Good morning!
I’m heading down to New York City today for the 2012 Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards as a guest of Campbell Soup, who kindly offered to cover the cost of my ticket to the event as well as my travel to and from the Big Apple. (Does my new red dress make sense now?)
The Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards will commemorate American Heart Month by honoring seven incredible individuals who have made significant contributions to the fight against heart disease, the number one killer of women today. Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of NBC’s Today, will emcee the event, which will feature performances by Sugarland, Javier Colon, Naturally 7, and Dj Mia Moretti and violinist Caitlin Moe. It’s quite the star-studded event!
One of the Award’s sponsors, Campbell Soup, is teaming up with one of Bravo’s “Top Chef All-Stars,” Richard Blais, to cook for a cause with Campbell’s AdDress Your Heart Cooking Challenge, which challenged him to create a delicious dish using two of Campbell’s nearly 100 heart-healthy products, all in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement. Blais is personally committed to heart health through his own diet and exercise routine, having lost 60 pounds since 2002, as well as completing his first marathon (NYCM!) in 2011.
The Red Dress Awards not only honor those making a difference in the fight against heart disease, but also gives others the chance to make a difference. Tickets for the event are available at www.womansday.com/reddress.
I’m so excited to attend this event tonight. What an awesome opportunity! Thanks, Campbell Soup!
Breakfast
I started my morning with an egg and cheese sandwich on a toasted Everything bagel. Mal ate a bagel egg sandwich for breakfast, so I copied him.
I also drank an iced coffee with soy milk.
Lunch
I packed my lunch to take with me on the train down to NYC in order to save money and have healthier food options available to me.
On the menu: sweet potato wedges, roasted Brussels sprouts, and chicken with a container of pineapple Chobani and a bottle of water. I’m already looking forward to this meal””lots of my favorite foods!
My ride should be here any minute now.
See you in NYC!
P.S. If you haven’t had a chance to enter yet, there’s still time to participate in my Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt!
48 Comments
What a great opportunity! Have a great time!! 🙂 That breakfast sandwich looks delicious. I love everything bagels.
mmmm bagel sammies are my favorite! especially with extra gooey cheese 🙂 safe travels!
What a great event! Have a lovely time and can’t wait to hear the recap!
The red dress event sounds like a lot of fun! Also, great sounding lunch. I love it when I pack something so good that I’m looking forward to it hours before! Have fun Tina!
you’ll have a blast! have a great time doll <3
A free trip to NY? Awesome! Have a wonderful time!!
you’re having a bagel the morning before your arrival into the best bagel place of the world? you crack me up.
Get Theodora to get you an ess-a-bagel while you’re here. I also hope the sun comes out to greet you, it’s downright depressing today.
@Cat @Breakfast to Bed: haha true 🙂 I’m more of a West Side girl..but I’ll make sure she tries Ess-a-Bagel one of these days!
aha, the red dress does indeed make a lot more sense now! 🙂 which one did you choose?! what a fun event and great opportunity!! hope you have an awesome time!
Can’t wait to hear all about it and see you in one of your sassy red dresses. Breakfast looks yummy! Have a safe flight and a great trip!
Chobani Pineapple is my all time favorite yogurt! Yum!!
I love the Banana Republic lunch box 🙂
I had a feeling the red dress had something to do with that! Haha it was a very extensive search just for something to wear on Valentine’s day. Have a great trip!
I feel like you’re in the city so often you should own a part-time home there! Safe travels – it’s rainy and dreary here 🙁
That bagel looks delicious but I hope you will be going all with one in NY…ah just thinking about them makes me hungrY!
Have a fantastic time!!! I know you love NYC!
Have fun in NYC again! You are so lucky to live so close and get to go soooo often. And for free. Major jealousy!
What a great event! Heart month is extra special to me since I work with heart patients every day. Enjoy yourself!
I am so jealous!! Have a great/safe trip!
I am so jealous!! Have a great/safe trip!
Sounds like such a fun trip! Can’t wait to see all the red dresses!!
ohh have fun at the event, looks like a great cause! Nyc is always such a blast.
How cool! Have fun 😀
Sounds like such a fun event! Looking forward to hearing about it!
Sounds like such a fun event! I loved Richard Blais on Top Chef.
I love that you will be there. I just wrote a whole post on heart healthy! Go Red!
Ohh have fun in NYC! I saw the red dresses and I loved the one on the left!
I loved Richard on Top Chef! What a great event, have fun 🙂
I had a very similar breakfast!! I used to eat nothing but oatmeal, but I’m starting to really look forward to my savory breakfasts! This event you’re going to sounds like a lot of fun!! Looking forward to the recap 😀
I spent a few days with Richard this January at the Food and Wine event in Grand Cayman. He is INCREDIBLE. and SO SO SO nice! You should ask him about his sirRANCHa sauce 😉 Have so much fun!
That bagel just made my stomach growl! Have a great time at the event!
What a fun evening–ENJOY!!
Wow. I like that event! Heart disease runs in my family so I am jealous you are going to meet all these incredible honorees! Have a great trip!
awesome opportunity Tina!~I hope you have a great time at the Red Dress event 😀
Have a wonderful evening. I love a good red dress. It’s a MUST-HAVE in any wardrobe.
I LOVE Richard Blais! And your bagel looks so delicious. Have a good day!
How fun. Look forward to the red recap!!!!!
sounds like a great event! Have fun!
I have never tried the pineapple one, is it really pineapplely tasting?
and have fun in NYC…looks like a fun event and for a great cause.
I am not a huge fan of any yogurt – but make myself eat it. I LOVE their pineapple yogurt! It has nice bits of the fruit in it.
Tina — while there are many aspects of your blog
I do enjoy, this type of promotional/freebie stuff is getting out of hand. I understand that, as a popular blogger, you must get tons of offers, but really must you accept them all? Especially ones as random as this – some women’s heart health event with random “celebrities” that kind of just seems to be a marketing gimmick for Campbell soup? Not to mention the way you write about it seems as if you just copied and pasted from whatever promo material you were given. It seems like as a writer you might want to have more discretion and some critical distance. It’s hard to take your opinions on things seriously right now.
I actually turn down tons and tons of events, but his one meant a lot to me so I went. It was an event to raise awareness for women’s heart health with honorees including the Surgeon General and other women who have done amazing things for heart research. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women. It’s an important cause, and anything I can do to spread the word and bring light to it is the least I can do. I’m shocked that anyone would give me a hard time about an event like this.
@Tina: I agree that heart disease is a very important topic – it has touched my own family many times i think you would be hard pressed to find someone who didnt think it was important. But I think there are many, many other ways to intelligently bring light to a topic such as this without going to a fancy soirée in NYC – you could write a post about the issue, hold a fundraiser on your blog, ask Campbell’s to donate the amount they would have spent on your travel/hotel costs to the American Heart Assocition, etc. I wonder why you didn’t write about any of those amazing doctors/researchers honored at the event? Spend time talking about their work, instead of talking about your search to find a red dress? But again, its not that I’m critical of the event, it’s just hard to see how you going to this event is any different from you taking free trips to Mohegan Sun, or whatever that casino was, for the wine event. Or going to the Electrolux events. Do you go to those events because you are so passionate about casinos and induction cooking? For me, it’s all a bit much.
@Cait: I attended the event last night, so I haven’t had a chance to blog about any of the attendees/their research or my experience there.
As for the other events, it is part of my job. I’m sorry that you don’t like reading about them. Maybe you shouldn’t read those posts.
I look forward to meals with my “favorites” too! Silly but true 🙂
If I had the chance to go on a paid experience such as this one or any of the others you have done…. I would jump at the chance. I’m not sure why people are so critical.