If you live in Canada and you drink Coke, you could Win a trip to Atlanta Georgia from iCoke.ca, and all it takes is 500 Coke coins to enter.  The grand prize is a trip for 4 to Atlanta, Georgia to celebrate John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola, who created his drink in 1886.  It includes airfare, 3 days, 4 nights' hotel accommodation, 2-day Coke Museum passes for 4, plus $1,000 US cash.  Other prizes include Best Buy and Cineplex Odeon gift certificates.  This contest is only open to Canadian residents.

It's easy to earn Coke coins.  Just find PINs under the cap of all specially marked 591mL and 2L Coca-Cola® and Coke Zero^TM products, and enter them at iCoke.ca.  If you don't already have an accout at iCoke.ca, you can easily create one for free.  You can earn 500 Coke coins for each PIN entered, and for a limited time get 1,000 Coins from PINs found on specially-marked 591mL bottles.  So keep drinking Coke, enter your PINs, and enter to win.

I'm kind of jealous of you Canadians, because you can enter the Stouffer's Panini Contest. I know I shouldn't be, because there are plenty of contests open to U.S. residents only, but there are some really nice prizes in this one. They're giving away Vespa LX50 scooters. Several have already been given away, and there are more just waiting to be awarded. With the cost of gas these days, one of these scooters would really come in handy, wouldn't it? I was just talking to my brother in law about that the other night. He's looking for a motorcycle and having a hard time finding one. It seems all the motorcycles and scooters are selling like crazy because people are doing whatever they can to save gas.

This contest ends soon - on September 2, 2008 - and it sounds like they want to give away all the prizes. Simply fill in your information, and find out instantly whether you've won, with no waiting. Besides the scooters, they are giving away 40 Panini prize packs every day, and Stouffer’s prize packs with coupons for Paninis as well as a cooler lunch bag. A scooter would be nice, but those sound like some decent prizes, too. Stouffer's has 8 panini varieties, and they all look pretty good, and easy, too. I wouldn't mind winning some, or at least some coupons so I can save some money when I buy them.

So, if you're Canadian, and you haven't yet entered the Stouffer's Panini Contest do give it a try.  One entry per person, and you'll find out right away if you're a winner.  Let me know if you win, OK?

They call these ENGOBI Energy Go Bites the love child of caffeine and snack chips. They have 70% more caffeine than those energy drinks everyone seems to be drinking these days, and they come in two great flavors, Lemon Lift and Cinnamon Surge. Wouldn't these be a great pick me up?

ENGOBI is also sponsoring a contest with some great prizes. They're calling it the "Don't be a Piano Hero" contest and to enter all you have to do is upload a video of yourself playing Guitar Hero. All entries will be judged on skill, originality and overall awesomeness. I tried playing that game once, and I've got none of that! If you've got some Guitar Hero skills, you could win a custom Fender guitar converted to work with the game. That's the Grand Prize. In addition to that, 10 people will win a video game console and the game, and 20 more people will win and ENGOBI gear pack.

I've never had a stand mixer. I'm on my second hand mixer in 21.5 years of marriage. I guess that's not too bad, but, as I was mixing up the coffee cake last night, a chunk of dried dough fell out of my mixer. Yeah, a while back I was trying to mix some dough for cinnamon rolls or something, and the dough climbed the beaters and got into the mixer. I got as much out as possible, but obviously there's still some in there. Whatever, it still works - but a new stand mixer would be nice. I'd have to find a place to put it, but  I'm betting I could figure something out.

Why am I talking about getting a mixer, when you know full well that I'm too cheap to buy one while the mixer I have still works?

A Cowboy’s Wife is having a contest on her food blog! You can win a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer and she’ll ship anywhere so everyone is eligible!

I'm hoping maybe I can win one!  Head on over and see how you can enter, too.