What We Won Wednessday

Every week (nearly, unless I'm sick as a dog like last week or just too busy) I plan to join What We Won Wednessday and share a few of the things I've won (recently or in the past).  This week I'm sharing some food related items I've won.

Recently I won some Reusies Snack Bags over at the blog Of Another Cinnamon.  They are super cute and will be super useful once I start packing my kids lunch again (recently we've been buying lunches, cause we've had so many illnesses it was just one less thing to do...but I plan to go back to packing soon.)

Not so recently I won the cookbook pictured above.   Jennifer Bourassa, a lady I met on MomPack was, was holding a contest to find a name for a cookbook she was selling to earn money for her son's Martial Arts Class.  Though she didn't end up using any of the titles people submitted, she used a subtitle I submitted, and so I won the book, along with some other goodies, including a gift card to her Noah's Arc shop (which I never used, and it expired) and Wildtree Guacamole Seasoning, which was tasty!  The book is called...

Self Defense with Health Defense

Good for your taste buds, good for your body,

and for a good cause.

It has some fun recipes, and cute illustrations by her son (he did the cover art too).  She's not selling them anymore...wish I had shared this while she still was.

Here's one I'll share with you all:


Black Bean Dip

INGREDIENTS


1 19 oz  or 15 oz can black beans
1/2 cup prepared salsa, hot or mild
2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
2 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 tsp ground cumin
Salt and Pepper to Taste

Combine all ingredients, except salt and pepper, in food processor. Process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.

What I Won!

 I'm joining in with What We Won Wednesday to share and say a little thank you for all the things I've won in blog giveaways lately.  Really, I have a lot of giveaways I've won that I meant to blog about in thanks, but never got around to it...so this will be a nice reminder to do that.  But this week, I'm just going to start with a couple things I got in the mail this month.

First, I won these really cool Charlie Harper ABC/123 Nesting Blocks at Mama Hill.

You notice the first thing he did with them was stack 

them upside down.  :-)

This blurry action shot shows the blocks a little better.

The other thing I won  was a Robby Wash Ball at Girly Girl Giveaways--that's a year's worth of laundry detergent in one little ball!  It really works too...I've tried it out and my clothes come out clean. 

What am I going to do with the money I'm saving?  Well, part of it is going to go to suppor the Mercy House Maternity Home in Kenya.  This is a ministry just beininng, created by a woman from the US and a women in Kenya to help young pregnant girls in an area where there is currently no program helping them.  They are starting small.  They want to provide 6 beds in a safe gaurded house, pre-natal care, counceling (as many of these girls have been forced into prostitution at a young age), meals, and biblical teaching...as well as teach them skills they can use to provide for themselves and their children after they graduate from the program so they don't have to return to prostitution.