Trader Joes and Hours Old Puppy Pics!

Two super fun things to share with you today!  But first make sure you enter my giveaway!  They are E-books – so ANYONE anywhere can win it!!    So far there are not many entries so keep them coming!  (Ps.  This is open to everyone, not just bloggers).

So I mentioned the other day that the hubby went to Trader Joes and came home with goodies for me!!   And wow.. goodies I did receive!

3 glorious bags of goodies!

Bag #1 included;

1 bottle of red and 1 bottle of white wine

1 six pack of beer (for him)

3 bags of seaweed snacks – which for the record are AMAZING!

Bag #2

DRIED FRUIT!

Freeze dried mangos and pineapple

Dried unsulfured apricots

dried wild blueberries x2, dried mango, dried cherries

and the most amazing thing EVER flattened bananas!

I’m pretty sure I could live off of these, especially with sunflower seed butter!

Also included in bag #2

Sesame Covered Almonds and Cashews (which unfortunately contain butter)

Peanut butter cups for the hubby

Olives stuffed with garlic (mmmmm)

And Thai Lime and Chili Cashews (drools)

Bag # 3 included;

2x Goddess Dressing

2x pineapple salsa

Green salsa and red

2x sunflower seed butter

21 Seasoning Salute

I think that’s everything!! What an amazing score hey?  He’s  the best!

Amazing – I wish I lived near a TJ – apparently all this stuff came to under $100!!

 

I know so far 2 things I will have on my list will be;

Flattened Banana’s and the Seaweed Snacks – they are both amazing!

What is your favourite Trader Joe’s items?

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My other fun thing – On Monday we got a very special invite!

One of the ladies I was doing my practicum with (who is amazing for the record) invited us to see her dog’s, few hour old puppies!!    There were 9 of them in total and it was incredible.

I have never seen anything like it!! 9 little bundles of grunting, eye’s closed cuteness!

The pictures aren’t the best, as I didn’t want to disturb mama too much!   She was amazing though – very gentle and sweet.

I could have stayed for hours!! But both mama and my friend were pretty tired as the whole birthing process took from 10 – 3am!

It was such a beautiful thing! 

I asked if I could come visit to take pictures of them as they start to grow up!

She is selling them, if you need a little golden retriever love in your life! And you would know they came from a very loving home!! 

I promise to post more pictures as they turn into little bundles of fluffy love!

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Don’t forget about the giveaway!

Have you ever seen baby puppies before or any other animal that was born a few hours earlier?

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!!

Pizza Party!

Happy Monday! I say that with a smile because I am DONE!!

Moving on.

I’m sorry about not being able to comment on my blog.  Something wacky is going on and I have no idea what?  I’m trying to install a new comment section so I can reply to your comments too, so if you want to comment, please come to facebook!

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By now everyone should know about my love for PIZZA!

The hubby has been gone for the whole week but I was lucky enough to have one of my BFF’s in town visiting and we had an AMAZING TIME!  She kept me busy!

One night we decided to do a PIZZA party and fun happened!

The one thing that I love about this friend – whenever we are together we laugh bunches – just like we did when we were 15.  On top of that, she is a photographer,  foodie and works with kids – so we have lots in common.

Anyways, pizza making was no different – we had a great time!

 

Our pizza’s were very different – but they both looked amazing non the less;

T’s included Italian salad dressing as the base – mushrooms and cheese!

Mine was hummus base – zucchini, onion, mushrooms, artichoke, sundried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes – Herb de Providence.

So good!

Who says pizza with no cheese isn’t good?  When the hummus cooks – it gives the feeling of cheese to the pizza – at least the creaminess!  

This pizza is awesome cold too!!

I’d share the crust recipe (the BEST crust recipe I’ve found) but it’s found on the back of the pizza yeast jar!

Hope you enjoyed!

ps. Wednesday I’ll have up all my Trader Joe’s goodies!  Rumour has it that the hubby brought me back TONS of goodies! SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!

Dairy Free Blog Resources

Hi guys!

So I thought it would be fun if I did a dairy free blog shout out!  I’m not going to post all the vegan blogs – there are too many, but just specific dairy free ones!   I hope you enjoy them!  If you know of any dairy free blogs that I missed – please let me know!

Dairy Freed – a new to me blog, but it looks like he has loads of dairy free recipes!

Dairy Free Diva – she hasn’t posted in awhile, but has a bunch of great recipes kicking around her blog!

Go Dairy Free – the place I started out on my dairy free living! =Funny, I still don’t have her cookbook though!

Penny Pinching Epicure – Rella is so sweet, and makes mouth watering, wallet friendly recipes!

Farty Girl = She’s funny and awesome and I like her! 

Life Without Ice Cream – Best title ever… because if you are dairy free – this is just how you feel… *sigh*

And a new to me one The Non Dairy Queen!  I know I read this when I first started, glad to have found it again!

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Dairy Free Cooking

Baking With Sneakers

Dairy Free Omnivore

 

And *coughs* Dairy Free Betty is a pretty ok one,  but you are here already, so you must know about it already!

 

LINK DROP – do it…. I want to know every dairy free blog out there!

PS – I’m noticing that my comments are not working    So please feel free to link drop on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/dairy.free.betty 

PS.  GIVEAWAY coming up on Tuesday!  There are 2 prizes to be won!!

What I’m loving Saturday!

Thank you so much for the “DONE SCHOOL” wishes!  You guys are an amazing bunch!! I almost don’t know what I’ll do with myself,  I’m sure I will figure something out though!  I know the past 10 months of sitting on my beeeeeeeeehind has helped me gain about 10-15 pounds (UGG).   Motivation time – Smoothies – zumba – fresh juice – walking – maybe running?  That’s my future!

Anywhoo.. moving on…………

It seemed like everyone really enjoyed my last “What I’m loving post” so here is another set of photos from my Pintrest.

 

Best book on Earth! Seriously if you haven’t read it… it has all the answers to life in it!  

So I went to the Thrift store and it was $5 bag day!  Among the other things I got,  I got a shirt very similar to this but in black… what do I wear it with?  (it JUST covers my butt)

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My mantra for this very second..

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Can I please do my wedding over again?  How GORGEOUS is this?

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Perfect Summer List I think!! <source> Click to enlarge!

Such a cute outfit!! I find so many awesome styles on Pintrest! <source>

Lastly – how amazing of an idea is this for summer?  YES PLEASE!!  Self serve lemonade! Brilliance!

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Have a fantastic weekend guys!! Get out and enjoy it!

It’s FRIDAY

Have you heard this song yet?

It is SO incredibly terrible, but catchy at the same time.  Every time Friday rolls around, I sing it all day!  Ugg..

It’s Friday  - you know what that means?  It’s my LAST DAY of practicum and school!! I am a free women as of 2:45 today!!  I cannot believe I made it, this has been one of the most challenging years of my entire life!!

School was something I kept putting off, in fear of failing.  I never felt smart, as well as I have never been good at finishing things that I have started!   Well folks, I did it, and with a mainly B-/A average to boot!!  

Graduation is on the 23rd, and you be I will be posting photos!

Anyways! I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s random post, because I have another one for you today!

Now introducing…

More curry!! – Haha yes, I am a curry freak!! And Dave is too, so why not?

This one had tofu, veggies and pineapple! YUM

I also took a stab at the chickpea cookies floating around blogland lately!  I think they originally came from the lovely Purple Bird Dog blog!

I didn’t follow the rules – haha – no big surprise!

I used some different ingredients including.

and

BTW – this is soooooooooooooo good!!

Otherwise I followed the recipe!

I was madly in love with them straight out of the oven, and then fell out of love after they weren’t warm anymore.  They ended up going moldy on the counter (oops).

I really loved them at first though, I’m not sure why I stopped eating them,  I will have to give the recipe a go again.  I did boast they were my favourite cookies ever.   Weird.

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There have been lots more kale chips in my world lately too… I do love them (to the moon and back). Once again, if you have tried store bought and gotten turned off, make them yourself, I promise they are better!

And TACOS!  Dave’s brilliant idea!

Ground turkey and zucchini – with taco seasoning, salsa, cabbage and daily cheese (icky).

Served with a bunch of greens and watered down kale chips sauce and craisins!

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Another super easy quick meal.

This is one of my favourite pub meals.

Thai chicken wraps.

I took left over chicken and  cooked it in a pan with stir fry noodles and sweet chilli sauce!

Wrapped up with a piece of lettuce and wrapped in a wrap!

It drips all down your arms and is fantastic!! (not lunch friendly though, unless you pack the wrap separately!)

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Lastly

Lance wants to say hi!

Smirky…

Handsome smiles!

His distracted – yet sophisticated face!

Well now that I am almost a free women – I am hoping to do lots of cooking and summer recipe creating (aka – hopefully lots of raw goodies!).

Any suggestions?

Happy Friday – enjoy your weekend!!  

Favourite quote for today and a good thing to remember…

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