Dairy Makes Sense has fabulous money saving recipes and ideas to help you stretch your holiday budget without sacrificing taste or nutrition brought to you by the Midwest Dairy Association. Here are just a few of the menu and entertaining tips from moms who work and live on Midwest dairy farms.
· To save money, buy cheese in block form and slice or cube it yourself. Or use holiday cookie cutters to create festive shapes, and save the scraps for casseroles.
· Expecting overnight company? Serve a berry breakfast smoothie instead of empty-calorie gourmet pastries to maximize nutrition without breaking the bank.
· Plain, low-fat yogurt makes a great, calcium-rich base for holiday dips! Buy yogurt by the quart and save, then flavor with dry ranch seasoning or soup mixes and serve with veggies.
· Remember to serve milk with every meal, not just holiday cookies. At about 25 cents a glass, it packs a lot of nutrients for the money.
And if you are looking for a wonderful way to feed a lot guests during the holiday season, try this Pepper & Egg Brunch Bake. Doesn’t it look delicious? The best part is it can be made ahead of time. It will feed 12 people at only $.79 per serving! I love anything that can be made in advance so I can enjoy my guests versus spending all my time in the kitchen cooking for them. Don’t you?
The Midwest Dairy Association would like to offer my readers a gift bundle to start your new year off right!
Included is a $25 gift card for Cub Foods, apron, coupon holder, cheese knife, measuring spoons, grocery pad, refrigerator magnet, recipe booklet and free product coupons from Crystal Farms, Land ‘O Lakes and Kemps Dairy! All of these brands are prominent within Minnesota and the Midwest.
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The Midwest Dairy Council would like to give FOUR of my readers a dairy prize pack as shown above!
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This contest will end on 1/4/10 at 11:59 pm CST. US residents only. Please be sure that you live in an area where you can redeem these coupons or have a Cub Foods. (or at the very least know someone who does) The winner will be drawn via random.org and will have 72 hours to respond to winning notification email before I draw another winner or do a live giveaway.
Disclosure: I received the same prize pack as will be provided to the winners. This has no bearing on my completely honest post above and was not influenced by any type of monetary compensation.
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Our family of 5 all drink milk and love cheese-why we would like to win
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A one-ounce cube of cheese contains 8 grams of protein, which is more than an egg!
I learned a one-ounce cube of cheese contains 8 grams
of protein. A nice giveaway. I love the apron. Thanks for having the contest!
I learned In just one 8-ounce serving, yogurt delivers nearly half of your daily calcium needs.
I would like to win because I love dairy and I shop at Cub all the time!
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it takes 3-cups of broccoli to equal the calcium in a cup of milk,,,it is a good thing I love both!
since I travel as much as possible (by auto) it is nice to have gift cards for grocery stores in the areas i travel. I live in Georgia but travel to western Michigan several times a year and into the Chicago area.
I learned that milk contains nine essential nutrients. They include: calcium, potassium, phosphorus, protein, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12, riboflavin, niacin. Vitamin D, a nutrient that helps the body absorb and use calcium.
Dairy products provide four of the seven nutrients Americans are missing the most, including calcium, potassium, magnesium and vitamin A.
I’d like to win this because I really need a new coupon holder.
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I learmed that unlike other foods, z single serving of dairy contains the nine key nutrients deemed essential to good health.
I learned that a one-ounce cube of cheese contains 8 grams of protein, which is more than an egg
I would love to win this because I love diary products and the cheese knife
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It costs dairy farmers almost twice as much to produce a gallon of milk as they are getting paid.
I learned that milk contains nine essential nutrients.
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I would like to win this because it looks very nice!
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