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A Christmas dinner does not have to be elaborate to be meaningful. With the right decor, some candlelight and your loved ones, even the most frugal meal is appreciated.

This year, Walmart is making it a little easier to achieve that frugal holiday dinner.  Ingredients for a Christmas feast for eight for under $30 include:

· One 10-pound select hickory smoked, spiral cut half ham
· Three 8-ounce cans Del Monte green beans
· One 10-pound bag of Russet potatoes
· One 12-count package of Sara Lee dinner rolls
· One 10-inch pumpkin pie

Check out Walmart’s new Holiday Meal page featuring tips from Food Network stars Aaron Sanchez and Melissa D’Arabian for recipes on a budget.

Win It!

I have a $30 Walmart Gift Card for (2) lucky readers.

For a chance to win:

1. Leave a comment below sharing your favorite Holiday Dish (initial entry).  If you are reading via email or in a reader, please click through to the post to enter. Emails do not count as entries.

For Bonus Entries (leave a separate comment for each):

2. If you are a subscriber or follower (thank you!), leave a comment. You may subscribe for free updates via RSS or email and leave a comment telling me you have done so.

3. For a third entry, share this giveaway on Facebook or Twitter.

This contest will close on Wednesday, December 16th at 11pm CST. The winners will be selected by random.org and contacted via email.

Good luck, and thank you for entering!

Walmart provided me with a $30 Walmart gift card for myself as well as giveaway gift cards for my participation in this promotion.

Comments

  2. Ivonne S. says

    It is hard to pick a dish but my mom’s lasagna and Lomo Saltado (Peruvian) are the ones I light up about. Basically anything my mom cooks!

  5. says

    My favorite holiday dish is the traditional ham that has been eaten for as long as I can remember! I continue to use the method that my mother does; a mixture of mustard and brown sugar to glaze with pineapple placed on top!
    I look forwards to that ham every Christmas! The gravy from the juices is out of this world; sweet and smoky at the same time….yum!
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  13. says

    I always look forward to the many casseroles. Most of them make too much to serve to a family of 4 (unless you want leftovers for a month!). My aunt makes a rice and broccoli casserole and of course there is the potato casserole. Yum. I am ready to eat (just not too much, it would defeat my success at weight loss).
    .-= Angela´s last blog ..Day 3 Winner =-.

  21. says

    My favorite recipe that we usually only have during the holidays is a fruit salad of sorts that may Grandmother dreamed up when I was just a little girl some 40 odd years ago. It’s made with apples, bananas, marshmallows, and raisins all mixed up with mayonnaise and a spoon full of sugar. Some people think it sounds gross but it really is very good.
    .-= Linda Stewart´s last blog ..I’m Thankful For =-.

  25. Jenn says

    My favorite holiday dish isn’t really a dish, but candy. My mother makes homemade Christmas chocolates. My favorites are the peanut butter cups. Yum!

  26. Melanie Sand says

    My favorite holiday meal was my grandmother’s chili every Christmas Eve. I sure miss her!

  28. Gigi says

    My favorite holiday dish is pecan and carmel sauce topped pumpkin pie with a generous dallop of whipped cream on top sprinkled lightley with nutmeg. Yummeee!

  32. says

    My favorite is the spiral ham. We have some on Christmas eve on biscuits and then the real thing for dinner on Chrsitmas Day . It’s the best.

  34. Carol W. says

    My favorite holiday dish would be a cranberry walnut pie that is so simple to make but delicious!

  40. Linze! says

    My favorite holiday dish would be traditional ham with dressing, black eyed peas, spinach salad, and chunky chocolate and cranberry oatmeal cookies for dessert. Makes me hungry just typing this..LOL!

    Happy Holidays!

  43. Lisa says

    My favorite is my grandmother’s lemon pie, my sister now makes it but follows her recipe. The best!

  44. Kathy Albright says

    My favorite holiday dish is spiral-sliced ham – at my mom’s on Christmas Eve, we have ham sandwiches with all the fixins’, chips and baked beans. And my mom always makes Danish wedding cookies and sausage balls.

  56. denise says

    My favorite food on Christmas morning….is the big family breakfast I cook….scrambled eggs, little sausages, potatoes, donutes, etc.

    dy

  59. Kim Reimann says

    My favorite Christmas dish is one my grandmothers (both of them!) used to make called Cinnamon Apples. Take a pot of water, dump in a bag of cinnamon red hots and turn on medium. Take some apples, peel them, core them and quarter them and place in the water. Cook until red, but not too mushy! Store the apples in the juice. Best served chilled the next day. Yummmy!!

  60. says

    Hmmm…favorite Christmas dish…it’s hard to pick just one. Growing up, we always had another turkey dinner similar to Thanksgiving. But my in-laws make a ham dinner on Christmas. I’ve grown to love ham and cheesy potatoes on Christmas, and I’m even making it this year when I’m hosting Christmas with my parents.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
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  61. Lydia says

    Love this giveaway! My favorite holiday dish is lasagna that I make on Christmas eve. It takes 2 days to make so my family only gets lasagna once a year. It’s a tradition that has been passed down for 4 generations.

  65. Eva says

    Wow, I love this giveaway!

    I have a large family and they will ask me every year to make two dishes of my sweet potatoe casserole. I love sweet potatoes!

  70. Lacey C says

    I love food in general 🙂 but my favorite holiday treat is coconut-custard pie. We save it for special occasions!

  76. Manuela says

    My favorite holiday dish are Rouladen. I am from Germany and our family would have them every Christmas.

  79. SarahD says

    My favorite holiday dish is something we call “rolly polly”. Its actually a mixture of roast beef, scallions, and cream cheese rolled in a tortillia shell and sliced. Mmmm, delicious.

  83. Jess Y says

    There are so many. I like prime rib for dinner and coffee cake for an easy breakfast on Christmas morning.

  86. Sarah G says

    My favorite holiday dish is a toss up between pumpkin cheesecake and the sweet potato casserole – I love both of them, and I usually only have the time to make them for Christmas! 🙂

  99. Vicki Hornsby says

    My favorite Holiday dish is Creamed Peas with New Potatoes. I always make enough so my “single” niece and nephew can take a container home with them. I always serve this at Thanksgiving and Christmas. YUM

  107. Carolyn says

    Actually this is the first year I want to cook Christmas dinner. Usually we go to Grandpa’s house for pizza Christmas evening, and Christmas Eve it’s tradition to have KFC! My favorite dish is actually the cutout cookies we make. I always wait until 3-4 days before Christmas to make them because they’ll be gone before Christmas if I do it any earlier! Thanks for yet another great giveaway!

  112. Julie North says

    My favorite holiday dish is the homemade yeast rolls my grandma taught me how to make! I think it’s beacause of my memories I have of making them with her and they are delicious too! Julie North – julieannnorth@msn.com

  118. tosha says

    My favorite is holiday dish my mom’s The Next Best Thing To Robert Redford. It’s a dessert that I can’t get enough of . Now that my mom has been gone for 8 Christmases I make it myself. It always reminds me of when I was little I would help her make it.

  119. Tracy says

    My favorite dish is sweet potato casserole, the only time we have it is durings the holidays and it is so good!

  127. says

    the one dish I have to make every holiday is a pineapple dressing. I got the recipe years ago. Its everyones favorite and I usually have to make 2 pans.
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  130. says

    My favorite Christmas dish, is Broccoli Red Grape Salad. It is fun to serve for Christmas dinner because it is green and red, and a great way to get kids who otherwise wouldn’t care for broccoli, to try it with the tangy and slightly sweet taste of the grapes.

  132. Carla says

    My favorite holiday treat is Banana Pudding. It started out as a tradition with my mother making it only at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now that I’ve grown up and have a family of my own, I too only make it for the holidays.

  137. Tamara B. says

    Our favorite is the famous green bean casserole jazzed up with some extra sharp cheddar cheese.
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  140. Mary B says

    My favorite dish is my Mom’s cornbread dressing… Every year, I smell that smell and know it’s the holidays! Yum!

  141. Christina says

    I am not sure if this counts, but my favorite food I get to have at Christmas is my mom’s red velvet cake. It’s absolutely AMAZING, and I am pregnant and craving it this year, so I am looking forward to it. 🙂
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  144. Amber says

    I am a follower and My favorite Holiday dish is homemade mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes.
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  148. Ysenia Ramirez says

    I can’t wait all year long for the Tamales that my mom makes every Holiday Season. Love them.

  157. Alexis says

    My favorite is traditional sweet potato casserole. A little boring, I know, but you just can’t beat it.

  159. jennifer says

    hi, thanks for the giveaway!
    my favorite holiday dish might have to be sweet potato casserole…didn’t get enough at thanksgiving 🙂

  161. Ellen says

    First, thanks for a chance to win such a great prize especially at this time of the year! Next, my favorite holiday dish is a scalloped carrot recipe I discovered years and years ago. Unfortunatley, I’m the only one who likes it!

  166. Gerrie S says

    My favorite holiday dish includes ALL the pies…pumpkin, pecan, nut, and chocolate!! I can’t cook any of them but they are delicious!!

  178. Bethany Goff says

    We don’t have a traditional Christmas dinner – I just let my family each pick out one thing they would like to have, so we have things like meat sticks, Easy Cheese and crackers, Hot Pockets, etc.! So I guess my favorite dish is whatever strikes my fancy this year! 😉 Of course, I like Christmas cookies, and — Oh, how could I forget? I LOVE homemade chocolate covered cherries. Yum!

  184. Kathy Rambousek says

    My favorite holiday food is my mom’s famous Christmas tree cookies. 🙂 Just wouldn’t be Christmas without them.

  188. Misty Anderson says

    I subscribe via email, and I have this blog open as one of my homepage tabs!!!

    Love this blog! !!

  189. Linda B says

    My favorite holiday dish is my mom’s homemade chocolate pies. She only makes them for the holiday get togethers and the whole family can’t wait for dessert.

  204. Christina H says

    I am a big fan of most holiday food but my favorite holiday dish is fresh sweet potatoes cooked in butter and brown sugar.

  215. says

    My mom make casseroles every Thanksgiving and Christmas and those are my favorites…especially squash. Mmmm…
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  222. Amanda says

    My favorite Holiday Dish is very simple 🙂 Open up a can of gelled cranberry sauce and I’m a happy camper.
    .-= Amanda´s last blog ..Picture People deal! =-.

  227. says

    I have so many different holiday favorites!! I love my dad’s fried turkey, my grandmother’s sweet potato casserole, and of course the desserts! We never have a short supply of sweets at our family’s holiday gatherings!
    .-= Mandy Roberson´s last blog ..Frugal Fridays – My Christmas Deals!! =-.

  232. Michelle says

    My favorite dish is the dessert of course! Pumpkin pie and peanut butter fudge are my favorites. Thanks for the giveaway!

  234. Kathy says

    My family loved the apple pies my mother made. Apple pie is part of every family holiday dessert. Mom isn’t here to make them anymore, but we keep the apple pies as part of our holiday tradition. No one can make them as well as she did.

  247. CS says

    I am a subscriber too!
    Merry Christmas to you & your family!!!
    Enjoy celebrating the birth of our Savior!

  251. Elyse Hahne says

    I LOVE 3 bean salad that we make around the holidays 🙂
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  252. Elyse Hahne says

    I recieve both RSS and email posts 🙂
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  253. Elyse Hahne says

    I just realized my last two comments had my “old” email on it. The gmail one is the correct one! I am RTing now on Twitter!
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  254. melissa says

    our family always makes an amazing chocolate cheese cake, that’s my favorite, and dads snicker doodles!

  256. Mary Beth says

    My favorite holiday dish is the lamb with mint sauce. 🙂 mmmm.. only 12 more days until Christmas dinner.

  262. Barbara M says

    Our favorite holiday dish is my famous bread pudding.
    It’s also so special because I only make it at the holidays.

  267. cwaltz says

    We haven’t had a traditional Christmas dinner since the years when I got sick and it was just too much to do Thanksgiving and then Christmas back to back with all the trimmings. So we simplified and I started making lasagna for Christmas dinner(and the world didn’t stop). We do traditionally do cookies during the season. I don’t know if that counts. Nothing is nicer than turning on the carols and filling your house with the smell of cookies. Dinnerwise I guess garlic bread would have to be a “traditional” favorite with our dinner. This year since I feel a bit better we may try to make some new traditions and I am resolved to be able to make a dinner roll from scratch with my daughter. Thanks for the giveaway.

    Christine
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    Christine
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  268. Melissa says

    Hi Alyssa! I just wanted to say how much I agree with your money saving philosophy…I also feel as though I want to be a good steward of my resources. :). I hope you and your readers like the recipes on walmart’s site. How fun that you are having the walmart gift card giveaway! (I’m not commenting to get entered into the giveway of course so pull my name out…just wanted to drop you a note to say hello!)

    Have a great week!

    warmly,
    Melissa d’Arabian

  269. Leanne says

    My mom makes this dessert called rice whip that we only get at Christmas and Thanksgiving. It is so simple, only 3 ingredients…cooked white rice, crushed pineapple, and real whipped cream…but we look forward to it every year!
    Thanks for the chance!!

  275. Shar says

    Every year at Christmas, we make skillet cookies. Very easy, sugar, eggs, dates, pecans, rice crispies and butter. Make in the skillet then roll with butter. So yummy! They barely cool before they’re all eaten!

  282. Kaylan Phillips says

    What a fun contest!!

    My favorite holiday dish is creamed corn. My mom adds some excellent spices to the dish to give it an extra kick. It is definitely not healthy, but it’s great.

  284. SUNNY NORWOOD says

    My favorite holiday treat is my family’s twist of Rice Krispie treats. We substitute Fruity Pebbles, but we only do this during CHRISTmas which keeps them a special treat:)

  289. Laura says

    I don’t know if this counts as a “dish” but my Dad makes THE BEST english toffee in the world at Christmas!!

  293. Abby Davis says

    I love watergate salad. That’s the one dish my grandmother made every year just for me. I have a very LARGE family, and I’m the only one who would eat it! So when she made this dish it was always special to me. This will be the first Christmas without her so I’m going to carry on the tradition with my son and husband.

  296. Crystal says

    Every year, my grandma and I make dozens of tamales. To me, it signals that the holidays are really here!

  308. says

    I have a lot of favorite dishes…love the ham, broccoli casserole, snickerdoodles…just things we don’t normally eat.
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  310. mandi avery says

    My favorite holiday dish is pineapple delight. It’s crushed pineapple, drained mixed with whip cream…delicious!

  315. Heather Corley says

    Thank you for all you do. My family could really used this this year. Thanks to Him and your tips we have been able to keep our kitchen stocked through these tough times.

  317. says

    We have a new favorite this year – pear cake – I got a great deal on really ripe pears at the grocery store, and went searching online for a recipe to use them in. The pear cake was a HUGE SUCCESS! The 5 year old, almost 2 year old and the husband all love it!!
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  323. says

    Hi there!
    Thank you so much for doing this giveaway, two lucky people will be blessed by your generosity!
    I love cranberry sauce, I know that sounds pretty petty but I love it! I know it is simple enough to buy a can of it (yes, it has to be canned) any time of the year but I always save it to have during the holidays!
    Sara (marriedrosesatyahoodotcom)
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  352. Cindy says

    I love melting white chocolate and stirring in dried cranberries and pistachios! yummy and very Christmasy with the red berries and green pistachios!

  353. Mandy says

    My favorite holiday dish is my mom’s Jello cake. She baked two round white cakes, pokes holes in them, then pours cherry jello over one and lime jello over the other Sit both in the fridge for 4 hours, then layer with lots of cool whip. Sooooooo good!

  355. angie jurs says

    My favorite dish would be sweet potatoes. I love to make them from scratch, mash them up and put toasted pecans on the top and top with lots of marshmallows. put them in the oven and let the marshmallows become gooey. yummy.

  356. Wendy Cameron says

    My gramma makes a lime pear jello that I just love! I could eat the whole entire dish by myself!!

  358. Amie says

    My favorite holiday dish is probably Dixie Salad (“Utah Dixie”). Utah pomegranates (sweeter, with smaller seeds), chopped red apples, chopped pecans, raisins, and Cool Whip. Yum.

  368. Mary M says

    My favorite holliday dish is dressing with cranberry sauce. My mother made the best dressing I have ever tasted. Mine is good, but not as good as my Mama’s.

  369. Jody says

    My favorite part of the Christmas meal is the ham. Once in awhile we have Prime Rib, but as good as that is, I like the ham best.

  371. Jody says

    I shared this on facebook. I didn’t see it on the facebook wall, though, so I just posted the link.

  388. Becky says

    I love mashed potatoes! Regular with gravy, or the kind with sour cream and no gravy, or garlic smashed!!!!

  397. Elizabeth says

    My absolute favourite holiday dish is the mashed potatoes I make for my family. I boil them sans-skin (for my son) and whip them ’til they’re smooth and creamy. I bake them for 10 mins with cheese on top and boom, enough cheesy taters to make an 11 year old giddy.

  398. Amanda says

    My favorite holiday dish is either the turkey or ham because it’s usually the only time of year I eat either. I love all the desserts too!
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  403. Claudia F. says

    My family loves this sweet salad
    2 cans crushed pineapple
    3 packs of instant Pistacio pudding
    2 containers cool whip
    1/2 bag mini marshmallows.
    Mix everything together and chill. Easy and pretty.

    Claudia
    scfranson@chibardun.net

  407. Krista says

    YAY! pick me, pick me! I am a current subscriber, plus a fan on FB, plus I have your button on my website! I love ham for the holdiays–my fav! This gift card would help us tremendously this holiday. God’s blessing to you. (Luke 2:11)

  424. Rhonda says

    I have to pick just one thing! Oh my. I’d have to say my mom’s potato dish. No fancy name….just mama’s tators.

  425. Pam T. says

    We have brunch on Christmas morning. I always am requested to make my scrambled egg casserole. It has cheese, broccoli and ham. Yum..

  427. Connie R. says

    Oh my there are so many favorites……..I guess it would be the sweet potato casserole. It is something we only have during holiday time.

  431. Courtney says

    My mom always made an egg & sasauge casserole Christmas morning that I now make for my family. I love it!

  434. Diana Rose says

    My favorite dish at Christmas is butternut squash with a little brown sugar and a little bit of butter. I could have just that on my plate and be happy :).

  440. jennifer says

    Just one favorite holiday dish?! hehe.. I would say that my grandpa’s cornbread dressing is the best! Yum!

  445. Laura says

    My favorite item is prune cake made by my Aunt Willie. She takes the lowly prune from earth to heaven with this delicious, moist cake cut into little squares.

  449. Shannon says

    My favorite dish is probably green bean casserole, but there are so many yummy ones to choose from.

  451. tara theiss says

    The holidays are a great time to spend quality time with your loved ones. Every year, our family had a tradition of all of us pitching in and helping out with Thanksgiving, and Christmas dinner. My favorite dish is my dad Raisin covered ham. Sounds funny, but its gives the ham such a sweet flavor, and its easy to make, just add raisins! Happy Holidays Everyone!

    • tara theiss says

      I really hope i win, because i want to use that gift card to help my dad with Christmas dinner this year, because he recently lost his job, and times are really rough for us right now. It would be a great blessing if i won, because that would really help our family out a lot. Thanks for the opportunity, and ill keep my fingers crossed.

  453. Stefanie says

    my dad’s peach cobbler, it’s his one specialty and he is the only one that can make it just right. 🙂

  457. Rose Denton says

    My favorite Holiday dish is a shirmp pasta my sister fixes. We have seafood in the south for hoiiday meals.

  476. Megan Harris says

    I loved my grandmothers Mac and Cheese. She made it with colby and evaporated milk. I can’t remember what else was in it and she has since passed away, so I can’t ask her.

  478. Katy says

    My favorite part of holiday meals (which for some reason I only seem to make around the holidays) is the deviled eggs! Oh, and the Christmas cookies of course!

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