Cooking Planit Spice Giveaway - Enter Now!

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I don't know what we're having for dinner until about an hour before we eat. Even with all the pinning and food blog reading I do, sometimes I just lack dinner time inspiration. A few weeks ago, I mentioned Cooking Planit, a super interactive site that brings closure to your what's-for-dinner-woes (and mine) as a digital cooking assistant. This site (or the corresponding cooking app) allows you to do menu planning, find recipes, plan grocery shopping trips, and time each piece and part of your meal to be done together. Whether you're looking for weeknight cooking ideas or dinner party planning, this site will do everything, but cook for you! The folks who created this site are really geniuses. You know what else they are? Super generous.

They have agreed to let me give one lucky reader a set of 26 kitchen spices. How awesome is that? I think you'll love these spices; because, as we all know, flavor (or lack therof) can seriously make or break a recipe. If I put a plain chicken breast on a plate next to some plain steamed veggies, that's going to be much less appealing than cajun chicken cozied up next to some veggies sautéed with garlic and onion powders. See what I mean? Anywho, not only am I able to give away a spice set - 49 other bloggers are taking part in this MEGA giveaway as well (see the chart below to gain additional entries). 50 spice sets total will be given away to some lucky, lucky readers!

See what you get if you are 1 of 50 lucky winners:

See how you enter:
a Rafflecopter giveaway

See who else is playing along:

2013 COOKING PLANIT SPICE GIVEAWAY PARTICIPANTS
	Start	Stop	Flight 1	Flight 2
1	3/6/13	3/12/13	Sophistishe	Field and Feast
2	3/7/13	3/13/13	The Wicked Noodle	The Cooking Planit Blog
3	3/8/13	3/14/13	The Aliso Kitchen	Slow Down & Savor
4	3/9/13	3/15/13	Chicago Foodie Sisters	Jessiker Bakes
5	3/10/13	3/16/13	My Happily Ever After the End	The Food Yenta
6	3/11/13	3/17/13	Notes from Maggie’s Farm	Food Fash
7	3/12/13	3/18/13	My Kitchen Addictions	What Jew Wanna Eat
8	3/13/13	3/19/13	Bite Sized Blog	Nicole’s Nickels
9	3/14/13	3/20/13	A Busy Mom of Two	Food Squeeze
10	3/15/13	3/21/13	Kasey’s Kitchen	Kitchen Concoctions
11	3/16/13	3/22/13	Daily Ups & Pounds	Lisa Cooking
12	3/17/13	3/23/13	Ditch the Box	Huppie Mama
13	3/18/13	3/24/13	Hungry Hutch	Food Fetish
14	3/19/13	3/25/13	Cook the Blog	Three Diets. One Dinner
15	3/20/13	3/26/13	Sugarfoot Eats	Gear Live
16	3/21/13	3/27/13	CopyKat Recipes	The Mouthy Housewives
17	3/22/13	3/28/13	Burnt Apple	The Butterfly Mom
18	3/23/13	3/29/13	The Mama Report	Ancestral Chef
19	3/24/13	3/30/13	A Food Centric Life	We Like To Cook
20	3/25/13	3/31/13	Dixie Chik Cooks	Baby Boomster
21	3/26/13	4/1/13	Unorganized Mommy of 3	Much Ado About Fooding
22	3/27/13	4/2/13	Better with Butter	The Primlani Kitichen
23	3/28/13	4/3/13	Mother Would Know	California Country Gal
24	3/29/13	4/4/13	Yi Reservation	NY Foodgasm
25	3/30/13	4/5/13	ME Redone	Creative Cullinary

- GOOD LUCK -

*I was gifted the prize for this contest as a promotion.

One super spicy giveaway ~ coming right up!

When we first started clean eating, I fixed a lot of (boring) boneless skinless chicken breasts for dinner. I didn't know what else to make back then and went with what was safe. In order to keep my family from suffering dinner table induced boredom, I made the chicken somewhat interesting by switching up the spices each night (Mexican chicken, Italian chicken, Lebanese chicken, Rosemary chicken...you get the picture). All those random spices that I picked up when we got married nine years ago all of the sudden became very useful. With that, I'm SO excited to announce my upcoming giveaway, knowing that many of you clean eaters or clean eating hopefuls may be having the same dilemma as you get started. We've expanded our household menu to include much more than chicken, these days, but I'm still a huge spice fanatic! Experimenting with kitchen spices makes clean eating fun. :)

The awesome folks over at Cooking Planit have arranged a MEGA giveaway on this blog, and 49 others. If you haven't been over to Cooking Planit yet, you need to go! They've made it super easy to meal plan, grocery shop, follow recipes and sync your cooking/shopping/planning across all your devices. How awesome is that? For techies like me that can hardly cook (or shop) without my iPhone or iPad in hand - this site rocks! Not only are they awesome, they're super generous, too! They're giving one winner from each participating blog a set of 26 spices that every kitchen should have (see below). AND, you can enter on each participating blog. That's fifty chances to win, y'all! Now, that's spicy alright!

How do the contests work? 

Each participating site will run their own unique 7-day contest with a winner being announced on the eighth day. That’s 50 total contests and 50 chances to win! 

Our contest will begin on March 16th so check back Saturday the 16th for details.  In the meantime, be sure to check out these other blogs for details during their contest period and 49 other chances to win.

2013 COOKING PLANIT SPICE GIVEAWAY PARTICIPANTS
	Start	Stop	Flight 1	Flight 2
1	3/6/13	3/12/13	Sophistishe	Field and Feast
2	3/7/13	3/13/13	The Wicked Noodle	The Cooking Planit Blog
3	3/8/13	3/14/13	The Aliso Kitchen	Slow Down & Savor
4	3/9/13	3/15/13	Chicago Foodie Sisters	Jessiker Bakes
5	3/10/13	3/16/13	My Happily Ever After the End	The Food Yenta
6	3/11/13	3/17/13	Notes from Maggie’s Farm	Food Fash
7	3/12/13	3/18/13	My Kitchen Addictions	What Jew Wanna Eat
8	3/13/13	3/19/13	Bite Sized Blog	Nicole’s Nickels
9	3/14/13	3/20/13	A Busy Mom of Two	Food Squeeze
10	3/15/13	3/21/13	Kasey’s Kitchen	Kitchen Concoctions
11	3/16/13	3/22/13	Daily Ups & Pounds	Lisa Cooking
12	3/17/13	3/23/13	Ditch the Box	Huppie Mama
13	3/18/13	3/24/13	Hungry Hutch	Food Fetish
14	3/19/13	3/25/13	Cook the Blog	Three Diets. One Dinner
15	3/20/13	3/26/13	Sugarfoot Eats	Gear Live
16	3/21/13	3/27/13	CopyKat Recipes	The Mouthy Housewives
17	3/22/13	3/28/13	Burnt Apple	The Butterfly Mom
18	3/23/13	3/29/13	The Mama Report	Ancestral Chef
19	3/24/13	3/30/13	A Food Centric Life	We Like To Cook
20	3/25/13	3/31/13	Dixie Chik Cooks	Baby Boomster
21	3/26/13	4/1/13	Unorganized Mommy of 3	Much Ado About Fooding
22	3/27/13	4/2/13	Better with Butter	The Primlani Kitichen
23	3/28/13	4/3/13	Mother Would Know	California Country Gal
24	3/29/13	4/4/13	Yi Reservation	NY Foodgasm
25	3/30/13	4/5/13	ME Redone	Creative Cullinary

*I was gifted the prize for this contest.

It's Kick-Off Time...Girls Crochet Headbands GIVEAWAY Style!

You've heard this from me before, but I just can't say it enough...if you have a little girl in your life, you MUST visit my friends at Girls Crochet Headbands. These folks are SO awesome and keep my three girls totally outfitted in cuteness when it comes to fashion accessories (much more beyond headbands). I was super excited to do a giveaway with them a few months ago, review some awesome products and share the GCH love with one of my readers. Now, I'm delighted to announce that we're working together on yet another fun project!

Girls Crochet Headbands wants to bring a little girly fun to the NFL playoffs! Now through midnight January 25^th, you can pin a dream girly football outfit from Girls Crochet Headbands for a chance to win the entire outfit. Here’s how to enter:

1. Create a Pinterest board and title it “Girls Crochet Headbands Dream Football Outfit Contest” 
2. Pin an entire football-themed outfit from products on the Girls Crochet Headbands website – include any products you want; be creative!
3. Tag @Girls Crochet Headbands in the comments section of each pin. 

The contest ends on Friday, January 25^th, 2013 at midnight. The GCH staff will choose a winner from all the submitted boards, and the winner will receive their entire dream outfit in time for the Super Bowl!

To celebrate this fun contest, I’m hosting a fun Girls Crochet Headbands giveaway here on the blog as well! One lucky winner will win this adorable Football Fan Package onesie and hat! To enter, simply leave a comment below telling me who your favorite football team is. One winner will be chosen randomly on Monday, January 21^st at 6 p.m. Head on over to follow Girls Crochet Headbands on Pinterest and create your Dream Football Outfit Contest board. (Or see their example board here.) While you’re at it, you can also follow them on Facebook or subscribe to their email newsletter so you never miss a deal.

Thanks for playing, everyone!