Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to express your love and enjoy chocolate, so we are celebrating with a NuGo contest. We’re giving our loyal fans a chance to to be creative and send us videos, photos, poems, or other expressions of your love for NuGo bars.

The contest is open to adults and kids of all ages. Parents can email us a photo or scan of artwork done by kids or videos of kids showing their NuGo love. If you are feeling extra creative, we will accept multiple entries from the same household. All video submissions must be shorter than 2 minutes, and the content must be PG.

We will pick two winners who live in the continental US. One winner for best video wins four boxes of NuGo - 48 bars! One winner for best photo, poem, or other submission wins two boxes of NuGo (24 bars). Each winner gets to pick the NuGo bar flavors. Submissions may be featured on the NuGo blog or used in future NuGo marketing. All submissions must be emailed or posted on our main Facebook page by Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 11 am ET.  Videos can also be posted on youtube and the link sent to us in an email. Winners will be announced on our blog on Valentine’s Day. Good luck!

Watch this great video of NuGO Slim on the Today Show. Joy Bauer, the Today Show Nutrition Expert, featured NuGO Slim in Curb Your Cravings with Healthy Alternatives. We are very proud that Joy recommends NuGO Slim Brownie Crunch to satisfy chocolate cravings and appreciates that it only has 2 grams of sugar from REAL Dark Chocolate! In addition to the delicious taste, Joy likes that it has all-natural ingredients and is high in protein.

NuGO Slim is the first low sugar protein bar without maltitol or artificial sweeteners. It is certified gluten-free and Kosher. To try NuGO Slim, order a sample pack for $7, which includes free shipping, or use our store locator to find a store near you.

We received this photo from Michele, who has been with NuGo since our first product was manufactured. Michele’s daughter, Alexi, was diagnosed with Alopecia at age 5 and lost her hair at age 6. Alexi and her family are very special to NuGo and the reason why a generous portion of NuGo sales are donated to the Children’s Alopecia Project (CAP). We are proud to see in this photo that Alexi has grown into a beautiful and confident young adult. It looks like the whole family is having a great time at Hollywood Studios and enjoying their NuGo snack.

We are proud supporters of the Children’s Alopecia Project (CAP). Their logo appears on the wrapper of all of our bars because we donate a portion of sales to them.

We love this new video featuring photos of CAP kids. CAP is certainly succeeding in their mission of building self-esteem in children with alopecia. For more information and alopecia resources, please visit the CAP website.

Mat Zucker posted this great photo and message on our Facebook page about his recent trip to India.

“Thanks NuGo – we just did 3 weeks in India and I can’t eat Indian Food (food allergies! I know, ridiculous) but one thing I can eat is NuGo Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip so I brought 27 with me. Here was my stash 1/2 way through the trip. Really helped me survive and enjoy a great adventure. Thanks!”

Send us your photos of NuGo around the world, so we can feature them on our blog. Learn more about our REAL Dark Chocolate protein bars.