Mar Vista Mom » Whining N Dining http://marvistamom.com If it's in Mar Vista, it's on Mar Vista Mom. Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The No-Waste Lunch Box Giveaway! http://marvistamom.com/2009/10/20/the-no-waste-lunch-box-giveaway/ http://marvistamom.com/2009/10/20/the-no-waste-lunch-box-giveaway/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:44:53 +0000 Mar Vista Mom http://marvistamom.com/?p=1139 Continue reading →]]> The Green Booth at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market was all about lunches last Sunday! Annie Barnes of InspireTheChange.com and I co-hosted the booth and were joined by Jennifer Taggert of TheSmartMama.com, Elizabeth Rietz of WhiningNDining.com, Emily Carey of ScrappyNaps, and Melissa Davis of Melissa’s Food Blog. lunch box displayWe had the following products donated by their wonderful manufacturers and distributers so we could show them off to all of you who came to the market. And now I’m giving them away! Check it all out:

The GoodByn lunch box: GoodByn lunch boxThe Laptop lunch box Bento system: Laptop lunch boxSnack Taxis platsic bag alternatives (3 sets of 1 sandwich size and 1 snack size): snack taxi setsThe Tasty Lunch Tote by Built: tasty lunch tote by BuiltA ScrappyNap placemat and napkin set: (Donated by Emily Carey) scrappynap openscrappynap rolled upA bottle of Rebel Green Fruit and Veggie Clean spray: (Donated by Jennifer Taggert, who also sells it on her website.) Rebel Green Fruit and Veggie CleanAnd 2 Klean Kanteens (an 18-oz. and a 12-oz.): (Donated by BuyGreen.com, where you can buy them any time.)18-oz. Klean Kanteen12-oz. Klean KanteenAnd now for the RULES:

Just leave a comment below letting me know which item you want to win. If you want to win several of them, list them all in the same comment, please. The contest will run through next Monday, October 26th at 11:59pm Pacific Time. Winners will be chosen at random and announced next Tuesday, October 27th right here. Be sure to leave me an email address so I can contact you for shipping details when you win.

Disclosure Statement: I do not work for any of the companies that donated products. They have not given me anything in return for mentioning their products. I simply wrote to them, asked if they would send me something to show off and then giveaway, and they said yes. (Those who said no are not being mentioned here.) I’m grateful to those who donated these cool products! Now, LET THE CONTEST BEGIN!

UPDATE: The contest is now closed. Thank you for entering!

]]> http://marvistamom.com/2009/10/20/the-no-waste-lunch-box-giveaway/feed/ 18 Mar Vista Farmer’s Market Wrap-Up 10/18/09 http://marvistamom.com/2009/10/18/mar-vista-farmers-market-wrap-up-101809/ http://marvistamom.com/2009/10/18/mar-vista-farmers-market-wrap-up-101809/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:15:29 +0000 Mar Vista Mom http://marvistamom.com/?p=1120 Continue reading →]]> Today’s shopper is Dr. Susanne Bennett, a holistic chiropractor who also founded a line of skin care products called Purigenex. She’s going to make her organic heirloom tomato bolognese sauce.  Dr. Susanne BennettShe starts with 6 – 7 cloves of garlic, minced, garlicand about 2/3 of a yellow onion, chopped organic yellow onionsand sautes them in grape seed oil in a big iron wok. As they start to soften, she adds ground organic, free range sirloin beef she gets from Whole Foods. (Note: if you’d prefer to make this a vegetarian meal then just skip the meat — the rest of the recipe is the same.)  Once the meat is browned, she adds 5 – 6 tomatoes, which she’s chopped and removed most of the seeds. tomatoes!She cooks this for about 30 minutes and then adds about 1/3 cup of this amazing organic tomato paste from Italy called Bionaturae (which by the way comes in a glass jar). The she adds salt and pepper to taste, then some chopped italian parsley, oregano and rosemary, and at this point she adds about 1/2 cup of olive oil. Dr. Bennett says the grapeseed oil is better for the initial cooking because it can go to a higher temperature; the olive oil is great to add at this point because it helps thicken the sauce and it’s being used at a point that won’t expose it to high heat. Basil goes in at the very end, chopped slightly, and then again for a garnish as you serve it. basilShe serves it over brown rice pasta. It sounds fantastic and I wish I had some right now!

Today in the Green Booth I co-hosted (along with Annie Barnes of Inspire The Change) a group of Mom Bloggers presenting ideas for No-Waste lunches. Mom bloggers at the Green BoothThis is us: Me (Mar Vista Mom), Emily Carey of ScrappyNaps, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama, Melissa Davis of Melissa’s Food Blog, and Annie Barnes of Inspire The Change.) Elizabeth Rietz of Whining N Dining joined us later as well. We had many donated products on display (which we’ll be giving away next week — check back on both our blogs), as well as products we currently use in our own kids’ lunches. no-waste lunch boxesCheck back Tuesday for the contest to begin! We’ll be giving away a GoodByn lunch box, a GoGreen Lunch box, a Laptop Lunch box, 3 sets of Snack Taxis, a ScrappyNaps placemat and napkin set, 2 Kleen Kanteen drink bottles (courtesy of BuyGreen), a bottle of Fruit and Veggie Clean spray from Rebel Green, a Tasty Lunch Tote by Built and 2 Rubbermaid Litterless drink bottles.

Save The Dates: The Farmer’s Market will be holding TWO festivals on the next TWO Sundays. Next Sunday (10/25) is their annual Halloween celebration and November 1st is their Day Of The Dead extravaganza. Don’t miss either one!

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