Happy Valentines Day!!!!!

 
It’s Valentine’s Day which means GIVEAWAY DAY!!

I was so filled with warm fuzzies reading all of your random acts of kindness comments.  
Keep them going even though this contest is officially over!


I was going to do the random giveaway but there is one person that went WAY out of her way, to make a difference, I had to choose her!!

Jolene - EverydayFoodie said...

This is my post letting you know I sent 4 cards randomly yesterday!!!
 
Jolene randomly sent 4 beautiful cards, to random people she found in the phone book – Just imagine how much that will make those people’s day!! 
You are the winner my dear!!  - please email me your address!!  

Thank you for all your entries, you guys are amazing, keep the kindness going!

So Dave and I headed to Victoria this weekend to see Wilco in concert!

I had no idea who these guys were (other than Dave loved them) and they put on a great concert!! 
It was a lot of fun, they are SO talented and it was awesome watching the guitarist on the left – as I told D, he is living his dream and you can tell!!   

Other than that, we went to a really fun restaurant called JAPANESE VILLAGE!
They cook right in front of you!

The food was good… BUT  they slapped TONS of butter on to everything…  EVERYTHING…

I sat there in shock and then finally told them about my allergy, so they cooked my meal in the back. 
It was a little sad, as everyone was done before I got my meal!

The experience was cool – but I was so shocked at the amount of butter that I got a little worried about eating here.
I ended up eating a lot of rice and a bit of my dinner – and then gave the rest to some homeless guys (Dave’s idea) later that evening! 

Major warm fuzzies – I tell ya. 

The guys were SO excited “WE GET TO EAT FANCY RESTARANT FOOD”
I might have teared up a bit!!

We had a great time in Victoria, if you ever get a chance to visit, you should it’s such a great little city!  

It poured rain the whole time, so we grabbed an umbrella from the hotel, snuggled up under it and walked all over town!! 

Just about to head out in the rain!!!

Have a beautiful Valentines Day with the love of your life, Whether that’s your hunny, your kids, your best friend, your dog or best yet yourself!!
xo Jessica

It’s a kale kinda day!

First a quick reminder – Have you done your random act of kindness yet today? If so, enter the giveaway!!

I love that you guys love this idea!! Keep the kindness going!

So I’ve been attempting to eat more raw foods lately! I am going to post a challenge when the weather gets warmer for a 2 week 80% raw food challenge!  Are you interested?  I haven’t figured out all the details, but I have some pretty amazing raw foodies lined up to do guest posts!! :)

This is what I had for breaky today! 

I got the idea from someone’s? blog, and it was so good!

Avocado with agave, salt and pepper

OMG – so amazing I HIGHLY recommend this!

I also had a green monster!

Loads of spinach, water, strawberry, banana, barney butter and coconut butter (which ended up being little tiny YUMMY coconut chips in the smoothie) 

I felt lost after realizing that Amazing Grass and my stomach aren’t friends (pouts) and stopped drinking green monsters… so I am trying to get back in the habit!!

I’m also starting to make Dave some protein shakes

(minus the green)

I also made myself some more KALE CHIPS today! (which I’m snacking on right now!)

Preheat oven to 350.  Wash up kale and put on a baking sheet

Then massage in about 2 tsp oil, some salt and whatever spice you like!

Pop the kale into the oven for about 10 mins, then turn the oven off and leave them there until they are crispy!

Ketchup chips have been getting the best of me lately, I need another crunchy, salty snack and this is perfect!

Best part – it’s about 2x servings of DARK LEAFY GREENS!

Last but not least!   I am going to share with you a TOP SECRET salmon recipe that rocks!

Marinate your salmon with olive oil, soya sauce and WAY TO MUCH PEPPER (trust me on this) – Marinate if for a min of 1/2 hour.   Cook and enjoy – best salmon you’ll ever eat!

I served it with some of the risotto that Elizabeth send it her package! (with cute notes of course)

and kale… it was a fantastic dinner!

Ok guys, I must get to my to do list now!! 

Enough procrastination for this chick!

Don’t forget about my giveaway!  There are not very many entries so at this moment in time, your chances of winning are pretty fantastic! haha

Happy Monday

xo Jessica

Giveaway Winner!!

I love giveaways! 
First off it’s a great way to get to know something about someone (if you ask a question), a great way to get new (awesome) readers to your blog and I just love giving away stuff, so keep posted for many more giveaways in dairy free betty’s future!  More on that in a second…

I also wanted to announce that I
bought my domain name today
so this blog is officially www.dairyfreebetty.com!  
YAY!!  Bookmarks and such should stay the same,
but if you need to find me in a pinch, that’s all you need to know!

Ok back to the giveaway!!!
And the winner is…….
#2 Noelle – from here http://www.ameliefille.blogspot.com/

Yay congrats!!  Send me your address and I shall send off your package (which is big and yummy) this week!

Thanks for all the entries guys, you are all awesome!



I’m keeping this short and sweet today because I got a lot of great reading material yesterday!

I’ll post some yummy eats later!!  Ciao guys  Jess

Last night before giveaway!!

HELLLLLLLLO to all my new visitors... apparently being on the blog roll is a VERY good thing!! 

I've been super busy all day, but wanted to send out a reminder to enter the giveaway HERE!! 

Scroll to the bottom of the post to get to it quick!! 

I promise to post tomorrow morning to give you the low down on the 99% Dairy Free Turkey Dinner I am cooking tomorrow night for my family!!   (the 1% is the Pilsbury buiscuits I am making for my hunny)

Send me luck vibes too, it's my first time cooking dinner for 10ish peeps!!

Check back tomorrow morning to find out the WINNER!!!!!!!!!! 

I will leave you with some of my favorite Christmas pictures ever!! 

Christmas Eve two years ago... Mom and G-ma doing tequila shots!!

(and my old little blue truck, hi little blueberry)

 

 

I love this lady!!   She loved the tequila! 

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!! 

Jessica

Run awayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!

So I have been sitting here all morning contemplating running again!   I used to love it and have ran quite a few races - the longest one being 10km!!

The thing with my previous running history is having running buddies.  I love running with other people, but I don't really know many people who run anymore (at my slowish speed).  Which makes me wonder about Lance being my new running buddy, it would benefit him and me.   The only down fall... we ran this Fall together, and he tripped me...  Picture this - running down the road, feeling good... lots of cars driving by and a bunch of people walking on the other side of the street and Lance runs infront of me...  I fall OVER him - I got major road rash from my knee upto my chin...  I was soooooo humiliated that I got up and kept running... blood and all..    Ever since then I've been scared to run with that nutball, as I DO NOT want to recreate that situation. 

There are a bunch of races coming up in April/May here... I might look into them and get my butt going!!  They have to have shirts though, or I won't do it!! HAHAHA

I had some SUPER yummy food yesterday -  I cooked all day - and felt the need for a healthy boost of food!!

I took some spinach and cooked zucchini and cauliflower,

cooked up some falafel mix I had... and made some tahini dressing (tahini, lemon juice, nutritional  yeast, and a dash of honey)  and drizzled it over.. (and then took 6 hours of taking pictures)

Not bad for a point and shoot huh?

Here it is all mushed up

It tasted amazing, and because it was warm, it was kind of like comfort food..

Unfortunately it made my stomach upset. :(

There seems to be something else bugging it lately, as after I eat, it hurts :(

To make my tummy feel better and to get off my feet...  I painted my toes!!

I had a cute picture of them, but then I figured feet + food might be icky!!

  I love crazy colors like this in the winter... It's like wearing scandalous undies..

No one knows what fun is going on under your sox!! :) haha

Then for dinner I was craving burgers.. I finally tried one of these little hunnys

mmmmmm...  I loaded it up with carrots, cucumbers, sun dried tomatoes, mustard. 

 

Served with a side of sauteed kale and carrots.

It was good!!  I wouldn't eat it alone though, it needed some extra love.

I will buy them again though!!

I have also forgot about reviewing one of the clif bars I received the other day!

Chocolate Chip Peanut Crunch.

It was about a 6/10... not fantastic but not bad either.

I prefered the last flavor I tried for sure!!

That's all from me today!!  We have a big to - do list today!!

~Take clothes donation to Aids Vancouver Island - click for my post about this!! 

~Play squash - yay.... (maybe)

~Visit with a girlfriend I haven't seen FOREVER (miss you Neva)

~Finish up Christmas food shopping - eek

~Take the dog for a walk

~Visit Grandma and clean up her china cabinet.

~Go pay for school!! (and drop out of a few classes due to scheduling issues)

Before I forget... don't forget about my STARBUCKS GIVEAWAY!!

Please go to that link and comment there about it!!

If I get to 100 comments on that post - I will up the cards up to $10 each!!! 

Have a great Friday everyone!!

Jessica

Sugar and Spice... and another Giveaway!!

Well this morning has been a very sweet morning...

Started off with some of this

also insert chili flakes, ginger and nutmeg 

Which all mixed together looks like this

Keep cooking for awhile until you get...

 

Go visit OhSheGlows to find out this recipe!! 

Then I made some

 

bubbling hot (ouch I got a blister burn) caramel.. Dairy Free!

I did a mixture of earth balance, white sugar, maple syrup and salt.

Then I did a little of this

 

Followed by this

Next up chocolate...

then

Which made these

I couldn't waste the

So I...

 

to make these

Yum!!

This is now my fridge

One level just Christmas baking... plus a bunch in the freezer too!

Up next...

Want to win this?

I will be giving away 2 next Thursday!

They will both have $5 on them... which isn't much but hey, it's a free coffee!!

I promise to include a sweet note too!! hehe

A bunch of ways to win!!

And this is open to everyone!! Even my friends in Saudi Arabia!! (If you have Starbucks!)

Make sure to come back and post one comment for EVERY entry!! 

#1-Tweet about it (I want to win a Starbucks card @dairyfreebetty) with a link to this post.

This can be done once per day!!

#2-Add me to your blog roll!! 

#3-Become a follower (or tell me you already are!)

#4-Writing about it on your blog will get you double entries!! 

#5-Comment on this post-I want to know what your favorite Bucks drink is!! 

Thank you to Tasha @ Clean Eating Mama  for this great idea!!

See ya guys!! Thanks for your wonderful comments and emails!!! 

Drum Roll Please - Peanut Butter Give Away...

Today is going to be a fun post...   Give away, laughter yoga and food pics... what could be better?

All the names went into the draw- I went the old fashion way...  hehe

Drum Roll Please...

KRIS @ I heart Wellness!

Another BC blogger!!   

Email me  your address today so I can send the package off today or tomorrow!

 I love doing giveaways, so keep your eyes peeled for more!! :) 

On to "Laughter Yoga"

I love laughing...

I may or may not be a little drunk at a wedding in Mexico haha

If you love to laugh and have never heard of laughter yoga 

check out THIS link

 

Tracey @ Tropical Happiness did a whole post about it today, it's fantastic... Check it out!

If you don't have time to read the whole blog right now,

click on the following two links (that Tracey posted) and they are guaranteed to make your day!!

Metro Laugh - the beginning is slow but at about 2:15 it gets fantastic!

Laughing Baby sooooo cute!

I was laughing so hard at these that I started crying!! :)

I hope you guys love these... and gave Tracey at Tropical Happiness some love when you went to visit!!

I had a yummy lunch yesterday

2x eggs, high fiber pita, cucumber, hummus!

It was really yummy (and super filling)

Then I headed off and went to Starbucks for a soy chai - it was just ok, pretty watery

I also had half of this

Peanut Toffee Buzz Clif Bar - I give it a 9.5/10

It was one of the best tasting "energy bars" I've had before!

YUM!

I snacked pretty late and wasn't overly hungry for dinner...

I had a bunch of peanut butter and celery (I'm loving this right now)

and later on I warmed up some of my plum crumble from a few days ago

Yum, so warm and delicious!

I really wanted to write about "Random Acts of Kindess" today but I don't want this post to last forever,

so keep posted the next few days for it!!

I did think it was funny that writing about that was my "intention" today and

this was my yoga tea wisdom today!
 

What great words to end this post with today.

"Delight the world with YOUR kindness, grace and compassion"

~Do something kind for someone today~

Have a great day,

Jessica

Giveaways, discounts oh happy Monday!!

Good (chilly) morning!!

It's -10 here this morning,  that does not happen here, that's soo cold!!   I was super happy I could stay in bed and read 10,000000000 blogs!  There are so many fantastic bloggers out there!! 

I should really start a blog roll, to show some love..

Now I am happily writting this blog and watching "You are what you eat"  If you have never seen it it's a great show!!  It maybe a little extreme, but it's great!!

Anywhoo, after reading lots of blogs this morning, I found TONS of giveaways and I am planning on sharing with you lovelies!!   Also an amazing grass discount! :)   (there is a link my sidebar for the site) 

I will get to all that stuff...

Yesterday I made peppermint crunch cookies.

Basically you just take any sugar cookie recipe and add crunched up candy canes.  Yum...

I subbed the butter for apple sauce.

I used 1/2 ww flour + 1/2 white flour instead of all flour.

They were pretty good.  They didn't have sugar cookie flakiness but they were good!!

Lance was the master of the kitchen... making sure the cookies didn't burn!
 

After cookie baking, it was onto dinner.

I wasn't tooo hungry since maybe I ate a few cookies (someone had to try them out)

But I made a burger full of veggies and hummus

The burger was yummy, it was one of the super lean presidents choice burgers.

Downside - I ate red meat two times today... not smart, my tummy was not happy.

Today is going to be a meat free day!! 

I started off today with a yummy green monster;

small handful of almonds

1 date

3 frozen strawberries

1/2 a banana

spinach

1 scoop wheat grass

1/2 scoop berry kids flavor amazing grass just for a bit of extra flavor

water!

Whizzzzzzzzzzzz it up in the magic bullet blender!

Yummy, I love the addition of the date.

I have to be honest, I was not into drinking this this morning, it's so cold I wanted something warm.

But now I'm glad I did!!

Question for you. Some people think raw spinach is best for you, others think it should be steamed first. 

What's your thoughts on this?

Ok onto the giveaways!!!

Mine first!  Today is the final day to enter into the PEANUT BUTTER CUP GIVEAWAY

There are only 14 entries so there is a good chance to win... To be entered you can... 

#1 Comment on this post - telling me why you should get this give away! 

(and which size you would choose)

#2 Link this give away to your blog (and let me know you did)

UPDATE #3- if you are not subscribed to my blog - do it, (and let me know) and I will enter you into the giveaway!  

So if you are a newby to my blog, you can win 3 different ways!! :) 
 

Ok.. that's done.  

 

Onto 2 more giveaways... 

The twins at Pure 2 Raw are doing a yummy giveaway!!  

(if you win, you have to promise to share!) hehe

and

Allison at Eat Clean Live Green has a agave give away too - this stuff looks fab...

Both of these blogs are fantastic too, so make sure to check them out!! 

AND an amazing grass discount!! 

Jamie at Embracing Balance has a 15% off code for Amazing Grass products!! 

Her blog is one of my favorites, go say hi!!! :)

Hope your Mondays are going great!

I have a pretty big to do list today, so I should get to it!! :)

Don't forget the peanut butter cups!!

I'll be making them up tomorrow and hopefully sending them out tomorrowish.

The winner should have them by the weekend!! :)