It was a year ago today that 400 Calories or Less opened !! Happy Birthday to me 🙂
Thanks to all of you for sharing my passion for good food. Thanks for sending your comments, suggestions and questions. And thanks for sharing the year with me. Now let’s eat cake 🙂
Mix and Match is where we take 2-3 recipes and match them up to create a complete meal that is tasty, filling, and nutritious. Flavor profiles are taken into consideration as are calories – these COMPLETE meals all come in right around 400 calories. So sit down and enjoy a BIG PLATE of food without any guilt !
399 calories
Baked Ham
Rice and Pasta with Parmesan
Roasted Grape Tomatoes
For those of you that wish to search by micro-category – – I have added the following categories. Search away 🙂
Asian
Italian
Mexican
Tex Mex
Mediterranean
Cajun
Polish
All you need to do is head over to Plentiful Pantry and take a look at their serving dishes – then head over to our Facebook Fan Page and tell me which one of my recipes on 400 Calories or Less you would serve in the Yellow Bell Pepper Dish ! You’ll see the contest thread over there on Facebook where you can add your comments. A random post will be chosen as winner.
Winner will receive 2 boxes of Pumpkin Cheesecake Bar mix. Prize sponsored by Plentiful Pantry.
1. POSTS ON THIS BLOG WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED – – YOU MUST POST ON THE FACEBOOK FAN PAGE TO BE INCLUDED
2. CONTEST OPEN ONLY TO US RESIDENTS
3. ONLY ONE COMMENT PER PARTICIPANT, PLEASE
4. WINNER TO BE CHOSEN AND ANNOUNCED 10-05-10
Don’t forget that you can get 25% off any order at Plentiful Pantry by using COUPON CODE 4HCOL25 at checkout – the code is good through 10-10-10. Coupon not eligible to be combined with other coupons/special offers.
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I received my Barney Butter prize and I AM HOOKED ! Regular almond butter is usually gritty and pasty – this is nothing like that… it’s even creamier than Skippy creamy peanut butter. And the chunky version is just divine !
For breakfast I often have peanut butter on toast while my husband has his ‘almond paste’ on toast. Not any more ! This product is really grand.
And forget about baking with it – – I am going to make chocolate cupcakes and use the chunky version as the frosting. It will be like frosting them and then sprinkling with nuts – but all in one application. I am so glad my local Shop Rite carries this product. If your grocer does not, visit the website at www.barneybutter.com and get yours today. You won’t believe the difference.
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I’ve won a food contest at Foodie Blogroll 🙂
Once I receive my prize, I’ll be sure to test out the product and leave some feedback here – I’m already thinking about some almond cookies…Mmmmmm
Have any of you ever tasted this product before?
As well as posting some new recipes, this week I will be pulling some ‘oldies but goodies’ and reposting them for you. My personal menu this weeks consists solely of recipes I have made and posted before and they were sooooo good that I have to have them again ! So I’ll repost (retread) some of those recipes so maybe you can try them too !
As a sneak preview, some of the ones I’ll soon be eating again are:
Monte Cristo Sandwich
Spicy Chicken Salad
Good and Healthy Meatloaf
Pork Kabobs
Zucchini Fritters
Cheeseburger
Lazy Man’s Stuffed Cabbage
If you can’t wait for them to be reposted – – just use the search box above and type in the recipe name and you can see them right now !
Can’t wait to dig in 🙂
I just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a Happy Easter !
My blogging friend, Ed, sent me a Sunshine Award – very sweet of him ! Funny, because if I had received it first, I definitely would have passed it on to him because his recipes and his blog definitely inspire me ! For those not familiar the Sunshine Blog Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspire others in the blog world. Check out Ed’s great posts at Detroit Eats.
Now it is my turn to pass along this award and I would like to send it to a few bloggers who I have met along my blogging trails 🙂
Weekend Carnivore – without help from this blogger, I would not be blogging away so fast right now !
Modern Comfort Food – I love when someone’s passion for food just SHOWS – it sure does over here. As well as great recipes, I love the photography and can’t believe she is not a professional photographer !
Savvy Vegetarian – you can see how this blog is DEDICATED to giving all the best advice; it’s just packed full of information
Smitten Kitchen – A blog I looked to for inspiration when creating my own – I just love it !
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