{"id":4639,"date":"2010-11-15T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2010-11-21T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T13:18:56","slug":"loblaws-holiday-giveaway-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/loblaws-holiday-giveaway-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Loblaws Holiday Giveaway 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">Y<\/span>ou know what I love about the holidays? Traditions.  And what are traditions but simple repetition?<\/p>\n<p>With that inelegant introduction, I give you the President&#8217;s Choice Holiday Giveaway 2010.  We did this last year, too.  <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/loblaws-holiday-giveaway\/\">Remember <\/a>the advent calendar of individually-wrapped PC products?  And the nearly 200 people who made it one of the most commented-upon posts of the year?  That was fun, let&#8217;s do it again!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our friends and Loblaws and Hill and Knowlton, I am happy to share with you the opportunity to win a gift basket filled to bursting with $100 worth of holiday goodness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5180314412\/\" title=\"Holiday basket by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5180314412_92f246ce10.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"385\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Holiday basket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that look like fun?  Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll find inside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>\t<em><\/p>\n<li>    MUST TRY! PC The World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Jumbo Cashews<\/li>\n<li>    MUST TRY! PC 100% Ground Coffee \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hawaiian<\/li>\n<li>    MUST TRY! PC Dark Chocolate with Cranberry and Almonds<\/li>\n<li>    MUST TRY! PC Gourmet Belgian Chocolate Collection<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC Premium Fruit and Nut Collection<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC  Artichoke &#038; Asiago Cheese Yogurt Dressing<\/li>\n<li>\n    NEW! PC Thick Cut Pizza Flavour Rippled Potato Chips<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC 100% Sparkling Fruit Juice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kiwi Berry<\/li>\n<li>\n    NEW! PC White Chocolate Covered Sponge Toffee<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC Butter Tart Square<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC Cinnamon Buns Mix<\/li>\n<li>    NEW! PC Cracker Collection<\/li>\n<li>\n    NEW! PC  Chocolate Fruit Fancies<\/li>\n<li>    PC Baking Square Mix \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Belgian Chocolate<\/li>\n<li>    A $10 PC gift card to help stock your holiday survival kit with the MUST TRY! PC Puff Pastry Hors D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Oeuvre Collection or the NEW! PC Angus Sliders Mini Angus Beef Burgers<\/li>\n<li>    A copy of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice Holiday Insider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Report to help entertain smarter, not harder this holiday season<\/li>\n<p><\/em>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And lookit how they packaged it all up in a reuseable PC Green Bin tote for you.  Awesome, eh?  <\/p>\n<p>The contest is open from now through noon EST on Friday 19 November 2010. There are three ways you can earn a ballot to enter this giveaway:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Leave a comment below and share an idea for a favourite family meal.  We all need some inspiration this time of year when it comes to meal planning, and sometimes all we need is a new idea.  Your comment can be as simple as a suggested menu plan (and by menu I mean everything from &#8220;peanut butter sandwiches, apple slices and milk all around&#8221; to &#8220;baby greens with aged chevre, followed by braised chicken with scallions and a balsamic reduction&#8221;) or, if you&#8217;re really keen, share an entire recipe for a tried and true family favourite. <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>For another chance to win, write about the giveaway on your blog, linking to this post, and come back and leave me a comment with the URL to let me know about it.  In fact, share your meal planning or recipe idea on your blog too and alleviate the meal-time planning burden of even MORE people! \ud83d\ude09 <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>For another chance to win, tweet the giveaway on Twitter using hashtag #PCHoliday and linking to this blog post, and leave me a comment with a link to your status update. (You can create a direct link to your Twitter update by clicking on the time of the update and saving that link.)  You can use this tinyurl: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2g6egnx <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Edited to add: <\/strong> Sorry, I should have specified. Maximum number of entries is one per channel &#8212; one for commenting, one for blogging, one for tweeting.  Multiple tweets are greatly appreciated, but will still only get you one entry into the giveaway!  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>The fine print<\/strong>: this contest is open to Canadian residents only. One winner will be chosen by using the random number generator at random.org, selected from all eligible entries. The winner will be  selected the afternoon or evening of November 20, 2010. You must be willing to share your mailing address with me, and I will share it with Hill and Knowlton Canada, who will ship the prize directly to the winner.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentschoice.ca\/LCLOnline\/home.jsp\">President&#8217;s Choice<\/a> products at Loblaws, Independent, Extra Foods, No Frills, Superstore, Fortinos, ValuMart, Zehrs, Maxi, Provigo, SaveEasy and Dominion &#8212; here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentschoice.ca\/LCLOnline\/store_locator_landing_page.jsp\">online store locator<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Loblaws and Hill and Knowlton for another fun giveaway.  I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing your comments!<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEdited to add: <\/strong> Congratulations to Leanne of <a href=\"http:\/\/momcast.blogspot.com\/\">Momcast<\/a>, winner of the 2010 PC Holiday giveaway!  Yay!  I&#8217;ll send you an e-mail to get your contact deets.  Thanks to everyone for your excellent comments and meal ideas.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I love about the holidays? Traditions. And what are traditions but simple repetition? With that inelegant introduction, I give you the President&#8217;s Choice Holiday Giveaway 2010. We did this last year, too. Remember the advent calendar of individually-wrapped PC products? And the nearly 200 people who made it one of the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/loblaws-holiday-giveaway-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loblaws Holiday Giveaway 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}