30 Day Challenge - Day 8

I'm doing a 30 day challenge where I do a blog post each day for 30 days based on this 30 Day Challenge List. Feel free to do the same and send me a link to your challenge.


8. What you ate today

This is everything I ate today. I'm on a gluten free diet becasue I have celiac disease. All of this food is gluten free. gluten free bread, gluten free cereal. It's a challenge to eat gluten free but I've been doing it for about two years. This is why I bake gluten free goodies and write about it on my blog. I'm getting better at gluten free cooking but it was tough at first and I've made a lot of mistakes that have resulted in me getting really sick. It's pretty surprising how many different foods have wheat, barley and or rye in them. A few surprising items I have found to contain gluten are: soy sauce, fish sauce, soup base, bullion, rice crispies, cold cuts, malt balls, and malt liquor (what's the word? Thunderbird). 

My Memories Free Software Giveaway via Sweetooth!

I've had two rockstar moments lately and I wanted to share them with you. The first moment was when I did a blog post about meeting Holly Becker and naturally I tweeted about it. To my surprise and amazement Holly retweeted it to her 30k+ followers and my blog traffic went through the roof! I was so excited. (BTW follow me on twitter @alishawilson)

The second cool moment was when I was contacted by My Memories a digital scrapbooking company. They had come across my blog and really liked it, and inquired if I wanted to do a digital scrapbooking giveaway. Heck yes I do! I made a scrapbook with My Memories of my recent trip back east. This is my first give away and I have been wanting to do one for some time now. Here are a few in progress pages from the book I'm making:

I would love to design scrapbooking kits and I know I will some day soon. Actually, I just added it to my Ninja List. This project has been very inspiring. All of my readers you will get a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software and a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value! just enter this code at checkout: STMMMS19970

Alright, I'm sure you want to know how to enter to win this software (Normally $40). Here's what you need to do: comment on this blog post about why you would like to win this software. Yup that's it, and you thought that was going to be hard. I will draw a winner in two weeks. Good luck everyone! 

Here's where you can find My Memories:

Blog- http://blog.mymemories.com/
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/mymemoriessuite
Twitter- @mymemoriessuite