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!

Most of us should be getting more fiber in our diets, which are too full of over-processed foods. To the rescue is this week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize sponsor, Gnu Foods. The company makes moist, chewy bars bars that not only provide nutrition and great taste, but deliver lots of important fiber. In fact, these bars—which are also kosher-certified—pack so much fiber (nearly half of an adult’s Daily Value) that they count as a functional food.

Three winners will each receive four 5-packs of Flavor & Fiber bars. Flavors include Banana Walnut, Cinnamon Raisin, Espresso Chip and Lemon Ginger.

They’re great for breakfast with a cup of tea or coffee; or toss them in your pocket for a great grab-and-go snack anytime. You’ll be glad to get to know Gnu.

Something gnu and tasty with lots of fiber.
Photo of Cinnamon Raisin (top) and Banana Walnut bars by B.A. Van Sise | THE NIBBLE.

Love caramels? Enter to win some of the best!

This week’s gourmet prize sponsor is Amella Cocoa Butter Caramels. Available in three mouth-watering flavors, the gourmet caramels are all made with butter, cream and real fruits and vegetables. (Yes, vegetables: They made a delicious Carrot Cake caramel in addition to their equally delightful Black Forest and Passion Fruit caramels.) The addition of cocoa butter adds the silkiness to chocolate for these candies, which are all hand-cut and individually hand-dipped so no two are exactly identical.

In addition to an indulgent treat for you, indulge your guests by serving these with after-dinner coffee. They also make wonderful gifts and stocking stuffers for foodies.

Black Forest Caramels: Chocolate, cherries,
creamy topping and shaved black chocolate—
just like Black Forest cake. Photography by
Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

Love yogurt, but not the tart tanginess of traditional yogurt? Then check out this week’s Gourmet Giveaway for your chance to win Chobani Greek Yogurt, the thickest and most sour cream-like line of Greek-style yogurt we’ve found to date. It’s a very rich and ultra-creamy way to get your probiotics and protein.

Chobani Greek Yogurt is fat-free, all-natural and low in sugar; the line is made with hormone-free milk, contains probiotic cultures and has two times the amount of protein as traditional American yogurts. But, more importantly, it’s also absolutely delicious!

One winner will receive 32 containers of Chobani Greek Yogurt. You could feed a family of four one container a day for more than a week or keep them all for yourself for a month! Flavors include nonfat vanilla, honey, strawberry, blueberry, peach, plain, pomegranate and one low-fat flavor, pineapple. Eat it plain—it needs no embellishment—or toss granola on top for some fiber and crunch.

The lucky winner gets 32 cartons of delicious, probiotic Chobani yogurt. Photo by Saidi
Granados | THE NIBBLE.

Lovers of heat and sweet: This week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize comes from Diane’s Sweet Heat—and the winner will be able to have quite a jam session. A NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, these jams have a wonderful texture, thanks to the crisp bell peppers chopped into them; fresh fruit flavor, from ripe California fruit; and habanero heat that is just right without being searing (you feel the heat, but it doesn’t take out your taste buds). The six flavors include Blackberry, Blueberry, Mango, Peach, Raspberry and Strawberry. The experience is fruity, hot and exciting!

The winner will get six jars—one of each flavor or in whatever assortment he or she would like. The jams can be enjoyed on toast, crackers (with or without cream cheese), hors d’oeuvres, pancakes, sandwiches, as a condiment with meats—even on ice cream!

Yes, we know these are jalapeño chiles, not
habaneros, but the stores were out of habaneros the day of the photo shoot! Photo by Corey
Lugg | THE NIBBLE.

A NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, Scarpetta sauce flavors provide quick, easy and healthy gourmet meal solutions for pasta, chicken, tofu and anything you like to serve with a good tomato or pesto sauce. Like all of the small-batch, artisan products from Sauces ’n Love, these sauces are gluten free and vegetarian, and made from authentic Italian recipes you are sure to love. Buon appetito to the winner!

These sauces require no refrigeration until the jar is opened.

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway prize is an assorted brownie gift box from, B.T. Baking. Three winners will each receive a gift box with two of each of their brownies:

A NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, these top-quality brownies are truly moist and fudgy. Check out our review of B.T. Baking brownies

Enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway and you
could win a gourmet brownie gift box.

This week’s Gourmet Giveaway is great for two particular groups:

PRIZE #1: Parents, people on the go or people who deal with groups. You’ll want to enter to win GoPicnic meals. These attractive and convenient boxed meals are made of individual fun snacks such as tortilla chips and salsa, hummus and pita chips, tuna and crackers, edamame (soy bean snacks), almonds and a sweet treat (such as dried apricots, Mrs. Mays Nut Crunch or a Larabar)—all totally portable. More than 20 choices including gluten free, vegetarian, kosher and halal. Great for travel, keeping a healthy food stash at work, meetings and general grab & go.

PRIZES #2, 3 & 4: Calorie counters. You’ll want to enter to win one of 3 gift baskets from Tree Top Trim. Each 60-calorie, 8-ounce can contains one whole fruit serving plus nutrients that naturally help curb the appetite and promote a healthy metabolism. Flavors of this functional beverage include Kiwi Strawberry, Mango Peach, Pomegranate Blackberry and Tangerine Pineapple. Find out more about Tree Top Trim.

Three winners will receive gift baskets of
Tree Top Trim: low calorie energy in three fruit flavors. Photo by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE.

As the saying goes, you’ve got to be in it to win it.