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Holiday Giveaway: FIVE Butterball turkeys!

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Published: 2012-11-13 14:32:36
Updated: 2012-11-13 14:32:36

Posted: November 13, 2012

Tags: Freebies, Grocery freebies, Seasonal & Holidays

 

I am kicking off a month of holiday giveaways today with a fantastic freebie from Butterball: Five FREE Butterball turkeys!

As a way of saying thank you to all of you for reading the blog, telling your friends about it, posting deals, comments and questions and being a part of our Smart Shopper "family", I will be giving away more than ever in the next month with multiple giveaways per week! We'll have lots of winners, lots of fun and lots of freebies!

For this giveaway, five lucky winners will each receive a voucher good for up to $15 off a Butterball turkey! Plus, Butterball has some great new resources for making this your tastiest Thanksgiving ever!  Here are some more details about their Golden Thursday promotion from the folks at Butterball:

Golden Thursday

Butterball is launching Golden Thursday™ on November 15, the week before Thanksgiving, to offer tips, advice & recipes to help make the holiday shine!

With family members coming together to celebrate the highly-anticipated Thanksgiving meal, holiday cooks everywhere spend hours preparing for the big day. To help ensure it's a meal that will be remembered, Butterball® is sharing expert advice earlier this year to make your Thanksgiving Day shine – where to find savings, go-to holiday recipes that are sure to please and ways to access Butterball's expert advice via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Butterball Cookbook Plus™ app, Butterball.com and 1-800-BUTTERBALL.

Butterball® Turkey Talk-Line® : The 50 professionally trained turkey experts at the Butterball® Turkey Talk-Line® are ready to talk turkey! The experts at the Butterball Turkey-Talk Line can help new cooks and seasoned pros alike put the golden touch on holiday celebrations by sharing new recipes, providing tips on thawing and cooking methods.  You can reach the hotline at 1-800-BUTTERBALL.

Butterball cooking app: Butterball has just launched a new app called "Butterball Cookbook Plus - Recipes for Thanksgiving & Every Day Occasions."   Download the Butterball Cookbook Plus App for iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® from the App Store HERE to get easy access to recipe ideas, how-to videos, upcoming Butterball promotions and cooking advice at your fingertips. The app costs $4.99.

For access to all these helpful resources, go to Butterball.com HERE.   

Butterball Turkey Giveaway

To enter to win one of the five FREE turkey vouchers, leave a comment below about your favorite way to cook a turkey or let us know your favorite holiday side dish. 

I will randomly pick the 5 winning names on Thursday, November 15th at 2:00 pm and will post the winning names soon after 2:00.  This is a quick giveaway so you receive your turkey vouchers in time to use them for Thanksgiving.

Good luck everyone!

My thanks to Butterball for hosting this generous giveaway and providing the free turkey vouchers!!

 

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my mother always cooked the turkey. But since she has passed now I guess it will be up to me. However I have never cooked one in my life. what better way to learn than to get a free one incase I mess is up. but my favorite side dish was my mama's candied yams.
kbaker125
November 15, 2012 11:27 a.m.
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I alwyas make the turkey each year and it is always golden brown and moist. I massage 1 stick of soft butter into my turkey ( he likes that you know) and sprinkle it with salt and black pepper. I then smear another half stick of soft butter inside my bird before stuffing it with Pepperidge Farms Herb stuffing that is moisten with another stick of melted butter and hot water then tossed with thinly chopped celery. Place the turkey in a covered roaster @ 400 degrees and in 2 1/2 to 3 hours we are ready for dinner. Serve the turkey along with Yam Souffle' - extras from your sweet potatoe pies mixed with pecans and a oatmeal and brown sugar crust. Amazing.
lichaps1973
November 15, 2012 10:57 a.m.
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Roasted turkey!
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November 15, 2012 10:53 a.m.
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We love to add broccoli cheese casserole as one of the side dishes for our Thanksgiving Day meal. Thank you.
gahome2mom
November 15, 2012 10:53 a.m.
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Every year for the past 20 years, I have hosted my relatives for Thanksgiving. Our menu includes a vegetable from my mother in law's recipes. It is chopped carrots and chopped turnip root boiled until tender and then seasoned with butter and pepper. Everyone loves it and there is never any leftovers from this.
pammysue30
November 15, 2012 10:40 a.m.
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I roast my turkey with lemon, vegetables, and fresh herbs inside the bird. My favourite side dish is green beans.
dbr7665262
November 15, 2012 10:39 a.m.
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Favorite way is roasting it the traditional way. . .all morning long to have that good smell floating throughout the house which makes everyone really hungry. Trying a new way this year. Bake at 400 degrees until brown, then tent with foil and bake 7 minutes per pound.
mspycc
November 15, 2012 10:33 a.m.
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I have found with the turkey breast - they turn out so good in the crock pot. Add a little water, butter and any spices that you enjoy. Yum! Yum!!
trichardson0621
November 15, 2012 10:30 a.m.
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As a kid, I remember waking up on Thanksgiving morning to the aroma of a delicious turkey. I remember watching my mother taking out the butterball turkey and baisting it every so often. I would turn on the oven light and watch the golden bird cooking. I am an old-fashioned tradtional girl and like my turkeys roasted in the oven - basisted with butter and in its natural juices -- I have 2 young children of my own and will continue the tradition with them -- I want them to grow up with the good tradional memories I had.
alexandrareeves
November 15, 2012 10:25 a.m.
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I love making a honey turkey or orange sauce turkey during the holidays, there isn't any leftovers with either of these!
sundown80
November 15, 2012 10:05 a.m.
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Our family loves the traditional turkey and dressing with cranberry sauce. Pecan pie for dessert....can't wait.
trelrej
November 15, 2012 9:48 a.m.
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We do ours on the gas grill. Open beer can with beer in it in the cavity, and apples. Butter up the outside and wait til it's done. Yummy yum yum!! Gobble Gobble, happy turkey day.
cathyguzik
November 15, 2012 9:33 a.m.
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For the most tender, juciest turkey, I start with a 14-16 pound Butterball and cook it on my Weber grill. Indirect heat for 3-4 hours with little or no attention needed. It turns out golden brown and when you carve it, the juices come out and you have the moistest turkey EVERYTIME. It also frees up your oven to make all those delicious side dishes so timing is never an issue. You have to try it as it makes Thanksgiving not only more delicious, but much less rushing around.
jimebear714
November 15, 2012 8:55 a.m.
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Favorite holiday sidedish is sweet potatoe pie!!
cdemarais1
November 15, 2012 8:49 a.m.
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My favorite side dish is Grandma's sauerkraut and dumplings
kntdside
November 15, 2012 8:30 a.m.
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chesnut sage stuffing...yum!
ktinnc
November 15, 2012 8:26 a.m.
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Favorite side for Thanksgiving dinner : Sausage suffing! You also need to get the canned cranberry sauce ! That is a tradition :-)_
apextammy
November 15, 2012 7:38 a.m.
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My favorite side dish is sweet potato pie with coconut layer on the top! Yummy! Also chicken salad with ritz!!
brooks4118
November 15, 2012 7:33 a.m.
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My favorite dish is my mom's stuffing. It's the best :)
coconutnest
November 15, 2012 7:22 a.m.
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I use a cooking bag to help make a moist turkey. Adding seasonings under the skin the day before makes it flavorful. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
sendanotetoday
November 15, 2012 6:11 a.m.
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My favorite things that I've been looking forward to for weeks is deep fried turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, and veggies!!! Not original, but traditional and delicious!!! Gotta have the sweet potatoes and a pecan pie for the meal to be complete. But, as usual, the turkey takes center stage.
rmid327
November 15, 2012 2:57 a.m.
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My favorite holiday side dish is always Sweet Potato Casserole. It is so yummy for Thanksgiving !!!
BRAINIAC1911
November 15, 2012 12:33 a.m.
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My favorite side dish is collard greens and apple sage stuffing.
hopee23
November 14, 2012 11:56 p.m.
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My goodness! Im so glad to see this giveaway! I haven't managed to get my turkey for thanksgiving yet! I made homemade cranberry sauce and canned it last week, so I'm going to say THAT will be my favorite side dish this year!

Thanks for this opportunity Faye! :)
sewcountrycrafts
November 14, 2012 11:53 p.m.
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I like roasted pear and cranberry with a maple syrup glaze on of of my turkey.
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November 14, 2012 11:50 p.m.
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My favorite side dish is candied yams.
jchance
November 14, 2012 11:33 p.m.
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My favorite dish is seasoned collard greens.
bap2056
November 14, 2012 11:15 p.m.
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In the oven....start out by cooking on a very high heat (425 degrees) for the first 1/2 hour, with lots of butter under the skin. After the first 1/2 hour at a higher temp, we turn the oven down and cook as directed - always turns out moist!
kyoung70
November 14, 2012 11:09 p.m.
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My favorite dish is green bean casserole.
steel366
November 14, 2012 11:04 p.m.
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Hubby massages all of his seasonings in the meat, both under the skin and ontop of the skin...the massaging makes it really tender. He wraps it and put sit in the frig for 24 hrs. Then on the grill, low and slow....3-6 hrs..the skin it to die for!!!..and the meat even better!!!
3boys3
November 14, 2012 11:04 p.m.
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My favorite side dish is pecan pie
gddupree1218
November 14, 2012 11:02 p.m.
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Roasted turkey is my all-time favorite, but deep fried is good too!
jenniferabdelnor
November 14, 2012 10:22 p.m.
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Homemade pumpkin pie is my favorite Thanksgiving dish. It reminds me of being in my grandmother's kitchen, all warm and full of good things cooking.
cdel88
November 14, 2012 10:03 p.m.
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My favorite side dish is Aunt May's Sweet Potatoe Casserole
reneeames
November 14, 2012 9:59 p.m.
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My favorite sidedish is cranberry sauce, I could eat the whole can by myself. :-)
LuvinCam
November 14, 2012 9:53 p.m.
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My favorite way to cook a turkey is to brush it a mixture of olive oil, rosemary, basil, black pepper, and paprika(helps brown outside). I rub this mixture underneath the skin, as well as on both the inside and outside of the turkey. I stuff the turkey with apples and onions. It comes out very moist and flavorful.

My favorite side dishes - stuffing made from scratch and green bean casserole.
dombekb2
November 14, 2012 9:50 p.m.
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My favorite side dish for thanksgiving is mashed potatoes and gravy
katielynnmitchell
November 14, 2012 9:20 p.m.
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Easy... We grill our turkey. Fix it up in a metal baking pan just like normal, cover with tin foil, and pop it on the grill. Frees up my oven for everything else, and is the most juicy bird I've ever had.
Click to view my profile JenniferK
November 14, 2012 8:24 p.m.
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The best turkey is a smoked turkey..It has the best flavor is so moist..
jaks712
November 14, 2012 8:13 p.m.
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My Gluten-Free child loves her turkey stuffing that she makes herself. She cuts up two Apples with a butter knife and mixes this with gluten free bread that she has ripped up into little pieces. All the apple and bread pieces are about one inch big. This gets mixed up by her own little fingers in a very large bowl or pot until everything starts sticking together. We then give the turkey bird a water bath in the bath tub, patting him all over, moving his wings and legs to loosen them up, shaking him about, and dry him off and lay him down in the roaster pan. My daughter then proceeds to stuff the turkey from both ends with her stuffing and loosely covers each end by the extra skin around those areas. Extra stuffing is eaten right then. Giblets are just placed at the side of the bird in the pan. She enjoys painting and squirting the bird as it cooks with it's own juices. She thinks this is the best way to cook a turkey.
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November 14, 2012 7:55 p.m.
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I love it when the family gets together for the holidays. All the ladies get together and we all cook something. I'm even getting my 8 year old helping us with the pies and rolls.
jenvie03
November 14, 2012 7:53 p.m.
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Roasted turkey and sweet potato casserole-what more could you want!
tyjacksawyer
November 14, 2012 7:46 p.m.
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I think that the best way to cook a turkey is outside in a turkey fryer. A lot of people use marinade, but to me it is best without marinade, just the natural flavor. Other advantages is that it frees up the oven for other dishes such as the stuffing and casseroles. Also, getting my husband to cook the turkey outside gets him out of the house and keeps him from bugging the cook!
jsunflower68
November 14, 2012 7:37 p.m.
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Oil it then rub with a seasoning let set in cooler overnight then deep fry the next day. So moist and juicy.
ccleoa1356
November 14, 2012 7:24 p.m.
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We usually have a turkey breast, since there is only two of us.
gbo101
November 14, 2012 7:21 p.m.
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I like to rub down my turkey with a dry rub of mixed seasonings and hurbs let it sit in the fridge for a few hours and then deep fat fry it to perfection.
proudlineman
November 14, 2012 7:20 p.m.
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my husband rubs the turkey down with olive oil-then seasons it with herbs from the garden-rosemary -thyme-parsley-salt pepper-puts it on the grill for a few hours until correct temp on with meat thermometer-melts in your mouth every time! and Butterball is the juiciest plumpest turkeys ever!
janlittle
November 14, 2012 6:37 p.m.
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On our first anniversary my husband got to cook the turkey for the family. He roasts it with lemons and cayenne and other spices. Then he pulls every shred of meat from the turkey and roasts it AGAIN in its own juices. Its so juicy and flavorful its been a family tradition now for 13 years for him to cook the turkey! After he serves the turkey I pull the drippings and make a gravy that is pure heaven and sop it up with fresh yeast rolls stuffed with pulled turkey meat! YUM!
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November 14, 2012 6:33 p.m.
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We always roast the turkey in a Reynolds Oven Bag. I love good ole Stove Top stuffing and store bought pies. Hey, I'm doing better than the year my gravy was too thick and the mashed potatoes too thin, so we had to drizzled the potatoes over a big clump of gravy!
jabfritz
November 14, 2012 6:21 p.m.
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My favorite dish for the thanksgiving holiday is my moms turnip greens and corn pudding. She still fires up the old wood stove that we had when we were small. It brings wrmth to the holidays,not to mention to our stomachs. Debra family
kooky418
November 14, 2012 5:52 p.m.
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