Holiday Foodie Guide Featuring Melissa’s Produce + Giveaway!

Holiday Foodie Guide Featuring Melissa’s Produce!

By Erin
*This is a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions remain my own, as I have been a huge fan of Melissa’s for Years!*This post may contain affiliate links, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, which helps support me and my site at no cost to you.*

Still looking for something for your favorite foodie for the holidays? Well look no further. I have some perfect ideas that should fit any foodie’s tastes. I have met some wonderful chefs and cookbook authors over the past year with Melissa’s Produce and here are my top picks to give this year! PLUS be sure to enter for a chance to win the AMAZING giveaway at the end! Would make an awesome gift for your favorite foodie or a nice treat for yourself to celebrate the holiday season with!

Eat, Laugh, Talk! The Family Dinner Playbook— $24.99

This is one of my favorites I have gotten this year! Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook gives you the tools to have fun family dinners with great food and great conversation. The book includes conversation starters as well as quick and easy recipes to bring your family closer. You will find tips for bringing your family to the table such as setting dinnertime goals, overcoming obstacles, managing conflicting schedules, and how to engage everyone in the conversation.

Hero Dinners: Complete One-Pan Meals That Save the Day— $13.39

Even if you love to cook, the last thing you want to do at the end of a long day is wash a sink full of pots and pans. Hero Dinners gives you the superpower to make delicious, well-balanced meals using fresh, wholesome ingredients—all in just one sheetpan or skillet. The wizardry behind these complete meals is super smart, innovative—and simple!—techniques that ensure you won’t end up with muddled flavors and textures. You’ll maximize the impact of each and every ingredient and flavor. Every recipe truly makes a complete meal, including protein and a vegetable or grain—usually both.

Nathan Turner’s I Love California— $17.89

Designer Nathan Turner’s style is synonymous with the easy glam of California living. His first book introduced readers to his casual American style and chic design sense. Now, he has written a love letter to his home state in I Love California. This book is a journey up and down Highway 1 that takes readers from the redwoods of northern San Francisco, to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, to the beaches of Southern California. Simple recipes and tips for entertaining are featured alongside never-before-seen interiors. Lavish photographs capture the homes, people, and food of each unique location in glorious, sun-drenched detail. This book even includes Turner’s signature recipes for California comfort food, like his family’s Cioppino, Marinated Tri-tip Steak, Mexican Chocolate Cake, and more!!! 🙂

The Camp & Cabin Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Prepare Wherever You Go–By Laura Bashar — $17.79

When it comes time to camping in the great outdoors, or to hitting the road for a rural weekend at the cabin or lake house, there’s no reason to compromise on great food. It’s easy to whip up delicious meals with any of the recipes in this book: in addition to supply lists and prep work that can be done ahead of time, the instructions include options for cooking both outdoors over a roaring fire or indoors near a cozy hearth.

The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook–By Linda Glassenheimer– $14.83

Looking for a way to organize all your meals for a week? With The Budget-Conscious Diabetes Meal Planner, weeknight meals will be quick and easy. It is a plan for one-stop shopping with recipes for the week to create great dinners your whole family will love. Using this book, you can shop and organize the food over the weekend so that assembling the ingredients and just a little cooking will get a meal on the table in minutes throughout the week and more robust ingredients later in the week. They will also include money saving tips.

Clean Snax from Melissa’s Produce

 Got stocking stuffers? These are very addicting, so be sure to get a few boxes for yourself too! 😉 Crispy, crunchy, sweet, salty, satisfying, gluten-free CLEAN SNAX® are the good-for-you treat people can’t stop talking about. Enjoy them wherever you are, whether you’re watching a game at the stadium, playing your own on the tennis court, hitting balls at the green, taking a hike, or just catching up on your favorite show. CLEAN SNAX® are the perfect snack, anytime, any place.

Melissa’s Produce Cookbooks

Melissa’s Produce has a nice variety of cookbooks to choose from that would make any foodie happy!

Melissa’s Produce Gift Baskets

There are so many delicious gifts and gift baskets to choose from at Melissa’s Produce. Get one for all the foodies in your life. They will surely thank you for it. You will probably have a few of these on your wish list too.

GIVEAWAY!!!

Now that you probably want everything on this page, I have partnered with Melissa’s Produce to be able to offer this amazing holiday giveaway! ONE lucky winner will win the above, 6 of Melissa’s Produce cookbooks and 1 Gift Basket filled with lots of delicious goodies! Open to US Residents in the 48 contiguous states. +18 years of age and older. No purchase neccessary. Must enter for a chance to win. Ends 12/19 at 12AM PST. For all contest rules please see the Sweepstakes tab on my blog. 🙂 Good-Luck everyone!! Enter below through the Rafflecopter.

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Happy Holidays!! 🙂

Spring Salads with Melissa’s Produce!

Spring Salads with Melissa’s Produce!

By Erin

Spring is here! Which means time for lots of fun, delicious colorful salads using Melissa’s Produce! Check out these tasty salads that are so easy to make! Melissa’s Produce provided all of these beautiful fruits and veggies to help us celebrate the start of spring! Happy Spring!

This one is a fun spring treat! A fruity rainbow complete with marshmallow clouds. Yum!

A Rainbow of Fruit

*You can use as much or as little fruit as you want, depending on how large a rainbow/how many people you want to be able to feed with it*

What you need:

RED–1 carton strawberries–chopped up
ORANGE–5 Ojai Pixie Tangerines–peeled and separated
YELLOW–1 pineapple cut up
GREEN–green grapes–however many needed to fill in for your green part of the rainbow
BLUE— 6oz carton blueberries–however many you need to fill in the blue portion of your rainbow
PURPLE–red grapes–however many needed for the purple portion of the rainbow
CLOUDS–Marshmallows–make your clouds as fluffy as you like.

Arrange fruit in a rainbow shape in the above order and ENJOY!

Rainbow Chicken Salad 

What you need:

*baby arugula

*strawberries cut up

*raspberries

*grilled chicken, cut up (about a pound for 4 people)

*1 yellow bell pepper, chopped

*1 avocado, chopped

* fresh blue berries

*purple cabbage, cored and finely chopped

*your favorite salad dressing

*Layer the ingredients in order on your serving plate as listed above. Starting with the baby arugula cover the plate with the arugula then layer the strawberries and raspberries together for the red, then add the chicken, the yellow bell pepper,  avocado, blue berries, and cabbage. Top with your favorite salad dressing and enjoy!

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