Bloggy Carnival - Welcome!

Giveaway closed, Congratulations commenter #95: Victoria.
* Victoria has been emailed and will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen. Thank you to all the Bloggy Carnival participants for visiting The Vegetarian Hausfrau!
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Welcome to my vegetarian cooking blog. Today is a special, non-recipe post... why?

It's CARNIVAL time!!

If you are new to my blog, welcome. If you are a regular reader, you get an extra special treat today...

I'm having a GIVEAWAY.

As part of the Bloggy Carnival, hosted by Bloggy Giveaways, I will be giving away a $5 gift certificate to Starbucks.

Yes, it's a shout out to my hometown and something everyone loves (...or should love. If you don't like Starbucks, what's wrong with you?!).

This gift certificate was FREE for me. How?? (I know, it's nice to get free stuff)

I participate in Swagbucks.

Swagbucks is a search engine that rewards you with points for using them instead of yahoo, google, etc. Web searches are something we do everyday, multiple times a day. So, for no extra effort or changes to my daily routine, simply using the Swagbucks search engine (btw, swagbucks uses google as their search engine), I earn points that I use in their Swag store for FREE stuff. Gift certificates, electronics, video games, sports memorobelia, band/music swag, etc.


If you haven't tried Swagbucks before, I encourage you to check it out! They've been very reputable, fun to use, and are catching on like wildfire. After only a couple months, I had enough points for this gift certificate. Again, I'm doing nothing different, but getting free swag. Score!

To learn more about Swagbucks, and/or to start earning your own points towards free stuff, click here.

Now, now, I know what you want... INFO ON HOW TO WIN THE $5 STARBUCKS GIFT CERTIFICATE. Hold on to your Swagbucks, I'm getting there... (wink)

To enter :

• Leave a comment on this post. Tell me: Whether you use Swagbucks, AND what your favorite drink is at Starbucks. That's it!
• Make sure there is a way for me to contact you. If your email address is not in your blogger profile, or you are not a blogger, you MUST leave it in your comment.
  
• One comment per person.
  
• US entries only. I'm sorry, my international friends.
  
• Contest ends January 30th at midnight (PST).
• Winner will be drawn using Random.org.
  

After your done commenting, grab your favorite mocha, latte or hot chocolate, and (I hope) enjoy perusing all the yummy vegetarian recipes I have posted here, on my cooking blog. I love to cook, and love to share great recipes. If you're vegetarian, or have some picky eaters in the house, I have a lot of good food for you!

Special note: This post will stay at the top of the blog all week. New recipe posts on Tuesday and Friday, can be found as you scroll down. This week, I have some tasty treats lined up... Tuesday is Polenta Casserole, and Friday will be Baked Parmesan Dip (gearing up for the Super Bowl!).

Guten appetit, and enjoy the carnival!