Tropical Traditions Coconut Chips with a Giveaway

Next week is Easter and I have the perfect treat for you and your Easter menu planning. I'm sure you've tried shredded coconut before and hopefully you've had the chance to try the Coconut Crusted Chicken recipe Rachel blogged about here in March. Today I'm excited to tell you about coconut chips, another fabulous product sold by Tropical Traditions. For lack of a better word, I think coconut chips are my new favorite cooking accessory.  Accessory? Well, I like to think of my recipe as an outfit that I just have to find a way to accessorize it with coconut. These coconut chips are so fun and so yummy! My latest endeavor includes coconut chip nests atop cupcakes pictured to the right. My kids LOVED fashioning these nests and molding the chocolate eggs.  Some of the other fun recipes we've tried are toasted coconut s'mores, coconut cream pie embellished with toasted coconut, trail mix as our after-school snack which evolved into the BEST granola ever.

Tropical Traditions doesn't just sell coconut. Instead they have a wide variety of organic foods, skin care, household cleaners, books and other products. One of their most popular products, coconut oil, is actually the reason Tropical Traditions was founded. I love the story of husband and wife Brian & Marianita Shilhavy visiting her childhood home in the Philippines and realizing the potential of the local coconut farms. As their website states: "Today when you buy Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, you are buying the highest quality coconut oil we have to offer, and it is still made by hand and benefiting families in the rural areas of the Philippines where the coconuts grow."

BUY: You can purchase Tropical Traditions coconut chips and other products from their website here.

To WIN your own Tropical Traditions 100% natural coconut chips follow the mandatory entry requirement below and any optional ones you'd like with a separate comment for each:

To earn a mandatory entry, subscribe to the Tropical Traditions email newsletter here. Mandatory means that if you don't do this first, all of your other entries will be disqualified.

To earn an additional entry, do one (or all) of the following and leave a separate comment for each thing you do:

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6. Like the Tropical Traditions Facebook page.

7. Tweet about this giveaway (limit one tweet per day) using the following:
#Win 100% natural coconut chips from @troptraditions and @moanasaves #giveaway ends 5/2  http://bit.ly/iiYnq5

Only one person per email/household/IPaddress can enter this giveaway. He/she must be 18+ years old and reside in the U.S. This giveaway ends on Monday, 5/2/11 at 11:59 PM HST (Hawaii Standard Time). One winner will be chosen randomly via Random.org. I will notify the winner via email and he/she must respond to claim the prize within 48 hours or I will draw another winner.

I was not compensated for this post although I did receive some delicious coconut chips to facilitate my review.  Any and all opinions here are my own.