Folks who know me know that I love food and cooking it and eating and experiencing it, and Food Network is like finely-razored crack on a hot plate when it comes to my enjoyment. I purposely don’t Tivo much of it or I’d spend most of the day watching cooking shows and doing little else.
So I jumped on the bandwagon when my friend, the sweet yet awesome Tara from TaraMetBlog recently held a contest for a Food Network Wii prize pack giveaway which was promoting the new Wii game, Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked, and included a bunch of promotional items along with the game. She recently got to have a sneak peak of it along with Iron Chef Michael Symon, lucky gal she is.
Guess who won it?
Yup! Little old me. I was stupidly surprised when she messaged me with the news. Awesome.
What ended up arriving at my doorstep was the following bundle of good things:

- A copy of Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked for the Wii
- A Food Network reusable shopping bag
- A Food Network Celebrates! Healthy Cooking DVD set featuring Rachael Ray, Ellie Krieger, and Alton Brown
- A copy of Food Network’s “Meals on DVD”
- A Food Network branded oven mitt, already used it tons
- A Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked branded apron — a rather nice one that actually FITS
- A Food Network sideways peeler, a new one for me (I’ve always used the straight ones)
- A Food Network key chain
- A Food Network refrigerator magnet
- A Food Network 1/2 size pen
So that’s pretty nice, eh? Many and copious thanks to Tara and the fine folks at Weber-Shandwick, Namco Bandai Games, and of course Food Network for the nice swag!

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