Check out this new contest hosted by Smucker's:

From September 14 to November 23, 2011, Smucker’s invites you to visit www.smuckers.com <http://www.smuckers.com/> and share your favorite recipe made with Smucker’s jams, jellies, preserves, or fruit butters, plus a short essay about how your dish makes family celebrations special.

In March 2012, five contest finalists will be selected and flown to New York City for a live recipe demonstration and judging. The lucky winner will receive $20,000 towards planning and creating the family reunion of his or her dreams. 

We're excited to partner with Christy Jordan of SouthernPlate.com in our NEW Quick-Fix Suppers how-to video series that will help you spend less time in the kitchen, and more time around the table with your family!

Here's a little of what you can expect:
• Daily time-saving tips every week 
• Meal ideas with Christy Jordan anytime! 
• Hundreds of recipes, ideas, and tips for family suppers
• Quick fixes for chicken, beef, pasta and more!

All of these ideas will be quick, simple, budget friendly, and really tasty!

To celebrate, we're giving away 10 copies of our book Quick Fixes with Mixes: Fast Favorites Using Bagged, Boxed, and Bottled Ingredients--5 here, and 5 on SouthernPlate.com.

How to Enter: Describe for us here in 50 words or less your favorite Quick Fix Supper Tip or Trick. Entries should be typed into the comments field of this blog post. Entries are due by Saturday, May 7 at 12:00 p.m. EST.

Head over to SouthernPlate.com for another chance to win!

Editors will select their favorite based on originality, creativity, and how well you address our question. Winner will be notified via email by Monday, May 9. For full contest rules, click here. 

More Giveaways: Be sure to follow Eating My Words and Live Healthy blogs, "like" us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter to learn about future giveaways. 

We're giving away 25 copies of our new book,  1,001 Ways To Cook Southern! Our most comprehensive cookbook ever published, its 928 pages are packed with all the distinctlyv Southern recipes, tips, and menus you love. Learn how to bake flawless fluffy biscuits and the perfect praline, straight from our test kitchen, plus so much more.

Congratulations to Cheryl Holmes from Memphis, TN (home of some of our favorite BBQ), winner of last week's Big Book of BBQ giveaway. 

Winning Comment: Labor day is the coming together of my remaining family, my mom, sister, brother, their kids and mine. Reminiscing of relatives who have passed on and cooking the recipes passed down and thanking God for all our blessings.

We enjoyed reading about all of your Labor Day celebration traditions. Thanks for sharing!

Get the Cookbook: Southern Living's Big Book of BBQ is available for purchase online and in retail stores.

More Barbecue Recipes: We also have tons of tasty recipes online.

More Giveaways: Be sure to follow Eating My Words and Live Healthy blogs, "like" us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter to learn about future giveaways. 

We're giving away a Sportcraft Tailgating Party Pack! It features 4 of their best tailgating games: Bean Bag Toss Tic-Tac-Toe, Six Hole Platinum Bean Bag Toss, Washer Toss, and Foldable Wooden Ladderball.

We know that food and fun are the most important parts of a good tailgate, so please share with us your favorite tailgating recipe for a chance to win this party pack and to add some fun to your tailgate.

 We're giving away a copy of our Big Book of BBQ, just in time for Labor Day! Its pages are filled with more than 200 recipes for barbecue beef, pork, poultry, fish and so much more. There are tons of tasty sides and desserts, too, plus tips from pros and recipes for secret rubs and sauces.

Not only do we like the book's recipe collection, but we also love the diagrams of barbecue by region and tackling of subjects such as “pulled, chopped, or sliced?”

Congratulations to Nancy Reynolds (UrMomCooks), winner of last week's Farmers Market Cookbook giveaway.

Winning Entry: The best summer recipes are those for which no formal recipe is needed... Take free-form butter pastry dough and spread with fresh basil pesto. Add farmstand veggies of your choice with a little cheese, salt, pepper. Fold edges of pastry into loose pleats. Bake until sizzling... Rustic Veggie Tart.

After we selected the winner, we came across a delicious looking Rustic Tomato Tart post on the food blog UrMomCooks writes with her two daughters, Like Mother Like Daughters.

Also, be sure to check out all the cookbook giveaway entries. There are so many great recipes y'all shared; thanks.

You can order your own copy of the Southern Living Farmers Market Cookbook online or find it in retail stores.

Like free stuff? Read our Live Healthy Blog starting Tuesday for this week's giveaway.

 We're giving away a copy of our Farmers Market Cookbook! Its pages are filled with recipes, arranged by season, for Lime Raspberry Bites, Fresh Corn Cakes, Skillet Grits with Seasoned Vegetables, Black-eyed Pea Cakes, Sweet Potato Galette, and more.

Not only do we like the book's fresh and tasty recipes, but we also love all the tips on the best markets and how to buy and store fruits, vegetables, and herbs.