No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars & a GIVEAWAY

 

One of my favorite things about blogging (other than being able to hopefully help people out) is that publishing companies often offer me up free review copies of their new cookbooks that have just or are about to be published!  When BenBella Books, Inc contacted me this time to check out the China Study Cookbook by T. Colin Campbell, PHD, I was super excited!

I read the China Study a few years ago – if you have not read this book please do.  It’s very eye opening.  From the website;

“In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Recognized as the most comprehensive nutritional study ever conducted on the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease, The China Study cuts through the haze of misinformation and examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by government entities, lobbies, and opportunistic scientists.”

After reading the book, I felt inspired to follow the ideas laid out in the book, I remember wishing that there were recipes at the end – so I could take steps towards living a more whole food, plant based life.

Fast forward a few years and they now have published a book that is the “Official Companion to the China Study” and I’m lucky enough to be able to share one of the yummy recipes with you & offer a giveaway for the cookbook for anyone in the US or Canada!

It was a natural choice for me to choose a peanut butter/chocolate recipe – because let’s face it – that combo cannot be beat!   Check out the recipe and see below for the giveaway!

No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars

Preparation time: 15 minutes | Chilling time: 1 hour

Makes 9 servings

These bars are rich, creamy, sweet, and satisfying—everything a dessert should be!

1 cup low-fat graham crackers, crushed

1/4 cup crushed walnuts

1/2 cup reduced-fat, unsweetened coconut

1/3 cup natural peanut butter

1/4 cup nondairy milk

1 cup nondairy chocolate chips

5 tablespoons rice or almond milk

1 | Crush graham crackers in food processor. In separate bowl, add walnuts, coconut, and peanut butter. Stir in crushed graham crackers.

2 | Slowly add milk and mix. If mixture does not hold together, continue adding additional milk until all ingredients stick together. However, don't make it too soft, and, if necessary, use your hands.

3 | Spread mixture evenly into a 9 × 9 nonstick baking dish.

4 | In a saucepan, melt chocolate chips together with rice or almond milk over medium heat. Stir until smooth.

5 | Spread chocolate mixture on top of peanut butter mixture. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until hardened. Cut into squares and enjoy!

 

To Enter the Giveaway

Leave a comment telling me about your favourite plant based recipe OR why you would want to win this book!   That’s it!  One Entry per person*****

Contest Closes Wednesday September 18th at 8pm! Winner will be announced on facebook and have 2 days to provide me with their address!

 

  *****YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE A BLOG TO ENTER!!  Just use the NAME/URL option and type in your name and your email address (which will never be shared!)

 

*Permission to publish recipe and use photo were given by BenBella Books, Inc

GIVEAWAY–Raw Rose E - Cookbook!

You might remember this time last year I did the basic and advanced Raw Rose Culinary Arts Program. You can read about it here!

During this 2 weeks, I ate some of the most amazing foods!

Spaghetti and “Neat”balls with Turmeric Salad

Raw chocolate fondue (for BREAKFAST!)

Nori Rolls

One of my FAVORITE foods ever – Raw Banana Lemon Pie – lucky you – the recipe is here

Burgers and “fries”

And SO much more – I ate copious amounts of food and green smoothies for the 2 weeks and I LOST weight and felt amazing!  

Plus the space is very ZEN’like – this is the view from the kitchen!

Anyways – moving on!!!!!!!!!!  Rose has another course coming up July 8-21st.

This includes 3 levels!

July 8-21  Basics, Advanced & Raw Chef Certification  (you can take 1, 2 or 3 of the levels)
or another option is Sept 23-26 Basic only.  This is located between Courtney and Campbell River on Vancouver Island!

Check out her Website for more info. or you can email her at rose@rawrose.com

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The GIVEWAY – 2 copies of the Raw Roses Uncooking E –Cookbook

Because it’s an E-Book it’s open to EVERYONE!

If you have been following my blog for awhile you’ll know that this is MY FAVORITE cookbook!  It’s unlike other Raw cookbooks that have odd ingredients and confusing recipes!

Anyways, Rose is sponsoring one of the E-books and I am sponsoring the other so you have 2 chances to win!

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You can choose to either enter through comments or on my facebook page – due to my comments STILL not working for everyone.  

How to win;

LEAVE A SEPARATE COMMENT FOR EACH

#1- Like Dairy Free Betty on Facebook &  Leave a comment  or go here to leave a comment telling me about your favourite RAW recipe (or something you would like to try).

#2 Tweet, Blog or Facebook about it and leave me the link to it! here (1 separate entry for each).

For Tweeting - I want to win a Raw Rose E-Cook Book @dairyfreebetty http://www.dairyfreebetty.com/2011/06/giveawayraw-rose-e-cookbook.html

#3 Check out Raw Roses website http://www.rawrose.com/ and tell me something about it here or here!

Winners will be drawn on Saturday June 18th.  PS This E-Book is downloaded to your computer – you don’t need a special E-book reader to get it!  Then you can even print it off if you like!

Good luck!!

Live Delicious!

 

The lovely company Book Pub Co. that has sent me some cookbooks to review has just started up a very awesome “LIVE DELICIOUS” campaign.

It’s focused on transitioning into a vegan lifestyle or just adding more plant based foods into your life…

First Check out this video…

 

While I don’t eat vegan, I do try to introduce lots of plant based goodies into my diet and try to eat as healthy as possible too!!

And I really like what Book Pub Co is doing with this campaign… if nothing else, these cookbooks have great new ideas for becoming healthier!

I think that everyone should pay attention to their body and eat accordingly! 

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ps. Vegan cookbooks are AWESOME for people who are dairy free –because a lot of times it’s easier to add meat into a recipe that it is to take out dairy!!

 

What’s in it for you???   You could win a free vegan cookbook just by entering your name and email address in the form on this page. There’s a drawing every month, so by signing up only once, you have multiple opportunities to Win.

The cookbooks you could win include:

The Natural Vegan Kitchen by Chrisine Waltermeyer
The 4-Ingredient Vegan by Maribeth Abrams
Speed Vegan by Alan Roettinger (I have this one and it’s FANTASTIC!)
Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina
Vegan in 30 Days by Sarah Taylor
Vegan Bodybuilding by Robert Cheeke

Want to know more?  Check them out on FACEBOOK

Keep an eye out for my review of a few of these cookbooks!!  With recipes included!!!

Enjoy,

Guest Post–Love Love Love

Hola!! 

Well we are in Mexico at this point,  spending the day at “Salsa and Salsas” and then off to our rehearsal dinner!  (btw any creepers, our house isn’t empty, it has friends saying as well as a 95 pound pitbull…  just saying )

I met Kirstina the other day via my facebook page and we immediately hit it off and exchanged about 100 emails!!  She’s a lovely person and as you’ll see SO beautiful and I was so excited when she agreed to do the Valentine’s Day post! 

I hope you enjoy!!  Stay tuned tomorrow, (WEDDING DAY!!) there may be a sneak peak of my dress popping up here!!

Hello DFB followers:) I'm Kristina from Life as Kristina a blog showcasing my life as a fitness junkie, food lover, bride to be, and everything in between!

The beautiful Jess and I connected a few days ago and swapped messages regarding all things wedding. After the zillion messages we shot back and forth we both agreed that all weddings have glitches, but in the end-you're marrying your best friend (insert your awwwwwww's here). 

Jess asked me to write a guest post for Valentines Day (while she's away getting MARRIED)...of course I said yes-this is Dairy Free Betty we're talking about!

It's Valentines day...so you have to expect some kind of mushiness in a guest post coming from someone who is getting married in t-3 months...prepare yourself.

What should you look for in a Valentine????

Someone who understands your wants…

 

and needs...

is always there to be concerned about the free food your well being...

Can always make you laugh...

Respects your lifestyle...

And it's always a bonus if they're willing to put a ring on it!

I hope you are all having a great Valentines Day!!! We all know Jess is basking in Wedding Bliss.

I’m not sure about the rest of you but I will be patiently waiting to stalk her wedding pictures….and see her in her gorgeous dress (I got a sneak peak).

Have a great day and check out my giveaway-one day left!

link- http://www.lifeaskristina.com/?p=958

What do you look for in a Valentine?

A Berry Good Smoothie (GIVEAWAY!)

Glad you guys enjoyed Bea’s guest post – there should be another one coming up when we are away for our wedding!!
I have a GIVEAWAY FOR YOU!!! And let’s just say, there will be 10-15 winners    ALL THE ENTRIES ARE FILLED!!

Do you love smoothies?

I do… although it’s a little chilly to drink them right now, they are PERFECT after a workout!


A BERRY GOOD SMOOTHIE
This one includes
1/2 frozen banana
4 frozen strawberries
1 tsp Macca Powder
1 TBSP BERRY FORCE from  Prairie Naturals
1 pitted date
1 cup  almond milk
1 tsp cinnamon! (SO GOOD IN SMOOTHIES!)
Oh, and a swack of spinach

All into the Vitamix……….. and blend……………

it was a tart, berry smoothie – tasted just like one from Booster Juice!! SO GOOD!!


Now… this berry force goodness – what’s it all about?

▪ Berry-Force contains 82% organic ingredients
▪ Berry-Force is a delicious organic superfood
▪ Berry-Force provides 3000 ORAC units per serving
▪ Berry-Force provides 2 grams of fibre in every serving
▪ Berry-Force contains no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives
▪ Berry-Force contains no artificial sweeteners or hidden sugars
▪ Berry-Force tastes amazing and offers convenience for active lifestyles



If you guys have been reading for awhile,  I’m not a huge fan (and neither is my stomach) of powders added to smoothies…  I tried a few different amazing grass products, and while it tasted good, it upset my stomach,  but I am loving this stuff!  It’s TART (no sugar added) and jam packed full of goodness! And it adds a smoothie bar type taste to your smoothie! (mmmmmm)
Now there is a suggestion to stir this into water – I haven’t had much luck with that, as it gets clumpy, but when I asked Kamelia at Prairie Naturals here is what she suggested…

“I usually add Berry Force to my cup with a 1/4 of bowling water, I give it a good stir and than add cold water.” 

Want to give it a try??? SORRY GUYS, all the entries are filled!!! :)

  Here is the deal!    The first 15 CANADIAN ONLY (finally a Canadian Only Giveaway!!) people to send me their address will be provided with a sample pack of this Berry Goodness, straight from the folks at Prairie Naturals!!   Send me an email at  blogname at hotmail dot com with your address and I will forward your info on to the BERRY good people at Prairie Naturals!

*Note – I did receive this product for free – but my review is 100% honest and always will be!  I even let the company know this before I accept to sample their products.

Share the goodies – GIVEAWAY ALERT!

Hey guys,

So as promised it’s giveaway time on DAIRY FREE BETTY!! WOOT! (yup I said it!)

A few months ago, I won a bunch of (awesome) products from tropical traditions.  One of the products I received had the top opened when I got it.   I emailed the company to see if it was just something that maybe happened during shipping and they immediately sent out another package with another jar and their AMAZING cinnamon lip gloss!! (great company alert)!

Because of all my blogger exchanges, and a peanut butter addiction, I have WAY too much peanut butter these days…

So I’m giving away this COCONUT PEANUT BUTTER goodness! It’s a big yummy jar!

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To enter the giveaway 

You must come back and let me know which ones you did!!

(please leave a separate comment for each entry!)

1) Go to the Tropical Traditions webpage and tell me something you would like to try!!

2) Become a follower of my blog, or tell me if you already are!

3)Follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/dairyfreebetty
 
4) TWEET about it  (Can be done once per day) @dairyfreebetty is giving away coconut peanut butter
http://www.dairyfreebetty.com/2010/03/share-goodies-giveaway-alert.html

5) Tell me what you would make with this yummy peanut butter if you won.

6) Blog about it and you get 2 extra entries!- if you do this, make sure the people visiting from your site tell me you referred them, and i will give you extra entries!!

This giveaway will end on my birthday (March 22nd) and I will be doing it the old fashion “name out of a hat” way!! - Open to Canadian and US residents!!

Now get out there and tell everyone you know!
You will love this stuff!

PS!!  Need some JAM to go with your peanut butter?? Jaime is giving away some delicious sounding jam!!
http://www.embracingbalance.com/2010/03/dst-and-super-giveaway.html