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We all can use a few healthy recipe ideas for sharing and giving. I don’t know about you but I could eat my weight in banana bread. Now we have a healthy alternative to serve. Please enjoy!

Healthy Banana Bread
3 Large Ripe Bananas
1 cup Splenda
2 egg whites
4 tbsp applesauce
1 ½ cup whole-wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
½ cup chopped walnut pieces.

Preheat oven to 325°. Lightly Grease a 9X5 inch loaf pan; set aside.
In a bowl, mash bananas; you should have 1 cup. Beat in Splenda, then egg whites and applesauce. In another bowl, stir together flour, salt, and baking soda; add to banana mixture and stir just until all flour is moistened. Stir in walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 55 to 60 minutes.

Makes 1 Loaf.

Please join Run Buddies on Saturday morning, December 3rd, 2011 for the 21st Annual 5K Reindeer Run! Details on the race and registration may be found at www.reindeerrun.org.

This is precious! Young kids doing yoga always puts a smile on my face. I know it will yours too. Thank you to all of the instructors from Yoga Mama, Kids’ Yoga Journey and Yoga Benefits Kids that joined us for the kid portion of the event. If you have children, please consider enrolling them in yoga at an early age. You won’t be sorry, I assure you. Enjoy the short video here.

Join Bravo’s Top Chef and Today Show contributor Chef Ariane Duarte and Chefs Amanda Freitag from the Food Network show CHOPPED and Carla Hall with ABC’s new afternoon show, “The Chew”, in a benefit dinner to introduce Louie’s Kids & Run Buddies to the New Jersey and New York areas.

The evening will start at 7:00 p.m. with a champagne toast at Duarte’s restaurant, CulinAriane at 33 Walnut Street in Montclair, New Jersey. Courses will be prepared by Chefs Freitag and Duarte and with a finale by Duarte’s husband and partner, Chef Michael Duarte. Wines will be paired with each course and a live auction will be lead by Chef Carla Hall.

Of the many luxury items up for auction that evening, there will be a one-of-a-kind weekend for two in Charleston, South Carolina. Tickets were awarded by Southwest Airlines and hotel accommodations donated by The Charleston Place Hotel, an Oriental Express property for the auction. The trip also includes a carriage ride, Charleston harbor tour and dinners at 2010 and 2011 James Beard award-winning restaurants, Fig and HUSK (which recently was named Best New Restaurant in America by Bon Appétit).

Tickets: $125 (Price includes Food and Wine. Tax, Gratuity and Additional Beverages additional.)

For more details and to make reservations, please call CulinAriane at (973) 744-0533.

For information on these amazing Chefs:

Chef Ariane Duarte
Chef Carla Hall
Chef Amada Freitag

To see the difference our Run Buddies program can make, please visit our Run Buddies site and watch the video on 2 brothers that benefited from having a Run Buddy. Run Buddies Video

The 8th Annual Yoga Marathon presented by Half Moon Outfitters to benefit Louie’s Kids and Run Buddies in Charleston, SC will be held on Saturday, October 29th! Join us in Marion Square from noon to 3pm for an afternoon of sun salutations and downward dogs to raise funds for our special programs. To register yourself or your team, Click Here.

For more information, please call 843-724-9267 or email info@louieskids.org.

Start practicing your poses and share with all of your friends!

We are so excited to have Eric Bass of the band Shinedown as the latest celeb to say yes to our request to play ball with us on October 1!
I have become obsessed with listening to their music in the office. Got sad when I realized I needed to turn it down when the lady in the office next to mine came to work. Listen to my favorite song here

Make sure to like them on Facebook and tell him ‘thank you’ for supporting our great cause and kids! Looking forward to seeing all of our great players in a few weeks!

If you haven’t bought your tickets, what are you waiting for?

The Coaches have made their selections for the Slim Down the South Celebrity Softball Challenge to benefit Louie’s Kids and Run Buddies.
Saturday, October 1 @ 2 pm

Announcing:

Team Piggly Wiggly, led by Coach Darius Rucker:

Actor Terry Serpico of Army Wives
Actor and Musician Richard Bryant of Army Wives
Eric Bach of the Modern Gypsies
Miss SC Bree Boyce
Cookbook Author, TV Host, Chef Marvin Woods
Heba Salama of the Biggest Loser
Ed Brantley of the Biggest Loser
Chef Bob Waggoner of ‘U Cook with Chef Bob’
TV Basketball Analyst Debbie Antonelli
WCIV News 4 TV Anchor Dean Stephens
TJ of the Morning Crew on WEZL Radio

Team Wells Fargo, led by Coach Bill Murray:

Actor Brian McNamara of Army Wives
Actor Wendy Davis of Army Wives
Mark Bryan of Hootie and the Blowfish
Bernie Salazar of the Biggest Loser
Top Chef Ariane Duarte
John Post of the Modern Gypsies
Taylor Filansky of the Modern Gypsies
Miss SC Teen Caitlen Patton
WCBD News 2 TV Anchor Carolyn Murray
Y102.5 Radio Host Brian Cleary

May the Best Team Win!

Tickets $12 & $25

Buy Your Tickets Here!
Visit the Web Site Here!

We are so touched to have been nominated for the Charleston Magazine Giving Back Awards! Please vote today and every day until August 31st! click here to vote!

Louis and our team are so deserving of this honor!

Looking forward to another great evening at Circa 1886 Chef Marc Collins and friends Chef Bob Waggoner and Chef Scott Crawford. Thank you to Circa 1886, the amazing chefs and Perception Wines for your endless support of Louie’s Kids!

Click Here for Information

Time to Play Ball! It’s official, we are having a Celebrity Softball Game to benefit Louie’s Kids and Run Buddies!

Saturday, October 1, 2011
2pm @ The Joe Riley Park in Charleston, SC
For details on the game, Click Here

Team Captains are Darius Rucker & Bill Murray +
Brian McNamara, Wendy Davis, Terry Serpico and Richard Bryant of Army Wives Lifetime TV Show
Top Chef Contestant Chef Ariane Duarte
Emmy-nominated television host and cookbook author Chef Marvin Woods
Mark Bryan and Jim Sonefeld of Hootie and the Blowfish
Bernie Salazar, Heba Salama and Ed Brantley of The Biggest Loser
Debbie Antonelli, Basketball TV Analyst
John Post, Taylor Filansky, and Eric Bach of the Modern Gypsies and Expedition Impossible TV show

Tickets are $12 & $25. Call 843-724-9267 to purchase.

Watch this Video of Darius Rucker