The Sterno Buffet Kit is ready to party!

The holidays are just around the corner, and with them come parties! When hosting a party, however, the last place you want to be is hovering over the stove in the kitchen. You’ve got guests to entertain! So why not put your trust—and your food—in one of Sterno’s newest products: Sterno Buffet Kits.

Each kit contains a water pan to keep the food temperatures and textures uniform, and Sterno’s gel fuel, which is a safe and reliable heating solution. The kits also include a newly designed folding rack for easy storage along with standard-sized pans so the rack can be used over and over again. Using the buffet kits will ensure you have everything needed to easily and conveniently warm and serve food so you’ll have more time to simply enjoy entertaining. Lasagna, anyone? Chili? Meatballs? Gosh, we’re hungry already!

Ten winners will receive both a full- and a half-size Buffet Kit. Each kit comes with a reusable wire folding rack, an aluminum water and food pan and one can of Sterno gel fuel. The full-size kit also includes an additional food pan and gel fuel, plus plastic serving utensils. Ideal for both indoor and outdoor entertaining, new Sterno Buffet Kits are available just in time for your holiday entertaining needs. Approximate Retail Value: $32.00/set.

In honor of National Fair Trade Month, this week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize is not only socially conscious, but also smooth and satisfying.

Six winners will enjoy Brazilian coffees from National Geographic’s Terra Firma coffee brand. All Terra Firma coffees are Fair Trade Certified™, which guarantees fair prices to farm families, environmental stewardship and investment in farming communities.

We know many people will love Terra Firma coffee (it was on our Father’s Day gift list in June). The single-origin, specialty-grade coffee is sourced from six of the world’s finest growing regions: Brazil, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Sumatra and Kenya. If you don’t win, you can purchase it on Amazon.com in light, medium and dark roast, ground or whole bean. The handsome bag makes it a nice gift, too.

It’s effortless to make the world a better place, simply by buying Fair Trade coffee.

As the weather grows brisk, Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes invites you to photograph “Morning Moments” with your kids for the chance to win a family vacation to a warm location and digital cameras.

“We want this contest to highlight the importance of giving your children a warm breakfast even when you are on the run,” said Eric Hintz, Vice President of Marketing at Pinnacle Foods.

All you have to do is photograph a breakfast moment with your child/children and submit a picture along with a description in 100 words or less, of how you share a delicious, warm moment in the morning with them. We guessing that it helps if they’re eating Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancakes, available in Blueberry, Buttermilk, Homestyle, Low Fat Buttermilk, Whole Grain and Mini.

To enter:

Will your kid’s photo win a family vacation?

Log onto www.auntjemimafrozen.com/morningmoments, or send your entry to: “Aunt Jemima Frozen Pancake Morning Moments” Contest, c/o BHG PR, 546 Valley Rd., Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043. All entries must be received by December 31, 2009. No purchase is required to win. One grand prize winner will receive a warm getaway for a family of four (Approximate Retail Value: $5,000). Ten finalists will each receive a digital camera to continue capturing their family’s moments (Approximate Retail Value: $200 each).

Halloween is right around the corner, and all those ghosts, goblins and superheroes will be expecting you to hand out some special treats. So go out and buy a few bags of candy, as this week’s Gourmet Giveaway prizes are definitely too good to give away.

Dove is offering one winner several bags of bite-sized candy in its newest flavor: Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate. These melt-in-your-mouth candies have just enough smooth chocolate to encase the creamy, peanut butter middle, and each individual piece also comes with an encouraging PROMISE message inside the wrapper, urging us to feel good about ourselves or expand our horizons. We loved it (see our blog post) and are lucky that fights didn’t break out at THE NIBBLE offices over how to divide the pieces.

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway also features 5 bonus prizes of Bubble Chocolate for five additional winners. These “aerated” chocolate bars imported from Beylorus are popular in Europe, and now available in the U.S. It’s not what the name sounds like—pockets of bubbles bursting in the mouth—but it’s tasty like a crisped chocolate bar without the crisps—a very interesting technology. Available in Milk Chocolate and Dark Chocolate, both are delicious and high quality. The Dark Chocolate tastes a bit like devil’s food cake to us, and the milk was not sticky-sweet like most U.S. milks. Both flavors are bound to please.

If you love chocolate and peanut butter,
rush out for Dove Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky |
THE NIBBLE.

Two antioxidants—chocolate and cranberry
—combine in this tasty new snack. If only
sugar were an antioxidant, too! Photo by
Emily Chang | THE NIBBLE.

October is National Cranberry Month, so enjoy this tart and tangy superfruit that boasts two powerful antioxidants. Fresh cranberries are coming into season, dried cranberries are always a treat and cranberry juice is ubiquitous.

For cooking, think of cranberry nut bread instead of banana bread, cranberry muffins, cranberry chocolate chip or cranberry oatmeal cookies, cranberry chutney, rice pudding with dried cranberries and dried cranberries tossed into salads of every kind. If you can find cranberry sorbet, grab it!

Better yet, celebrate by enjoying your dried cranberries milk-chocolate-covered in the form of new Nestlé Cranberry Raisinets. These delicious and convenient snacks come in single-serve, 100-calorie snack packs, plus larger, 5.5-ounce, resealable bags. Toss them onto ice cream, use them as cupcake garnishes or repackage your daily allotment from the larger bag to enjoy in front of the TV.

One winner will receive a gift basket brimming with Nestlé Cranberry Raisinets, including 100-calorie packs like those seen in the photo at left, plus several 5.5-ounce, stand-up bags. You’re sure to make lots of new friends to share them with. Read the bullet below to find out how to enter to win this week’s chocolate-covered prize.

Ten winners will be “inducted” into the Cheese & Burger Society as winners of these handsome shirts. Photo courtesy of the Cheese & Burger Society.

What could be better than a hamburger? A cheeseburger, of course! In this week’s Gourmet Giveaway, The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board’s Cheese & Burger Society is giving away a T-shirt that lets you proudly proclaim your love of cheeseburgers as a member of the Cheese & Burger Society (you don’t have to do anything to be a member except EAT THOSE CHEESEBURGERS).

Take a look at some of the Society’s fabulous cheeseburger recipes to get some great ideas for serving an American classic in a more sizzling way. Read the bullet below to find out how to enter to win this week’s prize. There will be 10 winners; the T-shirts come in two sizes: men’s large and women’s large.

Dark chocolate lovers rejoice with new
Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups.
Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize sponsor is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which never fail to deliver what they promise: creamy peanut butter encased in rich milk chocolate. It’s hard to fathom how the classic treat could be improved, but it’s definitely been upgraded for those who consider themselves die-hard dark chocolate lovers.

Hershey’s recently re-introduced Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups for those who prefer dark chocolate, and can’t get enough of that smooth peanut butter taste. (The dark peanut butter cups were first introduced in 2003 as a limited-edition item.)

The prizes: Three winners will each receive four two-packs of Reese’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups along with two bags of the dark chocolate miniatures. If you’re concerned about too much candy, you can give the two-packs away and allot yourself two miniatures a day.

Do you have an original, easy-to-make recipe that makes a great family meal? Then enter it in French’s first-ever Live National Cook-Off and you could win the $25,000 grand prize.

Encourage friends and family to vote for your recipe: In addition to the grand prize of $25,000, weekly prizes will be awarded based on the number of popular votes a recipe receives.

Recipes must include at least one French’s product. You can get inspiration from the recipes on the website. Submit your recipe by October 31, 2009 at www.frenchsfoods.com.

QUICK BURGER TIP: Make your burgers taste better. To 1 pound lean ground beef or turkey, mix:

Garlic & Lemon Herb Marinated Chicken is
made with French’s Spicy Brown Mustard or
Honey Dijon Mustard. The recipe is on the
website.

We’ve all grown up with Smucker’s in the pantry as a quick and easy way to get our PB&J fix. Now the company is offering an opportunity for one reader to replenish his or her supply. Smucker’s is giving away one gift basket of products to one lucky NIBBLE reader, along with an invitation for all readers to enter its second-annual “Spreading Smucker’s Traditions” contest. There, one grand prize winner will win a five day, four night family trip for eight to Walt Disney World Resort. Visit THE NIBBLE’S Jams, Jellies, Preserves & Peanut Butter Section for your chance to win the gift basket and log on to Smuckers.com to learn how to win the trip to Walt Disney World.

One winner will receive a gift basket bursting with Smucker’s products. There’s something for every meal, including snacks and dessert! Have pancakes with syrup for breakfast, a PB&J sandwich for lunch, muffins for a snack, relish with meats for dinner and chocolate sauce on your ice cream for dessert. It’s fun to spend the day with Smucker’s! Enjoy the basket when the goodies are gone.

There’s something for every meal in this Smucker’s Gift Basket. Photo by Erika Meller | THE NIBBLE.

Image is everything—even in the schoolyard. Would you carry a 20th-century lunchbox if you could rock one of these 21st-century lunchboxes by OOTS? Not only do they look now, they’re perfectly functional, fitted with containers that keep everything in place. Even the lid of the box is shaped to keep a bottle in place, under an elastic strap.

You can enter to win an OOTS lunchbox for your kid—or keep it for yourself—by entering Applegate Farms’ Rock The Box contest. All you have to do is share your school food memories. New winners are selected each week.

All materials used are food safe and kid-friendly. The lunchbox is made from BPA-free and phthalate-free polypropylene and safety tested for lead. Both the lunch box and the containers are dishwasher safe; the containers can be microwaved.


Is that Carrie Bradshaw’s latest handbag or a
lunchbox that’s too cool for school? Photo courtesy of OOTS.

You’ve got two weeks of chances left: The contest ends September 25, 2009. Head over to ApplegateFarms.com to submit your entry. Visit MadeByOots.com to buy a lunch box.

Applegate Farms is one of our favorite producers of natural and organic meats: cold cuts, hot dogs, bacon, sausage and frozen foods like burger patties and pot pies. There are no nitrates and the hot dogs, to name just one product, have such great flavor, they’re in a totally different category from regular supermarket hot dogs. Give them a try!