It was completely amazing to see you guys supporting Shop 4 A Cause 2 so much. I was basically glued to my desk all day long updating bids! It was intense, exhausting, thrilling, and inspiring.
It should also be mentioned that many of your bidding war emails cracked me up. Many a ‘muhuahuahua’s’ were said. Evil cackles and ‘Aw hell no’s’ were frequent.
I may have also added fuel to the fire… (‘Are you really going to stand for this!?’) :angel:
We raised a whopping $3,110 for cancer in just 13 hours!!!!!!!!!! We greatly surpassed my goal of $2,500!
Thank you all so much!!!! I am forever grateful for your generosity. :heart: Today and tomorrow, I will go through all of the payment emails and connect the winners to the item donors. Winners (on this page) please direct your payment to my online donation page. Please email me ([email protected]) when you have completed your donation. Also please let me know the item name and number you paid for. Thank you!!!
At 10pm, I sat in front of the computer and celebrated with strange picture poses. Inspired by the bidders, I muhauhauha- ha-ha-hawed.
Eric played along, sighing and eye rolling, with each photograph, like any husband would. (I know he secretly loves it though.)
Then we celebrated with copious amounts of the 3 Ingredient homemade chocolate covered raisins (batch #2).
Every time we eat these we claim obnoxiously, ‘I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THESE ARE.’ over and over. It’s almost ridiculous how good they taste.
Bed.
I proceeded to stare at the ceiling for 2 hours. I felt like I was jacked up on Red Bull. I think I finally dozed off around 2am.
I woke up with an auction hangover and decided that a wheatgrass shot would help…
Then, I had my banana soft serve vegan overnight oats and all was well in the world again.
We continue to have a HEAT WAVE in Southern Ontario (yesterday hit 34C!), so these cold, mouth-watering parfaits have been consumed in mass quantities over here.
They will definitely be a summer staple along with Green Monsters!
The recipe I used is here, however I added something fun to the mix- Nature’s Path GF Rice Crisp Cereal (on top). It adds a splendid crunch!
My banana soft serve didn’t turn out exactly as it should have though. I froze a really brown, brown, brown (aka mushy) banana and it didn’t freeze well. When I tried to process it, it did not process smooth, but more so chunky and icy. To make matters worse, it also tasted bad! Moral of the story- sometimes brown bananas are too brown, at least for banana soft serve! I managed to choke it down though… :whistle:
As I mentioned, I shot a video last week of how to make the Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats. Well, it turns out that I blab way too much so I’m working on cutting it down and will upload it today. I’m a Chatty Cathy when it comes to food I guess.. :biggrin:
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I’ll be back with a lunchtime post this afternoon. Have a great day!
That is incredibly amazing! I wish I had money to participate, but I’m impressed with that much fundraising! Yay!
I’ve had that problem with bananas before, I definitely want them mushy before freezing for the best flavor, but sometimes they are just too bad.
Yay! I have been DYING for that video!
And congrats on all of that money raised!
I love that term – “Chatty Cathy”. I think that’s what I should dub my new nickname. I can ramble as well. I look forward to seeing the video.
Your “muahaha” picture cracked me up!
Congrats on your successful fundraising! That’s great-
I totally hear you on the cold breakfasts in the heat- I cannot wait for those days- it’s not that nice in BC yet!
Love the photos, haha!! I bet yesterday was really fun watching the bids come in! The amount of money you raised is incredible. This took a lot of work..kudos Angela!!! I need to make VOO again soon..I’m going on a 2 day kick of pnut butter banana green monster..sooo yummm :)
I’m SO glad it went so well!! Congrats, Ange. You put in a TON of hard work. Glad it’s paid off:)
I’ve been on a banana-soft-serve-VOO kick lately! I call it “banana oatmeal parfait”. Thanks for the recipe you’re a genius!! I’m also wondering when your Oakville farmer’s market starts? I live in Oakville and #1 didn’t know about the market so I’m super excited and #2 very excited to try my first Glo bars!
Wow, what a great amount of money raised for this fantastic cause. Way to go and congrats to the winners! :D
Congrats on raising so much money! I’m so glad it was a success:)
YAY!! That is so awesome!!! Congrats on raising so much!!!!
Congratulations on the fund-raising!!! And thank you for mentioning the healthy360 bag giveaway – I won 2nd place, woohoo!
Awesome, congrats!
I love your raising, chocolate ones are the best :)
raising= raisins :D
Re: Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats – Genius! Looking fwd to the video ;)
I love your humor girlie! Great pics totally showing the excitement that was had while watching the clock tick with those updated bids!!! Fun stuff! I liked this idea so much that I am going to steal a form of it for our fundraising efforts for Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society in Sept. I am team captain for our team this year. I may ask you for some ideas as we plan our theme this year. Last year, because my team is our Rowlett, Tx. Jazzercise group, we were the Jazzin for a cure team and our colors were pink and black zebra print….too fun! I’ve been doing this function since 2002 and love it. You did an awesome job on this one gal and I totally commend you!
As for the banana soft serve, I wish I had the time to make that in the AM prior to work. I may have to try that on the weekends. And those raisins, God if I liked raisins, I’d have to make those….aw heck I might anyway just to taste this superlicious looking chocolate. Chocolate makes things taste better anyway. :)
BTW, with your wheatgrass shot, do you put anything else in it when you drink it or just water and wheatgrass? I used OJ and it was really good.
Just plain old H20- but OJ sounds much better!
CONGRATULATIONS!! That’s fantastic!!!!!!
It’s hot here, too. I think breakfast tomorrow is going to be banana soft serve vegan overnight oats! :-)
Well done, Angela. That is an amazing accomplishment! :)
congrats everyone that participated! That is amazing!!
Heat wave?! We’ve been having rain constantly, yesterday and today we’ve finally had the sun poke out, but not much warmer than 15C! and its supposed to Rain, Rain, Rain ALL weekend too.
I just might have to come live with you!
It is great to find out how successful the auction went! I wish I could have taken part but was way too busy working! Your chocolate covered raisins look and sound wonderful. I know I would love them since raisinets were my fave movie theater candy growing up.