communications Manager from JAZZ Apple contacted me weeks ago after I published this post and let me know they’d be in Dallas for a tasting event at Central Market.  Billy and I were jazzed to support our favorite apple and have lunch at our favorite market.  You can check out their Facebook page for more info about tasting events.

They even gave me this awesome tote.

Back to lunch – Central Market has an incredible salad bar.  It’s huge.

3 types of quinoa salad.

I can’t resist the Latin Chipotle.  It has big chunks of avocado.

Hummus galore.

Asian-inspired selections.

Freshest of fresh fruits.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Remember in yesterday’s post, Bar Basics 101, when I said how overwhelming it can be to choose a bar from the massive selection?  Example A:

I also mentioned an all-time favorite bar, 18 Rabbits.  I haven’t had luck finding them anywhere in Dallas…until yesterday!  So sneaky since they are on the granola aisle instead of in the sea of bars.

Yippppeeee!

OK, you’ve waited long enough for this giveaway.  I found these mugs a couple of weeks ago at Crate & Barrel and immediately knew they’d be perfect for this.

If there’s one thing I know it’s that bloggers LOVE breakfast!!

Starbucks sent me some samples of their new Natural Fusions flavored coffee.

*edited (people have asked): A PR rep for Starbucks contacted me after reading my blog and offered to send me these samples.  She let me know that this line of coffee is “the first of its kind naturally flavored with real ingredients ground right in to make three coffee-forward flavors – caramel, vanilla and cinnamon.” It will be available in stores starting in September.

I’m a cinnamon fanatic so I’m going to keep that one to try myself but want to share the vanilla and caramel flavors with 2 readers.

I also want to share 2 of my favorite products so I’m including two 18 Rabbits bars and two packets of Justin’s – 1 peanut butter, 1 almond butter.

There will be 2 winners.  One for the green vanilla cup:

and one for the orange caramel cup:

There are 4 ways to enter the giveaway:

1. Please leave a comment on this post telling me how you would use the Justin’s packets of nut butter.

2. Follow me on Twitter @dorrybird.

3. Tweet about the giveaway. Ex. “@dorrybird is having a giveaway at Living With Healthy Hunger! http://wp.me/p10nGk-wY”

4. Link to this giveaway in a post on your blog.

I will pick 2 winners next Wednesday, August 11th.

Good luck and thanks for reading!

Tagged as: 18 Rabbits, Central Market, Giveaway, Healthy Living Summit, JAZZ Apples, Justin's almond butter, Operation Beautiful, Starbucks