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**Updated!** Start the New Year Off Right::Healthy Pantry Giveaway

[ 67 ] 01/02/2010 |

Winners are posted below! Please contact me (melissa@shrinkingjeans.net) with you addresses! Congrats!

Happy New Year!

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We are all about new hopes and goals and starting fresh right now. What better time for another giveaway from The Healthy Pantry? At The Healthy Pantry, you can find meal kits for everything from Whole Grain Banana Bread to Smoked Salmon Frittata!

Recently, I whipped up the Whole Grain Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies. I say whipped up, because they were SO EASY to make. I am not a huge fan of cooking and baking, so in my eyes, the easier, the better!

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My kids gave the cookies two thumbs up and I thought they were great! Here are a few tips the CEO, Keith Lauvier, shared with me (he’s cool like that!):

1) If you prefer a chewier, thicker cookie: chill the dough for 15 minutes in a freezer and then form them into approx. 1″ rounds that are nearly 3/4″ tall.
2) If you prefer a crisper, flatter cookie: use the dough right after mixing or get it to room temp +.
3) The dough freezes great and can be cooked just fine from frozen. I typically only make 1/2 the batch and pull the rest out for a night like last night when the kids are calling for something…
4) My favorite thing is to press the dough into a pie pan (use only about 2/3 of the dough though) and just bake it till it’s slightly firm but still warm and gooey. Did I just say gooey?

Want a chance to try the cookies out for yourself? We are giving away TWO $25 gift cards to The Healthy Pantry! To enter, leave a comment below telling us what your biggest hope for 2010 is!

For extra entries (leave a separate comment for EACH entry):

  • Tweet about this giveaway (once per day!), here’s an example:  Start the new year off healthy with @shrinkingjeans and @healthy_pantry . Win one of TWO $25 gift cards! http://bit.ly/73GMc8
  • Follow The Healthy Pantry on Twitter.
  • Blog about this giveaway!
  • Become a fan of The Healthy Pantry on Facebook!

The contest will run through Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at 11:59 Pacific time. Two winners will be randomly selected and announced the following day! Good luck!

Disclosure:  I was sent healthy meal kits from The Healthy Pantry to review. The opinions expressed are my own.

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About Lissa: Melissa is the Co-Founder of Shrinking Kitchen and the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans She has been married for a dozen years and is mother to four children (15,12, 8 and 8), with more soon coming her way through the foster care system. Melissa has a love/hate relationship with food (okay, mostly candy) and cooking. This isn't improved by the fact that her husband, the true family chef, works in another city half the year, leaving Melissa to figure out how to feed her growing family something other than Pop-Tarts. Melissa loves her camera, enjoys traveling, kickboxing, creating beautiful things she finds on Pinterest, and planning her dream home that will be built… someday. melissa@shrinkingjeans.net :: @lissajoy :: whereverimaywander.com :: pinning here View author profile.

  • http://www.littleladybugthatcould.blogspot.com ladybugs714

    My biggest goal for 2010 is to have a baby or reach my ultimate goal weight of 125 lbs…will continue working towards both equally!

  • http://www.littleladybugthatcould.blogspot.com ladybugs714
  • http://www.littleladybugthatcould.blogspot.com ladybugs714

    I follow Healthy Pantry on twitter

  • mathmama

    My biggest goal for the year has nothing to do with health (except maybe mental!) – My goal is to get at least one (hopefully 2) publications this year – that will make tenure a little easier!

  • mathmama

    follow healthy pantry on twitter!

  • mathmama

    tweeted! @mathmama

  • Kirsten

    I tweeted!

  • http://www.melgetsfit.com TheDailyMel

    Even though I want to lose a big chunk of weight this year, my biggest hope for the year is to train for & finish the half marathon in San Diego with the TNT team here at the Sisterhood.

  • http://www.melgetsfit.com TheDailyMel
  • http://www.melgetsfit.com TheDailyMel

    I already follow the Healthy Pantry on Twitter.

  • http://www.melgetsfit.com TheDailyMel

    I'm also a fan on Facebook.

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  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan

    My biggest goal for 2010 is to get into the best shape of my life! I want to look good on the outside and feel good about my body on the inside. It's been way to long since I've been that way.

  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan
  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan

    Following The Healthy Pantry on Twitter!

  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan

    I'm a fan of The Healthy Pantry on Facebook!

  • Nancy

    My biggest hope for me is that I can continue on this journey with you ladies and come out on the other side a healthy, fit and smaller person.

  • Nancy

    I already follow Healthy Pantry on Twitter.

  • Nancy

    I'm a fan on Facebook now.

  • Nancy

    tweeted

  • reneeakacutiebootycakes

    In 2010 I am looking forward to the newer, healthier me! I will shed all of the weight I've been carrying for far too long!

  • reneeakacutiebootycakes

    I am following Healthy Pantry on twitter.

  • reneeakacutiebootycakes
  • reneeakacutiebootycakes

    I am a fan on Facebook.

  • joann412

    I want to maintain my weight loss and reach my goals weight. I lost 90 pounds to date and need to lose 9 more to reach goal.

  • anng

    My biggest goal for 2010 is to lose enough weight to be at my goal weight by the end of 2010.

  • keli_h

    my biggest hope for 2010 is to complete my first half-marathon and then keep up with my running through the rest of the year. maybe even do a few more races …

  • keli_h

    following healthy pantry on twitter!

  • babyboy3

    I want to lose weight and exercise regularly so I can be healthier and be a good example for my kids.

  • babyboy3

    I am a fan of healthy pantry on facebook.

  • JennyGirl

    Goal for 2010: have a normal BMI and complete a half marathon!

  • tiffanyzook

    My biggest hope is to achieve some sizeable fitness and weight goals…

  • tiffanyzook

    Facebook fan!

  • http://www.youravon.com/mdickey Margie D.

    My biggest goal is the same one I have had for the last few years with a better reason attached. I need to get this weight off so the pain in my leg, back and #@!% will go away. I know that if the weight comes off it will relieve the pressure on those nerves that are getting pinched by too much weight on their poor little bodies. So, that's it.

  • DALewis
  • DALewis

    following healthy pantry on twitter

  • DALewis

    2010 is the year I stop making excuses as to why I can't exercise, eat right, whatever. I know I can do this and I will do this. Positive thinking and zero excuses.

  • Nancy

    Just tweeted

  • allysonlyon

    I'm a fan on facebook

  • allysonlyon

    I'm following on twitter.

  • allysonlyon

    I tweeted about the giveaway.

  • allysonlyon

    My biggest hope is … that I can hold it all together. With such big changes in our life I am worried I'll flounder.

  • http://www.littleladybugthatcould.blogspot.com ladybugs714
  • moziesme

    My goal is to live more in the present.

    janemaritz at yahoo dot com

  • Maria

    My biggest hope for 2010 is to learn how to combine foods to have a healthy diet and to lose 20 pounds

  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan

    I blogged about the giveaway!
    http://www.unorganizedmomma.com/2010/01/you-don…

  • Erin P

    My goal is to run a half marathon. Also to weight train but stick with it this time

  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan
  • DALewis
  • allysonlyon

    tweet tweet tweeted!

  • Nancy

    Just tweeted again

  • http://www.unorganizedmomma.com Shan
  • http://www.twitter.com/jillyrh Jillyrh

    My biggest goal is to reach 135 weight loss goal

  • http://www.twitter.com/jillyrh Jillyrh
  • http://www.twitter.com/jillyrh Jillyrh

    Following The Healthy Pantry on twitter @jillyrh

  • http://www.twitter.com/jillyrh Jillyrh

    Fan of The Healthy Pantry on facebook (Jill BH)

  • allysonlyon

    Tweeted it!

  • jmiller2

    My biggest goal is to graduate seminary! May 17th here I come!

  • jmiller2
  • jmiller2

    I am now also following The Healthy Pantry on twitter!

  • DALewis
  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Winner!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Winner!

  • mathmama

    Totally getting a healthy start to this year!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Winner!

  • http://www.whooosthatgirl.com Lissa_ShrinkingJeans

    Winner!

  • mathmama

    Totally getting a healthy start to this year!