2010 Veggie Awards: Tell Your Friends!
To all our awesome fans who’ve already voted for us in the 2010 Veggie Awards: Thank you! We really appreciate your comments, likes, and re-tweets! 
In years past, we’ve won Best Brownie and Favorite Online Bakery in the Veggie Awards, and we’d love to add a few more “Favorites” to that list. Tell your friends!
The Veggie Awards are your chance to give a boost to all your favorite vegan people, places, products and businesses. Plus, you could win some really awesome prizes like a vegan marshmallow smorgasbord or an exotic getaway. If you haven’t voted yet, do it now! It’s fun and easy, and the polls close August 31st.
Winner: Father’s Day Giveaway!
Congratulations to Lori, the lucky winner of our Father’s Day Giveaway! 
She’s won a scrumptious Peanut Brittle Duo which she is giving to her dad, Ron, to support him taking steps towards becoming vegan. Way to go!
If you’re still wanting to send a classic Father’s Day gift to your classic Dad, it’s not quite too late. Order now, and choose FedEx Overnight or 2-day Air with Saturday Delivery to insure your goodies make it there before Sunday.
Last Chance to Order for Father’s Day!
What are your special Father’s Day plans? We’re planning a friends and family barbecue for Sunday afternoon with veggies and mushrooms on the grill, vegan potato salad and lemonade. For more great vegan menu ideas, check out my Veganize It! column from VegNews Magazine.
If your Father’s Day plans are still undecided, it’s not too late to order some delicious treats to let your Dad know you’re thinking of him. As a gift for a Dad far away, I recommend our Classic and Spiced Peanut Brittles, or our amazing Cherry Almond Bark. For something to share as a family, try our Pecan Brownies, or a Gourmet Vegan Sampler. Order today for delivery before the weekend.
Olivia says:
Today is also your last change to enter our Father’s Day Giveaway for a chance to win a Peanut Brittle Duo for a special Dad in your life! Enter now!
Father’s Day Giveaway!
Father’s Day is next week, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Peanut Brittle Duo (includes Classic and Spiced) to one lucky Father. To enter, post here on our blog, telling us the favorite sweet treat of a special Dad in your life.
Enter now! We’ll pick a winner Wednesday, June 16th, for shipment in time for Father’s Day, which is Sunday, June 20th.
We have a winner! Congratulations to Lori and her Dad, Ron.
VegNews’ Great Dessert Giveaway Winner!
Congratulations to Kimberly, the winner of VegNews Magazine’s Great Dessert Giveaway, who received a pound of our walnut vegan fudge in the mail last week as well as some delicious vegan treats from BabyCakes NYC and Sticky Fingers Bakery. Enjoy the vegan goodies Kimberly!
If you’d like to experience our out-of-this-world vegan fudge for yourself, we offer a variety of flavors to please every palate including Sour Cherry Chocolate and Peppermint Velvet.
Weekly Wrap-up: Shout Outs & NEW Hot Tip
Thank you for joining us for another weekly wrap-up. First things first: can I get a woot, woot for the fabulous mentions that Allison’s Gourmet received in VegNews and on the web this week?
In the latest issue of VegNews, the lovely actor, Ginnifer Goodwin was kind enough to mention Allison’s Gourmet Fudge as one of her favorite treats. Talk about feeling honored! We were also mentioned in ChicagoNow.com in their Allergy Free Gifts for Mom post, in GirlieGirl Army’s Eco-Fabulous Mother’s Day Gifts blog, and on VeggieWood’s Cruelty-Free Gifts page. Oh, and speaking of VegNews, don’t forget to check out Allison’s VeganizeIt! recipe: Fantastic Frittata.
I hope you had a chance to check out our Facebook page this week. Allison posted some adorable pictures of her and Olivia when they Welcomed their new neighbors at Animal Place. On Facebook, many of you commented on the article we re-posted regarding Ridge Hospital opening a vegan restaurant. Hopefully we’ll see more of this in the future. Vegan foods at hospitals make more sense than stripes on zebras, if you ask me. Go Ridge!
On Twitter, we’d like to give a special shout out to @Coach_Kall for showing us some RT love this week! Thanks, Kelly!
NEW (just for our wonderful blog readers!) Hot Tip: With Mother’s Day orders all shipped out, we’re looking ahead to Father’s Day and you know what that means: another contest giveaway! Help us grow our Twitter followers and you could win a free Classic Vanilla Lover’s Gift Set for your Dad. Stay tuned for more details.
Weekly Wrap-up: A Winner & Earth Day Mania
Welcome to another weekly wrap-up. I’m sure you’re all itching to find out who won our Mother’s Day contest. Well, the wait is over. The winner of this year’s Mother’s Day contest is Susan! Please join me in congratulating Susan; she has won a 24-piece box of Vegan Caramels!
If you missed it, here’s Susan’s story:
My mother is an amazing mother, but the woman who raised her, my grandmother was phenomenal. She taught me about compassion toward all living things. She respected every flower that she came across and every animal she saw. At an early age, my grandmother told me that we all have hearts and feelings and therefore we always need to take care of … See more things around us. She taught me the lesson of life which is probably the biggest lesson I learned growing up. Now that I am a mother, I continue my grandmother’s legacy about compassion. I think being a great mother is also a mother who is a mother to the world!
Beautiful story, thank you for sharing and participating in the contest, Susan!
In other news, we had another strong performance by @weeklyadventure on our Twitter account. Talk about amazing support. We couldn’t be happier about the RT’ability and kindness that we get from @weeklyadventure. Thank you so much!
And of course, the web was a buzz with Earth Day events, news, and other goings on. Some blog posts or articles that I found useful and worth sharing include:
- Earth Day~Go Vegan To Be Green, by The Veggie Gal (you might have seen a similarly theme post somewhere – wink, wink)
- Author Ruby Roth Offers Earth Day Tips For Kids, by VEGdaily
And of course, this post wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the news of Food, Inc. making it to national Television this week! It’s a pretty good flick and I’m so happy that industrial farming issues are making it to mainstream media. And, Kudos to those who hosted a potluck during the showing…great idea!
That’s about it for this week’s social media news. Catch Allison’s Gourmet everyday on Twitter, Facebook, and Website. Happy weekend, Everyone!
Weekly Wrap-up: Mother’s Day Contest and Frappuccinos
Let’s start with the good stuff, shall we: FREE sweets! In honor of Mother’s Day, Allison would like to give away some of her favorite, hand-selected sweets. You’ve got to earn them, but don’t worry, it’s easy: just tell us about an outstanding mom in your life, it can be your mother, grandmother, a friend, or even you!
Simply go to our Facebook Fan Page and post to our wall. We are looking for heart-warming stories (get creative with videos, pictures, and songs too!) about an amazing mom that you know! Entries started coming in yesterday and the contest closes at 5PM Pacific on Thursday, April 29th. The lucky winner will be announced on Friday via our Facebook Fan Page and Blog.
Speaking of Facebook, on Tuesday I asked if you work in a vegan-friendly environment and we had a mixed response. Aside from the lovely Angel McNall who works from home (lucky!), most of you weren’t thrilled with the lack of vegan-friendliness in your work place. But don’t be blue, you’re not alone! Check out this helpful blog post: Top 10 Bad Experiences of Vegan Professionals in the Workplace – and how best to deal with them.
Vegan chatter on Twitter was pretty slow across the board this week (everyone on vacation?). Wednesdays are usually vegan mania but this week: not so much. Despite that, @allisonsgourmet had some amazing and ongoing RTs from @weeklyadventure and @adukipress. Thank you so much for your support, Friends!
Photo from QuarryGirl Blog
On to one of the most talked about topics this week: Starbucks’ vegan frappuccinos. It seemed like everyone and their mother were blogging about Starbucks this week. And I will admit, even though I’m not a coffee drinker I did go into a Starbucks this week and order their new vegan frappuccino, simply because I wanted to show my support. It was just okay. But for those of you who are super excited about this: hooray! And for those of you who’d rather not support the Starbucks franchise, click here to check out Allison’s Gourmet Peruvian Femenino certified organic fair-trade coffee.
Well, that’s about it for this week. Don’t forget to enter our awesomely delicious Mother’s Day contest and happy social networking!
Enter to Win Mother’s Day Sweets!
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday, May 9th. In honor of the amazing moms in our lives (whether it be your mom, grandmother, or even yourself), Allison is giving one lucky winner a hand-selected assortment of Allison’s Gourmet treats!
Here’s how to enter the contest:
Go to our Facebook fan page and post your story of amazing mothering on our wall. Feel free to simply write it, or get more creative by uploading a video, pictures, or even an original song. The more inspired the better! The most heart-warming entry wins!
Enter by 5pm Pacific on Thursday, April 29th.
The winner will be announced the following day on our blog and Facebook fan page.
Winner: Springtime and Easter Giveaway!
Congratulations to Amanda, the lucky winner of our Easter and Springtime Giveaway! She will be receiving a 24-piece gift box of Allison’s Gourmet vegan caramels. We know she loves vegan peanut butter cups, so we hope they don’t get jealous of her Spring fling with our vegan caramels.
Enjoy, Amanda!
