In Chicago, We Oat and Oat Often!

I got back yesterday from an amazing day spent with some of the top food and fitness bloggers at the new Sustainability Center at Quaker Oats in Chicago. We talked oats, ate oats, looked at new and forthcoming oat products (A new oat pancake mix is coming out next year!!) and learned about the life-saving properties from yours truly and Annabelle Volgman, MD, ranked one of the top cardiologists in the mid-west!

It was so neat to be able to meet with these cutting edge bloggers (cell-web-erties, as they call them) - so many have incredible and inspiring stories of their struggles with weight and health. I left there pretty jazzed that these bloggers are really helping their readers through their experiences. Check out there sites - here's the list of these uber-bloggers that were in attendance:

Steph of Back in Skinny Jeans
Carla of MizFit Online
Roni of Roni’s Weigh
Jennette of PastaQueen
Tanya of I Ate a Pie
Lisa of Workout Mommy
Monique of Big Fat Deal
Leslie of the Weighting Game
Jason of Twit2Fit
Anne Marie of This Mama Cooks
Jenna of Eat Live Run
Kath of Kath Eats
Lyn of Escape from Obesity
Alanna of A Veggie Venture
Anne of Elastic Waist

Several of their blogs have really neat pictures of the event, great recipes to try and just cool stories of their experience in the windy city.

The neat thing is that I announced that the winner of the Quaker oatmeal contest, where they are being called upon to put together the ultimate bowl of oatmeal, will have their recipe placed in my forthcoming book. Cool, eh? The best part is I get to try it...I can't wait!!