I think most people will agree that the holiday season, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, is a favorite time of year. I know it’s always been one of my favorites.
For me, it’s a time full of tradition and memories – both from my own childhood and from the traditions and memories we are building with our own kids. There are so many opportunities during this season to foster those traditions.
Our favorite traditions tend to revolve around the kitchen, from baking cookies to homemade pierogi and from-scratch gifts. I love having the kids work with me in the kitchen just as much as I loved to work in the kitchen with my mom. And there is just something so magical about working together in a toasty warm kitchen with Christmas music playing and the lights on the Christmas tree glowing. I wish I could bottle those moments!
This year, Walmart is making it easy to spend as little or as much time in the kitchen as you want while still staying under budget. With Walmart’s Holiday Meals, you can prepare a Christmas Dinner for Eight for as low as $20 or a New Year’s Eve meal for 10 for under $40.
Those Holiday Meals are perfect for entertaining at a reasonable price. Check out Walmart’s Holiday Meals website for a great menu put together by Food Network’s Aaron Sanchez.
To help make your holiday entertaining a little easier, I have two $30 Walmart gift cards to give away.
To enter this giveaway, just leave a comment sharing one of your favorite holiday traditions, memories or foods to eat. This giveaway will end on December 26 at 8:00 p.m. CST and random.org will select the winners for me.
NOTE – THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!
Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Walmart. In addition, I received a Walmart gift certificate to thank me for taking the time to participate and two to offer as a giveaway.
One of my favorite Christmas Traditions is when our family eats foreign cuisine on Christmas Eve night, and then we eat Smoked Ribs on Christmas Day, it’s something our family always looks forward to, and it’s a great learning experience as well.
One of my favorite holiday traditions is making and decorating cookies with my kids on Christmas Eve.
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One of my favorite traditions is having dinner on Christmas Eve from our favorite Italian restaurant, then taking a drive to look at the Christmas decorations and ending at Krohn Conservatory to see the beautiful flower display and live Nativity scene.
We love the big ham dinner, and my mom’s best-in-the-world sour cream cut-out cookies. And the tree, and the lights, and of course, we love the true meaning of CHRISTmas!
Our Christmas morning breakfast is one of my favorites…biscuits and gravy and HUGE cinnamon rolls…yeah the two don’t really “go” together but at one point the kids didn’t eat the biscuits and gravy so that’s why I started making them for them to have. Now we all just eat this weird combo and LOVE it! It’s a very looked forward to tradition! Think I’m going to go have some leftovers now.
I love Silk nog (soy milk “egg” nog)… its seasonal and some people are grossed out by it, but I pick some up nearly every year and really enjoy it!
Our family tradition is to open one present on Christmas Eve, a new pair of pajamas that have been washed and are ready to be worn to bed. Then waking up Christmas morning to the stockings on the table and enjoying a day of real family time – nothing better.
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