Holy cow! 
Where did today go!?! It seemed to whiz right by. I feel like I just woke up to start my day, but now I’m thinking about going to bed. Major time warp, dude.
Dinner
Mal was nice enough to cook dinner for us tonight. He made chicken salad with red grapes, celery, walnuts, and mayo in the mix.
He ate his chicken salad as a sandwich on whole wheat bread, but I put mine on top of an arugula salad.
Chicken salad salad.
I’m seriously considering a donut for dessert. I swear, they’re calling my name from the pantry! 
Blog Bake Sale Preview
If you missed my previous post about my Blog Bake Sale to raise money for Team In Training, you can read all about it here.
The Blog Bake Sale will be held next Tuesday, September 14. I hope you’re ready for it! There will be LOTS of delicious goodies to bid on! Here’s just a little preview:
If you’d like to contribute something to the Blog Bake Sale, please send me an email at tina@carrotsncake.com with your name, the baked good(s) that you would like to donate, a short description of it, and a photo and/or link to its deliciousness by next Sunday, September 12. You don’t need to be a blogger to participate. All baked goods are welcomed!
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Even though this is virtual and I can’t actually SMELL all the goodies, I’m getting really excited! I hope you raise gobs of money
I wish I could bake so that I could contribute, but I think I might actually turn people away from the sale with my horrendous baking skills!
Oh well, I’ll just have to participate in the bidding and reap others wonderful talents. 
Im totally unsure how i can participate in australia!
I’m pretty sure I need to have a bite of those cookies immediately
I’d love to bake something..I just need to think of something worthy enough to fit in with those things!!
Holy moly! Who can say no to baked goods like that?!
Can’t wait for the bake sale!
Yum! Your salad looks great. Mal is a great cook!
I’m so excited about the sale! I will be sending you some pics soon
Those cookies look so good!
wow. all those treats look delicious!
Chicken salad salad–I like it!
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Can’t wait for the blog bake sale!!
Can’t wait to promote your bake sale! I want some goodies myself too.
I’d love to be involved!
I need to find a recipe and create something for the bake sale, it sounds like a lot of fun.
I tend to be a savory food person and not big into dessert but the pictures of the baked goodies are making my mouth water. Yummy. Good luck with the bake sale!
I would love to contribute something- if I could bake
i’m so excited about the bake sale! i’m going to donate something, just not sure what yet
I have no idea what those last things are but I want some. They look like Oreo truffles or something. Whatever they are, they look so good!
I’ve always been wary of grapes in salads because I hate crunching on seeds, but you make it look worth the risk!
Is that an ALLIEBAR?! I recognise the table mat. Hahaha
Chicken salad is just so much better with fruit…
Dinner looks good! But really, I love arugula with EVERYTHING, so that dinner would be like heaven for me!
Can’t wait until Tuesday!
Chicken salad used to be one of my favorite meals! I’ve yet to recreate it without meat, but this is inspiring.
I hope I can participate in the bake sale from Canada!!! Cant wait
I’d really like to enter something! Just have to think of something good enough…
Oh I’m so excited that you posted a picture of my Oreo Truffles!
And I’m even more excited that we’re raising money for the Team in Training. You’re going to do amazing in the marathon Tina. 
Reading about your chicken salad salad reminded me of a two-hour conversation I had with my brother-in-law last week about how to distinguish between a chicken salad (meaning a salad with chicken) versus a chicken salad (with mayo, etc.). We entertained ourselves by coming up with all kinds of annunciations. Anyway, random thought! The chicken salad salad looks delish!
I love grapes in chicken salad, looks delicious!
What a nice guy making dinner! Looks delicious!
ahhh. everytime i see pictures of your food, i want to start cooking myself!! i am 100% baker, 0% cook. but your concoctions are slowly making me reevaluate more than a few things!
I just wanted to let you know that I incorporated your mini body pump routine into my workout today. I did a set before and a set after a 20 minute run/walk. Thanks so much for posting it today! I’m definitely feeling it in my arms right now
I can’t wait for the bake sale! What a great idea!
mmm baked goods!!
I love chicken salad with grapes. Very yummy
You are so lucky. If my Boyfriend were cooking dinner, it’d be mac & cheese or something equally unhealthy.
I can’t wait to bid, because that stuff looks amazing!
grapes and chicken is so good! i remember maknig a similar salad wayyy back but i should have made it creamy- that would have tasted so much better! those cookies better get a good bid, they look SO YUMMY- probably gonna be the first thing sold
xoxo
chicken salad salad – LOVE IT!
Your chicken salad salad (is that like pizza pizza? lol!) looks delish!
Those white chocolate dusted balls at the bottom look awesome, I imagine they are Oreo-like?
I’d love to participate in the bake sale! I better decide what to make quickly.
Jenn
@Caitlin: Caitlin, if you tear chunks of tofu into odd chicken-esque kind of pieces and then bake it like you would regular tofu, you can get kind of close, at least in texture. Adding in a little poultry seasoning (which is veg) will enhance the flavor.
@J3nn (Jenn’s Menu and Lifestyle Blog):
Yep, they’re my Oreo Truffles!
I will submitting something for sure!!
I don’t know what the last dessert is, but all I know is it looks like cookies and cream balls of deliciousness and I want them!