Free Bites
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Free Bites Create (or Pilfer) a Really Good Recipe, Win a Whole Foods Gift Card
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:25 AM
- From yummly.com
It's late January, no time to slack on a resolution to eat healthy. It doesn't have to be misery — last week's creamy vegan tomato soup is luxurious.
Whole Foods offered a starter pantry list to to supply the raw materials.
1 pound black beans
1 pound lentils
1 pound quinoa
2 pounds brown rice
3 (32-ounce) boxes vegetable broth
1 (32-ounce) box chicken broth
1 pound rolled oats
2 cans cannellini beans
2 pounds pasta
1 can black beans
1 jar unsweetened applesauce
1 (32 ounce) box nondairy beverage
1 (32 ounce) box almond milk
1 (5-ounce) can tuna
3 (15-ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 package no-oil sun-dried tomatoes
1 jar pasta sauce
Starting with the list, select at least three of the ingredients and create a satisfying, healthful dish and submit it to be eligible to win a $50 gift card from Whole Foods. Submit in the comments or link to your blog.
This week's recipe uses lentils, barley and canned tomatoes from the list.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Free Bites On the Third Day of Bites Gifty Giveaway
Posted by Nicki Wood on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:40 AM
This fun little book — Beer Craft by William Bostwick and Jessi Ryhill — came to us, and the author is nice. Alas, we were swamped with beer festivals and beer-related news and couldn't find a place for it in the weekly Bites lineup.
But you can now win it, by golly, you can. Just identify the food item in this photo. The first correct answer from someone who can pick up the book at the Scene offices is the winner!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Free Bites Free Stuff Alert! DoubleTree Cookie Giveaway Until 4 p.m. by Legislative Plaza
Posted by Jim Ridley on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM
The cookies won't have to travel far. Since 1995, Nashville's The Christie Cookie has held the secret DoubleTree recipe, which people have chased across the Internet. If you've tried making your own, stop by to see how they compare — and register in the meantime for prizes ranging from weekend getaways to tins of the coveted cookies. The grand prize is a five-day/four-night stay at any DoubleTree by Hilton location, airfare included.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Free Bites Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day at Vanderbilt Location Today, Plus a Chance to Help Save WRVU
Posted by Steve Haruch on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM
If you've managed to read this far without taking off for the VU campus in a saliva-trailing blur, you should know there is another, important dimension to today's festivities: a chance to help keep WRVU 91.1-FM on the air. Now, some of you might be saying to yourselves, "Wait, there's a chance WRVU would be taken off the air? Are people out of their free-cone minds?" Well, the short answer is "yes." You can read some more about that here and here, if you like.
Or just as good, stop by Ben & Jerry's today, where you'll have a chance to talk with WRVU DJs, learn more about the effort to save the station — and, since your ice cream will be free of charge, donate a little scratch to the WRVU Friends & Family Association Fund. Those good folks just received their official recognition as a nonprofit from the state of Tennessee. More info from them at SaveWRVU.com.
Free ice cream. Free-form radio. Let's do this, Nashville.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Cheap Eats / Free Bites Free Stuff/Discount Alert: Copper Kettle, Chick-fil-A, Bongo Java
Posted by Jim Ridley on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- Business Wire
• Attention Vanderbilt students and staff: Tuesday, March 1, is Free Coffee Day on campus only courtesy of Bongo Java, which will be serving free cups of its organic fair-trade brew at Rand, the Pub and Common Grounds courtesy of Vanderbilt Dining. Stay tuned for details as the coffeehouse prepares to celebrate its 18th birthday later this month. ...
• The wheel. The polio vaccine. Manned space flight. Add to these milestones of human accomplishment (drum roll, please) ... Heinz Dip & Squeeze Ketchup, the scientific breakthrough that allows you, the consumer of French fries and potato wedges, to avoid unsightly spritzes of tomato spray thanks to its dual-function design. Peel back the bottom of the bottle-shaped plastic tub — reportedly the first makeover in ketchup-packet engineering in 42 years — and dunk your snack of choice in a velvety bath of Heinz's favorite, or lop off the packet's top and pour away.
To celebrate, Chick-fil-A, the first restaurant to adopt the new packaging nationally, has designated this Friday, March 4 as FREE FryDay. Stop by between 2 and 4 p.m. and ask for a sample of the technologically advanced ketchup, and Chick-fil-A will award you a free small order of waffle fries to reward your pioneer spirit. Limit one per customer.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Free Bites Free Sweet CeCe's Frozen Yogurt Tomorrow in Franklin
Posted by Dana Kopp Franklin on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:29 PM
According to CeCe's on Twitter, they'll be filming a video 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, and folks of all ages are invited to join in, with free yogurt and treats for everyone. (Those who participate will need to sign a routine release form so their image can be used.)
I'll be stuck up here in the Gulch, yearning, but Williamson County fans of CeCe's should get over there toot sweet.
(Hat tip to the excellent Nashville for Free blog for pointing us to this news.)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Free Bites Bartering to the Tiniest Grocery Bill
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:14 AM
- Nicked from the serifofnottingham blog, site of many other clevernesses
While buying our Walnut Hills steaks at the Nashville Farmers' Market, we talked with owner-operator Doug Bagwell, who mentioned that he barters his grass-fed beef for vegetables and other groceries.
He says he's gotten his grocery bill down to $50 a month. Not a typo — $50 a month. In contrast, a three-person family I know spends around $750 a month — they buy a lot of food in single-serving packages, a lot of premium products and pricey vegetables, and enjoy a nice piece of meat for dinner most nights, with wine and a good baguette from Provence or Bread & Company.
The project I launched in January to save grocery receipts then tally them only worked halfway — I saved receipts for four months but haven't totaled them yet. Safe to say, though, that the total is somewhere between $50 and $750.
How much do you obsess over your tab at the grocery? Do you even pay attention? And if you do, is it worth your while to obsess over it?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Free Bites Free Seattle's Best Coffee on Friday at Burger King
Posted by Chris Chamberlain on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM
This week, Emily gives me a valid reason to try to overcome my bovirexaphobia* and drop by my local Burger King. Every Friday in November, Burger King is giving away free 12-ounce cups of Seattle's Best Coffee during regular breakfast serving hours. They started offering Seattle's Best back in September, but they've been saving your present for the holidays. So skip your regular Friday latte and save your money for Christmas shopping.
*Fear of the creepy-assed Burger King guy.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Free Bites Free Pinkberry? Tonight? On West End?
Posted by Jim Ridley on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:49 PM
WKRN says it's so, from 6-10 p.m. Nashville's first Pinkberry, at 2306 West End in the former Blockbuster location, is throwing a VIP opening complete with velvet rope and pink carpet. Samples will be given, so Nashville can acquaint themselves with this unfamiliar new confection called "frozen yogurt." See here for more store info.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Free Bites Monday Fun with Craigslist
Posted by Nicki Wood on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Here's a soul in need of deep freezers, whether they work or not. What you planning on with those things, bud?
Big batches of stuff are gonna be cooking when this guy gets hold of a deep fryer big enough for a turkey and your crock pot too.
Raise a roast to good health! Someone in the Columbia area wants to buy free-range, antibiotic-free poultry, pork and beef.
It'd be a pleasure to find a use for the cartons when the eggs are gone. Here's a polite, lovely person wants empty egg cartons for selling fresh eggs.
One person's junky plastic bags crammed under the sink is another person's, uh ... I have no idea.
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