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Holiday Dessert Recipe Contest:

Holiday Dessert Recipe Contest Enter your best dessert recipe in our Holiday Dessert Recipe Eggs-change contest! Whether it’s your blue-ribbon pies or delicious sugar cookies, click here to share your recipe with us for a chance to win exciting prizes!
Entries are being accepted through Thursday December 15, 2011 in the following categories:

•Cookies 

•Brownies/Bars 

•Cakes 

•Pies 

 Each category will have 3 big winners!!! Prizes include:
1st Place Prize: 3 month supply of Eggland’s Best Eggs $25 gift card for Bed, Bath & Beyond EB eco bag, spatula and plush egg
2nd Place Prize: 1 month supply of Eggland’s Best eggs EB eco bag, spatula and plush egg
3rd Place Prize: 1 free dozen Eggland’s Best eggs EB eco bag, spatula and plush egg.

For full rules and entry details, click here.

Exclusive Facebook Offer:

 Click here to "like" Eggland's Best on Facebook for your copy of Fine Cooking’s "Breakfast Recipes Collection - 88 Delicious Recipes for Everyone’s Favorite Anytime Meal", a $9.99 value, FREE for Eggland's Best Facebook fans! 

Hurry! This offer is only available through December 31, 2011. Click here to get your copy and get started cooking! Spread the word!

{Giveaway} A New Spin on the Cookie Exchange: Host a Chex Party Mix-Change!

**Contest Closed** Winner is #56 paschadudley~ Congratulations!

The holiday season is upon us and this means we are attending parties and indulging in goodies and treats. Some of you might be attending a cookie-exchange party. They are a lot of fun and you end up with so many wonderful homemade cookies. The downside of cookies is the whole baking part. Chex Party Mix is changing the way we look at traditional baking with the Chex Party Mix-Change. You can skip the whole baking process and whip up yummy batches Chex Mix snacks in 15 minutes! I received a gift pack from MyBlogSpark that contained 2 boxes of Chex cereal, 5 recipe cards, 10 take-out containers and a $20 gift card to purchase items to make some yummy Chex Party Mix.

We made 2 varieties. We love sweets in my house so we went with the Muddy Buddies and Lemon Buddies. They were so easy to make and required very few ingredients. Lemon Buddies have become my new favorite and I highly recommend you try it for yourself. I will give you fair warning that they are addicting! Here is the recipe:

Lemon Buddies
9 cups Rice Chex® cereal
1 1/4 cups white vanilla baking chips
1/4 cup butter or margarine
4 teaspoons grated lemon peel
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 cups powdered sugar

1. Into large bowl, measure cereal; set aside.
2. In 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave chips, butter, lemon peel and juice uncovered on High 1 minute; stir. Microwave about 30 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Pour into 2-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag.
3. Add powdered sugar. Seal bag; gently shake until well coated. Spread on waxed paper or foil to cool. Store in airtight container.

We decided that we will send in these Chex treats to the girls' teachers to get them through mid-terms before the Christmas break. I know they will love it! There are so many recipes that range from salty to sweet and even gluten-free. You can even tweak recipes and make them your very own!

We are giving away one Chex Party Mix-Change gift pack to one lucky Momfiles reader. The gift pack includes (pictured below): 2 boxes of Chex cereal to create Chex Party Mix recipes, 5 featured Chex Party Mix recipes, 10 takeout containers and a $20 gift card to purchase recipe ingredients and decorating supplies.

To enter- *Mandatory: What Chex Party Mix recipe do you want to try? Have you ever made Chex Party Mix before?

For additional entries you can do all or any of the following. Be sure to leave a separate comment per entry method.

~ "like" Chex and Momfiles on Facebook (please do not write on the Chex Mix wall but you can write on the Momfiles wall to let us know you entered)

~ Follow Momfiles on Twitter

~ Tweet this giveaway (once daily) and leave your tweet link:

Win a #ChexPartyMixChange gift pack @momfiles http://tinyurl.com/d8l87xn #MyBlogSpark

Giveaway is open to US Residents only and will end at 9:00 pm EST on December 10, 2011. One winner will be chosen at random and contacted via email. Be sure to leave your email address if you do not have a Blogger profile. Momfiles is not responsible for any lost or stolen prizes.

Disclosure: The Chex Party Mix-Change product, information, and giveaway have been provided by Chex through MyBlogSpark

Wordless Wednesday

Thanksgiving 2011 with the Mckoy family

Wow, I feel like it has been a while since I last posted on my blog! I had been so busy with Thanksgiving preparations and having the most fun family friends come visit us. Tanyetta and her family came to South Carolina for a few days and spent the holiday with us! We have been friends for about 4 years now (met through the blog) and we finally got to meet in person. We had such a wonderful time and it is amazing how much Dwayne and Tanyetta are alike as well as how much Darrin and I have in common. I told Tanyetta that she and Dwayne were separated at birth! They were working my nerves :)

Look at how all 3 of the younger kids were totally not feeling being photographed! We ate, we laughed, ate some more, laughed a whole lot more and repeated the process. To say we were meeting for the first time, you would have thought we had known each other for life. The children had so much fun running around and playing. I enjoyed holding sweet little Gracen. I got to have my baby-fix. There is nothing like having a sleeping little one in your arms. If Dwayne is reading this don't worry, I am NOT getting any ideas :)

Is this not the sweetest family photo? Awww!! By the way, Tanyetta is the most "picturetakenestfool" ever! Her hubby Darrin is such a good sport! She takes pictures of EVERYTHING! She insisted that they had to get a photo by the wall letters I have up in the front entrance of our home. I will say that it is a lovely photo :)

Look at these faces. They refused to cooperate all at the same time. They were ready to get back to having FUN!!

We were so happy to have the Mckoy family visit us and this was the BEST Thanksgiving EVER!! Thanks for driving from so far to spend it with us. Great memories were made!

ScoreBig with Prizey Giveaway!

Hey guys! I wanted to let you know about a promotion I am working on with PRIZEY. Some of you might already be familiar with PRIZEY if you enter or host giveaways. I love them and frequently use their service. Right now if you sign up at ScoreBig you will automatically be entered to win $200 in prizes ~$100 Amazon.com gift card (perfect for holiday shopping) from PRIZEY and a $100 credit to buy tickets at ScoreBig. ScoreBig is a site dedicated to saving you up to 60% on sports, concert or theater tickets. It takes only seconds to sign up for an account with your name, zip code, email address and a password. You can even sign in through Facebook. It's so EASY and FREE!!!

So what are you waiting for? You might be the big prize winner! Good luck!!

The giveaway will officially end at 11:59 PT on Tuesday, December 6. To enter you must be 18 or older and living in the United States, and that there is a limit of one entry per person.

PRIZEY is compensating me for participating in this promotion