My first giveaway!

It's here! My first giveaway! But first you have to read about my hopefully not-too-boring food! Alternatively you could just scroll down to the giveaway, but why would you want to do that? That's no fun. I promise I'll make this post interesting! ;-)

I started my day with a lovely bowl of oatmeal:


1/2 C oats
2 tsp ground flax
1 TB carob chips
1 TB soy nuts
1/3 C 2% Greek yogurt
1 TB (?) Peanut butter
1 TB (?) Noni juice

Notice the clearance sticker. I saw that it was marked down to $5 from $20 at RiteAid, so I decided to try it. I figured it couldn't hurt, and I'm sure there are some good nutrients in it. It's honestly kind of gross to just mix with water and drink like juice (I tried this!), but with just a little mixed into oatmeal it's not too bad.

Bowl of oats with coffee. Sounds like a painting name. Like "Still life with oatmeal." Hah!


Yesterday I had a similar bowl of oatmeal for breakfast:



Add a fig and banana to today's breakfast and substitute the PB for Sunflower Seed butter and they would have been identical. Meh, sorry that was kind of boring I guess. ;-)

I baby-sat yesterday from 8:30-12:30 and had a large handful of mixed nuts and some of an apple (cut up 3 ways for snack time!). On the drive to the gym I had this bar:


I got a wussy workout in of 30 minutes on the Expresso bikes (my legs are/were sore--in a good way--to the point of failing so biking was sort of a joke!) plus some good ab work in. So now since I've worked out my legs on Sunday and Monday, my arms/upper body on Monday, and my abs yesterday EVERY muscle in my body is sore today! :) I don't actually mind it, I feel great really! I just have no clue what my workout at the gym is going to be today. I'm heading there right after this post, so I'll let you all know.

I came home and ate this bowl of the last of my barley and cabbage/tofu mix. Sorry for the poor picture quality. I also topped it with TJ roasted red pepper hummus. Yes, it was eaten at my computer. Surely I'm not the only one who read blogs/e-mails while eating?


On my drive to teach I had a Luna bar and an apple.



And now for the exciting part!! My first giveaway! I have a jar of P.B. Loco Premium All-natural Jungle Banana flavored Peanut Butter and several favorite bars of mine which are also frequently seen around the blogging world. P.B. Loco Peanut Butters contain no trans fat, are low in sugar, and are delicious! Full product and company information can be found here. The selection of bars is:

• LARABAR-Cherry Pie
• PURE-Cherry Cashew
• Luna-Chocolate Raspberry
• Luna-Chocolate Peppermint Stick
• NuGo-Chocolate Banana (a locally made all-natural bar that's delicious!)
• Raw Revolution-Chocolate & Coconut

P.B.Loco up close and personal:


There are two things you need to do to be entered.

First, leave me a comment on this post. Let me know your favorite nutrition bar, or your favorite genre of music or musical artist, or anything else I'd find interesting. :)

Secondly, you MUST also link back to this giveaway on your blog and tell me you did so in your comment, or let me know in your comment if you don't have a blog.

For an additional entry, because who doesn't love peanut butter, add me to your blog roll and follow me on Blogger, and make sure to mention that you did so in your comment.

I'm going to keep the giveaway open for a while, in order for people to have the chance to enter, because if I'm honest, I really want to generate some more readers to my blog! So you have three weeks from today to enter, the deadline being Wednesday, May 13th at 12 noon EST. I will select one random winner shortly after the deadline with a random integer generator. I hope you're as excited about my giveaway as I am!! :)

And in other blog news, there are a couple of giveaways happening.

Erin at Mrs. Cox's Slice of Heaven is giving away cupcakes! These look beyond amazing, especially for chocoholics like me! :)

Missy Maintains is giving away an Always Infinity gift bag. Chocolate is involved. Hence me linking back. ;-)

And you can request a sample of Barney Butter here!! I can't wait to receive mine! I've heard so much about it in the blog world and I adore ALL kinds of nut butters!

I will leave you with one more Carly Patterson beam routine. There is a sense of calmness about her routine that actually calms ME down just watching it. It surpasses beautiful and goes into the realm of the divine. I'm not even exaggerating. I have no words for how wonderful it is. I hope it moves you as much as it did me.