Gram P's I-NO-LONGER-LIVE-TO-EAT-I-JUST-EAT-TO-LIVE Snack Contest

To kick off Gram P’s blog, we’re having a contest with fantastic prizes. Send in your best recipe for a snack to stave off her low blood sugar, and you could win an item from Polly’s superstar stash of cool junk! It’s guaranteed to be something you’ll love (maybe with an armadillo theme?), chosen specifically for our winners!

Here’s how it works: The goal is to keep Grandma’s blood sugar at a nice consistent level all day, so it means lots of snacks that are low in refined carbs (sugar) and high in complex carbs (like whole grains) and protein (like dairy, nuts, beans, meat or Ensure.)

Here's a quick quiz: In the picture to the right are crudite. How do you say that?

Try out your recipe on your friends and family, and if they survive, e-mail it to us at grolly.p@gmail.com so we can sample it, too. Judges will be Gram, Polly, Ding and special guest judges. Winners will have their recipe and photos posted on this blog and be mailed their fantastic prize.

Remember, Gram has very little taste and doesn’t smell so good either, so judging will be heavily weighted toward Texture, Temperature and Time. Think crunchy, chewy, smooth, creamy. Give her a frosty cold smoothie on a sweltering day or a toasty warm snack for evening. And if you’ve met her, you know about speed. Make it fast, eat it on the run, have a half dozen made up ahead of time to really save a minute or two. It will be a bonus if your snack can travel in a purse or survive in the car for days.

Be bold, be creative, get your recipe to us by August 10th to be entered in the contest. Your snack could save Grandma from an embarrassing and dangerous lapse, or could just be another tasty morsel for Polly to gobble up. Remember, Ding and Polly are supposed to be watching their waistlines, and they are judges, so they’ll be looking for any high-calorie delicious ingredients
(b-r-i-b-e-s) in your snacks.

Now here's another quiz:

Gram's doctor says she's to eat every
2 to 2.5 hours. If she gets up at 7:30 a.m.
and goes to bed at 10 p.m., how many
meals and snacks should she have in a
day? See why we're looking for lots of
yummy snack ideas?