Our Pasko sa Agosto giveaway ended on the 31st and I just used Rafflecopter (ooohhh I love, love, love this tool!) to pick the winner who’ll get these 4 boxes of Celebrations by Sharon Maya Mixes.
Who won?! Well, you just have to continue on to see the Rafflecopter announcement…
Continue reading Pasko sa Agosto 2011 Giveaway Winner of Celebrations by Sharon Maya Mixes!
It’s the last day of our first anniversary giveaway. Yes, it’s your last day to join! To do so, click on the banner on the sidebar on the left or here.
Here’s a sneak peek of the majority of the prizes we’re giving away:
Look at all those gift certificates!
Oh, an update! Last night, when Ken and I went shopping for prizes, Pancake House in Trinoma and SM North Edsa didn’t have gift certificates available. Plus, Kenny Rogers don’t sell them anymore so we decided to change these GCs to KFC’s instead.. I think the KFC branch in Trinoma is out of GCs because of the amount we bought from them. 😀
And don’t forget the other prizes you’re getting like our The Cookie Jar treat for you and yummy polvoron from Fedhz!
And, lastly, from Chef Anna of My Pink Wasabi – the 16-piece bento boxes!
Hurry! We’re no longer extending the giveaway so make sure you submit your mandatory and optional entries by 11:59pm tonight.
To everyone who joined, good luck! Please be patient as we verify ALL your entries.
Lastly, it’s also the last day of our Pasko sa Agosto giveaway. Head on over to this giveaway page to join.
Note: Today, I’m posting this through a VERY SLOW CONNECTION. We don’t have our regular DSL right now so please bear with us as we find a way to check on all your entries with this problem at hand. Boohoo.
A few weeks ago, we were invited by Cadbury Philippines to a chocoholic night at Bizu Patisserie and Bistro in Greenbelt 2 in Makati. Our family LOVES Cadbury chocolates because of its creamy, milky goodness so it was an event we won’t ever pass up.
We invited a fellow chocoholic friend Geejay of Mga Luto ni Lola to join the Certified Foodies team for the night. Here’s a shot of us at the photo booth. It was so fun that I think we took home 3-4 photos each! 😀
The event was graced by the lovely Georgina Wilson, Cadbury Philippines’ brand ambassador. She shared with us how much she loves Cadbury and how relishing these milky chocolates brings back memories of bonding times with her family, particularly her dad. And I feel her. We all did. Food and the enjoyment of it can really bring back memories and fun times we had with people we hold dear.
FYI: Each chocolate bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk contains a glass and a half of milk. No wonder it’s the richest and milkiest chocolate bar I’ve ever tasted! 🙂 I love the plain milk chocolate; my bro and parents are into their Fruits and Nuts variants.
Anyway, the chocoholic bloggers night was intended to announce the launch of their latest promo, Cadbury Dairy Milk Joy Shots where a barkada of four can win a 4-day, 3-night round trip to Boracay inclusive of hotel accommodations and transfers. How exciting is that?!
How to join the Joy Shots promo? All you have to do is take a photo of you with 3 of your friends while you enjoy Cadbury Dairy Milk Bar/s (at least one 75g bar OR two 40g bars). The photo should be of you sharing a joyful moment with your friends.
Send in your photo, along with a brief caption (maximum of 60 words) about why you and your barkada deserve to win that Boracay trip. Email it to cadburyphilippines@gmail.com.
Photos will be judged based on the following criteria:
– Depiction of Sharing the Joy with Cadbury Dairy Milk (40%)
– Originality of depicting bonding (30%)
– Creativity (20%)
– Caption (10%)
The best photo based on the above criteria will win the trip. 5 consolation prize winners will also get Cadbury gift bags. Promo runs until September 16, 2011 only so HURRY! 🙂
Continue reading Cadbury Chocoholic Night + Joy Shots Promo for a Trip to Boracay
Because of the nature of my offline and online work, whenever I need a pick-me-up or something to keep me alert in the middle of the night, I have chips ready for me to snack on with a cup of hot tea. I know how unhealthy some snacks can be, especially when I’m munching on them when my body should already be resting. But, a few weeks ago, I discovered a healthier snack for me to enjoy – California Crunch Cassava Chips.
My first time trying these cassava chips was when I got them as prizes in their Facebook contest. I was anticipating getting a taste of California Crunch Cassava Chips to know how they compare to potato chips. So, how was it?
Well, to sum up how much we enjoyed it, there are no photos of the actual chips here. Why? Ken and I loved it so much that we forgot to take photos. Hahaha. I promise to update this post with photos of the chips. 😀 (UPDATE: Scroll down for a closer look on the chips)
And, yes, there were 2 packs of each variant – Sour Cream & Onions and Barbecue. We gobbled them up like there’s no tomorrow. 😀 
What we particularly liked about these cassava chips is the crunch. The chips are thicker than your regular potato chips so you’d get all that crunchy goodness matched with more flavors packed in each piece. Ken hogged the barbecue variant and I kept the sour cream all to myself and my nanay.
Cassava is known to have more fiber and potassium than potatoes. Plus, they’re 30% less fat than potato chips and it’s 0% cholesterol. So, you can enjoy a pack or two of California Crunch Cassava Chips without the guilt of eating something unhealthy for you or your kids. And it’s not as messy to eat, too, as the chips aren’t as greasy. 🙂
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We here at Certified Foodies highly recommend you try California Crunch Cassava Chips so much that we’re giving away THREE (3) packs of these healthy snack to our readers and fellow foodies.
Continue reading Healthier Snack Time with California Crunch Cassava Chips and GIVEAWAY
Certified Foodies is officially part of the Blogapalooza! And that means both of us, Mhel and Ken, will be there!
We are excited to be part of this awesome event as we experience and review some of the newest and hottest new products and concepts from different companies and entrepreneurs.
If you want to have your business showcased, check out the official website of Blogapalooza to find out more about what you’d get if you join in.
If you’re a blogger or someone influential online, may it be on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, you can join too.
All food products we’ll get to try at the event will be featured here. The rest will either be posted on our personal blogs (Just Another Pixel and Ken Avenue) or my review blog Pinay Reviewer.
Stay tuned! 🙂
If you haven’t heard yet, we extended our ‘ target=_blank>first year anniversary giveaway until the end of this month to give time for more participants and for those who already submitted their entries to possibly work on their write-ups for their Certified Foodie photo entry.
So, you only have about 11 days to join. Our giveaway ends on August 31st.
I know, you’re all excited about the prizes and we are too! We can’t wait to pick the winners and see who’ll be the luckiest of them all and win more than one prize.
If you haven’t joined yet, do so NOW NA! Click here to join now or on the banner above. 🙂
Yes, we know, we still have an ongoing giveaway to celebrate Certified Foodies’ first anniversary (update: extended until the end of the month). But, we know you’re all up for another giveaway.
That’s why for this month, we, along with our fellow generous bloggers, are giving away awesome prizes in a much-anticipated giveaway caravan – Pasko sa Agosto.
For our food blog, we are giving away this Celebrations by Sharon Maya mixes gift pack:
This goodie bag contains FOUR mixes – Banana Cake Mix, Party Cupcake Mix, Crinkle Cookie Mix, and Fudge Brownie Mix. You can easily bake these at home. The instructions are at the back so that should make it quick for you. You can even bake them on your oven toaster! 🙂
We haven’t used these mixes YET, but knowing that these are from Maya, the brand that brought us the popular and yummy hotcake mix Fluffy n’ Tasty, we’re pretty sure we’re going to love them, too. But, stay tuned for our feature of these mixes on here, aight?
So, how do you join exactly? Well, we made this VERY EASY for you. Just follow these instructions:
For all my fellow coffee lovers out there, you can now enjoy a good cup of McCafe Premium Roast Coffee for FREE at any McDonald’s breakfast store nationwide. All you need to do is present your “FREE COFFEE†coupon from 4:00am up to 10:30am starting August 8th until the 12th.
This is definitely good news for those who need their dose of caffeine in the morning and can’t find a cafe that’s open really early in the morning. There are McDonald’s stores nationwide that are open 24/7 that you can visit from August 8-12 to experience the goodness of 100% Arabica coffee from McCafe.
The McCafe Premium Roast Coffee is made from 100% pure Arabica beans, which they claim are hand-picked from the best coffee-producing regions globally. It’s roasted and blended perfectly to give you that classic aroma and great brewed coffee flavor. You can add this to your breakfast meal or solo for only Php 25.00.
Wondering how you’d get your hands on a coupon? Well, they started giving away free coupons in offices, transportation terminals, colleges, universities and McDonald’s stores yesterday. For the complete mechanics or to find out where they’re handing out these coupons, check McDonald’s on Facebook.
We’re now on our third week of our first anniversary giveaway where you can win awesome prizes amounting to Php 30,000!
There are minor updates, including the following:
– Bloggers with no PR yet can join the giveaway given they have at least 6 posts in a month. But, if your blog just started weeks ago, we’ll take that into consideration, too.
– We’ve made it easier for you to â€like†Facebook pages and follow Twitter accounts of our friends and partners.
We know the mechanics may look too long or complicated to finish but it’s all worth it ‘cause your chances of winning anything is high ‘cause we’re giving away 30+ prizes all in all.
Go ahead and click on the banner above to join. Good luck! 🙂
One year.
We can’t believe that this food blog, Certified Foodies, has been in existence for over a year now.
We started this humble blog in May 2010 with the purpose of sharing our own recipes of dishes that we Pinoys usually don’t prepare at home. It may be because they seem complicated or too messy to cook. We wanted to show people that noob cooks (Mhel) or better skilled ones (Kenneth) can experiment and add their own twists to different recipes and flavors.
Since then, we’ve aimed to hopefully encourage people that cooking is fun. Our very own Nanay (yes, we’re siblings! :D) has shown us how much you can enjoy cooking at home. That’s why the kitchen is our favorite area in our home. We get to cook whatever we want, whenever we prefer. And she willingly (:D) tastes them, compliments or criticizes us accordingly and in a very amusing way. 😀
She’s even very supportive of our food blog. Whenever we’re dining out, she’ll always recommend we try something new. Why? ‘Cause she’s seen the development of this blog and is actually enjoying being part of all this.
A lot has happened in the past year, including our discovery of new flavor combinations and cuisines that we usually would be scared to taste. Our palates have matured and we now are looking forward to more foodie adventures. 🙂
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We honestly can’t believe the amount of support we’re getting from our fellow foodies. From moms who have tried our recipes and added their own twists to it (definitely a win for us!) to fellow food lovers who finally worked up the courage to try something new just because of our recommendations, ahhh… for that, WE THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts… and bellies :D, especially those who find the time to visit our blog and comment.
By the way, we hope you’d consider this food blog for your list of Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2011. For all those who have already voted for us, THANK YOU SO MUCH! 🙂
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Why is this giveaway launching today, July 12, 2011?
Today, Kenneth, one of the authors of this blog, will be starting his journey towards fulfilling his culinary dreams. So, it was just fitting to start our giveaway on a very remarkable day in our lives.
Very soon, he’ll be sharing his new recipes, and tips and techniques that he learned from culinary school. So, make sure you stay tuned for that!
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Alright, enough introduction. Let’s get on to our FIRST ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAY. But, we hope you did read the paragraphs here. You’ll know why later. 😉
