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The Super Breakfast Bowl Challenge

January 31st, 2010

Are you ready to get challenged?!? NO … really—are you?! Because we are ready to have some true healthifying blogger fun!!!

So—what’s the dealio with this so called “challenge?”

Okay—here’s the 411.

Five of us nutrition ladies—Jessica at A Fete For Food, Janel at Eat Well with Janel, Elizabeth at Don’t White Sugar Coat It, Lindsey at Healthy Blog Snack, and Corinne at Green Grapes Blog, invite YOU to take the Super Breakfast Bowl Challenge! If you accept, you’ll incorporate a food that typically doesn’t make it onto your breakfast plate or into your usual b-fast bowl—or hey, if you’re really in a jam … your hand or napkin. Simply put, as long as ya eat breakfast within an hour of your rise-n-shine time, incorporate the chosen breakfast item, and send us a pic of your b-fast duds along with its recipe within six days of the highlighted item’s post—you’re good to go and eligible for prizes!!!!!!!!!!

Woo-hoo! Yes, we said prizes.

The Deal

But, before we get on to prizes, let’s talk a lot more nitty-gritty, shall we??? I know—details, details, details…

Starting next week—on February 8^th—we’ll each have a day where we’ll post why our ingredient is AWESOME and invite you to use the ingredient in your breakfast within the upcoming week.

The Five Super Breakfast Bowl Challenge Ingredients, Revealed:

Avocado – Monday, February 8^th
- Pics and recipes needed Sunday, February 14^th
Flax Seed – Tuesday, February 9^th
- Pics and recipes needed Monday, February 15^th
Lentils – Wednesday, February 10^th
- Pics and recipes needed Tuesday, February 16^th
Quinoa – Thursday, February 11^th
- Pics and recipes needed Wednesday, February 17^th
Walnuts – Friday, February 12^th
- Pics and recipes needed Thursday, February 18^th

Now, to get clout and be eligible to receive a FAB prize—you’ll need to send a pic of your breakfast item along with its recipe to thesuperbreakfastbowlchallenge@gmail.com within six days of the ingredient’s post date (noted above).

So for example, if I write about the avocado’s awesomeness next Monday, then you have until Sunday to send in a pic of your avocado breakfast goodness! AND—if you win, on Monday, the picture of your breakfast along with its recipe will be posted on ALL of our blogs!

So… Basically…

Each “ingredient post” will appear on each of our 5 blogs and each person who sends in a breakfast pic with the chosen ingredient AND recipe will be eligible for a prize! But … wait, there’s more! The winner—chosen by a random number generator—will be featured on ALL of our blogs along with your name and blog/website name, if ya got one.

Don’t ya love it?!? Cooking experience, health, creativity, great prizes, and free publicity all in one!

So, if ya use all five ingredients and submit a pic each time, you’ll have FIVE opportunities to win some pretty fabulous items—if I don’t say so myself! Plus, get publicity across the blogosphere!

PRIZE TIME!

Now, what you’ve all been waiting for!

Below are the items you could nab if you enter each Super Breakfast Bowl Challenge!

Avocado: The Chef’n Vibe Avocado Slicer courtesy of Kitchen Stuff Plus + lots of Newman’s Own Organics fun + an avocado gift pack courtesy of Avocados from Mexico!
Flax Seed: Fantastic Vega Products and Purely Elizabeth’s Perfect Pancake Mix
and A wonderful Mighty Leaf Tea Top Brew Mug!
Lentils: A truly terrific text, Thrive—The Vegan Nutrition Guide and the book 101 Optimal Life Foods by Registered Dietitian Dave Grotto.
Quinoa: Newman’s Own Organics loot—everything from delicious, decadent, dark chocolate to dried fruit!
Walnuts: Mollie Katzen’s get cooking. cookbook and a jar of walnut butter and a jar of chocolate walnut butter, courtesy of Futters Nut Butters

GO ON—Challenge yourself to a Super Breakfast Bowl!

There’s never a time like the present! Send us your Super Breakfast Bowl Challenge pics with their recipe—come on now, you must share the health—and you could win some good loot in addition to some good ol’ blogger fun!

We’re looking forward to hearing about your breakfast creations!!!

Lindsey at Healthy Blog Snack

Jessica at A Fete For Food

Corinne at Green Grapes Blog

Janel at Eat Well with Janel

Elizabeth at Don’t White Sugar Coat It

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Happy Breakfast Bowl Snacking!

Lindsey

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Creamy Quinoa Breakfast Pudding

April 30th, 2009

I mentioned this yummy breakfast treat the other morning and received so many requests for the recipe, I’ve decided to oblige. So here it is – Creamy Quinoa Breakfast Pudding!

But first, before I get to the recipe, let me give a quick crash-course on the magic of quinoa, for all of you quinoa virgins out there.

Chenopodium Plant

Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah) is a small, round, whole-grain, that comes from the Chenopodium plant (above), and is a protein POWERHOUSE. It is the only grain that contains all 9 essential amino acids, making it a complete protein. Vegetarians rejoice! It is also gluten-free (gluten is the protein found in food grains), making it an excellent and nutritious grain option for those with gluten-sensitivities. It’s even been said that “while no single food can supply all of the essential life-sustaining nutrients, it comes as close as any other in the vegetable or animal kingdom.”

It only takes about 15 minutes to cook 1 cup of quinoa, but before you toss it in the pot, make sure you first rinse it thoroughly. Quinoa is covered with a bitter residue, called saponin, which causes the quinoa to taste very unpalatable if not rinsed before it is cooked.

Two options for rinsing: 1) Use a small-screened sieve, or 2) if you don’t have one of those, try placing a coffee filter inside your pasta strainer. Just be sure whatever you do, the strainer holes are small enough so that the quinoa kernels don’t slip through and slide down the drain (Ah! Not wasted quinoa! What a crime!).

So what do you do with it? Eat it! To be more specific (and less snarky), quinoa is often served as a side-dish in place of rice, or as a fresh, cool, and crisp quinoa salad.

THIS recipe however, turns your run-of-the-mill quinoa side-dish on its head.
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