Review and Giveaway: DOLE Make me a Chef Contest!

Lily absolutely LOVES playing “cooking show” in the kitchen anytime we prepare a meal.  So, I knew the DOLE Make Me a Chef contest was right up her alley!

dolelogoChef Ben Ford has created four signature recipes with DOLE Canned Fruit and you (plus three friends) can win the chance to hang out with the Chef at his Los Angeles restaurant this June!  It’s so easy to enter:

Visit the Registration Page and enter a short essay on how DOLE Canned Fruit is a staple in your pantry no later than May 8, 2009.

In addition to winning the trip, you can also win $100 worth of DOLE products in weekly random drawings OR one of two drawings for a $500 VISA gift card!

Lily and I looked through the recipes and decided to try out the Easy Aloha Smoothie.  Check out my Little Chef!

DOLE has also placed the power in MY hands to select one reader to win a “Stock Your Panty” gift card worth $25 of DOLE Canned Fruit!

How to Enter:

1.  Visit DOLE Make Me a Chef recipe section and tell me which recipe you would like to try!

2.  If you decide to submit an essay to win the Grand Prize, repost your essay in my comments and you will recieve 10 extra entries into the $25 drawing on The Not-So-Blog!

Additional Entries (please leave each entry as a separate comment):

1.  Blog about this giveaway and link back to The Not-So-Blog.

2.  Subscribe to my blog.

3.  Place my button on your sidebar.

4.  Favorite me in Technorati.

Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on May 8, 2009.  Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited.  Open to everyone.

Comments

  1. I’m going to try the Angel Lush, anything with angel food cake will be amazing.

  2. Arin says:

    I would make the aloha smoothie too-my kids love smoothies and the recipe is easy with very few ingredients.

  3. Margaret Stephens says:

    I keep Dole fruit in my pantry actually it is not a pantry it is a wooden cabinet seperate from my kitchen cabinets and I fill it with Dole fruits and lots of canned vegetables.

  4. Lindsay says:

    The Aisan mandarin salad looks so yummy!

  5. berwyn says:

    I would like to try the Pineapple-Mint Lemonade!

  6. Marcia Goss says:

    I’d like to try the Pineapple Sweet and Sour Chicken.

  7. susan varney says:

    the pineapple sweet and sour chicken

  8. adrienne Gordon says:

    the pineapple coffe cake

  9. Darlene says:

    pineapple sweet and sour chicken

  10. Cynthia C says:

    I’d like to try the Pineapple Mint Lemonade. Sounds refreshing. Thanks for the giveaway.

  11. LT says:

    I would love to try the Angel Lush cake!

  12. LT says:

    I am a subscriber

  13. LT says:

    I have your button.
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  14. Patti Sherman says:

    I like the easy aloha smoothie

  15. CHARLES KASSING says:

    thanks

  16. I’d like to try the Asian Mandarin Salad :) *Thanks* for the giveaway!

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  19. Jennifer S. says:

    I’d love to try the pineapple coffee cake. I think I even have some Dole pineapple hanging around!

  20. Heather S says:

    I love pineapple so the pineapple coffee cake sounds great

  21. Carla Pullum says:

    Pinapple Sweet and Sour chicken!
    Carla
    cpullum(at)yahoo(dot)com

  22. Katharine D says:

    The Pineapple Sweet and Sour Chicken – yummy!

  23. Cheryl W says:

    The Asian Mandarin Salad looks great to me!

  24. Linda Fish says:

    I would like to try the Easy Aloha Smoothie

  25. Sonya Sparks says:

    I think we would like the Aloha Smoothie. Thanks!

  26. Denise B. says:

    I would try the “Easy Aloha Smoothie” but with regular yogurt instead of low-fat.

  27. Chris says:

    Pineapple Mint Lemonade

  28. Jill L says:

    The Mandarin Sunrise Pizza looks delicious.

  29. Susan C says:

    The pineapple sweet and sour chicken sounds delicious. I have all of the ingredients and may make it tonight!
    smchester at gmail dot com

  30. Susan C says:

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  31. Linda Lansford says:

    pineapple coffe cake

  32. Lauralee Hensley says:

    Pineapple-Mint-Lemonade. I love all of these and wonder how they would taste in a combination like this.

  33. Lauralee Hensley says:

    I subscribe.

  34. GALENA PENROD says:

    PINEAPPLE SWEET AN SOUR CHICHEN

  35. Djp says:

    yep i;m here

  36. Amber G says:

    All the recipes look good, but I would try the Pineapple Coffee Cake first!

  37. Rhonda Struthers says:

    I would like to try the aloha smoothie…yum

  38. Rita A says:

    I would love to try the Pina Colada Creme Caramel with pineapple chantilly cream. Wow thats a mouthful!

  39. Rita A says:

    I am a subscriber.

  40. Rita A says:

    I added your button http://one2try.blogspot.com/

  41. Catherine says:

    Mandarin Sunrise Pizza

  42. Jessica Cote says:

    the Angel Lush…YUM!

  43. c. clemens says:

    i would want to try the pineapple sweet and sour chicken!!!!!!!!! sounds great

  44. A couple of things really look good, but I think I’d try The Asian Mandarin Salad

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  47. Essay #1
    With us, Dole crushed pineapple is a staple because we can use it in drinks, salads (we love it in a carrot raisin salad)and so much more…

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  49. jayne says:

    Pineapple Sweet and Sour Chicken sounds delicious!

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