🌈Welcome to Fruits and Veggies Monday, the contest where rain or shine we are still guaranteed a rainbow of beautiful fruits and veggies!🌈

Happy Tuesday everyone! I am back with a monthly update on how the last month of Lena's wonderful contest, #fruitsandveggiesmonday has gone! As usual, the Steem community has shown how brilliant plant-based eating can be. You all have contributed so many wonderful posts over the last weeks of the challenge. I can't get to them all in one post, but I will try to share some of the highlights and give a shout to everyone who has entered!

As you may have seen from Hive account@lenasveganliving's latest posts, we have changed up the awards just a bit again. Most recently Hive account@riverflows has added a kind donation of fourth prize support from the Hive account@naturalmedicine community! Here are the top entries from the previous weeks (listed 1st, 2nd, 3rd then 4th when applicable):

11th of November: Hive account@definisiluka, Hive account@lotusfleur, Hive account@ninahaskin
18th of November: Hive account@cicisaja, Hive account@sherylneil, Hive account@anggreklestari
25th of November: Hive account@birdsinparadise, Hive account@rawadventuress, Hive account@lotusfleur
2nd of December: Hive account@proanima, Hive account@nutman, Hive account@maxili63
9th of December: Hive account@lizelle, Hive account@hangin, Hive account@owasco, Hive account@maxili63

In addition we've also had entries from Hive account@littlenewthings, Hive account@riverflows, Hive account@iamraincrystal, Hive account@toddfoster, Hive account@amy-goodrich, Hive account@ireenchew, Hive account@erikah and Hive account@gingbabida throughout the month. I know I missed someone last month, so if I somehow overlooked you please let me know and I will make sure to add you to the list! As a reminder, make sure to use the #fruitsandveggiesmonday tag as one of your first 5 tags so that we can go back and easily find your entry. Thank you all for continuing to make Mondays the most colorful day of the week!

Here’s the fun list of categories for some creative entry ideas:

Healthiest Recipe
Best Presentation
Best Photography
Most Creative Recipe
Best Vegan Dessert
Best Traditional Veganized Recipe
Most Entertaining Entry
Most Educational Entry
Most Mouthwatering Entry
Most Beautiful Fruits & Veggies

I would also like to remind you to read the rules, because only entries following them 100% will be accepted.

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Big thanks to everyone for their contribution! Hive account@barbara-orenya, the wonderful artist and creator of the lovely wonkies and Hive account@lenasveganliving our fantastic challenge creator. 🍒 🍌🍑🌿🍍🍓🍇

THE FIRST THREE PRIZES ARE:

1st PRIZE 5 STEEM from Hive account@lenasveganliving
2nd PRIZE 3 STEEM from Hive account@plantstoplanks
3rd PRIZE 2 STEEM from Hive account@vegansofsteemit
4th PRIZE 1 STEEM from Hive account@naturalmedicine

THE RULES ARE:

FRUITS & VEGGIES MONDAY by Hive account@lenasveganliving
• Take and post at least 3 photos of fruits and vegetables. (It can be variety or just one kind from the garden, supermarket or anywhere you wish, PLANT BASED/VEGAN RECIPES ARE WELCOMED) Please no animal products (including dairy, eggs and fish).
• One entry only!!!
• PLEASE MAKE SURE THE ENTRY IS 100% ORIGINAL CONTENT!!! (images and text)
• Text must be at least 100 words.
• Use hashtag #fruitsandveggiesmonday as one of the first 5 tags.
• Mention the creator Hive account@lenasveganliving and the title FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY
• Please upvote and repost the weekly contest post from Lena.
• Make sure you post your entry no later than Tuesday morning Toronto time.

For additional details on posting, check out the Cheat Sheet by Hive account@plantstoplanks

FOR RECIPES PLEASE VISIT MY Lena's Vegan Living Blog

In other news...

Our dear Hive account@lotusfleur is also trying to keep the #veganwednesday tag alive and well (originally started by Hive account@heart-to-heart), so if you have other vegan recipes or content you would like to share for a midweek post make sure to use the tag!

You may have also seen Hive account@vegan-curate making the way around and voting vegan content. For anyone interested in the new Communities feature, there is also a Vegans of Steem Community as you can see in this post for more information. It is still in Beta, so it may take a while to see how the feature works but it should be a great way to bring the vegan community on here together even more!

Stay tuned as Hive account@evecab is also supposed to be popping on to bring us another great community contest, so keep an eye out for another post soon...