Our Birthday Recipe = Fun Giveaways + Lots of Love

Update – 6/1/2012 – Contest now closed.
Sweepstakes results have been posted below.
Thank you for all of your wonderful comments
You made our side of the event really fun.  

Celebrate With Us. It’s Our Birthday!  Enter to win one of 25 LOW SODIUM PRIZE PACKS, including a brand new KINDLE FIRE!!!!

Our Grand Prize: Low Sodium Food Products, Snacks, Cooking Ingredients, Recipes, Tools, Kindle, and More!

We tried our best to keep a lid on our birthday (who wants to advertise their age??)… 

Surprise! 

Our friends have been overly generous – they’ve pitched in all sorts of great products and have helped put our low-sodium birthday celebration over the top!  Together we’re marking our blog’s birthday, wrapping up our celebration activities (and our birthday giveaway) at the end of May.  So – as the saying goes, go big or go home.

We kicked off our birthday celebration in Orange County at Donate Life’s 5k Run/Walk and Family Health Festival.  You can read more about the event and why it’s such a special event that’s near and dear to us given that my mom is a kidney transplant recipient (her sister Rosalie volunteered her kidney through a live donation process).

But wait, there’s more online!!  So keep reading…

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1 Grand Prize: Low Sodium Food Products, Snacks, Cooking Ingredients, Recipes, Tools, Kindle, and More!

Our Grand Prize is packed to the brim with all kinds of fun things, a veritable cornucopia of low sodium foods and goodies from:

Attune Foods: 2 boxes of Erewhon cereal*, 1 box Attune Dark Chocolate Probiotic Bars, 1 Attune Foods/Preserve food container
Davidson’s Safest Choice™ Pasteurized Eggs: 3 dozen Safest Choice™ pasteurized eggs*, 2 Safest Choice™ spatulas, 1 Safest Choice™ Stress Ball, Safest Choice™ recipe card (not pictured here).
Tampico Spice Company: 1 large salt free seasoning and a 4-pack of assorted low-sodium spices.

Check out more great stuff from:

Adams Media: Everything Low Salt Cookbook
COTZ Sunscreen: 1 - 20% Zinc Oxide SPF 35, 3.5 oz
Low Sodium Blog:   1 Kindle Fire (we’re providing a fun way for you to read and follow all of our blogs), 1 large Preserve  colander; 1 small Preserve colander; 2 Low Sodium Blog Finger (oven) Mitts, Low Sodium Blog Stress Star, and some of our really fun mood pencils that turn color when you hold them (these are “non-sponsored” products).

(ARV ~ $450)

** BONUS GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY **   ’

(Another drum roll, please)

If we draw your name, and you’ve entered our giveaway by using each and every “Ways to Enter”  (below), we’ll kick in an extra $50 Kindle gift certificate. We really want you to love your new Kindle as much as we love ours (and we want to send a little love back to our sponsors).

(keep scrolling, there’s more)

Whole Foods 365 Low Sodium Ingredients & Snacks Gift Basket (1)

Whole Foods 365 Low Sodium Ingredients & Snacks Gift Basket (1)

The Whole Foods 365 brand carries a lot of really great low sodium options.  Enter to win their wonderful Low Sodium Ingredients & Snacks Gift Basket — it’s filled with green and black lentils, 2 packages of trail mix, banana chips, agave nectar, couscous, chicken broth, coconut milk, diced tomatoes, almond butter, and garbanzo, pinto and black beans.
(ARV ~ $50)

(yep, there’s more)

Assorted Low Sodium Recipe & Cooking Gift Baskets (3)

Assorted Low Sodium Recipe & Cooking Gift Baskets (3)

These gift baskets contain a “slimmed down” version of our grand prize (i.e., sans kindle and a couple of other things.. also, please note that the “Everything” book you receive may be one of the Juicing, Mediterranean Foods, or Healthy Casserole).
(ARV ~ $125)

(and finally, we wanted to share the love with as many people as we reasonably could, looks like we’ll be busy mailing out prizes…)

Jump Start Your Low Sodium Lifestyle (20)

Jump start your low sodium lifestyle (20)

Launch your low sodium lifestyle with this fun starter kit.  Eggs, cereal, a chocolate probiotic bar, spice packs (paprika &  garlic), oven mitt, stress ball, and COTZ sample.
(ARV ~ $25)

Be sure to keep posted throughout the month as we’re planning more “random” sur-prizes (keeps everyone on our toes)!

*note:  these items are redeemable in-store vouchers, given the nature of the food product.
(please note the contest details/restrictions below)

We’re using Rafflecopter to manage the sweepstakes details (your information won’t be shared as per our privacy policy).  Please follow the instructions in the widget below to enter RSS and email Readers, please click through to the post to see the widget..

Thanks for helping us share in our birthday celebration — Good Luck!!

Sweepstakes Winners
(posted 6/1/2012)

Thanks to all who entered and congratulations to those randomly selected.
Please stay tuned as there are more fun giveaways around the corner!
Our winners were randomly selected using an automated number generator,
the results are as follows:

Note: we will be contacting the winners shortly via the email address provided via the Rafflecopter entry.  If you haven’t heard from us and you think that you’re one of our lucky winners, please contact us via the contact form here.  (PS – winners – we will need your physical address so that we can  mail out the prizes to you). Thanks!

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Sweepstakes Terms & Conditions

Our Birthday Giveaway ends at 11:59pm PT on Thursday, May 31, 2012. We’ll select the winners at random based on all of the eligible entries received, and post the results shortly thereafter.

If you’re one of the winners, you’ll need to email me your mailing address (no PO boxes) and phone number within three days, otherwise we’ll choose another winner. (Sorry!)

If you include a link in your comment to your own blog or site, we’ll consider that spam and delete your comment. Of course, if you leave a comment on our blog – please do enter your site’s URL in the “website” field on the form.

This giveaway is only open to U.S. residents (excluding residents of Puerto Rico and all U.S. territories or possessions) who are over the age of 18. Although you may enter many times, you may only win once. Odds of winning will depend on the number of entries received. No cash or other substitution may be made.  We’re sorry, but we are unable to accomodate situations that may arise due to delayed posts, technical or typographical errors or glitches, unauthorized human intervention, phone, technical, network, electronic, computer, hardware or software failures, malfunctions or disconnects of any kind, or misdirected, illegible, incomplete, stolen, garbled, fragmented or delayed internet/e-mail computer transmissions or network/ISP/website internet accessibility; or for inaccurate, incorrect or incomplete capture of entry information. Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or like means to enter the giveaway will void all entries affected by such methods.

Offer void where prohibited by law.

4/29. As people have been leaving comments on our blog, we’ve added this as an additional way to enter. (If you entered prior to this and you did a great job of managing to keep up with all of the other activities, you’ll still qualify for the bonus if your name is drawn). Sorry, this rafflecopter stuff is so new to us!