Welcome to the January Festival of Food Carnival, hosted by Diary of a First Child and Hybrid Rasta Mama. This monthly carnival (changing to monthly in 2013 – join us on Facebook for more information on that!) will aim to bring together seasonal recipes, healthy food, and a diversity of flavours and techniques.
Here are the submission details for January 2013
Theme: Healthy Beginnings
For this theme we would like your ‘resolution’ recipes. Your ‘shake off the excesses’ favourites, that you use to boost your immune system, drop a few pounds or just feel better about yourself.
We prefer recipes with low sugar or natural sweeteners and as few processed ingredients as possible. However, we understand that healthy differs for every family, so please share your favourite.
Deadline: Thursday 10 January : (Normally it would be the first Friday of the month, but we’re giving you a chance to recover from Christmas and New Year!) Fill out the webform below and email your submission to us by 11:59 p.m. GMT at festivaloffoodcarnival [at] gmail.com
Carnival date: Thursday 17th January. Before you post, we will send you an email with a little blurb in html to paste into your submission that will introduce the carnival. You will publish your post on January 17th (again postponed a week for the holidays). We’ll include full instructions in the email we send before the posting date.
Please submit your details into our web form: This will help us as we compile the links list prior to the carnival.
Please do: Write well. Write on topic. If you’re using very uncommon ingredients, write something about them so your readers learn something new, or at least link to some information of them.
Please don’t: Please don’t use profanity of the sort that might be offensive to more sensitive readers or their children. Please don’t submit irrelevant posts.
Editors’ rights: We reserve the right to edit your piece or suggest edits to you. We reserve the right to courteously reject any submissions that are inappropriate for the carnival. Please also note that since there are two co-hosts on different schedules and conferring over email, our personal response to your submission might seem delayed. Don’t be alarmed. We also reserve the right to impose consequences if the responsibilities of the carnival are not fulfilled by the participants.
If you have questions: Please leave a comment or contact us at diaryofafirstchild [at] gmail.com and hybridrastamama [at] Hotmail.com
Links to tutorials: Lauren, Dionna, and Dionna’s husband, Tom, from the Natural Parents Network have written several tutorials about how to schedule posts in advance, how to determine post URLs in advance, how to edit HTML — all for both WordPress and Blogger users. For these tutorials and more, please see this handy summary post at LaurenWayne.com.
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Show off: Add the code below to your post to identify it as a carnival contribution:
Looking forward to reading these as with so many coughs and colds around anything that boosts the immune system is vital.