Hellman's Real Holiday Helpings American Express Gift Card Giveaway!

As much as I love spending time with my family for the holidays there is so much stress involved with the preparation of it all. It takes time to plan meals, budget for them and then on top of all that still have money left to buy presents for under the tree. Hellmann's, with the help of master chef Bobby Flay, have come together to share some tips, tasty recipes, coupons a nd more to help make this year a little less stressful for all of us.

At the Hellmann's Real Holiday Helpings site you can plan a meal from start to finish. Bobby Flay has a ton of uses for Hellmann's Mayonnaise that I can promise never even crossed my mind! For example, basting the outside of bread with Hellmanns Mayonnaise before putting your sandwich into the grilled panini press. There are great recipes for main dishes, appetizers and dips, sides and desserts. Simply because turkey is such a huge favorite for the holidays there are ton of turkey recipes as well a s a section for leftovers too. I love the leftover recipes because I seriously can never think of any options on my own besides a sandwich. Thanks to Bobby Flay I now have several ideas for all my turkey leftovers, some of which also work with ham too, which is my personal favorite for the holidays.

The Hellmann's Real Holiday Helpings site makes it even easier because Bobby Flay has a videos to show you how to make the awesome recipes that he has provided. I LOVE this! I am a huge fan of watching those Food Network shows and I am such a visual learner that seeing how something is made instead of just reading it works so much better me. I have become a much better cook thats for sure! Seeing the recipes being made can also help you figure out which ones you like the best based on your time and budget contraints. By watching the videos you can see some of Bobby Flay's cooking tips in action. Not to mention make you mouth water, mmmm good!

Luckily for me, my in-laws cook on Christmas Eve for the entire family. However, I do have the responsibility of cooking for my husband and children on Christmas Day though. I never know what to make but this year I am definitely going to take full advantage of the recipes offered on the Hellmann's Real Holiday Helpings site. It will be so nice to try some new recipes for a change. These recipes are so simple to follow and I think that this year I am going to have my boys help me with the cooking. They love to help in the kitchen and I love that the recipes seem really user friendly. This is what I plan to make based from the recipes that I looked at:

Appetizers and Dips
Disappearing Buffalo Chicken Dip
Hot Italian Cheese Toasts
Caesar Salad Crostini

Main Dish
Oven Fried Rosemary Chicken

Sides
Creamy Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Green Beans with Almond Aioli

Dessert
Scrumptious Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

It was really difficult to narrow it down to just a few favorites. I went a little overboard on choosing my appetizers but I will probably make those earlier in the day and then a hour or two later serve dinner. After watching the video I can't believe how easy it is to make the Caesar Salad Crostini! I chose the carrot cake for dessert because my husband absolutely loves carrot cake and every time he buys one at the store he is disappointed because there are raisins inside of it. This carrot cake recipe contains NO raisins, yay!

And because everyone could use some extra holiday helpings this year, Hellmann's is also going to be awarding one lucky winner free groceries for an entire year! Just visit the Real Holiday Helpings site to fill out the entry form.

You can gain extra entries and have a whole lot of fun at the same time to by playing the Real Food Match Up Game. I had so much fun playing it trying to beat my best score. Its just like playing memory, which happens to be my all time favorite game! Its only a little disappointing to see that I'm getting older and my memory is not as great as I think it is. I still had so much fun playing the game though. Not only do you gain extra entries for the groceries sweepstakes by playing, but each day the three top scorers of the game will be awarded a $50 grocery gift card. You can play everyday and as many times as you want to increase your score. Watchout everyone, I think I have just found my Bejeweled replacement!

In addition to the great recipes and videos you will find on the Hellmann's Real Holiday Helpings site you can grab a Hellmann's coupon, and also link to the Hellmann's Facebook Fan Page where you can watch an exclusive behind the scenes interview with Bobby Flay as well as access to more recipes, videos, news and a coupon.


Just for spreading the word about this awesome site and sweepstakes I was given a $25 American Express gift card to help me out this holiday season! Guess what people? One of my lucky PPM readers is going to get a $25 American Express Gift Card of their own! How great is that!

How to Enter: Visit the Hellmann's Real Holiday Helpings site and comment back on this post telling me the name of your favorite recipe that is listed and leave a link to it. This giveaway open to US and Canadian residents only.

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