Green Cardamom Pods by Michelle Peters-Jones in the FBC Flickr pool.
brought to you by Janes Family Foods
This week we’re highlighting Member news and Member Opps.
January Members’ News Draw
We’re kicking it off with the winner of our first monthly Members’ News Draw with Janes Family Foods. We’ll be randomly drawing one FBC Member each month and tol receive free product coupons from Janes! January’s winner is Rey Sale from Enterwining! Congrats Rey! Melissa will be in touch with you shortly for your details so we can get you your product coupons.
MEMBERS ONLY: Cookbook Giveaway (National)
We are giving away a copy of Mairlyn Smith‘s new cookbook, The Vegetarian’s Complete Quinoa Cookbook to one lucky winner. Mairlyn will be speaking at FBC2013 this April and a member of The Ontario Home Economics Association. Check out the post for all the details to enter (you must be logged in to access the contest).
MEMBERS ONLY: Cook With Summer Fresh (ON, QC, Atlantic Provinces)
Try out Summer Fresh‘s newest cooking sauces and create a tasty recipe for them. 15 bloggers will be chosen to try out the sauces (5 in each region) and will also receive an Ikea 365+ Wok. If your dish is chosen you’ll be asked to write about your experience and it will be featured on FBC! Get all the details here! (you must be logged in to access the offer).
2012 Ninjamatics Weblog Awards
The winners of the Ninjamatics Weblog Awards were announced last week and we’d like to send out congrats to:
- Kelly Neil (2nd place in art & photography – and a new members this week!)
- Everybody Likes Sandwiches (1st place in best designed weblog and 1st place in best food & beverage blog)
- Pepper + Paint (3rd place in best designed weblog)
- Simple Bites (2nd place in best written weblog and 3rd place in best food & beverage blog)
- An Italian – Canadian Life (3rd place in best topical weblog)
Awesome job all of you! Congratulations 
FBC Flickr Group
Don’t forget our FBC Flickr Group where you can submit your food photos – each week we choose one photo from the previous week’s newest photos to be the featured photo in the news! You don’t need to post every day – just when you have a photo you want to share!
New Members
Our new members this week – and it’s a BIG crop!
- Enjoy Life One Bite At A Time (ON)
- The Short Stack Foodie (ON)
- The Little White Kitchen (ON)
- The Food Nerd’s Diary (ON)
- Cynthia David (ON)
- Emily Leclerc (QC)
- Kelly Neil (NS)
- Local-Lux (ON)
- Holiday Baker Man (BC)
- Life On Manitoulin (ON)
- Eating With Kirby (BC)
- Purple House Cafe (NS)
- The Dutch Oven Diaries (NS)
- The Hamiltonian Food (ON)
New Business Members
And remember, if you have anything you’d like to share with your fellow members in the news, please let us know about it. To have your submission appear in a Monday news post, the deadline is Friday at 5pm Pacific time. You can send your submissions directly to Melissa.
As always,
Melissa, Mardi and Ethan
So surprised you didn’t add a link to your conference and remind readers about this fantastic opportunity through your weekly post!!! Love Michelle’s photo!
Great stuff you are all doing!
V
Valerie, as much as we would LOVE for all our members to come to the conference, the reality is, the vast majority of them can’t! We’ve mentioned #FBC2013 in the news every week for weeks and it’s been all over our social media. (and there’s a link to it at the top of the page in the main menu!). FBC is about much, much more than the conference and I think it’s ok if we take a break from it every now and then – I’m sure those not able to attend appreciate a little breathing room too
Thanks for the welcome….. just getting serious about blogging. This site is a great resource.