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Holiday Traditions with Hickory Farms

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Hickory Farms

Disclosure: Compensation and products for review were provided by Hickory Farms via MomTrends. I received a free sample of the product for the purpose of this review and to facilitate a giveaway.  The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Hickory Farms. 

Hickory Farms is a tradition in my family and has been for as long as I can remember. I can remember heading to the mall every holiday season to find the perfect gift basket for the year. Usually the basket was for my father but there were years when he would go and pick out his own. It was wonderful and was one of the signals that Christmas was truly coming. Now I send one to my siblings very year. My brother starts calling me around Halloween to ask when his is arriving and his wife has fallen in love with them just as much.

Hickory Farms Party Planner

I received the Hickory Farms Party Planner Box which was filled with cheese and summer sausage. Can we just take a moment to love the summer sausage? My poor stomach has a hard time with this now and I have to take several acid reducers and antacids but I can eat a whole one of these by myself. It is just so dang good!  But I digress! This box lasted exactly 25 minutes at my house. The moment that my mother and the kids discovered it had arrived they tore into it. 

Party Planner

I don’t think my mother even cut the cheese (no pun intended) before she bit into it.  I did get some of the summer sausage and to be honest I should have stopped them but they enjoy it so much and it just remind of my father so much that I didn’t. Every time they would take out an item they would say “Oh it’s Aged Gouda” or whatever. My father used to do that as well. Like a kid in a candy store. Another great thing is that for every Party Planner Box sold Hickory Farms will donate $5 to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry. Campaign.

 

Create Your Own Hickory Farms Holiday Traditions

Hickory Farms has been helping create family traditions for more than 60 years and I know that my family has been enjoying them for more than 30 years (actually longer but there is no point in talking about my age!) You can purchase Hickory Farms gift baskets at HickoryFarms.com or at nearly 600 Holiday Market stores and kiosks across North America, as well as in select retailers.  Also be sure that you enter below for your chance to win a Hickory Farms Party Planner Box of your very own. Giveaway ENDS December 1, 2014 at 11:59 pm EST

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  1. Hickory Farms has been a part of our family traditions for that many years as well, lol. No, we won’t talk about my age either! You have to have Hickory Farms for holiday entertaining!

  2. We always open gifts on Christmas Eve and have a big spread of food. Of course we also go to Christmas Eve Mass.

  4. One of my holiday traditions is to bake my grandmother’s recipe for Sweet Potato Pie. I bake enough so hat everyone can take home a whole pie. Hickory Farms has always been around at holiday time! I don’t think I can remember a holiday without it.

  6. we really only have 2.
    one is we put the tree up has a family.
    and we open gifts x-mas morning as a family.

  9. We spend time making cookies and decorating the Christmas tree together every year.

    Thank you for the lovely giveaway!

  12. My mom and I bake Christmas cookies every year. This box of goodies would be perfect to snack on while baking.

  13. Our favorite holiday tradition is to make Christmas cookies together while listening to Christmas music.

  14. Some of out traditons are that we go to Midnight Mass, the kids are allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve. We do Christmas morning brunch at my house and open all our gifts.

  15. A new pair of pajamas for everyone on Christmas Eve. My mom always did that so for some reason I do it too.

  20. The day after Thanksgiving (since we all have the day off), we decorate the house, put up the tree and bake cookies!

  22. My holiday traditions are spending Christmas Eve with my family, and spending Christmas Day with my boyfriend’s family.

  24. We started a new one last year, the adults in the family still get gifts for the kids, but we do one secret santa for the adults and donate money to a local charity/cause/family in need.

  26. Every year we decorate the house together. Everyone has a specific task. My wife said this was a tradition in her home and we do it with our family.

  28. We spend Christmas eve at my grandparents, and exchange our gifts with them – and then Christmas day someone else hosts and we have a Christmas dinner and spend the day together.

  31. We always go to my mom’s house on Christmas day and having finger foods and visit with friends and family. Christmas night we always ride around until late looking at Christmas lights.

  32. We put up Christmas decoration after Thanksgiving and attend church on Christmas day as a family and them spend time together with family.

  35. My favorite tradition is baking Holiday cookies with the children. We also like to go see local light displays.

  37. We always decorate gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. Everyone gets a new pair of pjs to open on Christmas Eve to wear on Christmas Day.

  38. One tradition that I love that we do every year is we buy 24 books and wrap them up. Put them under the tree on December 1st. Every night he gets to open 1 book..which is the book we read that night before bedtime. We have so much fun with it.

  39. I love the tradition of going to candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It is so beautiful.

  44. One of my favorite traditions is getting together with the girls and baking cookies while my husband hangs lights.

  46. Our holiday traditions boil down to: Lots of food and lots of family! We cook and bake until there’s not a space left to put food then we gather and feast, feast, feast!

  47. Making cut out sugar cookies and my kids to help me decorate.
    Christmas evening is spent at our good friends home to share a great meal.