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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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Hi Heidi:
This morning as i was enjoying my breakfast of home made granola, on plain yoghurt topped with our own triple crown, olllala and local blackberries, I was reminded of the lovely buffet breakfasts we have experienced at Harrison Hot Springs resort, which included local fresh and delicious local hazlenuts in abundant quantities. So nice to find a great Canadian source online for good nuts….We intend to try them out. Thanks for sharing this….love your blog and your cooking classes. I’m not afraid to try Indian cooking now.
Hi Heidi
I bought some dried fruit from Rancho Vignola for the first time this year and are just delighted.
Keep on thinking that I should have bought more to introduce to my family and friends over the Christmas season. Please, please pick me!!!
Ann
I ordered online at the Dec offering and understood you had to buy $300 for free shipping.
This is on their site: Orders over $300 are shipped free of charge to locations on our regular shipping routes across central Canada.
I also talked to the customer service rep when she phoned to say my order was ready to be sent and asked the question about shipping and she said you had to order $300 for free shipping.
So why is it that I had to order $300 so as not to pay for shipping, yet your blog states that shipping is free?
I love the Rancho Vignola products and would be soooo happy to win your prize.
Thanks!!!
Hi Autum – my mistake! I had read right on their site that there was no ordering minimum for the December event!
I didn’t realize that there was difference between how much (or little) they would be willing to ship, and how much a customer would have to order for free shipping. I assumed it was one and the same, as it is at all other times of the year.
I will make that correction now.
Rancho Vignola nuts and seeds are so fresh. I stocked our freezer FULL last year and the year before. Alas, we have squirreled our way through everything. The chocolate covered almonds were amazing and so were the organic pine nuts from Italy, which they no longer carry. I really wish that they would bring those back, as I am not feeding my family stuff grown in China.
I have a 4 year old who likes nuts and dried fruit so much she would be totally delighted if her Christmas stocking was filled with nuts and fruit!
Thank you for the opportunity to try some of these fabulous local products!
What an awesome giveaway. Love all nuts and dried fruit. Couldn’t get a
better combination.
I’ve heard great things about these nuts, I’d love for me and my family to try them! Good luck everyone! 🙂
Hi Heidi what an exciting contest. I just love fruit and nuts this is something exciting at any time of the year cheers Wendy
NUUUUUUTS!!!! I would love them.
Hi there! I have tasted some of the wonderful nuts from Rancho Vignola–had the most wonderful Pear, Brie & Walnut salad; then had the walnuts again chopped onto bruschetta pieces—the best walnuts I have ever tasted! Please let me be the winner, and thanks for the chance!
I love Rancho Vignola’s products. Keep my fingers crossed to win this fabulous prize!