Book Giveaway & Workout Wednesday Filed under ( group fitness, product review )

Hiya! Hope your week is treating you well. My first two days were crazy busy, so I am hoping the rest of the week is a little more chill.

Have you ever been in the kitchen cooking or baking and realized you don’t have an ingredient called for in a recipe? I am always making substitutions, so I was super excited to receive this book, Substituting Ingredients: The A to Z Kitchen Reference (June 2010) by experienced food writer Becky Sue Epstein. Its basically the substituting bible (note: I received this product for free)!

  So what will you find inside?:

  According to the Publisher:

“Author and senior editor at Intermezzo magazine, Becky Sue Epstein includes more than 1,000 healthy, A to Z, easy-to-find, and cheap substitutions. Her goal is that no cook will ever abandon an appetizing dish for the lack of a particular ingredient, a time crunch, dietary restrictions, or for the cost to make the dish.

Substituting Ingredients includes less expensive ingredient options, nontoxic household cleaner solutions, simple recipes for condiments, sauces, marinades and spice mixtures.”

Want to win a copy of your own? Leave a comment telling me your favorite ingredient substitute. You DO NOT have to have a blog to enter!! Contest is open until Thursday, June 17 at noon and the winner will be announced on Friday.

How are your workouts coming this week? My tentative plan is as follows:

• Monday:Quick run to warm-up, taught Body Pump
• Tuesday: Taught Body Attack
• Wednesday: Run or walk (hopefully outside!)
• Thursday:  Teach 45 minute pump/45 minute step
• Friday:  Off
• Saturday:  Teach Body Step
• Sunday: Off

Enjoy your week!