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Holiday Meal ideas from Walmart

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My mom’s house is just about a block away from Walmart, so I know the store very, very well. Little known fact – my first job was actually as a sales associate in Walmart’s shoe department! Now I live over 1000 miles away, but still feel the same way about Walmart… I can always find exactly what I need at a good price.

In November, Walmart took steps to help Americans share a memorable Thanksgiving with its Thanksgiving Dinner for Eight for as low as $20. Now, with Christmas and New Year’s right around the corner, Walmart has two great encores — Christmas Dinner for Eight for only $30 and a New Year’s Eve party for 10 for under $40. With help like this, moms don’t have to cut corners or sacrifice taste or quality when entertaining this winter.

The current economy impacts overall holiday plans for 80% of us, which makes deals like these that much more important when it comes to ensuring that Americans everywhere have the opportunity to enjoy holiday meals with their families. And with the majority of moms planning to entertain more than 7 people for the holidays, Walmart’s fresh and affordable holiday meals help eliminate some of the stress that comes from hosting a large get-together.

Walmart’s Christmas Dinner for Eight under $30 provides all the ingredients necessary for a traditional meal, including a 10-lb Spiral Cut Half Ham, three cans of Del Monte green beans, one 10-lb bag of russet potatoes, Sara Lee dinner rolls, and a pumpkin pie. The New Year’s party basket for 10 for under $40 includes a Shrimp Tray, Vegetable Tray, Hillshire Farms Little Smokies, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, Land O’Lakes Egg Nog, and a Red Velvet cake. And to give your recipes a new spin, Aarón Sánchez of Food Network fame shares cooking tips and unique, delicious recipes he created with Walmart’s basket of holiday and New Year’s ingredients. You can find these tips and more on Walmart’s Holiday Meals website – www.walmart.com/holidaymeals.

So that you can do a little Walmart shopping in the New Year, I have a couple of gift cards to give away! Two readers will each win a $30 Walmart gift card. To enter, please leave a comment below. I’d love to know what’s on your holiday menu this year!

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Contest ends: January 7th, 2010 11:59 pm EST. US entries only. One person per household may enter. Leave a separate comment for each entry & a valid email address. Winners, chosen at random, have 3 days to claim their prize.

I wrote this review while participating in a campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Walmart. In addition, I received a Walmart gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate, and two to offer as a giveaway.

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  1. I’m serving:
    Turkey
    Mashed Potatoes
    Turkey Gravy
    Gluten-Free Gravy
    Stuffing
    Cranberry Sauce
    Rolls
    Green Beans — Home canned right out of my mom’s garden
    Candied Yams — Home grown and fresh out of my mom’s garden
    Followed by mom’s homemade pumpkin pies with real whipped cream

    Mmmm, makes me hungry just typing it!

  4. I’m not sure what we’re eating for Christmas this year, because we got invited over to someone else’s at the last minute and they didn’t want us to bring anything.
    I was going to make Ham, mashed potatoes, garden salad, a nice fruit salad with cool whip mixed in, and a birthday cake for Jesus.
    On New Years, we’ll likely have a great Cheese Enchilada casserole, and lots of different chips and dips and some veggies to dip too.

  10. It’s just hubby and I for dinner this year. (We are living temporarily in another state and can’t wait to go home the first of March!) So, we’re having a small turkey, cornbread stuffing, whipped sweet potatoes, a brussel sprout dish made with purple onion and bacon, rolls, an a chocolate-oreo pie for dessert!
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  14. We will have an oven stuffer chicken, potato salad, sweet potato pie,stuffing and salad greens.

  24. For Christmas dinner, we will have chicken egg rolls, chinese noodles, rice, ham, garden salad, mashed potatoes, chocolate cake and mushroom soup

  34. We’re having baked ham, roasted rosemary potatoes, green bean casserole, crescent rolls and watergate salad.
    Thanks for the chance to win!

  38. We’re going traditional this year–turkey, dressing, sweet potato casserole, peas, croissants, cranberry relish, mashed potatoes with gravy. My mom and I are making a spice cake today. Happy holidays!
    .-= Jen L.´s last blog ..Christmas Eve Eve =-.

  44. well we are doing a new years eve at home…and we have some steaks and last night my hubby bought some seafood(obviously its frozen now)..so we are having surf and turf!
    .-= colleen´s last blog ..A Thousand Words Thursday =-.

  50. Ham
    meatballs
    loaded mashed potatoes
    cranberry sauce
    spiced corn
    Hawaiian sweet rolls

    cheese platter
    key lime pie
    variety of cookies

    eggnog, tea, soda

    homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast

  51. Our dinner will consist of: Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, potato salad, cranberry sauce, green beans and rolls. Oh I can’t forget my husbands country ham. He loves country ham. Then for dessert we have several types of cookies.

  57. Our holiday meal includes a turkey, stuffing, and some mashed potatoes. Also some biscuits, hopefully, but Safeway was out! Hopefully Walmart would have some 🙂

  72. We’ll have the traditional ham and my brother will probably also bring venison…depending on if he’s been able to bag a deer recently. He’s such a skilled hunter there’s no doubt in my mind he’ll bring venison!

  76. i thought everyone had the same stuff turkey mashed potatoes stuffing and such yummy thats what we will be having

  80. hey you forgot that your little sister currently works at Wal-Martin in the Vision center! The same Wal-Mart you used to work at. And you can get a complete pair of glasses for $38! NOW THAT’S A GIFT EVERYONE NEEDS.

  81. I’m having whatever my mom is making…probably ham, mashed potatoes, peach pie, stuffing, and other yummies!

  91. We are having spiral cut ham, mashed potatoes, sweet peas, mac n cheese and yeast rolls. Chocolate cream pie for dessert!

    Merry Christmas!

  107. This year was a bit different, we had quite a few extra guests on Christmas Eve, we set up a buffet, Roaster had sliced Roast Beef, 2 turkeys were baked, Macroni Salad, Green Bean Casserole, Baked Beans, Relish Trays, a few more appetizers that were added from our guest. Punch for the kids!! Lots of Pecan, Apple and Pumpkin Pies and Fudge, lots and lots of fudge. I am beat the guest have left, time to sit back with a nice glass of wine.

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  115. we are trying something different this year for thanksgiving we had turkey and dressing and ham for christmas we are going to have it in the afternoon with county ham and biscuits and fryed apples.

  122. We are having vegetable soup with cabbage filled rolls (Buricks). For desert we are having berry pie. Everything is homemade by my grandma.

  125. Im plumb wore out from cooking! we had baked ham,turkey,dressing,baked beans,mashed potatoes,corn,peas,gravy,green beans,an my sister in law made all the desserts,we had over 30 family members here this year,now the clean up begins!
    vlbelk(at)hotmail.com

  130. Well, looky there. I just did a daily entry thinking I’d already done the main one. Sorry! Here’s my main one:

    We were having a ham yesterday, but our power went out, and is still out, so the ham and everything else was ruined. 🙁 Good Christmas, though! We’re all safe and warm, at least!
    .-= Cindy´s last blog ..Lavender Fields Giveaway =-.

  139. We had a Big Ham Dinner yesterday and it was so good!
    On News Years Day we are having Prime Rib and I can hardly wait 🙂

  155. We had cornish hens with wild rice,stuffing and green bean casserole this year for Christmas.
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  158. Christmas I made a turkey, homemade cranberry sauce, garlic mashed potatos, and cornbread/cranberry stuffing

  160. I had Turkey, potatoes with gravy, green beans with bacon, rolls,
    deviled eggs and pumpkin pie with whip cream.

  163. We had the traditional turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, beans, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, rolls, desserts…. 🙂 YUM

  167. For christmas my MIL made Lasagna, meatballs and italian sausage : ) It was so yummy. We arent sure what we will eat new years day yet – probably a spiral ham with scalloped potatoes
    .-= Diane´s last blog ..dwalline: Holiday Entertaining With Subway *Giveaway* https://bit.ly/7vfJKA #holidaysurvivalguide =-.

  169. We always have to have Cheesy Corn which is a recipe from a local Fabulous barbecue restaurant! Thanks!

  172. We had an italian christmas dinner this year with baked ziti, meatballs,sausage meatballs, and garlic bread. This was very different from the usual holiday meal we usually have of ham and all the fixings.

  173. we had ham with lil round potatoes baked, sweet slaw,homemade cream corn,yeast rolls,green beans, mashed potatoes with brown gravey, corn bread stuffing, homemade mac & cheese, strawberry short cake, taffy apple salad and we were stuffed
    sewitupjulie at gmail dot com

  177. For Christmas morning we had crockpot breakfast (hashbrowns, eggs, ham, cheese, peppers & onions), sticky buns and hashbrown casserole!!

  182. I had a frozen apple pie in the freezer that I was hoping to take somewhere for Christmas dinner. It turned out that my part of town lost power on Christmas Eve. Another teacher called and was very concerned about me staying by myself during the power outage. It turned out that I had Christmas dinner of Baked Chicken, dressing, potatoes, gray, and salad with this young man and his mom. I was most appreciative of a wonderful Christmas dinner as none of my brothers and sisters asked me to come to their homes for Christmas dinner.

    Thank you,

    Christine
    womackcm@sbcglobal.net

  185. Christmas dinner was at my mother’s house, so we had all the holiday favorites: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, etc. Yummy! Dessert was pumpkin pie or caramel cake or cherry cheesecake. Not to mention all the candy that had magically appeared . . .
    .-= Lisa A.´s last blog ..Brouhaha in the Belfry =-.

  197. We had Turkey for Thanksgiving, Turkey & Beef for Christmas & Ham for New Years 🙂 I bought my turkey before hearing Walmarts great prices, but did take advantage of the great price for Christmas.
    .-= Ginny´s last blog ..Can’t log in =-.

  204. On New Years we always eat simple with collard greens, black eyed peas, and homemade biscuits. Sometimes ham but not this year.

  205. Well it is New Years eve, so my menu tonight looks like this.

    Bacon Wrapped Brown Sugar lil Smokies
    7 Layer Mexican dip with Tosito Scoops
    Veggie platter with Ranch dip
    Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella plate

    We are already plowing through it as I type. LOL

  209. We are having traditional black-eyed peas, collard greens and stewed tomatoes.

    melodyj(at)gmail(dot)com

  218. We always do a bunch of appetizers and finger foods. No sit down meal. It’s so much easier!! And still delicious!
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  222. The traditional New Years Day supper includes: Collard greens, black eyed peas, a picnic ham, cranberry sauce, potato salad, deviled eggs, cornbread, sweet tea, and peach cobbler for dessert. Thanks for the chance!

  224. I shop at Wal-Mart for all of my needs. It’s the only shopping center in our small town! I’d love to be a winner.

    Thanks for hosting.
    .-= CrAzY Working Mom´s last blog ..Five Rules for Men to Have a Happy Life =-.

  225. I was at my daughter’s house this year and she had turkey, dressing, gravy, macaroni and cheese, rice casserole, green beans, pumpkin and apple pie.

  228. We do pretty traditional foods for our holidays–sweet potato casserole, corn casserole, green bean casserole (see a theme with our casseroles?) and ham

  231. We had turkey and ham for Christmas, and prime rib for new years. I like to do prime rib on Christmas, but we had too many people coming to dinner this year to be able to afford to serve prime rib.

  236. Since my family aren’t huge ham or turkey fans, we had steak with baked potatoes, broccoli and salad.

  249. Our Christmas dinner was ham with mashed potatoes, string beans, corn, dinner rolls, brussels sprouts, and an apple pie!

  251. Our holiday menu on Christmas included homemade meat & cheese ravioli with homemade sauce and a turkey. Thanks for the opportunity!