My friend's daughter is in Girl Scout's and they had their first annual Chili Cook-off on Saturday. My friend needed contestants and since I'm a sucker nice person I said I would do it. Mind you I have only made chili a couple of times in my life.
As luck would have it when I was home at my mom's my bother made this great low fat vegetarian chili.I got the recipe from him and made it for the first time saturday. Amazingly I won first place in the non-traditional category! My mom's first question when I told her was "Were there other entries in that category?" Yes, there were 5 other non-traditional chili's (meaning using a protein source other than beef).
Here's my booth
And my trophy
Had fun, an won a nice cash prize as well.
On the band front I'm not really feeling like a winner these days. I've lost focus and having trouble getting back on track. I lost my pedometer and it's gone down hill from there. Stopped loggin my food and exercise. Stopped making the best food choices. BLECH!
But, this is a new day, and time to get back on the bandwagon. I'm also participating in the "Let The Weight Fall Off" Challenge that Sandra at http://thinkitdoitliveit.blogspot.com/ is running. Just what I need to get me re-started.
Congrats!! I love chili. How awesome to win with a new recipe. :) lol @ your mom's comment.
ReplyDeleteForget the chilli, you look amazing!!! lol NO but really , congrats that's super cool! I think we all fall off the bandwagon every now and then. The important part isn't the falling, it's the getting back up.... :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I love this post! No wonder you won....look at that table presentation. Trophy and MONEY! I love it.
ReplyDeleteI love your mom's question...hilarious.
I just posted this same scenario about my 13yr old daughter a couple of weeks ago. She got thrown in to a chili cook off at the fair and she won too!
Great post. And just take the weight thing, one day at a time. Just do one small thing tomorrow that will benefit you.
Sandra