You all have seen Love Grown Foods granola popping up on my blog recently in breakfasts and snacks. The fabulous company sent some my way to review because they believe in their product so much and wanted to spread the love.

I received three full-sized bags of their granola – Cocoa Goodness, Raisin Almond Crunch, and Sweet Cranberry Pecan.

Can you tell which bag the husband got to during one of his snack attacks?

I also received a few small individual portion packs of the granola as well, which are great for on the go!

I mentioned before that the granola is like crack. I’m not joking. The bags pictured above have significantly diminished since that photo. I think this ranks up there as the best granola I have ever eaten. Each flavor has the perfect amount of sweetness and crunch (with Sweet Cranberry Pecan as my favorite). I love all the oat clusters and the add-ins. So many nuts, coconut, and chocolate chips!

I also love that each serving size seems more significant than standard granola. You know I am all about volume eating, so getting more granola per serving size always works for me. It provides plenty of fun flavor to top off my oats in the morning or to use in mock apple crumble snacks.

And is undeniably satisfying. To top it all off, this granola could not have purer ingredients. Free of hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, artificial preservatives, gluten, artificial flavors, high fructose corn syrup. Just as their tagline states – simply oat clusters and love.

Now, Love Grown Foods wants to spread the love to YOU, my dear readers. One of you will win three full-sized (large!) bags of their granola to top your yogurt and smoothies or munch away to your heart’s delight.

Entry options below. Please leave a separate comment for each entry. 🙂

• Visit the Love Grown Foods website and tell me something you find interesting about their granola/company OR share how you like to spread the love, just as the company strives to do.
• Tweet this giveaway with the following: “@TinaFFF & @LoveGrownFoods are giving away three bags of delicious granola! ”
• And, as a thank you for supporting FFF, if you like FFF on Facebook you earn another entry.

Giveaway to US residents only. Giveaway ends Friday April 22 at 8pm EST. Good luck!!! 

I know I caught your eye with that title, huh? Just hold on to your antsy pants a little bit for me to explain at the end of this post. I have some venting to do first.

Yesterday at the gym I did something to my back. I completed my hamstrings, back, & biceps workout. During deadlifts, I felt like I may have gone too heavy on my last set. Once I finished the set, I felt fine and completed my workout. Then, a little later on it hurt pretty badly to bend down to pick up Braedon. My back continued to feel more and more messed up as the morning went on. In fact, it hurt so bad I spent almost the entire day with a heating pad laying on the couch. Well, as much as that’s possible as a mother of two little ones.

I consoled myself with one of my favorite lunches – a sandwich with egg, goat cheese, spinach, and tomato with a hefty serving of mango, grapes and cucumber slices.

I also turned to natural medicine. Chocolate, of course. For my snack, I continued my love affair with Love Grown Foods granola and poured a small bowl of their Cocoa Goodness granola with almond milk and a sliced banana.

If only that really helped the discouraged feeling. Back pain always makes me so nervous because you never know how long it will affect you. I hope to feel better very soon!

Now back to the title of my post. I want to end on a high note and what better way than sharing about going topless at the gym? 😉 During spin class on Monday I ended up without a sweat towel. All of mine were in the wash and I figured I would just get one of the ones offered in the class at the gym. Well, the towels in class ran out and I was left with no towel. About two songs into the class, I was dripping sweat and constantly trying to wipe my face with my tank top. Eventually I decided to just say “screw it” and took my top off to finish out the spin class in my sports bra.

Normally, I would never think to do this thanks to worrying what others thought. Of my body. Of being dressed “appropriately”. And so on. It hit me though that in all honesty no one pays that much attention to others at the gym. I think we’re all concerned with our own workouts and, truth be told, our own bodies. I didn’t need to worry what others thought. All that mattered is I would physically feel comfortable managing to wipe away all my sweat.

Then, I got to thinking a little bit deeper. I sat in that class sweating away because I was challenging myself with a great workout. My body can DO great things. I should take pride in my body and its strength. That includes no embarrassment on working out in just my sports bra for this class. I feel good and that is all the confidence I need. That is all the confidence we should all need. I’m not saying you have to bare your belly, because I even don’t plan on habitually working out sans shirt. I’m saying not to worry about how you look. Worry about how you WORK. Let that fuel your confidence because you rock!

• Do you ever workout in just a sports bra?
• Any back pain remedies to share?