Giveaway: Win a One Year Subscription to the CHEESESLAVE Menu Mailer – $85 Value!
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UPDATE: The giveaway is now closed.
Whew! Am I ever busy these past few weeks. It’s been a lot of work prepping for the Weston A. Price conference. I have lots of irons in the fire and am so excited about all the ways I’m going to be helping people in the new year.
One of the things I’m launching is a “menu mailer”. A menu mailer is essentially a cookbook combined with a menu planner and shopping list. It is especially helpful to those of us who cook traditional food. As you all know, it isn’t just opening a can or a box and throwing something in the microwave. It takes planning and preparation. And it is more labor-intensive than when you rely on modern convenience foods.
The menu mailer will be launched December 6, 2009. However, I’m sending out the first mailer on Sunday, November 22 (2 weeks prior to the week listed — to give you time to shop and prepare).
(Thanks to my dear mother-in-law, Nancy, for encouraging me to do this. She’s right about every business instinct she has. I appreciate you, Bubbe! And YES I am including Bubbe’s recipes for chopped liver, latkes and brisket in the December menu mailer, for a Hanukkah menu. Seriously, her chopped liver was the best liver I’ve ever had. Did not taste like liver AT ALL. Truly delicious — I could not stop eating it!)
CHEESESLAVE Menu Mailer Features
Three full dinner menus each week plus 1 dessert or breakfast recipe – I want to throw in some breakfast recipes because we all need more breakfast ideas.
Coupons – I’m working with our Real Food Media sponsors to line up special discounts and coupon codes that you will, as a subscriber, have access to EVERY month.
Weekly shopping guide – Printable guide with your shopping list organized by category
Advance delivery – You’ll receive the menu mailer a full 2 weeks in advance – which will give you plenty of time to shop and even order stuff online, as well as start soaking and sprouting, as needed.
Mostly easy, with some challenging recipes – Most menus will be easy but I’m including one per week that will be a little harder and/or more time/consuming (special occasion or fancier meals like Roast Duck w/ Cherry Sauce or Tacos with Homemade Tortillas).
SUPER nutrient-dense – ALL the meals will be nutrient dense (bone broth/fermented foods/pastured eggs & dairy/unrefined sweeteners/etc.) but up to once per week I will do a super-nutrient dense meal including super foods like liver or other organ meat or shellfish or fish eggs. As Kelly the Kitchen Kop says, “Time to put on your big girl panties!”
Budget-friendly – Most menus will be budget-friendly, with tips on how to save money on ingredients. Some meals will cost more (like holiday meals or shellfish) but I’ll include tips on how to save money on those as well.
Kid-friendly – Most menus are kid-friendly (chicken nuggets, french fries, chili cheese dogs, sprouted flour pizza) but some are more adventurous (things like roasted bone marrow or sushi or Moules a la Mariniere,) to help expand your family’s palette.
Seasonal – Gazpacho soup and pesto pizza in summer and butternut squash soup in fall.
Special holiday menus – I’m planning Christmas (tamales for Christmas Eve, British Prime Rib & Figgy Pudding w/ Hard Sauce for Christmas Eve) & Hanukkah (Bubbe’s famous chopped liver, brisket, and potato latkes with sour cream and apple sauce) as well as Valentine’s Day, Easter & Fourth of July menus.
Regional menus from around the world – French, Italian (Northern and Southern), Spanish, Southern Home Cooking (pulled pork sandwiches & sweet potato fries), Thai, Mediterranean, Creole, TexMex (chili & cornbread), Vietnamese, Japanese (real miso soup from scratch & salmon teriyaki).
Flexible – I’ll include easier options when possible (if you don’t want to or don’t have time to make the corn tortillas, there will also be an option to pick them up at the store).
I am working to make this menu mailer something that will help you create nutrient-dense meals for your family every week.
So are you ready for the giveaway? Let’s go!
How to Enter
Just comment below! Tell me why you want to win the CHEESESLAVE menu mailer.
And remember, I’m giving away FIVE menu mailers. So you have a better chance to win!
The giveaway is now closed.
How to Get More Entries
1. Blog about this giveaway and link back to this page on your blog. Comment below with the link. (1 extra entry)
2. Sign up for my email updates or RSS feed. Leave a comment below telling me that you signed up. You will also get an entry if you already subscribe — make sure to leave a comment! (1 extra entry)
3. Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway. Be sure to include the URL to this page in your tweet. Click the ReTweet button at the top of the post, or you can use the following tweet: “Win a 1 yr subscription to CHEESESLAVE’s menu mailer – $85 value! (AND INCLUDE THE URL)” Leave a comment telling me that you followed & tweeted. (1 extra entry)
4. Friend me on Facebook and post about the giveaway on your Facebook status. Be sure to include the URL to this page in your status update. Leave a comment below telling me that you friended me and updated your status. (1 extra entry)
UPDATE: Facebook has just posted new rules that prohibit us from giving contest entries for Facebook promotions. If you added me on Facebook and/or promoted the contest on Facebook, THANK YOU! Unfortunately, I will not be able to count that as an entry. I’m sorry!
5. Email 5 friends about the giveaway, with a link to the page. Leave a comment below telling me that you did. (1 extra entry)
6. Stumble this post and leave me a comment telling me that you did. (1 extra entry)
There are a total of 7 possible entries.
This contest will end Sunday, November 15 at 11:59 PM PST. The winner will be chosen via random.org. The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 18th on my blog. Winners will have 48 hours to contact me with his or her full name, address, and phone number.
This contest is open to anyone anywhere in the world.
Good luck, everybody!
Questions? Comment below.
UPDATE: I meant to add that I WILL be posting a sample week of menus. Expect it in the next few days.
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08/11/2009 at 9:23 pm Permalink
I tweeted, but just to Iet you know I don’t see a place to re-tweet the post on your page.
08/11/2009 at 9:27 pm Permalink
I would like to win because I have been cooking 4-5 nights a week, and I never plan my meals for the week, and would like to start doing so. I think by getting weekly mailer I would be more likely to sit down once a week and figure out what I need and purchase everything on one day rather then running to the market throughout the week.
08/11/2009 at 9:34 pm Permalink
I subscribe and I’d like to win because I love healthy nourishing meal options, I’d love not to have to plan them:)
08/11/2009 at 10:13 pm Permalink
I would like to win because I know how important is to have a menu plan if I want to feed my family nourishing food. This will save me so much time and I would also get new recipes. Thank you!
08/11/2009 at 10:13 pm Permalink
I am already subscribed to your blog!
08/11/2009 at 10:24 pm Permalink
I’d like to win because now that I’m working full time, I don’t seem to have the time or energy to menu plan, which means our menus get less healthy, and our budget gets stretched as we go out to eat more. yikes. Its bad. Since clearly I can’t menu plan myself right now, I would love some help, and also a source of new interesting and already TF recipes.
09/11/2009 at 3:14 am Permalink
Oh, yum! I don’t cook enough, but I’m a recipe junkie anyway. Maybe with a little more incentive I’ll cook more, lol. And your recipes are certainly delicious.
I subscribe to your blog.
I follow you on Twitter and tweeted about this.
I’ve friended you on Facebook and posted about it.
09/11/2009 at 3:27 am Permalink
What an undertaking. Very much needed though. I was just talking with my husband last night about our spending over the last year– my grocery bill is pretty high, and alot of that has to do with not planning a menu with a shopping list that I can stick to. I know for a fact that menu planning cuts down on the food bill because when you stick to a plan, the impulse buys go way down. So, think of me kindly and pick me for someone who deserves a free subscription to your menu mailer!
09/11/2009 at 3:27 am Permalink
I have have a family of five that I am constantly trying to feed nutritiously. I get all your website updates and print out recipes each time, print them and enter them into a cookbook of sorts. I would love this package because it would give me additional ideas on how to make my meals more nutritiously dense and delicious at the same time! Thanks for all the great ideas and recipes on your site, Bronwen.
09/11/2009 at 4:05 am Permalink
I signed up for the rss feed! I would love the menu mailer for some new ideas!
09/11/2009 at 4:19 am Permalink
I want to win the CHEESESLAVE Menu Mailer because as a student I find it so easy to fall into bad habits either because I’m stressed and don’t have time, and really should have planned things in advance, or because friends, fellow students and life in general keeps dragging me in different sirections , which always have some sort of food (although the calling all of it food would not be quite correct when one thinks about what there is in it.) I always really want this because I know, by personal experience, that real food is what keeps me happy and sane – my depression and borderline bi-polar tendencies are completely gone when I keep up this way of eating, and I really need that.
09/11/2009 at 4:19 am Permalink
I’m a subscriber
09/11/2009 at 4:20 am Permalink
We’re friended on facebook
09/11/2009 at 4:27 am Permalink
This is VERY exciting! I feel famous. You know how I LOVE your cooking. I guess I am not eligible for the giveaway since we are family. We are already friends and I will re-tweet and stumble anyway. How can I order my menu mailer?
09/11/2009 at 4:30 am Permalink
1. I’d like to win because I’m in a rut with “healthy” foods!
2. I subscribed to your RSS feed.
3. You are a fbf and I just posted the link here.
09/11/2009 at 4:41 am Permalink
I would like to win because I would love to expand my culinary skills and have help creating more exciting and nutrient dense foods for my family. What a fun idea, thanks for the giveaway!
09/11/2009 at 4:49 am Permalink
Hi!
My husband has leaky gut syndrome and massive allergies to food, and adrenal exhaustion. We’re working on healing through nutrition, for the entire family. I’m looking to lose weight and heal my metabolism. I’d like to raise my two year old with good eating habits, and a menu planner sounds lovely and handy.
I’m already signed up for email updates (1 entry), twitter (1 entry), and facebook (1 entry) = 4 entries total.
Thanks again!
Ingrid
09/11/2009 at 4:49 am Permalink
I love to spend Sunday in the kitchen cooking for the week. However, I never seem to plan for that on Saturday when I can go shopping so I always wind up cooking based on what I have on hand. Works out most of the time, but when it doesn’t I am frustrated. I know better! A plan worked out for me is what I need!
09/11/2009 at 4:50 am Permalink
I’m one of those weird birds that menus three meals a day seven days a week and has to have a recipe for everything I cook. For about eleven months now we’ve been dining directly out of NT and we’ve tried pretty close to all the recipes there. I need inspiration!
Sign up for my email updates or RSS feed. Check! Follow me on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway. Yes, ma’am! Friend me on Facebook and post about the giveaway on your Facebook status. Did that! Email 5 friends about the giveaway, with a link to the page. Uh huh! Stumble this post and leave me a comment telling me that you did. Doing my “I discovered this page” dance! That’s six of seven, can ya tell I’m motivated here?
09/11/2009 at 5:10 am Permalink
This sounds wonderful. Meal planning is such a challenge for some reason so I could use all the help I can get. Plus, I’ve been so amazed at the meals you put together.
I already get email updates
I am already your FB friend but will post a note there
I will Tweet about this.
I will send this to 5 friends
Thanks!!
09/11/2009 at 5:22 am Permalink
I’ve been trying to eat Weston Price style for a couple of years now and when I fall off the wagon it’s because I haven’t prepared properly and the easy to get food is sometimes not what’s best for me. I also work night shift now and that means I need to re-focus on eating well for my body. (I follow on RSS.)
09/11/2009 at 5:25 am Permalink
Menu planning is a very helpful way to keep a family on track. I have been doing this for many years now, but I am still learning to have a healthy meal plans. We are a family of seven and it is very challenging. This would be very helpful. I also friended you on facebook, enjoy the RSS feeds, and emailed five friends and family.
Thank you for a great giveaway.
09/11/2009 at 5:26 am Permalink
I am so excited you have decided to do this! I have subscribed to other menu mailers but the low-carb ones were the only ones that were close to a traditional diet. Also, I am a staff-person at my daughter’s homeschool co-op (democratic, Sudbury Valley type) and I would like to provide WAPF friendly snacks for the kids and I think I could double the kid recipes and adapt them for snack time. This is too cool!
09/11/2009 at 5:26 am Permalink
Oh, please throw my hat into this ring! I am a busy F/T working mom (yes, like so many of us) who needs extra help to plan our meals away from the convenience food lifestyle. I’m doing OK but could use extra help. Thanks!
I am already a Facebook friend, on your email list and Google reader. Thanks.
09/11/2009 at 5:31 am Permalink
Oh my goodness, this is fantastic!! We are trying to implement more super foods into our diet, especially for our autistic son. He is struggling with some major eating disorders, and I usually don’t have the time to meal plan like I want to. This could be a life saver (literally!). Thank you so much! I’m going to friend you on facebook, for another entry.
09/11/2009 at 5:32 am Permalink
Oh yeah, and I already get your email updates. I will go ahead and send this to 5 friends also. =)
09/11/2009 at 5:37 am Permalink
I’d like to win because my hubby and I both work full-time and it would help us out with our planning/shopping/cooking every week!
09/11/2009 at 5:41 am Permalink
I would love to win this as I am so busy these days with WAPF, 4 Kids, House, etc. and have not gotten a good menu planning routine down and am a bit bored with our same old rotations!! I need some serious inspiration as eating Nutrient dense does take planning!! I know that having a plan will also help cut down our grocery budget since lately it has gone up as we aren’t planning so tend to buy more unnecessary items!!
Lisa Imerman
Lrimerman at comcast dot net
09/11/2009 at 5:44 am Permalink
I am a friend on facebook!!
Lisa Imerman
09/11/2009 at 5:44 am Permalink
I love to cook nourishing foods, but I make the same things all the time. I tend to decide dinner last minute so that limits my choices, and my goal is to start menu planning. Your menu mailer sounds really great……new ideas and three meals planned already…..I can add the rest. Thank you so much for doing this offer!!
I already subscribe to your e-mail updates, and I friended you on Facebook.
09/11/2009 at 5:47 am Permalink
I would LOVE to win a menu mailer! I love to cook, but I’m bad at planning ahead, and that doesn’t suit traditional foods very well… when it comes to preparing stock and soaking grains. It would be so nice to have it all laid out for me
09/11/2009 at 5:47 am Permalink
I want to win because…advanced planning? What is that?!
09/11/2009 at 5:47 am Permalink
OH! And I have emailed 5 friends about this as well
09/11/2009 at 5:55 am Permalink
I would love to win this giveaway! Most of the time I plan my menu for the week, but I find it hard to find recipes that use real food. I have enjoyed every recipe of yours that I have tried and would love to see what you have planned each week. Also, I am already signed up for your email updates. Thank you!
09/11/2009 at 6:07 am Permalink
Hi Ann Marie,
I would love to win this menu mailer! I have been looking forward to it ever since you mentioned it! Even if I don’t win, I’m still going to subscribe. I love all your food, recipes, and all the time you take to make sure the recipes are as nutrient dense, but “user-friendly” as possible.
I already subscribe to your email updates, I am going to tweet about it, post about the giveaway on Facebook, and email 5 friends.
Waiting with giddy anticipation!!!
09/11/2009 at 6:17 am Permalink
I just signed up for your e-mail and I’d like to enter for a free subscription to your recipe mailer because I’ve been hacking away at the WAP diet switch for over 18 months and want to make a stronger go of it. You do promise success don’t you?!!! Even to busy homeschooling households of say, eight or more persons?!! This sounds like a very needed venture. You should also post a sample week!!!!!
Now isn’t that a good idea?
09/11/2009 at 6:21 am Permalink
I would love to win as I could use help in incorporating menus for my family and my full time little daycare eaters. It is a busy day and cooking in the traditional way for this many people takes a lot of extra time. I end up relying on a few different meals that I know they will enjoy and will eat but that are healthful. I would love to combine my meal planning to include ‘all’ my eaters! Plus have fancier meal ideas for family holiday meals.
09/11/2009 at 6:25 am Permalink
Oh yea! This is so exciting! Winning this free subscription would be a huge blessing for my family. We are fairly new to traditional foods and I have a hard time providing yummy recipes, with enough variety to ensure optimal nutrition. I also have a fairly picky toddler who I worry about getting all the variety of food that she needs. You always blog about food/ recipes that sound so delicious, nutritious, and sometimes “exotic” (to my limited palate). I have not found a way to get my family (or myself) to eat organ meats, a variety of shellfish (can you say shrimp only??), or many fermented foods. Thank you for doing this – I can’t wait to receive my first mailer!
09/11/2009 at 6:27 am Permalink
I am your friend on Facebook
09/11/2009 at 6:27 am Permalink
I follow you on Twitter
09/11/2009 at 6:27 am Permalink
I subscribe to your blog
09/11/2009 at 6:28 am Permalink
I am just starting this journey “for real”. I thought I had it covered with buying some organic and not going to Burger King…but then my 8 year old started showing signs of puberty and I realized I had missed it more than I got it.
I am researching like mad (found you through Kelly the Kitchen Kop), but get overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. This giveaway seems like it could be a first solid step for us. What a gift…and ray of hope!
09/11/2009 at 6:30 am Permalink
I wrote about this contest on my FB status
09/11/2009 at 6:30 am Permalink
I Tweeted about this contest
09/11/2009 at 6:35 am Permalink
Ann Marie,
I’d like this because I can use all the help I can get! I’m still learning the ropes and this would help stretch me past my comfort zone and help keep me on track with the prep/soaking/planning that seems to really be getting me since starting back to work part-time.
Thanks,
Beth
09/11/2009 at 6:36 am Permalink
I would like to win this subscription as a gift to my wife. She is a great cook, but always struggles with coming up with a weekly menu that povides optimal nutrition and variety.
09/11/2009 at 6:36 am Permalink
I follow you on Twitter
09/11/2009 at 6:36 am Permalink
Ann Marie,
Forgot to add that I also already subscribe so entry #2.
Beth
09/11/2009 at 6:36 am Permalink
I Tweeted about this contest
09/11/2009 at 6:37 am Permalink
I subscribe to your blog
09/11/2009 at 6:39 am Permalink
I am a fan of you on FB
09/11/2009 at 6:40 am Permalink
I wrote about this contest on my FB status
09/11/2009 at 6:42 am Permalink
This looks so helpful, and your recipes look really really good! Thanks for putting this together.
I subscribe to your RSS feed as well.
09/11/2009 at 6:48 am Permalink
I used to use Leanne Ely’s Low Carb Menu Mailer (associated with Flylady) and when I switched to a nourishing traditions type diet had to give that up. Would love to be able to use something like that again, it really worked for us and I am floundering! It would also be an excellent teaching tool because I am relatively new at this. Pick me! Pick me!
09/11/2009 at 6:50 am Permalink
Man, I never win these things, but I’ll give it a try!
Subscribed to the email feed.
09/11/2009 at 6:58 am Permalink
I follow you on twitter.
09/11/2009 at 7:15 am Permalink
I would love to win this giveaway! I am fairly new to NT and need all the help I can get. I follow your blog and copy all the recipes, but this would be a fantastic resource! I also am a subscriber to your blog.
09/11/2009 at 7:18 am Permalink
Fun! I need menu planning help desperately, especially now that we are trying to eating more traditional foods. I guess my daughter’s soy allergy is a blessing in disguise!
I am already signed up for your email updates or RSS feed.
I followed you on Twitter, and tweeted about the giveaway.
I added you on Facebook, and posted about the giveaway.
And lastely, I emailed the link to the giveaway page to 5 friends.
I do not have a blog nor do I stumble so I didn’t do those two items!
09/11/2009 at 7:23 am Permalink
I love the menu mailer idea!
09/11/2009 at 7:24 am Permalink
That’s a great idea! I’d love to win your menu mailer because sometimes I get stuck in the same cooking rut. I’d love someone throwing other ideas at me!
09/11/2009 at 7:26 am Permalink
I just signed up for your emails. I love cooking the NT way. Getting your menus would be great!
09/11/2009 at 7:28 am Permalink
I already subscribe to your email feed.
We’re in a eating rut, and I would love to be able to expand our horizons with new ideas and recipes. Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 7:29 am Permalink
i would love to win this! im sure your menus will be fabulous.
i subscribe to your blog.
i tweeted about it.
09/11/2009 at 7:29 am Permalink
Hi! I followed you on Twitter, added you on Facebook, mentioned the giveaway on twitter and on Facebook and am already subscribed to your emails.
09/11/2009 at 7:37 am Permalink
Oh, and I would love to win this! I’m student teaching full time and have 3 kids of my own. I haven’t had time to plan my meals since the semester started. The hardest part of changing to healthier eating has been finding recipes my family loves. They are not picky, but I find myself going back to our old standbys too often. My 3 year old is the hardest, since he will eat almost any meat that is ground, but not a lot that isn’t. (and he loves pate!) I’ve been following your blog for sometime, now and love it! You do a wonderful job!
09/11/2009 at 7:53 am Permalink
Bubbe Nancy – Of course you are eligible for the giveaway! Thank you so much for all your encouragement — and your fabulous recipes.
09/11/2009 at 8:02 am Permalink
Hi! I would love this! It is always helpful to get new recipes, menu planning help–and that would be especially great from someone who feels the same way about food that I do, instead of having to modify all my recipes.
09/11/2009 at 8:06 am Permalink
I would love to win because I’ve tried many of your recipes and know that they’re good. Having a planned out menu and shopping list would make meal time easier. What a great giveaway! I hope I win.
09/11/2009 at 8:07 am Permalink
I receive your email updates.
09/11/2009 at 8:11 am Permalink
I follow you on Twitter and tweeted.
http://twitter.com/matt4melis/statuses/5562012784
09/11/2009 at 8:18 am Permalink
I was a raw vegan for 5 years trying to eat for health. I have multiple sclerosis and a saturated fatless diet caused me to have hypothyroid and periperal neuropathy. I was lent a copy of “Nourishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon and have since bought a copy. She makes sense of eating meat! I saw her on a raw food site with Kevin Gianni and it clicked that I was missing the nutrients in animal source foods. I found this (CHEESESLAVE) site while looking for answers and it has provided many great tips. I now eat pastured beef and free-range eggs (non-soy fed) that I get from local sources, raw milk, kefir, cheese, butter, country style bacon, sour dough bread, chicken feet and yogurt that I order from a source that was provided by a Weston Price group leader.
I have seen improvements in my health having switched to this style of eating. The only problem I have is eating enough food, getting enough calories. I’m working on it.
Keep up the good work!
Allison
09/11/2009 at 8:18 am Permalink
someone doing menu planning for me? what’s not to love?! i soooo need help in that area. sigh. count me in
also … retweeted, subscribe to RSS, and FaceBooked it for you.
09/11/2009 at 8:32 am Permalink
As a menu-planning-challenged mom who follows WAP dietary guidelines, I would so appreciate this Menu Mailer giveaway! Our family of 5 have been following a traditional foods diet for over 4 years. Our nutrient-dense diet saw us through the cancer treatment of our oldest child (dx’d medulloblastoma 3.5 years ago) who consumed raw, grass-fed dairy throughout the 7 months of treatment, including during hospital stays, and continues to eat a traditional, nutrient-dense diet as a college freshman living on campus. She’s a beautiful, healthy, cancer-free testimony to the health benefits of nourishing, traditional foods.
I already subscribe to your blog, just tweetered for my first time, befriended you on FB and stumbling my way through Stumble.
Wish me luck!
09/11/2009 at 8:32 am Permalink
Would love to win. Planning is an area in which I need to improve. Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 8:37 am Permalink
I would love to win the year of menu plans! I am always struggling to come up with healthy traditional and tasty meals for my family and now especially as I am pregnant.
This is a wonderful idea and even if I don’t win I am interested!
09/11/2009 at 8:38 am Permalink
I subscribe to your email updates, follow you on twitter, and emailed five friends. My blog is worthless and my Mac makes it too hard to stumble so…
Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 8:41 am Permalink
Oh man, I would LOVE this. I am in a huge rut w/the hard stuff. I have gotten better about soaking etc. but just can’t figure out how to dive in to the stuff that’s a bit more challenging. This is a GREAT IDEA.
I follow you on twitter (Anne_McClure) and tweeted it.
Also, I follow you in Google Reader. Does that count?
09/11/2009 at 8:53 am Permalink
Oh, my what a wonderful idea! I would love to win because menu planning is my downfall! We’ve been doing pretty well with our transition to nutrient-dense foods, and both my husband and I love to cook, but with 4 kids age 4 and under, we end up eating basics more than we’d like simply for lack of preparation and planning.
09/11/2009 at 8:53 am Permalink
And I subscribe to your RSS feed.
09/11/2009 at 9:03 am Permalink
I tend to fail at the pre-planning part of traditional food cookery. This sounds like just the thing I need. Thanks for this great giveaway.
09/11/2009 at 9:04 am Permalink
Oh my…what a great idea! Thanks for the chance to win a years worth of menus. I feel like I’m in a cooking idea rut. With four young boys, a fantastic husband and a baby on the way…we need inexpensive, dense, nutrient filled meals.
Thanks again!
Anita
09/11/2009 at 9:15 am Permalink
Hello. I subscribe to your blog. Thanks for entering me.
09/11/2009 at 9:17 am Permalink
I work out of home FT and spend a lot of weekend time making our food for the week. I am not a menu planner so am often left scrambling to make nutritious meals at the last minute. I need help! I don’t know how to tweet, only access FB on my mobile device and am otherwise too time-constrained raising two girls, supporting my DH in grad school and working full-time. A menu planner just might change my life. We NT as much as I can but we have a long way to go. A weekly plan would help so much.
09/11/2009 at 9:30 am Permalink
I’d love to win! Thanks for the chance. I have been thinking it would make it so much easier on us if we had a menu plan, not only in time saved but in money saved at the store. I already love your recipes on your blog and would love more NT recipes. Not sure why I have so much trouble thinking ahead so I can cook the NT way, this would help so much.
This is what I’ve done to enter (besides commenting why I would like to win):
1. Blogged about it here (although I am not much of blogger at this point): http://faithmariehappenings.blogspot.com/2009/11/mom-could-really-use-this.html
2. Already signed up for email updates.
3. Followed you on twitter and tweeted about it
4. Already a friend on facebook and posted about the giveaway.
5. Not yet.
6. Stumbled post (ps1914)
Can’t wait to hear more about your menu mailer!
09/11/2009 at 9:33 am Permalink
I subscribe and I’d like to win because I need healthy nourishing meal options, I’m currently disabled and I could use an organized way to get healthier food into my frail body….Blessings on your Menu-Mailers and Website endeavors!
09/11/2009 at 9:40 am Permalink
AM- you amaze me! I would sign up for your menu mailer in a heart beat. We seem to have the same taste. I get your email updates ( and love passing them on to friends and family) , have already friended you on facebook, don’t know much about twitter and I will make sure I mention you on my blog… again.
A menu mailer is quite an undertaking, but if you’re already doing it then it makes sense to share it with us busy folks that will value it so much. I’ve got many irons in the fire too and am bummed that we can’t make it to the conference this year… do you remember me from last year? my son is Henry and I ended up spend in the weekend with Kate and the other kiddos?
We’ve got dairy goats, laying hens and now 23 ducks and 4 heritage piglets. I’m determined to make it to the conference next year.
09/11/2009 at 9:53 am Permalink
I posted on facebook.
09/11/2009 at 9:55 am Permalink
I subscribe to your blog.
09/11/2009 at 10:04 am Permalink
I think I should win because I dedicate many long hours to teach myself & my family a WAPF lifestyle in a world of garbage. I am the only person I know who does this & I would LOVE a little support! Everyone thinks I’m crazy for working so hard but I just smile at them & push forward. I feel like I’m reinventing the wheel here & it would be awesome to have some new ideas & suggestions!
09/11/2009 at 10:05 am Permalink
I would be so excited to win this giveaway. I am just beginning on my journey to traditional foods and I have read every one of your blog posts! You have inspired me more than you know.
I have:
1. Follow you on Twitter and tweeted about this post – couldn’t find the retweet on this post however.
2. Facebooked you and this post.
3. Subscribe to your email updates already.
4. Emailed 5 friends about this.
5. Stumbled this post
6. Blogged about this post.
7. Commented here…….I would love to win……Thanks for all your tips and recipes.
09/11/2009 at 10:06 am Permalink
I’m already subscribed to your blog and I would love to receive your menu mailer!
09/11/2009 at 10:11 am Permalink
between time and money – this sounds perfect for me!
09/11/2009 at 10:11 am Permalink
I subscribe to you in Google reader.
09/11/2009 at 10:25 am Permalink
I would love to win this. You’re blog has completely changed the way my young family eats. I have always enjoyed cooking and eating healthy, but this blog to this a step further and introduced me to all the important concepts like real milk, weston price, cod liver oil etc. I found your blog through the guy who sells sourdough at the hollywood farmers market and I’m so happy that I texted myself your website address to check it out when I got home as it is a major source for health and food. I want to inspire other young families and friends in their 20′s to care about the issues that most people our age don’t seem to care about. I feel lucky to be able to bring my 19 month old son this way, I feel lucky that he will remember his mom in the kitchen cooking delicious nutricious food from scratch the way i remember growing up and the way I used to remember my grandma in the kitchen making everything from scratch. I would like to win so that I can get even better and budgeting, get more creative and take this lifestyle to the next level.
I have posted a link on facebook. Emailed everyone in my address book. And I subscribe to this blog.
keep up the good work!
Anna!!!
09/11/2009 at 10:25 am Permalink
Signed up for your email updates.
09/11/2009 at 10:27 am Permalink
Hi! I would love to win because I am a full time student with a pretty heavy intern job (25 hrs/wk) and this would be perfect to keep my lifestyle running at its best. I have a very hard time sticking with a menu, (or even planning one!) because of time and finance issues. My mom and I talk weekly about food ideas to help keep nutrition in my diet, but without a clear plan, it is really hard to keep myself going without falling to prepackaged and processed foods. Being a student especially, I find it very hard to eat well on a good budget that I can afford. I know that my food issues are affecting my life in a negative fashion and I would love to turn that around!
09/11/2009 at 10:35 am Permalink
Note to self: Vincent signed up on Subscribe page
09/11/2009 at 10:40 am Permalink
Wow! Recipes for nutrient-dense foods that are child-friendly and include shopping lists in addition to menu plans?!! That sounds fantastic! I am a single mom and never get enough time to plan healthy meals. Such a big nudge would be great!
I’m a happy subscriber.
Thanks!
P.S. Are you still planning to have a “nourishing foods bloggers” get-together at the WAPF conference? I’d like to join you in that, if I could.
09/11/2009 at 10:40 am Permalink
I would love to win this because I can always use more real food recipes and I have been wanting to do more menu planning (and less last-minute “what should we have tonight” cooking.)
09/11/2009 at 10:46 am Permalink
I would love to win a subscription to your Menu Mailer! It sounds wonderful and I am very excited you are doing this. Thanks
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09/11/2009 at 10:49 am Permalink
I really want to win this! I am a full time working mama with a husband who stays home with our little girl and is going to school/applying to law school at the same time. I am also pregnant, and my husband suffers from severe chronic gastrointestinal disease (Crohn’s) among other ailments. We are striving to eat traditionally (have been for about a year) but time, money, and other stresses always get in our way! I am desperate for the menu planning help, grocery lists, and other tips! Thank you!
Jessica
09/11/2009 at 10:51 am Permalink
Oh- one more thing…I am a subscriber!
Jessica
09/11/2009 at 10:52 am Permalink
I have only recently been learning and trying whole and fermented foods. I work full time in a small health food store so menu planning can be difficult. Your menu planner sounds great. I’m sure I could learn a great deal.
Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 10:53 am Permalink
I subscribed to your newsletter.
09/11/2009 at 10:54 am Permalink
I would love to win the menu mailer because, 1 – I struggle with menu plans that the family will eat, and 2 – my sister has to be very careful about what she eats (think very limited grains, no sweeteners and no dairy products) and she is always looking for simple meals that help her best.
BTW, thanks for the chicken feet pics and the help Saturday evening on twitter (@OneBigAdventure). I bagged 120+ on Sunday morning and put them in the freezer.
09/11/2009 at 10:55 am Permalink
Already follow you on twitter and tweeted the giveaway
http://twitter.com/OneBigAdventure
09/11/2009 at 10:56 am Permalink
signed up for email updates
09/11/2009 at 10:59 am Permalink
shared on FB. Already friends there.
09/11/2009 at 11:02 am Permalink
LOL!!! Hannah your comment made me laugh. How funny is it that we’re sharing chicken feet pics on Twitter! Isn’t the internet AWESOME? Hugs to you!
09/11/2009 at 11:04 am Permalink
What a great idea! I’d love to see your menu mailer; I am always needing inspiration with meal planning, especially breakfasts! As a working mom, I would love to spend less time in the week planning what to cook.
09/11/2009 at 11:07 am Permalink
Anna that is sooo sweet. Thanks for taking the time to write that comment. You really touched and inspired me! And YAY don’t you just love Jack Bezian the sourdough genius of Los Angeles!?
Are you a member of our local WAPF chapter? If not, here’s the signup:
http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Whole-Food-Nutrition-Meetup-Group/
We are planning to have a meeting in December — it will be a good one b/c it will be a holiday party — a potluck I think. I will bring sprouted flour Christmas cookies or pie made with my famous beef tallow crust.
09/11/2009 at 11:15 am Permalink
emailed 5 friends
09/11/2009 at 11:39 am Permalink
I would like to win because I want to give my husband meals that he will like and yet still be traditional foods that are good for him. Annmarie I friended you on facebook, e-mailed five friends, posted this to my fb page and subscribed to your blog.
09/11/2009 at 11:58 am Permalink
I cook on Saturday and Sunday for the week and I need ideas. My hubby got transferred 3 hours from home so I pack up the week and send it off with him on Monday. I am not having fun!
09/11/2009 at 12:13 pm Permalink
Hi Anne Marie,
I have been making small changes in the way our family eats for about 2 years now. It’s been slow but sure… kind of like turning a huge cruise liner. I would have crashed and jumped overboard if I had tried to turn us around too quickly so it’s been good…slowly sneaking food, drinks, and information to my sweet family friends. I feel like recently, though, I’ve stalled. With six kids, soccer season and a husband who travels, I resorted to eating out 2 times per week…mostly Pizza and Noodles and Company. I just can’t do that anymore…for our health and our budget. I need a good kick in the pants in the right direction. I think your menu mailer would be the perfect kick! Also, I not only need to cook more often, but I also need to put on my big girl knickers and try some new, nutrient-dense foods…like liver…ugghh…I’ll try….for the kids’ sake. Thanks for all that you do for us!
09/11/2009 at 12:15 pm Permalink
I also signed up for e-mail updates.
Thanks.
09/11/2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
as i love to cook, i would love to win this… i am always looking for different ideas to punch up our meals, and this sounds ideal.
09/11/2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink
i’m a happy subscriber
09/11/2009 at 12:22 pm Permalink
Your blog has so many practical hints/tips/recipes, and this mailer is a great idea. I hope the mailer is a big success, and that you go on to publish a book — it would be a big help to have as a “next step” after reading NT. I hope I win:)
One last thing: this is off topic, but I’ve been putting turmeric into my bone broth when it cooks, and you can’t even taste it in the final soup (I also think it adds a nice yellow color, but some cooks may not like it because it is very brightly colored). It’s a great way to add an immunity-enhancing spice.
FoodsHeal123´s last blog ..Juicing for Health
09/11/2009 at 12:24 pm Permalink
I just friended you on facebook. I will post the link to this page. Love your blog (I am subscribed) and all of the great information, inspiration, and support you provide. You make me feel like I’m not alone in cooking and eating this way!
09/11/2009 at 12:31 pm Permalink
I would like to win because I have been trying to start menus in my home and I haven’t gotten it done…..I am also trying to feed my family healthier and this would so help in this endeavor!!!
09/11/2009 at 12:32 pm Permalink
I am a RSS feed subscriber….
09/11/2009 at 12:33 pm Permalink
I am a Facebook friend and I posted on Facebook….
09/11/2009 at 12:38 pm Permalink
I would like to win because I am so new to all the natural cooking stuff, having someone plan the menu for me with recipes sounds like the ultimate plan!
09/11/2009 at 12:38 pm Permalink
I already follow your blog via email.
09/11/2009 at 12:39 pm Permalink
I am follower on Twitter and I tweeted…..
Thanks for the chance to win!
09/11/2009 at 12:40 pm Permalink
I would like to win this because I am always struggling to put together tasty and nutritious meal plans for my dd and myself
09/11/2009 at 1:09 pm Permalink
Oh my gosh, I would love to win this. I’m having so many difficulties trying to organize our schedules, this would be a god send
I friended you on facebook and posted there, I subscribed to your e-mail updates, and I e-mailed 5 friends!
09/11/2009 at 1:54 pm Permalink
Hello AM,
I have been following your updates for your blog and RSS feeds for a while now. Also been following you on Twitter and subsequently ‘Friended’ you on Facebook. I have Twittered this post several times, and updated my Facebook status with this post about the menu mailer giveaway. I have also provided a link and brief statement on my Facebook page. Just a few minutes ago I e-mailed more than 5 friends and family (couldn’t leave my mother out) about this giveaway, as I know a few of them could really use the menu ideas and the time allowance to shop for said ingredients.
I have just signed up for StumbleUpon (as it will be a great tool to use with my blog), and the first thing I did was subscribe to you and Stumble Cheeseslave. My name on there is nourishedcanuck.
I will be writing a post on my blog in the next few days regarding how to adapt to traditional foods, and this giveaway of yours will be a major topic and reference for the article. This will be the relaunch of my blog – new name!
I really would love to win this mailer as I am a student/working part-time, who is trying to feed myself and a partner who is also attending school and suffers from low energy and depression. This past year I have slowly integrated traditional foods more and more – a big step was becoming a member of the cowshare to buy raw milk; and another was joining a CSA for meat and eggs from pasture based animals. Both had struggles at first because of the upfront cost, but I managed and worked my butt off to get these great foods. They have already
I struggle a lot with making sure my meals are as nutritious as possible on a regular basis because of time constraints, and a menu planner would be an amazing tool to ensure that we are both getting adequate nutrition to sustain us through lots of schooling, and health issues.
I have also been spreading the word of Weston A Price Foundation goals, and have championed issues of traditional foods. This is a passion of mine and would be great to make sure I am following my own ideals each day to let people know its possible and they have choices – not just the supermarket shelves “Pay Less, Get More”.
Thank you so much for this opportunity and see you this coming week!
Jason Monaghan´s last blog ..Thought of the Day
09/11/2009 at 1:56 pm Permalink
I would like to win because whenever I don’t cook, my girlfriend always complains that I don’t leave good enough directions for dinner and she ends up feeding her kids mac’n cheese.
09/11/2009 at 2:08 pm Permalink
Yay, Jason! Can’t wait to meet you! PRAYING you get your passport!
09/11/2009 at 2:20 pm Permalink
I would love to have some help with my menu planning because I am feeding a group of 8 right now. I have three small boys and my in-laws are living with us. I feel a bit stretched in many directions and an organized menu would be a great help. Thanks
09/11/2009 at 3:09 pm Permalink
I would love to win! I read your blog, and Kelly’s also, regularly. I would love to incorporate your ideas into my family’s diet, and this would make it so much easier!
Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 3:11 pm Permalink
Just signed up for your RSS feed! Never even knew what that was.
09/11/2009 at 3:42 pm Permalink
This is such a great idea! The planning part seems to be the hardest for me most days
I also just subscribed and sent you a friend request on facebook for a total of 3 entries!
Deb´s last blog ..Eli Has A New Blog
09/11/2009 at 4:03 pm Permalink
You’re right…it does take a lot of prep and work to eat real food. That’s why I’d love to win and have some help doing it!
09/11/2009 at 5:08 pm Permalink
I have been cooking ‘like’ Nourishing Traditions for about 17 years now….and I still get frustrated about wanting to cook something on Thursday and seeing I should have started sprouts on Sunday night……wouldn’t it be fun to really pull it all together. I appreciate your wok on this! Kathy
09/11/2009 at 5:11 pm Permalink
I have just found your blog! I would love to enter – I love “real” and “traditional” foods – but I have such a hard time implementing it! I would love help of a menu mailer.
Kim´s last blog ..Menu 2009. 11.08
09/11/2009 at 5:37 pm Permalink
One entry here.
I already read the feed via livejournal and have you as a friend on fb and twitter. Hopefully I will have a chance this week to post to lj about the giveaway. This sounds like it could be a big help for me going more tf.
Soli´s last blog ..List making goodness
09/11/2009 at 6:33 pm Permalink
I’m going to the conference this weekend and will be psyched to really throw myself into traditional foods after that. I would love to win one of these! Love your blog!
09/11/2009 at 6:56 pm Permalink
I would love this. This is my weak point. We have been following WAPF eating for years…but the meal planning where I need help! Thanks!
09/11/2009 at 7:26 pm Permalink
Why I want to win this? Still struggling as a recovering vegetarian. LOL! I would love the encouragement not only for me, but for the kids. Having a recipe book is good and fine, but getting a MENU with letting me know of time to sprout and soak things would be SO helpful and encouraging.
Paula´s last blog ..Current Web Readings
09/11/2009 at 7:27 pm Permalink
I am subscribed through RSS feed for your blog (2nd entry)
09/11/2009 at 7:27 pm Permalink
I am your friend on FB and just posted about this giveaway (3rd entry)
09/11/2009 at 7:28 pm Permalink
I emailed 5 friends (4th entry)
09/11/2009 at 7:47 pm Permalink
I want the recipes (esp the liver one – got some in my freezer that I’m scared to use) and to feel like Ann Marie is in my kitchen helping me out!
Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship´s last blog ..Monday Mission: Time to Tackle Lard and Tallow
09/11/2009 at 7:48 pm Permalink
I stumbled you!
09/11/2009 at 7:49 pm Permalink
I tweeted and follow you, of course!
Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship´s last blog ..Monday Mission: Time to Tackle Lard and Tallow
09/11/2009 at 7:51 pm Permalink
Facebook is banning giveaways…http://ow.ly/ARy1
Sorry!
Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship´s last blog ..Monday Mission: Time to Tackle Lard and Tallow
09/11/2009 at 7:51 pm Permalink
I get your RSS feed
Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship´s last blog ..Monday Mission: Time to Tackle Lard and Tallow
09/11/2009 at 8:54 pm Permalink
I would like to win this menu mailer because I cook every night and would love to have new options for dinner. My kids are 3.5 and 2,5 and I dont want to burn them out on food. They like new foods.
09/11/2009 at 9:05 pm Permalink
Honestly,I’d love the to have the ease of someone else planning healthy meals for my family.
09/11/2009 at 9:59 pm Permalink
1. I would love to win this because I have a lot of the basics down, but need the push into the next step…I’m especially excited about learning how to incorporate more organ meats into my diet. Recovering veg*n here too!
2. I signed up for e-mails
3. I already follow you on Twitter, but RT’d your post: http://twitter.com/handincookiejar
4. We’re also already friends on Facebook, but I did post a link: http://www.facebook.com/handincookiejar
5. Stumbled you!
10/11/2009 at 4:42 am Permalink
Just wanted you to know that I signed up for your newsletter and I am sharing your url on Twitter as well as on Facebook and I have emailed 5 friends about your giveaway. I would love to win because I want to be a better planner of our meals.
10/11/2009 at 6:49 am Permalink
Being able to have this menu mailer will help in my need to increase my family’s health via nutritional choices.My parents suffer from heart disease, high BP, and elevated cholesterol they are more finneky eaters than my 6 yr old daughter. I am desperate to find foods they will like to help them save their lives. Please help me keep my own family healthy while I improve the health of my parents so my daughter can enjoy having grandparents through her childhood.
10/11/2009 at 6:56 am Permalink
I subscribed to your blog.
I friended you on facebook and posted the url on my status.
I sent an email to five friends with a link to this page.
I love your site. It has been so helpful. I have five kids from 2yrs to 18yrs – there’s always someone being picky. I work part-time, drive the kids to and from school in another district (cheaper than tuition!) and would love help on getting it all together. I don’t have much energy for being creative these days and seem to fall into a rut — would love help with variety, too!
Thanks for all your work.
10/11/2009 at 8:31 am Permalink
We have our third child on the way and our oldest is 3 1/2. I would love to have menu plans, recipes, and ideas for nutrient dense cooking!! I get tired about of thinking about food and planning ahead which is a must in cooking this way.
Thanks for the giveaway!!
10/11/2009 at 8:33 am Permalink
Hi, I am currently cooking for a harvest crew and I could use all the help I could get in the kitchen! I am sure that the crew would greatly appreciate it!!
Thanks
10/11/2009 at 8:34 am Permalink
I emailed 15 friends!!!!
10/11/2009 at 8:34 am Permalink
We are already friends on facebook and I made a post about it on facebook!
10/11/2009 at 8:36 am Permalink
Oh, I also signed up for email updates!!
10/11/2009 at 9:33 am Permalink
I’d LOVE to receive your menu mailer– thanks for the giveaway! I’m fairly new to healthy, whole-foods, and some of the novelty of menu planning has worn off. This month I’m feeling kind of uninspired, so your help would be much appreciated.
I also signed up for your email updates.
10/11/2009 at 9:40 am Permalink
I stumbled the post.
10/11/2009 at 9:41 am Permalink
This sounds great! Since changing our diet we eat the same things over and over.
10/11/2009 at 9:42 am Permalink
I already subscribe. Thanks for all the info.
10/11/2009 at 10:45 am Permalink
Entry #2
I signed up for your RSS feed! Yay! I am so excited – I WANT to win!
Kim´s last blog ..Menu 2009. 11.08
10/11/2009 at 10:48 am Permalink
I’m hardcore – I just tweeted you too for Entry #3!
Kim´s last blog ..Menu 2009. 11.08
10/11/2009 at 10:51 am Permalink
going for Entry #4…. I stumbled you!
Kim´s last blog ..Menu 2009. 11.08
10/11/2009 at 10:56 am Permalink
For Entry #5 I just facebooked you! And wrote a note to all my friends.
Kim´s last blog ..Menu 2009. 11.08
10/11/2009 at 11:51 am Permalink
I would like to win because the menu plans would help me help my husband prepare the meals. My disbility keeps me from being able to prepare all the meals. My husband does that, but he does not understand about cooking the traditional way. If it were all planned out for him, made easy for him, then I (we) could have some very wholesome meals to help me heal.
10/11/2009 at 12:07 pm Permalink
I could really use help in menu planning and preparation with nutritional foods. I have not been very adventurous over the years which has limited my choices, so I am ready to branch out and learn.
10/11/2009 at 12:25 pm Permalink
Wow, thanks to everyone for entering! I’m SO excited about this. And thrilled that so many people out there are excited about eating healthier.
And even MORE thrilled that so many people out there understand that eating healthy means butter, cream, beef heart and bone marrow. LOL! You guys ROCK!
I said to my housekeeper yesterday, who comes from Honduras and grew up eating a traditional diet, “Look how many people want to learn to cook tongue!” (She grew up making Tacos de Lengua.) She laughed and said she was just telling one of her family members about me and all the things I eat and they said, “She’s American??”
I wanted to let you know that I am planning on offering a more expanded version of the menu mailer — 6 meals per week instead of just 3. So for those of you who want that, I will make it easy for you to upgrade when I’m ready with that version (soon!).
10/11/2009 at 12:52 pm Permalink
Katie -
Thanks so much for posting that
http://ow.ly/ARy1
OK I’m going to update this post and I will NOT be counting Facebook entries.
10/11/2009 at 4:27 pm Permalink
I would LOVE this. I cook 7 days a week, all 3 meals (unless my hubby steps in to cook a weekend meal.) Meal planning is the hardest part of making nourishing TF meals for me. It’s great to have a plan, and it would be nicer to have some help it.
I subscribe already.
And I emailed 5 friends who will be just as thrilled as I am to have help with meal planning.
10/11/2009 at 5:07 pm Permalink
I would love your menu planning because you actually eat real food! Yeah!
I retweeted.
10/11/2009 at 5:17 pm Permalink
Emailed 5 friends and signed up for email updates.
10/11/2009 at 5:58 pm Permalink
I’d LOVE to win a subscription, because, with 4 kids age 6 and under (little one is six weeks), menu planning has fallen to the wayside! I really enjoy your blog and think you’ll do a great job with a menu mailer.
For extra entries I subscribed to your e-mail updates and e-mailed 5 friends, most of whom will probably enter the contest (maybe I shouldn’t have e-mailed them, then I’d have a better chance to win!
)
10/11/2009 at 9:58 pm Permalink
I’d love to win because my 65 y.o. husband and my 18 y.o. g/daughter are beginning to try cooking a few recipes I printed out for them and I’d love for their repertoire to expand.
the mailer would be a great learning tool for them.
10/11/2009 at 9:59 pm Permalink
I subscribed to your blog.
11/11/2009 at 5:35 am Permalink
After 25 years in the restaurant business (retiring after 9/11 wiped 40% of the independent operators off the map) and seeing just what goes into the plates and people who eat from them, the move toward a more natural and unaffected pantry is both welcome and a tad intimidating.
I know how to plan a menu, whether it’s for 4 or 400 – finding sources of wholesome, unadulterated foods among the deceptive and vaguely-monikered imposters is a bit more daunting. A template of what to look for, how to mix ‘n’ match, what stores well, what doesn’t and all that would be wonderfully helpful in transitioning over to a non-industrial diet.
In the 6 months since I’ve begun to avoid margarine (read: plastic), rancid oils and grain-fed anything, I’ve lost 30 pounds and my family is beginning to think there just may be a human under all the snarling and grumbling that usually came after a day. I’d like to include them on this little trip – they’re actualy warming to the idea of no more snacks that come out of wrappers at room temp – but since I work 1-and-a-half jobs and the missus works another, well, you get the idea.
Anyway – I’m pretty sure I subscribe (went there today and it looked familiar . . . and I really, really hate being redundant) and if I had more of my brain with me I’d know. Probably due to years of trans-fat buildup in the cerebellum.
So, thanks for the consideration. I and mine would be obliged to sing your praises from the rooftops (until the HOA writes us a letter) should we be so graced.
PS – I emailed 5 co-workers, including our HR director, since our company is currently doing a “Biggest (Healthiest) Loser” program. 300 people signed up and so far, after 5 weeks, over 1800 lbs. have been cumulatively shed. I lost all mine before the program started (therefore I am inspiration) but I send them as much natural-foods info as I can find, and it seems they actually incorporate it into their twice-weekly sessions. How ’bout that?
11/11/2009 at 6:04 am Permalink
Hello, I would love to win the weekly planner. I have been following the WAP way of life for nearly seven years and still have not gotten the knack of preparing ahead. With four children, homeschooling, having our own animals, a large garden, and all the other things that make up my life plus growing up on fast and conivent foods, it has been really hard to learn to cook and then implement WAP. Thank you for all you do to help us out here.
Amy´s last blog ..Food Inc.
11/11/2009 at 7:36 am Permalink
I would love to win this because I am really overwhelmed with cooking. I have chosen to cook for my family, but I have a day job, too. I have already used some of your recipes. Next one to try is fried clams.
Thank you for all these good things on your blog.
11/11/2009 at 8:00 am Permalink
My husband and I are determined to convert to a more NT/WAP style of eating. This would be a great way to make the transition.
I signed up for email updates (1 entry)
Posted the giveaway on my blog (1 entry):
http://asimpleprairielife.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/cheeseslave-giveaway/
I also posted on a message board (rather than emailing 5 people) (hopefully 1 entry)
Thanks!
11/11/2009 at 8:19 am Permalink
I would love to win the menu mailer. I have a very hectic winter coming up. I am due with baby#2 in 2 weeks, and building a new house.
11/11/2009 at 8:51 am Permalink
I subscribed!
11/11/2009 at 10:17 am Permalink
Hi! I just subscribed! I’d love to win. I’m a busy mama and love to cook traditional foods. Your menus would make our meals more interesting and would be easier on me! Thanks!
11/11/2009 at 10:23 am Permalink
My family is a slave to cheese
) so the name fits perfectly!! We love whole milk, real butter, coconut oil and all those other ‘fats’ that some think are dangerous!!
I also signed up for your email newsletter and sent your link to five friends!!
THANK YOU!
11/11/2009 at 12:45 pm Permalink
I would really like the weekly menu planner as it seems that it would be a great tool to help in organizing and planning ahead for my family as we heat healthy! thanks
11/11/2009 at 1:56 pm Permalink
I would love something like that! It would make my weekly meal planning so much easier.
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11/11/2009 at 2:44 pm Permalink
What a great idea! This could be so helpful to all of us out there who live and teach these concepts and traditions but sometimes run out of time to plan our own good meals! I’m so glad you’re doing this!
11/11/2009 at 4:02 pm Permalink
I would love to win this because I am tired. I am tired because I am not organized with my weekly plans for food. Here I am ready to make a salad and the yogurt I need is still at the store. Calling for help.
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11/11/2009 at 4:03 pm Permalink
I would love to win this because I am tired. I am tired because I am not organized with my weekly plans for food. Here I am ready to make a salad and the yogurt I need is still at the store. Calling for help.
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11/11/2009 at 4:27 pm Permalink
I would love to win! Planning meals is hard with a busy 8 month old.
I subscribe to your newsletter.
11/11/2009 at 4:35 pm Permalink
I subscribe to your blog through Google.
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11/11/2009 at 5:35 pm Permalink
I would LOVE to win this. I recently found out I am pregnant and one less thing to think about would be fantastic. Knowing the menus have healthy meals will be comforting
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11/11/2009 at 5:36 pm Permalink
I know subscribe via email
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11/11/2009 at 5:41 pm Permalink
I follow you on twitter and tweeted this giveaway
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11/11/2009 at 5:42 pm Permalink
I’ve been subscribed to Cheeseslave (via google reader) for quite awhile and just tweeted about you! I’d like to win b/c I’ve gotten off my whole foods wagon recently with 2 moves in 4 months, a 14 month old and a veggie- and lacto-fermentation-resistant husband. I need some help with planning and organizing!
11/11/2009 at 6:51 pm Permalink
Mother of four (born within five years of one another) would love to win!!!
11/11/2009 at 6:51 pm Permalink
Mother of four (born within five years of one another) would love to win!!!
11/11/2009 at 7:34 pm Permalink
Yay! so excited that you are doing this-
I’m subscribed to your blog
emailed to 5 friends
12/11/2009 at 12:17 am Permalink
WOW! All the responses. I feel that my reasons would be extremely redundant to everything i have read above. Mother to a 15 mo, wife to a husband who is extremely susceptable to illnesses – we started this journey as a last ditch effort to get healthy and stay that way. I feel sometimes like the only reason we fall off the wagon is because we get tired of the same 10 recipies i have mastered or we just don’t plan our time well (or shopping for that matter) Your menu would help us to potentially overcome that. Best of luck with your decision. There are a lot of people on here. I am tweeting you now as well.
12/11/2009 at 12:17 am Permalink
WOW! All the responses. I feel that my reasons would be extremely redundant to everything i have read above. Mother to a 15 mo, wife to a husband who is extremely susceptible to illnesses – we started this journey as a last ditch effort to get healthy and stay that way. I feel sometimes like the only reason we fall off the wagon is because we get tired of the same 10 recipes i have mastered or we just don’t plan our time well (or shopping for that matter) Your menu would help us to potentially overcome that. Best of luck with your decision. There are a lot of people on here. I am tweeting you now as well.
12/11/2009 at 4:35 am Permalink
Hi there,
I would absolutely love to win this contest. I am a single working mom with three angelic, beautiful girls, all with very nice teeth and bones–thanks to goodness I found Ms. Fallon and the Weston A. Price Foundation. There are so so many pressures as a single mom, and getting all of the planning and preparation figured out ahead of time is mind-boggling. I feel that our family would be greatly blessed to be able to check out all of these wonderful resources.
Thanks and Peace,
Melissa Jensen
12/11/2009 at 3:27 pm Permalink
Great idea. i’d love to see it.
12/11/2009 at 5:39 pm Permalink
I have two young children, one with severe food sensitivities, and I would LOVE to have fresh new tasty ideas about how to give their growing little bodies and minds what they need to thrive! Thanks!
12/11/2009 at 8:11 pm Permalink
THIS. SOUNDS. FABULOUS. Count me in. I’m all about healthy recipes that are already planned for me. WAY cool.
13/11/2009 at 5:46 am Permalink
I’ve been on & off scd for 9 years due to long hist. of ulcerative colitis. Bought Nourishing Traditions a yr ago and have made many changes in feeding family: kefir water, raw milk, pastured meats, coconut oil, tallow, soaked grains, cutting back on oj, etc. I tend to make 2 meals (one for me, one for fam.) so I need to streamline. I’m hopeless with meal planning.
I’ve enjoyed your blog for a while, finally subscribed : ) -Teresa
13/11/2009 at 12:14 pm Permalink
I would love this because I can use all the help I can get to feed my family healthy food. It takes work.
13/11/2009 at 5:48 pm Permalink
Hi there! I just subscribed to your site and I’m so excited! I’m new to this way of eating and learning more every day. My family feels better, is off medications, and full of energy. Menu planning/planning ahead is the most difficult task for me and would LOVE to win!!! Thank you!!!
14/11/2009 at 3:50 am Permalink
hey, i’d love to win this mailer… what a good idea! i’ve recently gone back to work and my husband is home with our 1 yr old and going to school. he’s preparing more of our meals these days and would really enjoy some fresh ideas and planning help. good luck with your endeavor.
14/11/2009 at 3:51 am Permalink
also, i subscribe to your blog…. and really enjoy it.
14/11/2009 at 6:51 am Permalink
I have six littles to feed and menu planning help would be wonderful.
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14/11/2009 at 11:29 am Permalink
I would love to win a subscription to your mailer. I’m committed to the idea of traditional foods for my family, and I really do try. I’m having trouble with the financial and planning aspect of it. My husband is an architecture grad student (really long days), I work close to full time, have a toddler and am pregnant, so money and planning/prepping time for me is really tight. And ideas – I really run out sometimes. Some of the other mailers I’ve tried (both TF and ones I modify) helped me with my food spending and time, but my husband didn’t like the recipes. I LOVE your recipes, and so does he. I’m so excited you’re doing this.
I subscribe to your blog as well.
14/11/2009 at 2:18 pm Permalink
Just wanted to let you know I subscribed to your blog. I’d like to be added to the contest, because I am brand new to traditional eating and I think a menu would be very helpful.
Rachel
14/11/2009 at 2:35 pm Permalink
Just wanted to let you know that I also emailed a link to your page to 5 friends. Thanks!
14/11/2009 at 9:16 pm Permalink
This is SUCH a good idea. Wow. It would change my life, even if you did regular recipies. I constantly wander around grocery stores clueless, standing by veggies, thinking, “I like veggies”, and not having any idea what or how to cook them. Inspiring and something for my wish list!
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14/11/2009 at 10:04 pm Permalink
already a subscriber. thanks!
14/11/2009 at 10:37 pm Permalink
I would be honored to win. I am following on Twitter and retweeted about the giveaway. I would love to get better at planning and organizing meals. I started eating in this manner when I was pregnant with my son two years ago and now I am eight weeks pregnant again. I feel happy that my children get to eat so well. And I could really use the extra encouragement and inspiration I feel your menus could provide. Thanks for the opportunity.
Andreah
15/11/2009 at 1:16 am Permalink
I would like to win as I am 34 years old and recovering from a stroke that occured during surgery in September. Following traditional doctors and nutritionst have gotten me nowhere. Actually it has gotten me stuck at home unable to drive or work~ depending on my husband and parents to drive me to 7-8 doctor/therapy appt. a week!
15/11/2009 at 9:03 am Permalink
I have four sons that I’m trying to feed real, nourishing food. A menu mailer would be great!!
15/11/2009 at 10:46 am Permalink
I emailed 5 people about your contest! Yay!
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15/11/2009 at 10:51 am Permalink
I blogged about your contest! Here’s a link
http://captivatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/cool-contest.html
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15/11/2009 at 11:36 am Permalink
I’d like to win because I just finished reading Nourishing Traditions last month and am feeling overwhelmed trying to incorporate the principles into our daily meals. Having menu ideas, and especially being prompted to get the preliminary steps done ahead of time (soaking, etc.), would be tremendously helpful. Thank you for doing this!
15/11/2009 at 1:01 pm Permalink
I’m excited to see how you do this, sounds great! I already subscribe to your RSS and I just retweeted.
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15/11/2009 at 3:42 pm Permalink
As a grad student I am constantly looking for ways to reduce stress in my life. Having someone else suggest menus and recipes would be particularly helpful since I spend a lot of time doing this. Things are harder when you are not content to feed yourself and your loved ones “convenience food” and when you haven’t grown up eating traditional foods and learning how to make it.
15/11/2009 at 5:36 pm Permalink
This sounds very nice – I am definitely in a rut, too. I have watched my 2 yr old turn from a sickly acid-reflux baby to a happy, well-rested, bouncy and very verbal 2 yr old (she relates her dreams to me!) because of NT and real food. I am determined to keep going, but I’d love some fresh ideas.
15/11/2009 at 5:57 pm Permalink
AnnMarie,
I love this idea! I homeschool 3 daughters and we are moving daily toward eating real foods. It is more time consuming but worth it. Thank you so much for this offer and your informative blog.
I twittered and follow your feeds.
15/11/2009 at 6:26 pm Permalink
Hi, I would love, love, love to win the menu mailer! I really need all the help I can get in organizing and this is one of my biggest downfalls that keeps me from feeding my family nourishing foods. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I entered through-
email subscription, twitter, and stumbled upon
15/11/2009 at 8:12 pm Permalink
Hi! I would love to win the menu mailer because I am a disorganized person and have a hard time planning ahead for WAPF friendly recipes (e.g. soaking beans). I think having a weekly grocery list and recipe list would help me immensely in my goal to follow the WAPF principles. I am signed up for your RSS feeds.
30/01/2010 at 2:48 pm Permalink
This is my first time at you blog and all I can say is WOW! I have been searching for a way to include the foods I love to eat with my current exercise program called the FBF System and now I think I have. I’m really impressed with the nutrient density of your recipes. Needless to say, I’m going to give some of these recipes a try because the descriptions are just making my mouth water!
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