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December 1, 2012
The Great Rancho Vignola Giveaway!
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This past week has been pretty nuts at my house. And I mean that literally. On Friday, I received a delivery 475 pounds of nuts and dried fruit, which some friends and I spent the evening sorting out and sharing amongst ourselves.
It sounds pretty nutty (read: mentally unhinged), doesn’t it? Well, once you have tasted a “new crop” nut delivered from Rancho Vignola, you will understand that the only intelligent thing to do is to order a direct shipment to your house so that you never have to eat another flavourless or rancid supermarket nut, ever.
I now have squirreled away enough freshly-harvested and delicious almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, etc etc, to last our family the whole year. And, believe me, even after a year of storage, these nuts are still way fresher than most of what you can buy in the store. I have been using Rancho Vignola nuts and dried fruit exclusively for the last 6 years and I have loved every minute of it!
So, being such a huge fan and supporter of Rancho Vignola (and for more than just the freshness of their nuts), I am thrilled to announce my first blog giveaway! Rancho Vignola is offering a basket of mixed dried fruits and nuts valued at $150 to one of my blog readers!!!
To qualify for delivery, you must have a Canadian shipping address. Enter the draw in one of three ways:
(1) comment on this post
(2) post to my facebook fanpage
(3) tweet with the hashtag #chefheidisnuttygiveaway to @chefheidifink
Giveaway ends by midnight, Saturday, December 7th, and a winner will be announced Sunday, December 8th. That’s one week, folks!
(Non-winners will be very happy to note that this giveaway is running simultaneously with Rancho’s December online Harvest Event. No minimum order required! So, if this has piqued your interest, you can order some to try.)
In the meantime, keep checking the blog this coming month for recipes and ideas for some the amazing products I get every year from RV. It may be the baby pecan butter cookies, or the sour cherry chocolate pound cake, or the hazelnut flour torte, or….
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Congratulations on your first giveaway!! A great one, at that 🙂 Just recently we’ve been trying to incorporate healthier meals and snacks into our day to day life, and this would be a fantastic prize for anyone who wins!! 🙂 Thank you!
My daughter started ordering her nuts and fruit through Rancho Vignola about 8yrs ago for herself and many of her friends and teaching colleages. She would always give us some as Christmas gifts. We of course became hooked quickly and started placing orders through her each year too. We of course always got some special goodies from her at Christmas still. This year her young husband was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and is having a stem cell transplant in January. Their life has became very consumed with this event and because they were to be away from their home for up to the next 6 month receiving treatment at VGH she did not have the energy or vision to see where doing her nut order fit in with her life this year. I felt that it had become so much a part of the good thing in our lives that I have belatedly picked up the torch and am placing a Late Harvest Order for her and some friends so we can all enjoy the healthy goodness of these great products. My son-in-law’s special christmas treat pick has always been my homemade peppermint patties with the amazing organic dark chocolate coating. We might be celebrating Christmas on a hospital ward but we will be at home in our hearts with our rancho Vignola goodies.
I love nuts and dried and I’m a vegan so I eat them daily! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
I love snacking on cashews and peanuts, but for baking you can’t beat walnuts and almonds. Yum, yum, yum.
Wow, yummy, fingers crossed.
Looks delicious!
This supplier sounds awesome – can’t wait to try any/all of the products.
Great healthy gift, who could ask for more?