Monday, August 29, 2011

Rejected Giveaway Ideas

I tossed around a few different ideas for my first giveaway. I could have taken advantage of an email offer I got about this, that, or the other. Or, now that I’m actually in pantry clearing mode, I could have offered up two cans of pumpkin. You know in a month or two people will be talking about hoarding them and buying the stores out!

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Look – it’s best by July 27, 2013! Don’t worry, I made Pumpkin Curry and used up both cans last night. (Confusing recipe, but really tasty – made with lentils, onion, and coconut! I just still can’t figure out how much water to use once you “add remaining water” – but it worked.)

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One idea that I almost used – a cookbook giveaway. I have a feeling that there might be people out there who would enjoy one of my cookbooks more than I do. Now, I’m not naming names, but there might be one or two that didn’t live up to the hype. Then I remembered how much respect I have for my readers… and so I passed on that one. I took it a step further and considered letting the winner choose a cookbook, and then I’d buy two copies – one for you and one for me. But that just felt like I wasn’t actually doing the work.

In the end, I decided it might be fun to share some local peculiarities. So, congrats to …

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Isobelle of VGANJAR! Number one won! I need to shop for one perishable item once I hear from you, and then off in the mail it goes!

9 comments:

  1. The pumpkin curry sounds interesting, a little weird, but you can't go wrong with pumpkin & coconut. Congrats to Vganjar!

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  2. Oooh, how fun. Congrats to the winner. Wonder what cookbook I would have picked? Now, we'll never know. Sniff.

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  3. I've never had pumpkin curry...sounds good though!
    Congrats to Vganjar! :o)

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  4. Haha, I kind of like the pumpkin giveaway idea. It's so true that soon there will be NO pumpkin in the stores. People go nuts!

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  5. What? No pumpkin prizes? Not even as consolation for us losers??

    Haha, j/k and big congrats to Vganjar!

    The curry sounds interesting and sure looks creamy and full of flavor.

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  6. I'll save my bitterness till I see what Isotope won.

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  7. Oh, bummer, I read your last post and clicked on it to comment...then I'm pretty sure I got called away from the computer and never came back. So I missed a giveaway! Congrats to Isobelle.

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  8. Pumpkin curry sounds awesome! I cannot wait to start stocking up on cans. Will we see what you're sending Isobelle?

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  9. Can't help wonder which cookbooks weren't your cup of tea!

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