Winner Announced! Happy New Year GIVEAWAY – a Vitamix!!
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Giveaways are the BEST! Since it is a brand new year, Tamara and I think that it is a perfect time to do a giveaway!
This month we are giving away something that may have been on your wish list, but didn't make it under the tree! We have teamed up with a bunch of Village Green Network bloggers to offer you a brand new Vitamix!!
Yes! A Vitamix! I was hoping Santa would bring one to me this year, but it didn't happen. If it didn't happen for you, you are in luck!!
Did you win??? See below!
Thanks to the following blogs for organizing this:
- Coco's Well
- The Sprouting Seed
- Good Girl Gone Green
- Eat Naked Now
- Dr. Peggy Malone
- Fancy Nonsense
- The Moderately Crunchy Mommy
- Gutsy By Nature
- Life by Jeanie
- Back at the Ranch
- And Here We Are
The winner is:
AMBER!! amberki…. at yahoo dot com
Please contact Julia at cocoswell at gmail dot com within 48 hours!
Click here to enter the Giveaway
breakfast smoothies and raw soups!
Soup! It’s cold outside!
Smoothies
Smoothies and soups!
I’m most interested in using it for making whole grain flour for bread and pie crusts. Naturally, I’m also excited about the prospects of juices, smoothies and nut butters. Oh my! Just the thought of winning this sends my head spinning with ideas.
Smoothies and soups, and maybe eventually grinding grains into flour!
The possibilities are endless with that thing!! Ahhh!! Want!!
I would like to make avocado ice cream!
nut and seed milks!
I would make salad dressing, pina colada smoothies, berry smoothies, and green smoothies.
My understanding is that nuts can be made into butter in the Vitamix, so besides the usual smoothies made with vegetables, I’d be making nut butter.
I would make smoothies and milkshakes!
Mayo, smoothies, coffee drinks, salad dressings, etc..
LOTS AND LOTS OF SMOOTHIES! Awesome giveaway!
Lots of Soup…
Copycat Wendy’s Frosty and Orange Julius!
Too many to list but we can start with soup!
I will make soups…lots and lots of yummy soups!
smoothies and so much more!!
I would use it to help make my paleo lifestyle food! I’m doing it for health reasons and this vitamix would help out so greatly so that I don’t have to buy EVERYTHING and can really start to be self sufficient. Soups, smoothies, dressings, sauces, ice cream, you name it!!
I would use it to help make soups, smoothies, ice cream, sauces, dressings, you name it! I started on a paleo lifestyle to help with chronic illnesses and this vitamix would be such a blessing!
Soups, green smoothies, nut butters!
gonna make some nut butters & blend fruit for dehydrating roll ups! woo!
Raw nut butters – raw fudge – breakfast smoothies – banana ice cream
I will make anything and everything au natural in my Vitamix. Looking to amp up my Paleo diet with great, green smoothies and homemade nut butters!
raw fudge – raw nut butters – coconut butter – fudge – breakfast smoothies
I would make nut butters and hummus!
There are so many things I could say! But the first thing would probably be nut butter. I avoid buying it because it’s so pricey, and the blender/food processor I have now is not strong enough to make that.
Smothies and Soup!
might be quicker to write what I wouldn’t make with this lovely piece of kitchen equipment! Definitely would make green smoothies, dessert smoothies, soups, dressings, deserts, breakfasts, protein shakes, beauty treatments and much more!
soup, sauces, paleo ice cream and smoothies! mmmmmmmmm
Smoothies, smoothies, smoothies. I’ve about worn out my Bosch mixer! Yikes!
I would make homemade salsa!
I love chips and salsa.
I would make nut butters and smoothies!
I really want one of these to make green smoothies!
Green smoothies!
To help my three children to drink more veggies! 🙂 And possibly my husband! 😉
Soups and nut butters!
I’d be so psyched to win this! First things I would try are nut and seed butters
I would start learning how to make green smoothies and more! Have wished for one forever it seems.LOL 🙂
Soups, Pestos, smoothies
Juices, smoothies, soups, sauces and nutbutters!!!!Also, nut flours!
Awesome! I would make nut milks fresh for home and of course some daily Green Smoothies and some aguas frescas! Thanks for the opportunity!!
I would make so much! from almond milk to ice cream, to making my own flour. etc etc!!
i would make TONS! from smoothies, to flour, to milks
I want to make everything that has been mentioned. I love to create in my kitchen this would fill a great need since ALL of my appliances died in the same year 2013.
Smoothies and soup
I would make green smoothies, coconut butter and nut butters to name a few!
I can’t wait to make soups!! Cause you can’t make soup in just any blender!!!! 🙂
I will make smoothies (banana, blueberry!) and grind grain in my new VitaMix.
Thank you!
almond butter!
I need to blend up some egg shells for my chickens 😉
Soup, banana “ice cream”, and peanut butter!! Thanks for the chance =)
So many soups and smoothies…
I would use the Vitamix to make soups, smoothies, and to chop up some eggshells for my tomatoes this spring!
Fruit soups, hummus, and nut butters!
I would use it to make protein smoothies for my daughter who knee surgery.
There is nothing in particular I can put down here. I just want this blender for butters, my canning, general cooking, smoothies, and on and on. I’ve gone thru a bunch of blenders so winning this should make it the last blender I would own. Thanks
I would make EVERYTHING!! Soups, smoothies, my vitamin C gummy blend, sauces, marinades, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter, coconut butter, applesauce, coconut milk (so good in the vitamix!), almond milk, fruit puree for my food dehydrator fruit leathers, salsa…this list could go on forever!! My mom got one for Christmas and I’ve never been more jealous!! It is like magic! Oh what I wouldn’t give for a Vitamix…
I cook I cook
I blend, I stir
and in the end
it’s all a blur
First thing I would make would be a green smoothie…
Thank you so much for the giveaway! I would LOVE to have a Vitamix! I’ve been wanting one for a long time, but haven’t been able to afford one. I would makes tons of green smoothies, among other things.
Soup! It’s been beyond frigid lately!
Almond butter!
Soups! I was never a fan of soup growing up but I think it’s because they were always canned. When I’ve made soups from scratch I’ve found several I love. I have a folder of soups I want to make that require a blender!
I would love to have a VitaMix for making yogurt/fruit/veggie smoothies for my family. Right now, 5 of our 6 children are living at home and I make smoothies in a Magic Bullet. Time consuming and I’m sure I’m going to burn it up quickly!
Protein smoothies and paleo goodies!
smoothies and paleo goodies!
Health food smoothies! I would love to win!
everything i cannot make without it! soups, smoothies, shakes, etc
Smoothies and soup!
coconut butter
I would make so many things! I can’t chew my food very well, or digest foods well that aren’t minced or puréed. But soups would be the thing I would most like to make!
I would make homemade and clean sauces like fermented ketchup ( a healthy twist on a classic)!
Smoothies and soups and nut butters galore! Maybe even some flour if I can! My kiddos will love it!!
I would make almond milk and almond butter!!
Nut butters and nut milk.
Thank you so much for the wonderful giveaway opportunity! Depending on what ingredients I had in my pantry or fridge, the first smoothie I would whip up in the Vitamix would be your Pumpkin pie superfood smoothie, all of the benefits of the pumpkin, banana, cinnamon, allspice, ginger, hemp seeds, chia seeds, maca, camu camu and even gelatin featured all in one mix literally makes it a powerhouse full of superfoods but don’t let the healthy ingredients fool you the taste is amazing! I am a smoothie and soup fanatic, and I would be happy to create any smoothie, soups or frozen desserts with the Vitamix!
Smoothies, nut milks soups…alot of yummy stuff!♡
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Fruit purees and gazpacho
smoothies,applesauce,hummus, and who KNOWS what else! 🙂
green juices and smoothies for full body detox. trying to get rid of MRSA forever… dealing with skin conditions and other symptoms.
I would fix a Banana Smoothie if I won this Fab Prize!!!
Will bring to work and make healthy drinks for myself + co-workers.
Soup, baby, soup!
I’d use it to make coconut milk and baby food for my new nephew!
Well I would, of course, make smoothies all the time; and make nut butters, pesto, grind grains, milk shakes, etc. etc.
The best smoothies ever!
Smoothies!
Almond milk and smoothies
My husband is recovering from surgery. This will come in handy to make him nourishing foods – smoothies, soups etc.
soup
Puréed veggies in soups because I don’t eat them often enough.
Creamy, hearty soups!
Smothies & soups!
I would make anything I’m craving. I’m 5 months pregnant and need homemade goodness!
How to choose??? Hummus!!
I never used one before, so I would start simple with a smoothie.
Smoothies, soups, mayo, cranberry sauce, peanut butter, nutella, applesauce, etc.
Good luck to everyone!
to make yummy real food desserts!!!
Going to make some coconut butter!
I’ve wanted a Vitamix for ages now! I would love love love to win!
Soup, Mayo, coffee drinks, ice cream, peanut butter, smoothies, !!!
Definitely smoothies!!
“Hulk” smoothies, soups, nut butter…Ahhh to dream 🙂
I’d make a sunshine smoothie.
I’m making dramatic and much needed changes to my life starting with what foods I put in my body. So, I plan on using it for everything, including soups, smoothies, and nut butters to name a few.
Though my last name may give the impression that I love junk foods, nothing could be further from the truth! I try to feed my family only the most nutritious and wholesome ingredients for a healthy lifestyle. Our blender is a little sick after churning countless bunches of kale, veggies, fruit and nuts for delicious smoothies, soups and nut milks: a quick and easy way to keep a busy family healthy. I would only continue to make these same things but with mug greater ease if I had such a powerful blender!
I’d mole, pozole, almond butter, and smoothies!
(And crepe batter!)
smoothies, soup and sauces!
Smoothies, soup,flours, and I’m sure much more! Hopefully I’ll get my hubby to join me in eating better.
Coconut milk and flour first off.
Almond butter!
I’d make nut milks and green smoothies!
I would make lots of high protein smoothies to support my pregnant body and nut butters, homemade coconut milk and hummus… mmm
A little bit of everything, I love to try new things
I’d love to try making; whole food smoothies, nut butters, almond milk, gluten free flours …the list is endless!!
Smoothies & soup.
Hot soups & breakfast smoothies
I really want to make some soups!!
Smoothies with no spinach chunk. My blender doesn’t do a good job
Juices with kale
Everything…my little ninja can only do so much!
Everything!!
My 22 year old son graduated from college and moved out TAKING MY VITA MIX with him. I feel like I lost a hand. Soups/ smoothies/shakes and everything in between, I NEED A NEW VITA-MIX!
Oh the things I could do!
Chicken Tortilla Soup, their recipe is delicious!
fresh fruit and or vegetable smoothies
nut butters
vegan cheesecakes
sauces
soups
I will make smoothies, fresh juice, soup, nut butters, and so much more.
So many possibilities! Definitely smoothies and milk (almond and others!).