NQN competition: Win 1 of 3 Fair Trade Fortnight Hampers!

*THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. STAY TUNED FOR THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT*

The winners are:

**First prize: Jo F. **

Second prize: Amy W.

Third prize: Ju Ann S.

To celebrate the upcoming Fair Trade Fortnight from May 2nd to May 17th, 2009, our good friends at Cocolo Chocolate have gathered together some of the best of Fair Trade goodies in three generous hampers for three very lucky Not Quite Nigella readers!

If you don't know about all of the events and goodies on during this time, you can have a look at the calender on the Fair Trade website. There are markets, coffee and product tastings and chocolate fondues in each state with the Sydney Fair Trade Fiesta featuring Kylie Kwong.

And what is in these hampers you may ask?

First Prize:

Cocolo Dark Bittersweet Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Dark Orange Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Milk Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo 70% Dark Chocolate x 1  50g Milk Chocolate x 2

Cocolo 50g 70% Chocolate x 2

Bang Circle Black x 1

Fairtrade Cookbook x 1

Qi (bags) x  4

TE Sumatra Bean x 1

Second Prize:

Cocolo Dark Bittersweet Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Dark Orange Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Milk Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo 70% Dark Chocolate x 1

Cocolo 50g Milk Chocolate x 2

Cocolo 50g 70% Chocolate x 2

Qi (bags) x  4

TE Sumatra Bean x 1

Third Prize:

Cocolo Dark Bittersweet Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Dark Orange Chocolate 100g x 1

Cocolo Milk 100g Chocolate x 1

Cocolo 50g Milk Chocolate x 2

Cocolo 50g 70% Chocolate x 2

Qi (bags) x  2

All you have to do is have a look at the Fair Trade website and tell me which Fair Trade event interests you the most. That's it, no complicated 25 words or less. Add your entry via a comment to this story. You can enter once daily.

The competition is for Australian residents only.

The competition ends midnight AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on the 17th of May.

Best of luck to everyone!

Love,

Not Quite Nigella

xxx

Yesterday was also my last day on the Lean Cuisine challenge. For lunch I tried the the Honey Mustard chicken with rice (335 calories) which wasn't too bad. The rice has improved from what I remember although I have to say that it isn't 100% the way I like rice. The sauce is quite good and there are a few pieces of chicken sliced thinly like sashimi. I supplemented this with baby spinach leaves but I must admit that I end up a little hungry after this.

For dinner I had the creamy mushroom tortellini. This tortellinis tend to look the best out of all the meals, I suppose because they can be stirred up and they're quite filling. At 400 calories, this is one of the higher calorie meals. The sauce reminded me of a tinned cream of mushroom soup which isn't really my cup of tea but it was very filling.

Out of all the meals, I most liked the Rich Beef Lasagne and Vegetable Cannelloni. I don't think they'd ever tell you that they taste better than what you would get at a restaurant or make at home however there is a big plus in that they also are not as calorific - there's no way I could make something like this 97% fat free and I liked the innate portion control. And I have to say that I loved the convenience and would happily keep a few beef lasagnes in my freezer for times of laziness or crisis.

I can't say that I lost any weight as I am one of those people that tends to put on weight if they eat pasta and I never eat pasta for both lunch and dinner and I was mostly given pasta meals. But it was fun so thankyou to the lovely people at Lean Cuisine and Nestle for making me your guinea pig for a week! :) .