You should know by now that Pinch Of Nom (PON) is super important for the way I like to cook, diet, and spend a lot of my spare time on their Facebook page and taking pictures of my food, and trying to get in the top 5 contributes for the month, to get PON SWAG.
What is SWAG? Well it is Pinch of Nom branded freebies for which I have a few bits, lunchbox, mug, spatula, apron, sticky notes, it’s a great incentive to play along.
The Facebook page a community, a lot of us all know each other now and we even take pull each others legs over their choices or my Peas and Sweetcorn that are always on my plate!
Community if a really important part of Weight Loss, you need the support of others to be successful and taking part is a really important to me. The more you take part, the more your name gets known, and that built and recently I was asked to take part in a secret project as a NOMfluencer.
It started by answering a few questions, then I was asked for some pictures of what I like to cook, and whether I had any before and after pictures, and then it turned into a magazine article for the first Pinch Of Nom Magazine as a PON Superfan.
Seeing my face on the front of a magazine I would have bought is amazing, the Weight Watchers magazine was killed off a few years back, it is exciting that this magazine could take its place.
It’s also nice when people send you a message out of the blue to say “I just saw this!!!” and I’m like all “Yeah that’s me, I lost some weight!”.
Loads of people are now posting on the facebook page that they have their magazine and going to sit and read it, and I’m there thinking they are going to be reading my article, and feel a little bit of a Star ⭐️.
So I have told you about two examples, PONtributor, PON Superfan and now for number three, PONfluencer.
Small backwards step, you know when people say, if you could go back and do something different what would you do? Well over the last few years, I have often that I would have loved to be a Tech Influencer on YouTube, doing videos and changing my office around with new tech every few months, but it’s too later for me to try to build that now. Come forward to now, when you see an article about being a PONfluencer, I was like “YEAH BABY”. I did a little video and was then asked if I would take part, apparently my name is known in PON towers 😱.
After completing some paperwork to say I would keep stuff secret, I was then asked to take part in another new launch that PON have just launched, Flava-it sachets. You know when you’re being lazy and get a Cottage Pie or Chilli packet mix, well these are PON ones for some of their fan favourite recipes. When they turned up I had to cook with them recording some videos sharing my thoughts, and passing the videos back to them to create PONfluencer videos.
It was so much great fun getting a first look at the new product, I have to say I think its a fit for the market. Having just been on holiday and knowing how hard it can be to cook PON recipes when your not in your own kitchen, having one sachet rather than taking 10 different herbs and spices, balsamic vinegar, red wine stock pots and cornflour, has to be the answer right?
I have loved pulling on my SWAG apron and recording my cooking and views, I have now created my CookingByMatt YouTube channel in over the coming weeks, I will be posting my videos on there.
Here is my First Impression video.
Don’t be too judgemental this is my first attempt at this, I hope I can get better,
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Cooking by Matt 