I am still in recovery mode from our 26 hour round trip road trip to deliver kids to college this week. Other than a tire blowout while going over 80MPH in the middle of nowhere - somewhere between Idaho and Utah – all went well. (Cali was driving and she did a great job maintaining control and pulling over!)
Clark is starting his senior year of college – yeah! He took little sister Tessa to class with him one day.
Logan felt a little strange because he didn’t have a first day of school – instead he has a first day of work. Here he is all dressed up by his new car ready to start his first day on the job! So proud of you Logan!!
Cali moved into her first apartment with three friends from her freshman year. She is now a college sophomore! We have her kitchen well stocked and now we are just hoping she can figure out how to cook all the food!
To help her along a little I put together Cali’s College Cookbook. It is a compilation of some of our easier family favorites. It is a little heavy in the sweet treat section but I remember baking treats was a favorite college activity – especially when there were cute boys involved!
The cookbook says “Lovingly put together by your mother – Eat Well Cali!”
Well I thought maybe there were some of you out there who know someone going off to college this year that might enjoy a copy of Cali’s College Cookbook. Anybody?
I am having a giveaway for a copy of Cali’s College Cookbook. If you’d like a chance to win a copy just leave a comment below. Post about the giveaway on your blog, on your Facebook page or Twitter about it and come back and let me know and you’ll get another entry (Make sure to make separate entries)
So leave your comment and good luck!!
Deadline to enter is Tuesday, September 8th, midnight PST.
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A good cookbook is a great resource for anyone away from home. Great idea!
I need one of those!
Thanks for all your hardwork!
whoooohooooooo! I posted it on my blog… keeping my fingers crossed that I win!
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I have a daughter going to college next year who could really use a great cookbook. Just found your website today and have enjoyed checking it out.
I would love to be entered into you give away! I am the Laurel advisor in our ward and I have 5 girls going to college this fall!
I posted this on my facebook
You are a cute mom! I would have loved that! Thanks for all your great posts, I love your blog!
oh my word! I WANT this bad! I need this! ha! seriously… would love to have this! I’ll post on blog and facebook! Have a GREAT weekend!
I would LOVE to see what recipes you have included in this cookbook. My daughter is a jr in college this year, and she will be doing some cooking in her apt also!
What a great idea! I’d love a copy for myself!!
My oldest is a junior in college this year and just moved into a duplex with a couple friends. I’d love to win your cookbook for her.
I’m sure my college girl would love a copy of Cali’s Cookbook! Please count me in!
I would love a chance to win that cookbook…who wouldn’t??!! Please enter me.
judithapoulos@aol.com
What a nifty idea! You’re so creative. I would love to win your cookbook. Fun.
What a great idea! How fun to have a taste of home at her fingertips! Please enter me! -thanks!
I have been reading your blog for probably a year now and I LOVE it, but I’m ashamed to say I’ve never commented until now! I love your passion for life! I would love to win a copy of your cookbook. It’s kind of weird, but I love snuggling up with a blanket and reading a new cookbook.
I really want to be entered and give it to my son who is a senior in high school so he can practice before college and his mission!
What a great idea! I’d love a cookbook filled with your recipes!! How awesome!! Thanks for the giveaway!
~Tanya
What a great idea and labor of love! I have four grandaughters in college..two freshmen and two juniors and I’m sure they could each benefit from a cookbook like this.
Thanks for all you do Leigh Anne…
What I great idea! I would love it.
Thanks!
Just found your website and love it. Beautiful pictures and fun recipes. I can’t wait to try. I think I’ll be making your baked oatmeal for breakfast this weekend!
I don’t have a doughter going to college, but I would love to have it myself…..
You always have the greatest recipes!
Anna Boyd
I have a daughter in college who just moved into a house with three other girls on the lower level of a house. They are so excited. She’s really looking forward to cooking for her roomates and friends. I wish I had thought of and taken the time to pull together a favorite recipe book. She has been calling me and saying “how do you make ’such and such’ mom?” Of course, I love the calls, but I’m sure she would have loved a cookbook.
What a great Mom! What a great gift! Iam tucking this away in my mind for when mine go off to college!Thank you so much for the chance to win!
Elizabeth
What a great idea! I only want it if Cafe Rio Pork is in there!! Ah, just kidding! I know all the recipes will be great!
Okay.. I know my nephew going off to college will love it.. so check out my post!
College Cookbook
As they all get older it is a different season of life, isn’t it? Our 3rd child is heading off to school and ministry opportunities this year. It is a joy to see them find their footing and sprout their wings. Mine is a boy but he loves to eat…and is learning to cook too!
My sister is in college and I love giving her quality recipes – I’m sure these are great
I’d love to win.
Would love to win this cookbook…you have the best recipes!
I would love to win a copy of this cookbook for my Godson. Your recipes are always wonderful! Thanks!
I would love to have a copy of your cookbook. Think of all the ink I will save by not printing our recipes!
I love this!!! I just did something similar for my nanny. She is a college Junior and just got married last Saturday. I put togethere a cookbook of easy tried and true recipes for her along with a gift card to our local grocery store and an “if all else fails” gift card to a local restaurant.
Would love a copy of this!!
I’ve got you covered on my facebook page too!
What afantastic idea. Though my children are done with college for now, the grandchildren are growing up and too soon this is a woderful idea for them.
Anyhow, please enetr me in your giveaway, love the recipes you’ve posted so far so would love the chance to get some more family favs.
Jane
Love your recipes! This is a great idea. Hope I win!!
Cute idea! I am in the process of putting together a family cookbook for Christmas.
I made a small one also for my YW class several years ago. I always appreciate the tried and true!
Heavy on treats? That’s my kind of cookbook!
what a great gift! thanks!
What a great gift. My brother in-law is starting his sophomore year at BYU, I am sure he could use this.
Wow, this is amazing…we just sent our oldest of three girls off to college last month….she could really use this! Thank you for all of your wonderful posts!
This is such a fun idea! I know I would have appreciated a cookbook when I went to college . . . especially if the whole book is meant just for college attendees! Fabulous.
I received the link from Michelle P. I looked at your blog & very interested. I have a daughter my oldest who started college 3 weeks ago. The one problem she is having is that she doesn’t eat well. I have given her a book of recipes, but, she just is a little lazy about cooking. Emily is also a Vegetarian and needs ideas for her meals. Any help in getting more recipes from you cookbook would be GREAT!
Thanks
What a joy to see your kids in such fun stages of their lives! It makes me want to have more children seeing them all happy and enjoying life. I love the college cookbook idea for Cali, so sweet and I know she will cherish it for many, many years!
Wow, what a neat idea, you are such an awesome mom. You inspire me as a mother to go great things with and for my children:) I love the first photo of Cali, the scenery behind her is great! I’d love to win a copy of the cookbook to pass along to someone. Thanks LA!!
What a great idea! I’m trying to do the same thing with my recipes, except I don’t have very many in my book yet
Awesome!
I love all your recipes… so even though I’m not off to college (stay at home mom to 3 kids- 5 and under) I’d LOVE to win
Thanks for the chance!
I am putting together a cookbook for my daughter. I just left her at Dixie College two weeks ago. We both would sure enjoy your cookbook too!
Would be honored to have a copy of your very special cookbook!!
Would love a copy for my nieces in college!
I’m excited to see what’s in your college cookbook – I made one for my five kids who have flown the coop, and one left to go… Their roommates wanted copies also… I’m sure yours is wonderful!
That would be great for my boys starting off on their own! great idea!
I would love this! Your recipes are always great.
You must be so proud of you kids.
Well you know I have to put my name in for this drawing—I would love to give this to Mark!
just posted on my Facebook page~
Would love to win this cookbook but forget sending it off–I would keep it for myself!!
Count me in!!! I love your posts coming directly to my email! Thanks LA!
My son just graduated from college, but he could always use a good cookbook. I think this book would be great for anyone who loves to cook in the kitchen. (Even me)
I would love to win this cookbook! You have so many wonderful recipes! Thanks!
I am Chapter Advisor for a 30 woman christian sorority. I would love to use the cookbook as a motivational tool for them!
You are a wonderful mother. What a special thing to do. Our family loves all of your recipes, so I have to agree with #54…I would keep it for myself.
If it’s easy and fast…that’s for me!!! PS Is there also a recipe for your amazing energy source? I can’t figure out how you do it all. Your mother says she can’t either.
I’d love to win! What a wonderful idea, too!
What a great idea! First off, I can’t imagine dropping my kids off at college since they are still only 14, 11 & 2 but I’m sure the day will come all too soon. Your college cookbook is very inspiring. What a great mom you are!!
I’ve got 2 that are at college in Provo this week that would love a copy of your cookbook! You are an inspiration!!
I’ve promised my “TWIN GIRLS” in college (not the same colleges) that I would make them their own cookbooks. HELP ME!!!!!!!!! I need this so badly. They would ove it since I make so many of the recipes you share and they are always loving them! Again, you inspire and amaze me! I’ve shared this with my facebook crew so hopefully you will hear from them too. BTW….I just make the M & M cookies from the other day, this morning and I’m shipping them off to my college girls as soon as I finish this message. They were Yummmmmmmm….gotta get them out of here before I ear anymore.
OMG…..can’t type…..everyone please revise my previous email…..in your head. LOL!
my daughter leaves Sunday..Im sad! BYUI is getting her back..and they are lucky.
Cute Kidos! I am trying to put together a cookbook for the Laurels in my ward and would love a tried and true place to start. Please entertain my request for your giveaway. Great Blog, I love good baking recipes and love the tips on where to do fun things locally with my own girls.
I could use this cookbook. I graduated from BYU 17 years ago and now that my youngest is in school I am going back to school and scared to death.
Great idea, would love to have a copy of this!!
I would love this cookbook. My younger brother is just starting his freshmen year of college and is just starting to learn how to cook. This would be a lifesaver! I love your blog so much. It brightens my day.
I would love a copy. My daughter just started college this year and she definitely needs some inspiration to learn to cook.
Love your blog!
I put one on facebook but I don’t know if that one count so put into this drawing also. I would love to win this. I could sure use a good cook book and one that you have made would be the best.
I would love to have a copy of this to give away to college bound realative(s). I just have to decide who to give to if I should win it.
I would LOVE a copy of your cookbook for my daughter who is also a sophomore in college and this will be her first year cooking as well! I, too, have been compiling recipes and food/meal ideas for her. Even got her a crock pot. Your recipes are the best, Leigh Anne, and I know she (and I!) would love trying out your ones for college.
By the way, thanks for your advice about recipes that freeze well. I made your Penne Rustica, froze it in a disposable pan, took it with us in a cooler all the way from California to the Virgin Islands and it was awesome!! Even my very picky 13-yr-old loved it!
I love your blog! My daughter saw the post you did about your daughter’s surprise party and has decided I need to throw her one just as “awesome” and “pretty” as your daughter’s was. Thanks for sharing your FABULOUS ideas with us! Oh, BTW, she wants that cookbook too.
Isn’t it a wonderful feeling to know that your children
are moving forward with college and jobs? Your kids all
look very happy which is a blessing. I’m sure Cali will
make great use of the cookbook you lovingly put together for her. How thoughtful.
I know several kids that started college and would love to give one of them a copy of “Cali’s College Cookbook.” Please enter me into your fun contest.
Thanks!
I love your site! I have made the zucchini cupcakes with caramel frosting several times. Thanks for the help using up our zucchini overload! This would be a great cookbook to give to my niece as she goes to college — after I go through it first
You’ve been twitted & FBed. I think Michael would get a kick out of it being Cali’s book and could use it as he spends his 1st year in apartment living.
How fun! I’d love to have a copy of the cookbook. Your recipes are all TERRIFIC!! Thank you for this giveaway.
I would love to have a copy of the book!! My kiddos are too little for college 7,5,2,1 – but they would love for mom to cook your recipes. Thanks so much for all you do!!
I have 2 daughters in college but they both live at home. (They may never leave!!) Maybe they would use the cookbook at home?
What a great idea! Another reason to keep plugging along on getting my recipes on the computer. (Which is a kudos to your ilashgirls blog–thanks). Your cookbook would inspire my college cook!
YUP!!! Put my name in your hat, please!
I want this for me, although I do have a few nephews and a niece in college.
What a great idea! My daughter is a freshman this year and they actually have a common kitchen they are allowed to use. It would be so much fun for her to cook something with her new friends!
I love your blog. You have such great ideas.
My daughter is also starting college this year and she would LOVE this.
I would love the opportunity to win this cookbook! What a great idea. I hope you will share some of the recipes in this book for those who don’t win the copy. Love your blog!
I have four grandchildren in college this year, and I’m sure any one of them would be delighted to receive your cookbook. I gave my very old copy of The Impoverished Student’s Cookbook, written by a Reed College student years ago, to a grandson who graduated several years ago. The thing I remember most about it was “What in Hell Did you Do to the Liver?” –
No sooner said than done! A link to your giveaway page is up on my Facebook.
would love it for my daughter!!!
Though she is only 5 and only in kindergarten my daughter and I reallt enjoy trying out your amazing recipes!
I would love one of these cookbooks!
Hi LeighAnne,
I would love to get a copy of your cookbook. My college son is living in a house with other guys and loves to eat and is learning to cook too! I’ve already sent him a few of your recipes and he asked me if I would send more. I would love to be able to give him a copy of it!
My granddaughter is in college and would love to have that cookbook.
I want this cookbook for me!!! I use the one Cali put together all the time, especially for Sunday Dinners.
I would love to win a cookbook! What a perfect tool for college!
My boys are a long way from college and most people I know have already graduated, but anyone could use great recipes.Thanks for sharing! For the non-winners and loyal readers, will you post some of the favorites here?
We have two girls living on their own, while at college. Your cookbook would be a great gift for them. Thanks for hosting the giveaway! ~~Rhonda
ARe you kdding? Who wouldn’t want one of these? You could probably sell these Leigh Anne! I want to put my name in the running since I have two college kids too.
How about some healthy light meals too? I cna’t believe I am #99 here- do I have a chance at all?
Janette
I have a college girl and I love your blog. I would love the cookbook!
I love it! I’m here in happy valley myself. I would love to buy or win a cookbook.
What a great idea! I could really use that…..
You constantly amaze me with all the projects you do. What an inspiration you are. Such a fun give away.
I would love a copy of the recipe book. What a treasure!Love your blog.
Now just who wouldn’t LOVE to have this book.
Ask a busy person to do something and it is done.
You are great.
I love homemade cookbooks!! They have real recipes!!!
Leigh Anne, you know how I feel about your recipes….a cookbook with some of your family favorites would be awesome. I would love it! For those of us who aren’t fortunate enough to win it, please consider sharing how you put it together and some of the special items you selected for it. Thank you.
I know my daughter would love of your cookbook. Please enter me in your contest.
I would love that cookbook! What a great idea!
I’d love to have that cookbook- I’m sure it’s full of amazing recipes!
What a creative idea. I have enjoyed your blog and recipes; thanks for sharing!
Pick me! Pick me! I am hands down your biggest fan and would die for that book!
I would love to see the great recipes inside!!!
I wouild love that, my niece just went off to college and I was trying to think of something to give her as a going away present, this would be sweet and she’s at the Y, your families school of choice.
I want the cookbook! I’ve enjoyed so many fabulous recipes from your blog!
What a great idea! I’m always looking for something useful to give my students when they graduate high school and head off to college!
I love cookbooks! Winning this one would be a nice addition to my collection.
I have a son who’s 26, single and in need of a good cookbook. I don’t think you’ve had a bad recipe yet on your blog.
This would be a great book for my daughter who is wanting to learn to cook. Hope we win!~
I’d love to win your college cookbook for my daughter. Her way of cooking is eating a bowl of cereal.
My 18 yr old daughter would LOVE this cookbook. It’s just what she needs. Super give away!
I would love the cookbook! What a good idea for collage students!!
What a great idea. I have three grandchildren in college this year and this would be great to give one of them. mmmmmmm Which one?
I am addicted to cookbooks…and now my 10-year-old is starting to cook too. Thanks!
What an excellent idea! I have created recipe albums for wedding presents before, but this inspires me to branch out for other occasions. Would love to have a whole collection of YOUR yummy recipes!
I would love to win this! My son is a High School Senior this year and what a great thing to win and give it to him on his graduation! Please pick ME!! gslagle(at)nctc(dot)net
How wonderful. I don’t so much know, but I recall calling my mom many a times asking questions about a recipe or how to do something! Right now Andy (hubby) is teaching our nephew Caleb how to make homemade salsa
. Great gift for her! Would love to receive a copy!
I want to win!!
130 or so comments before me but for this cookbook it’s worth a try. Prayers added for a new job soon. Best regards!
What a great idea! I’ll have to remember this when my kids are college bound.
I am a starving college student and would love a new cookbook!!
A cookbook of all your favorites, prepared from the heart, especially for your daughter?!? I can’t even imagine the joy!
My kids aren’t in college yet….but I would love one for myself! thanks
Looks yummy!
I would love this!
This would be a great gift for many of my friends whose children are taking off for college.
I Sooooooo need that cookbook! I’m a poor college student that can’t cook!
I’ve been going to do this, but never found the time. Your recipes are all sooooo good. I’d love to have a copy of Cali’s cookbook.
This is a great idea. I’ll have to remember it when my kids get into college.
I would love to begin preparing my kids for college!
What a great Mom to do that! Great idea!
Hi – I love this idea! I wish I had something like it to take with me to college – or even when I got married!
I’d give this to my son – he needs some practice before his mission!
Cool Giveaway!Ilove other family recipes!
This is how I won my husband over!! I think I baked more of his favorite chocolate, chocolate chip cookies that semester than I have in our thirteen years of marriage!! I would LOVE this!
would love a copy of this cookbook!
What a fantastic idea to do for your son or daughter going to college. I’m getting the best ideas from your blog.
What a great idea! I’d love to see what all you put in it! Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy!
I have 2 daughters in college also… what a fun gift..!
Looks like so much fun! You’re a good mom!
I love cookbooks. I love to eat. I have been working on something like this myself for all of my mom and grandmas old recipes. I would love to have yours.
I would love a copy of your recipes already compiled.
Love the idea…thanks for including it in a giveaway. Would love to have the recipes to pass on to my little sweetheart.
I love the recipes you share with us so know that I’d love the cookbook.
i just LOVE your blog!! sure hope i win!!
i put you on my facebook!
HOW FUN!! I’d love to have a copy!!
A cookbook treasure for your daughter.
What a wonderful mom you are! I have a sophomore in high school and a junior in college. I’d love to win the cookbook, test drive a few recipes (I’ve gotten some great ones off your web-site), then pass it on to my college boy.
I would love to be entered in your Cali College Cookbook contest. My sister turned me on to your site recently and I have tried and loved quite a few of your recipes. Thank you! I also love to read your thoughts, your pictures and descriptions are so beautiful. Thank you for your lovely spirit that comes through to your readers.
I shared with all of my Facebook friends that I want to be you when I grow up!
So funny- I looked at this post and thought, what a great idea! I want to do that for my girls! But they are only 6, 4 and 2. Will have to remember that when they are college age!
Both my kids are in college (UW Madison) and would love this cookbook. Love your recipes, you never let me down!!
What a fun give away. I would love a copy of all these favorite recipes. THANKS!
My college days seem to have been made up of hotdogs, tator tots and mac-n-chesse. LOL Eat well, live well girl.
I heard such great things about that cookbook! What a fun idea.
I need this cookbook for me!! I love all your recipes that I have made and the easier the better. I never win things so are you able to buy this from you later??
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