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Linda

My favorite holiday tradition is going to cut down the Christmas tree!!

Elizabeth

My favorite tradition is going to Church on Christmas Eve with my entire family.

jenny

I love making s’mores by the fireplace on Christmas 🙂

brit

church on christmas eve followed by driving around the city looking at xmas lights and then coming home to homemade chili and chicken noodle soup warming on the stove!

roya

Simply visiting family is my favorite! Christmas is the only time I get to see the extended fam and we certainly have a lot of fun!

Emily B

My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas morning brunch. My absolute favorite meal of the year – and for once, it’s not about the food…it’s about family and the most wonderful time of the year.

Maggie

Making the secret family recipe Christmas cookies and decorating them! And then eating them, of course 😉

skinnyrunner

having an easy soup and homemade bread dinner on christmas eve and everyone all excited for the next morning!

Maggie

Making the secret family recipe Christmas cookies and decorating them! And then eating them, of course 😉

sam

my favorite holiday tradition is seeing a movie with my family on xmas night after everyone is tired from a day full of family, gifts and food!

Emma

I love decorating the Christmas tree with the whole family while listening to Christmas music and drinking hot cocoa. It’s the best!

Ameena

Sorry if this posts twice – I love making cookies with my 4-year-old…makes the whole house smell amazing and warm!

jenna

making a gingerbread house with my family.

Ali

Our family always gets together at my Grandparents house on Christmas Eve- the whole family! We have appetizers galore and then do a sweet little gift exchange- giving the little one’s actual presents and the adults- gag gifts 🙂
My grandpa makes a fire and we all hang out. Every. Single. Time. I smell a wood fire, I think of their house 🙂

Bethany

My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas breakfast at my grandparents house!

Cara

Oooh I love Amy’s! My favorite tradition is opening ONE present on Christmas Eve, always pajamas!

Jo

My favorite tradition is putting a toy train around our tree when we decorate. It reminds me of my Dad who had one as a kid!

Laila

Putting the tree up the day after Thanksgiving…

Erin R.

Our family tradition is every Christmas Eve our entire family watches National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. No matter how many times I’ve seen that movie, it is still hysterical.

Tracy

I love to watch the Grinch Who Stole Christmas!

Megan

Baking for days; pies, cookies, lots of different breads…..that is what I most look forward to at the holidays! Oh, and going to mass on Christmas eve (probably should have put that one first……..)

JessicaE

Without a doubt one of my favorite holiday traditions is the tree! My husband lets me pick out whatever tree i want, then proceeds to happily do the hard work of trimming it, setting it up, and watering it. Then I get to decorate it. No matter what mood I am, just seeing and SMELLING out tree lifts my spirits.

Thanks so much for the great giveaway. I LOVE Amy’s but some of the products are tough for me to budget in.. so i hope I win 🙂

Jacqueline

Christmas Eve party with my family. We do a fun gift exchange too!

AshinMT

My boyfriend and I have started the tradition of going out and getting a Christmas tree (I had a fake one growing up)- this year we didnt have a lot of time to go so we SPOTLIGHTED it at night. It was quite the adventure.

Nora

Baking Christmas cookies! (which I’m doing tonight!)

Beth

I love decorating the Christmas tree. We put on Christmas music, start a fire and spend the day decorating.

LadyLara

I just had the tomato basil the other day and it’s my new favorite! Too bad it’s $4 at my grocery store!

My favorite holiday tradition is that my mom puts out a “gum drop tree” every year. Basically it’s a plastic tree with points for putting gum drops on it. =)

amber

Playing liars dice and Chinese checkers on Christmas Eve, while my Gma cooks my family a traditional Czech dinner =)

carolyn

my mom gives me an angel every year and my brother a nutcracker so i always love setting them up and opening up the new addition. it’s a great tradition that i hope to pass down some day.

Danielle

I love Christmas brunch. 🙂

Michelle

We cut our Christmas tree down this year – a first! This may become a tradition. It was fun to hunt for the perfect tree. Also, love to bake cookies!

Natalie

My favorite tradition is eating dinner with the family on Christmas Eve and then hopping in the car to go look at Christmas Lights!

Rebecca

My favorite Christmas tradition is making and eating cheese fondue with my family on Christmas Eve. It’s delicious! Once we eat, we open one (and only one!) present each.

Michele

Favorite Tradition: going to Clifton Mill in Clifton, OH for the HUGE and SPECTACULAR light display.

Jill

I love making chocolate peppermint bark, yum!, and sending packages of it off to friends.

stacey

Since high school, my group of good friends gets together every year for a holiday potluck, usually around Thanksgiving. It’s a tradition that’s continued (even not that we’ve all graduate college) and only gets better every year.

Debbie

I love Amy’s soups -curried lentil is my favorite. One of my favorite holiday traditions is watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation every year since it came out. I used to watch it with my dad and continued the tradition in my adulthood. I love the movie so much that when my husband gave me a cat for Christmas I named him Sparky after Chevy Chase’s character in the movie. It helps that Sparky is a tabby but the poor cat gets mistaken for a dog whenever I am talking about him!

Maggie

My family watches the old cartoon of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas every Christmas Eve. I love that movie!

rebecca lustig

LOVEEE Amy’s soup <3

My favorite holiday tradition definitely has to be driving through a plethora of neighborhoods at night to look at all the holiday lights… you should try it, so fun 🙂

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Laura

My favorite holiday tradition is baking lots and lots of cookies.

Lanie

my favorite tradition is going to cut a christmas tree with my family!

Beth

Baking our family’s recipe of peppernuts with my mom – it’s an old Danish cookie recipe that my great-grandfather brought over from Denmark and we don’t celebrate Christmas without them!

GRAMMIE2MADDIE

Definitely – Christmas Eve service – and then Christmas brunch from scratch – with my family.

Megan

mmmmmmm, I love me some Amy’s soup!

My favorite holiday tradition spending it with my family…Christmas eve dinner thenwatching THE BISHOPS WIFE (with the ever so handsome Cary Grant) and then going to Midnight mass….and falling asleep with the anticipation of the next morning ( and yes, I am 28 years old! ha)

Courtney

Watching my little niece and nephew put out cookies for santa and carrots for the reindeer, then watching my brother-in-law eat them after they go to bed!

Jackie @ TritoLose

My favorite holiday tradition is going to see a play with my family. We usually see “A Christmas Carol”, but there have been a few years where we’ve mixed it up a bit. 🙂

Kelsey

Favorite Tradition: We have a pickle shaped ornament that we hang on our Christmas tree. One person hides the pickle ornament, while the rest search for it. The first to find it is the winner of a small gift! As adult-themed as this sounds, playing “Hide the Pickle” with my family always signals the start of the holiday season!

Erin

My favorite tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve.

Ellie

Mmm love Amy’s! Baking with my Mom and trimming the tree 🙂

Melissa

My favorite holiday tradition is lighting the menorah, drinking wine and having dinner with my family 🙂 Now that my brother and I are older, we only exchange a few gifts on the one night we can all get together. It’s tradition for me to recieve a menorah from my parents each year (I have about 20 gorgeous ones in my collection!). I can’t wait for this year!

And I LOVE Amy’s soups!!!

lora

my favorite holiday tradition are my grandmas Monster Cookies she makes for christmas 🙂

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Jessica

On Christmas Eve after church my brothers and I all exchange “pollyanna” presents we got for each other. It usually involves a lot of laughter and a lot of surprisingly thoughtful gifts.

Niki

Yum! Love Any’s soup!! My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve. My family goes to our church’s Christmas Eve service and then we go out to dinner for my birthday (my birthday is on Christmas Day!) We have been doing it for as long as I can remember! And then we come home, start a fire, and turn on the best Christmas movie, The Santa Clause!

ShutupandRun

My favorite tradition is playing Santa for the kids. Leaving cookies out, pretend calls from Santa, all the gifts, even some reindeer poop on the roof.

Rachel

Favorite holiday tradition is Waffles with my moms family! It’s a new(er) tradition, based mostly on my boyfriends picky eating habits, but, it’s a really good one! 🙂

Sarah C

my favorite holiday tradition is getting home from a midnight church service on Christmas Eve and each opening one gift that is under the tree. It gets me excited for Christmas morning, and I love to watch the faces of my family members as they open their gifts! 🙂

Teri

ah! I was salivating over their soups last night at The Fresh Market but couldn’t justify the expense since our food budget is SHOT for the month (yes, it’s only the 8th – crap!). Anyway, I’ve been wanting to try them for a long time but still haven’t.

My favorite tradition is German Pancakes with my family on Christmas morning. Yum!

Lindsey

My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve dinner. It always involves homemade meatballs, Christmas music, and family. I can’t wait:)

KellyB

My mom is an amazing cook and she always makes a huge meal for Christmas.

Beth G

Since our family travels for Thanksgiving- and usually are all across the country, we have our “Thanksgiving” dinner on Christmas eve. Another day of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie? Yes, please!

Shannon

On Christmas Eve, we load the kids (now teenagers) into the car with some hot cocoa and we drive around residential areas looking at all the Christmas lights, then we come home and watch ELF.

Kristie Lynn

My family really hasn’t had any set traditions, but I do love that my hometown’s downtown gets all lit up and decorated – I visit every time I am home!

Katherine

My favorite tradition is the Christmas Eve candlelight service with my family and our cousins- we take up a whole pew. Then we eat dinner afterward, complete with Christmas crackers (the paper kind that pop and have a little charm inside) and everyone gets to open one present 🙂

Danielle

I love going visiting on Christmas Eve with my family in our neighbourhood 🙂

BethP

One favorite holiday tradition is my dad’s homemade eggnog!

MyThy

My fave xmas tradition is cooking in the kitchen with my mom. We go “untraditional” by making a mixed Vietnamese/American potluck meal ranging from beef & eggroll vermicelli to chicken wings and fudge brownies! The past few years I love playing “White Elephant” with the future in-laws and their friends. Everyone has their way of playing White Elephant but we do a combo old + new gifts.

Georgia

I love making ginger cookies during the holidays – they are made with powdered, crystalized and fresh ginger!

Kristin (Kristin's Nibbles)

I love love love christmas eve. Its all my fave holiday traditions in one day. Baking cookies while drinking eggnog + watching christmas movies, wrapping presents and going out to dinner with my whole fam. Such an amazing time!!

Jo

YUM I love Amy’s! My favorite holiday tradition is making lasagna with my family for us to eat on Christmas Eve. We get to sample all of the “fixings”, so delish!

Jessica

Every Christmas my dad’s side of the family gets together to celebrate the Sunday before Christmas. There is a big potluck, sing-a-long, and Santa comes. There is usually over 100 people there. The tradition has been in the family for around 40 years!

ari

my favorite holiday tradition isn’t anything special: i just love being together with my whole family and sharing a fabulous meal and good laughs.

Caitlin in MD

My favorite holiday tradition is eating Christmas cookies late on Christmas Eve and opening stockings with my family!

Nadia

My mom always makes a traditional middle eastern brunch the day after Christmas, which includes parathas (fried quesadillas with spices and some sort of filling, usually potatoes) and the most amazing cholay (chickpeas) ever and I look forward to it all year. Def. my most favorite holiday tradition.

Erica

Making homemade pizzas on Christmas Eve with my family. We do it every year!

Holly

My favorite holiday tradition is going to midnight mass (although now it is at 10 pm!) on Christmas Eve with my mom! I’m not super religious or spiritual any more, but the mass is beautifully done. And afterward we always drive around looking at a few neighborhoods with spectacular lights.
Ahh is it Christmas yet?!

Marcie

Baking cookies with my mom and grandma!

Katie

I love Amy products – the frozen stuff is great if you are in a rush!

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Sarah Jayne

My favorite holiday tradition is getting our tree and picking out a new ornament for the year 🙂

Sam

mmm yum!

my favorite holiday tradition is the post feast stroll – all bundled up, with belts loosened a bit from stuffed tummies and carefully walking around heaps of snow.

Jessie

My favorite holiday tradition is that each member of my family opens one stocking gift at midnight Christmas Eve after the candlelight church service. I wont get to do it this year because we are spending Christmas with my husbands family.

Kelly

Baking and icing SEVERAL batches of sugar cookies. I do it every year!

Josie

My favorite tradition is singing to Christmas songs while decorating Christmas tree.

Katherine

I love baking cookies…and eating them 🙂

Liz

I teach middle school French and I always make several
BUCHE de NOEL’s for my classes. They are so yummy…last year I ending up making them for friends and family as well!

Katie Marie

Eating shrimp with my entire extended family on Christmas Eve!!! Not sure how this started, but it’s so much fun!

Abby

On Christmas morning, the whole family sits at the top of the steps while my dad goes down to the living room to see what mess Santa (or even Rudolph in some years) has left! Sometimes he even finds him sleeping on the couch. It only took a few years for us to realize he was actually eating the cookies. But we’re grown and married now, so the spouses sit with us, too! And we all enjoy the time with family!

Meghan

I really love Christmas Eve Mass. It’s at my hometown church and I see all the kids I grew up with and the music is always fantastic. We have to arrive over an hour early to stake out seats and there’s a trumpeter that plays carols beforehand while we wait.

Also, do you ever worry about hot things in plastic containers (i.e. oatmeal)? I heard heat causes toxins in the plastic to release but that could be false…?

Taysa

My favorite holiday tradition is watching Scrooged with my family. It’s hilarious! It’s the one holiday movie that everyone enjoys.

Rose

Favorite holiday tradition: opening gifts on Christmas eve. Now it’s even better thanks to some little nieces!

NJMOM

My favorite Hanukkah tradition was making Latka’s with my mom. Now that she has passed – I do it with my kids.

Tasha - The Clean Eating Mama

Our Holiday tradition is going to the Nutcracker – me and my husband. We cannot wait until Baby J gets a little older so he can join and enjoy it with us!

Renee

My favorite tradition is our chili supper by candlelight before we go to Christmas Eve service. It is so beautiful to just have the tree and candles glowing. The food is always wonderful, and having all my family there with me is the best. Thanks for asking this question. Now I’m really excited for Christmas!

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baking cookies with mom 🙂

Lauryn

My favorite tradition is playing intense board games after dinner, before dessert, on Christmas. It’s always boys versus girls and we get reeeeeally into it! There may or may not even be a champion cup for the winning team…!

Kelley

Even though my sisters and I are all in our 20s, we still get giddy when we get our stockings Christmas Morning and take a picture holding them in front of the tree!

Sara

My hubby and I are HUGE christmas fanatics. We have 3 trees, and are planning on getting more (i have a dream of putting a tree in every room). We usually cannot make it until after Thanksgiving to decorate. We turn on the christmas tunes, put up the trees, the lights on the porch, and start baking. He loves to make homemade turtles and i’m a peppermint bark fan. My hubby is not a huge cook or baker, but its the one time of year where he joins me in the kitchen. And he gets so excited decorating the house with me! I love it! I just know when we have kids one day it will be a weekend event for us and I can’t wait!

And I’ve been looking for Amy’s soups in my grocery store. I haven’t found them yet but I will keep looking if I do or don’t win! They sound fabulous!

Melinda

Baking holiday cookies with Grandma and Mom!! 🙂

Whitney

I love going to church with my family for the Christmas Eve service and then going to my ganny’s for family dinner!

Rachel

My favorite Chirstmas tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve and opening presents with the whole family.

Kelly

Going to church on xmas eve and singing around all of my family, and then enjoying good food when we get home 🙂

Betsy

On Christmas morning when my family opens presents my mom will ring a bell every time a new present it being opened. This way, we only open one present at a time and the bell ensures that everyone is watching and “ooh-ing” and “ahh-ing”. She actually uses the very same bell that her father rang when the did this tradition during her childhood. I love this tradition because it makes each and every present special and it elongates the present opening process. It also leaves time for hugs to family members who have given that particular present! I will definitely be passing down this tradition to my children one day!

Jessica

Baking gingerbread houses with my mom and then having all the kids decorate them on Christmas Eve.

Kathleen

My favorite holiday tradition is reading all of the creative gift tags on packages under my parent’s tree – To: Mrs. Butterworth – with love – Mr. Doughboy, etc. My family doesn’t use our real names, hah!

Krista@CommitmentisLiberating

I live for Amy’s soups – especially in the winter! My favorite holiday tradition is making and eating Lefse (a norwegian treat) with my Mom.

M

Driving back to NY to visit ALL of my family! 🙂

Kara

a big breakfast on Christmas morning — french toast, cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs. delicious.

Jasmine (Sweet and Fit)

my favorite holiday tradition is gathering around the tree with my extended family x-mas eve and finding out who our secret santa is =)

Tracy

going to mass on christmas eve with my family!

Krystle Walker

My favorite holiday tradition is my husband waking me up super early (he NEVER gets up before me) and running down stairs to open gifts. He typically goes right back to bed after that but it is nice to have him awake before the sunrise.

Bethie

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating my family’s church for Christmas. So much fun!

gretchen

mmm…fave tradition is the smell of mom’s blueberry muffins on christmas morning!

Britt - Runnerbelle

My favorite holiday tradition is my father-in-law reading us the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve. He reads to us from a copy of a book he got when he was little. Its falling apart a bit and the fuzzy pages are getting a little worn… but it is fun, even though we are all now in our 30’s. I started dating my hubby in high school, I’ve been around for awhile so this has been a tradition for about half my life!

Carolyn

Making ornaments and decorating the tree!!

MaryZ

Favorite tradition is baking and decorating cookies to give to friends and neighbors.

jen

eating a variety of my mom’s christmas cookies, drinking mimosas with the family, and listening the rushmore soundtrack while opening stocking stuffers on xmas morning. heavenly.

Jory

Finally someone asks a giveaway question that I know the answer to (despite the fact that it’s a subjective question:P). I have two favorite holidays- New Year’s Day because I love the feeling of new beginnings, I’m one of those people who obsessively makes resolutions and St. Patrick’s Day because I love the color green.

Kelly

My favorite holiday tradition is going to see the festival of lights at Oglebay park with my family. The driving tour is spectacular, and it’s a good way to spend time with them during this hectic time of year!

Heather

I love getting a tree and decorating it with loved one(s). And the smell of the REAL tree is a definate plus!

Hanna

I like to go snow-shoeing on my lake with my family on Christmas morning, followed by oatmeal with almond butter of course, and gift opening!! Best HOLIDAY ever!!!

Jory

Ok double-commenting, sorry about this! I didn’t read the whole question- favorite holiday traditions. Well you didn’t specify which holiday so I think my answer about New Year’s still works.

Jess

I love waking up xmas morning and opening gifts with the family!

jds

trimming the christmas tree… we just did it last night! complete with eggnog and pumpkin pie, of course!

Jenn

The crackling voice of Nat King Cole, on vinyl, please – and Christmas morning coffee.

Dorothy

I love baking cookies and giving them away…..that’s what I’ll be doing tonight and tomorrow while I’m snowed in!

Sarah

Awesome, love those soups!
My fave Christmas tradition is just being with my family. I live about 6 hours away and it seems as much as I try to create Christmas where I’m at, it doesn’t truly feel like the holiday until I have stepped foot inside my parent’s home.
I can’t wait to see them this year!

CATIEDIDIT

Each year, my family goes christmas tree “hunting.” We go to a different chop your own tree each year on really huge farms, so we’ve always called it “hunting.”

Ironlady

Our favorite holiday tradition – Karaoke! We don’t have the best voices but it’s so much fun and we love doing it every year! Especially after a glass of egg nog or 2. 😉

Brea

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree while listening to Christmas music. I also like to drink Egg Nog which I haven’t done as of yet, but it’s coming!!

Mindy

my favorite holiday pastime is definitely.. going up to Tahoe with my snowboard and some friends for a few days before Christmas, and then going home to family for the rest of winter break <3

Valerie (College Girl Eats)

My favorite tradition is having the most amazing beef tenderloin (with mashed potatoes and roasted cherry tomatoes!) for Christmas Eve dinner! It’s the only time all year I indulge in beef tenderloin, so it’s really something I look forward to. And of course, my favorite tradition must revolve around food….

Katie

All of the Christmas movies! Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, Elf, Year Without a Santa Claus, Jack Frost, Santa Claus is coming to town. I LOVE Christmas!

Karissa

I am the worst baker in the world, but I make really good Christmas cookies every year!

Madeleine @ Notes On A Page

I love making all the special food and desserts we save only for this time of year!

Anne

My favorite tradition is having fondue on Christmas Eve with my whole family. It’s a tradition that requires all of us to share, participate, and give thanks for the time we have together.

Courtney

My favorite holiday tradition is Turkey and Andouille Sausage on Christmas eve with my family! YUMMMM!!!!

Susan

I love that we open presents on Christmas Morning after having a breakfast of smoked salmon and champagne!

jen

we make pizza on christmas eve!

Amy

My family continues to gather on the living room couch by the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve to read Twas the Night Before Christmas. My family is very involved in the music ministry at our church, so we don’t get to relax and unwind until very late – after the 11pm service. Even though my siblings and I are all grown-up – ages 24-30 – we still squeeze the whole family – 6 adults – onto the couch and read Christmas stories!! Most fun ever.

Katie

My fave holiday tradition is watching 24 hours of “A Christmas Story” on TBS and the HUGE Italian feast my dad makes every Christmas. So insanely delicious.

Joy

First of all yes that happens to me too (Actually this morning was one of those days)

And my FAVORITE tradition is – getting up Christmas morning dressing in our bestest clothes and going down to the local Alzheimer clinic and handing out presents!

chipped nails and all

my fave holiday tradition is wrapping presents at home on my mom’s floor the 2 days before x-mas.

Becky

My favorite tradition is putting on our new Christmas pj’s and opening presents. My favorite are the stockings though!

Lauren (Biochemista)

YUM! I love that brand of soups! Do you ever mix them? I like to mix the tomato/veggie ones with the black bean and add some spices 🙂

Erica

Making Christmas cookies with my family to deliver to the neighbors!

Kristen

Smooching under the mistletoe. Ha!

Sarah

Homemade pizza on Christmas Eve!

jenny

i love baking cookies and sending them to my friends as christmas presents

Jennifer R

My favorite tradition is going to church with my family on Christmas Eve. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway — we LOVE Amy’s soups!!

Chrissy

Midnight Mass with my Family on Christmas Eve!

Stacie

Our favorite holiday tradition is watching Christmas Vacation! It’s so funny and it makes us feel very competent with our holiday festivities and decorations, lol 🙂

Lindsay Perrone (goodiesgalore)

All these giveaways are really helping with my procrastination techniques. My fav. tradition just started (almost) three years ago.. the bf and I get a special ornament for each other so everyime we decorate the tree, they take up back to a special time.
Thanks for the goodies!

amanda @ fake ginger

My son gets new Christmas PJs on Christmas Eve and now we have baby boy #2 so even more fun!

Katie

Definitely watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special!

danielle

My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying all the wacky Christmas ornaments my family has amassed over the years – mainly the crazy things my sister and I made when we were little! Some are hideous, some are falling apart, but we love them!

Rachel S

My favorite tradition is baking Christmas cookies! Yum!

Natalie

christmas caroling!!!

Brittney

My favorite tradition is baking delicious Christmas cookies 🙂

Mary

My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my family and decorating them! 🙂

Amy T.

I think my favorite would have to be how we give the kids their new jammies the night before and the next morning trek over to my parents in our jammies and wait for my grandparents to come over. The feeling of anticipation….waiting for the family…smells of brunch….ah I can’t wait. 🙂

Jessica

My favorite christmas tradition is opening one present from my parents on christmas eve- my sister and I always get matching pajamas.

Jaclyn

i love making sugar cookies on christmas eve with my little sister.

lauren

my favorite holiday tradition is making short bread cookies! i like making them more than i like eating them ; )

Freja

My favorite holiday tradition is running the local Jingle Bells 5k run with my friends and family! Costumes are encouraged… last year I was an elf, this year I’m gonna be a candy cane.

Jen

My favorite holiday tradition is the “mini” holiday day I have with my husband and son before we hit the road to see our families (which I also love but the “calm before the storm” is just the best!)

Allison

Hey Jenna! My favorite holiday tradition is a unusual one– it’s a German (my family has German roots). Ever since I was little, my parents would hide an ornament that looks like a pickle (yes, a pickle) on the tree and my three siblings and I would race each other to find it. Whomever found it received a small chocolate bar. I think the pickle represents luck for the new year. I always thought it was just my family, but I guess many people do it too (you can look it up online).

Thanks so much for your blog– as a college student, health nut, and fellow southerner, I find it so inspirational!

Jessica

My favorite holiday tradition is going to see all the light shows in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve Day. It’s crowded with people shopping, but it really gets us in the Christmas spirit!

megan

I love listening to the Beatles all day on Christmas day as we open up presents and eat meals. It’s something everyone in my family enjoys.

JR

My favorite holiday tradition is waking up early to an awesome breakfast on Christmas morning, surrounded by my entire family!

Susan

OMG I lurveeee Amy’s soups!
As for my fave holiday tradition, it’s gotta be my uncle’s chocolate roll. I only get it once a year, and it basically makes Christmas day for me!

Mary

My favorite is christmas tree 😀

Chelsea (Chelsea's Chew and Run Fun)

My favorite holiday tradition is throwing bread rolls at the dinner table with my nutty, loosey-goosey family. We bust out mini-food fights like kids in a cafeteria and it’s great. A good laugh is always involved and it feels so warm and wonderful.

Kerry

my favorite tradition is putting up the tree. I love coming home each night, plugging it in and looking at my work.

Jessica

My favorite holiday tradition is making candy with my mom and sister…and our family’s ugly sweater contest!

Lauren

Fav. tradition: reading about Jesus’ birth before opening gifts on Christmas morning!

Danielle

My favorite holiday tradition is setting up all the decorations with the fam 🙂

Becca

eating my grandpa’s famous seafood gumbo, going to midnight mass, and then coming home to his amazing homemade pizza! we italians sure know how to eat 🙂

Allison

My family (mom, dad, sister, grandma, and I) always exchange gifts late night on Christmas Eve. We start when the Christmas Eve guests leave my parents’ house around 11, and usually don’t end up going to bed until 1 or 2 am. We’re a little sleepy on Christmas Day, but its a tradition we’ve had since I was little and couldn’t fall asleep from all the excitement!

Laura T.

I love drinking egg nog by the fireplance while watching Love Actually with my girls! 🙂

nichole

Watching “The Year Without a Santa Claus” cause it always reminds me of my dad who would sing the songs in it.

Kristen

Decorating Christmas cookies and watching Christmas shows… I am also starting a new one this year for my little (she’s 1) by reading The Night Before Christmas every year on Christmas Eve. It’s neat to be able to start new traditions for someone else!

panda

Those soups look TASTY!

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating cookies at my grandmother’s house! I have been doing that for as long as I can remember, and it’s always tons of fun. As a kid I would make a huge mess of frosting and sprinkles… Now I just make a mess for fun 😀

Kristin

Watching White Christmas and wrapping presents while a batch of cookies bake in the oven. Pure heaven!

Stef

we celebrate on christmas eve… so first we have a lovely dinner, then sit around the christmas tree singing christmas songs with my mom playing the flute, and then we roll dice to figure out the line-up for opening presents 😉

Lauren

yum! i love amy’s soups they are my favorite!

Laura

Christmas Eve with my traditional Italian family = feast of seven fishes. I look forward to it every year!

maren

fave holiday tradition is probably baking with the family! would love to try the amy’s soups!

Donna

My favorite holiday tradition is hanging up the christmas tree with my family with some good ole Michael Bubble!
With the fireplace going and stockings and pepermint tea! 🙂

Sarah

I love getting together with my entire extended family on Christmas Eve and then going to midnight candlelight mass with my mom. So pretty and festive!

Christie @ Honoring Health

between you and Kath, I totally know what I am having for breakfast tomorrow.

hhhmmm…before I had to go gluten free, probably the christmas morning cinnamon rolls.

Liz

My favorite holiday tradition is the christmas morning ‘ritual’. You wake up, open stockings, have a big breakfast, then pass out all the gifts. We go around in a circle and everyone opens a gift. I’ll be in South Africa this xmas, so i wouldn’t mind if that was a new tradition!!

Coco

Every Christmas Eve, my mom’s side of the family gets together for a wild night of gift-exchanging, food, wine, and fun!

jenna

I really love searching out the best gifts for everyone on my list. The hard part is waiting to Christmas to give them their gift 🙂

serena

kissing my husband on Christmas morning

AL

wrapping presents creatively: magazine cutouts, cereal boxes, found objects. So fun to make and so fun to watch them opened!

Kimberly

My favorite tradition is to watch Love Actually with my husband.

missmolly

My favorite holiday tradition is going to church Christmas Eve with my family and then coming home and eating a delicious meal and opening presents!!

Sara

my favorite holiday tradition is opening up new PJ’s christmas eve! 🙂

Allison (Eat Clean Live Green)

Decorating the Christmas tree!

Evan Thomas

Picking out the tree!

Brenda

My favorite tradition is attending Christmas Eve service and then driving around to look at the beautiful lights! (And guess what? I’m trying amy’s LF Veggie black bean soup for the first time as I type this – it’s really good!).

Julia

My favorite Holiday tradition is just spending time together as a family on Christmas day. Now that I live almost 2,000 miles away from my fiance and my family, that is by far the most important part of holidays for me!

Gabrielle

One of my favorite holiday traditions is getting together with my family on Christmas Eve!

Gabrielle

I love to sip hot chocolate stirred with a peppermint candy cane and watch holiday movies!

Laura Chartrand

Going to Christmas Day brunch at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO with my very good friends.

Clare

Since I play the Irish Harp, I always perform during midnight Mass. My brothers always hate having to go, but it’s really peaceful to celebrate at night and leaves the morning free for brunch and presents!

Sarah @ See Sarah Eat

My favorite holiday tradition is driving around and looking at Christmas lights on houses near where I live 🙂 Thanks, I love Amy’s!

Sarah @ See Sarah Eat

My favorite holiday tradition is driving around and looking at Christmas lights on houses near where I live 🙂 Thanks, I love Amy’s!

Anne P

Driving around to look at Christmas lights 🙂

Danielle J

I love sitting around the fire playing board games with the fam. Oh and baking cookies with my sister aint too bad either 😉

Heather

My fav holiday tradition is putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the house with my mom and siblings the day after Thanksgiving while listening to Christmas music!!

Amanda

My favorite tradition is watch Christmas Story with my sis and dad when we get home from Thanksgiving dinner. He knows all the words and loves to do imitations!

Paige

My favorite holiday tradition is riding around on Christmas Eve looking at Christmas lights and listening to holiday music.

Tay

Gingerbread house making!!!

Suzanne de Cornelia

I have many favorites for the holidays…but the one I’ll never let go of is on the afternoon of Christmas Eve to visit one of the nine California Mission’s and light a ton of candles for my son’s father/my first boyfriend at age 15 who I married at 17. He died young and his b-day is Christmas Eve. I think of him everyday and especially on his birthday. The church is beautiful, quiet and decorated for Midnight Mass…and looks beautiful with lots of candles lit just for him.

Michelle

My fave holiday tradition is taking the kids out late at night to see all the holiday lights, and magically Santa comes to visit then.

Jessicaguz

My fiancé and I set up the tree with great tubes in the background. After it’s all set up we get dressed up an take our Christmas photos with each other. Christmas morning I always make coffee cake for breakfast. Coffee cake is a holiday tradition from my family that I bring to the family that is just the two of us.

SarahD

Putting up the Christmas tree!!

saramariesue

Putting up the Christmas tree and baking yummy holiday treats. 🙂

Natalie (The Sweets Life)

my favorite holiday tradition is probably family-wide board games on Christmas evening 🙂

Blissful Bellas

going out for our roommate dinner gift exchange 😀 its not about the gifts but the time to relax and enjoy the holidays while at the same time getting excited to give our gifts to each other and see the (hopefully) happy reactions 😀

Anna

My favorite holiday tradition is attending the local symphony’s Holiday Pops concert and the sing-a-long they always have at the end. This year I was a participant instead of an attendee and had twice as much fun!

Oh, and I love Amy’s Soups!

Laura E

Thanks for the opportunity! My favorite tradition is exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve with my family, and then going to midnight mass!

Anna

My favorite holiday tradition is attending the local symphony’s Holiday Pops concert and the sing-a-long they have at the end. Thisyear I was a participant instead of an attendee and had twice as much fun!

Oh, and I love Amy’s Soups!

Karla

My fav holiday tradition is watching my nieces and nephews tear into their stockings on Christmas morning. So fun to watch.

Martha

Because I will always be a kid at heart, every Christmas Eve I force my family to watch “A Muppet Christmas Carol” with me while drinking hot cocoa. It’s just such a nice break from all of the running around that we do over the holidays!

Thanks for the giveaway, Jenna!

Ella

My favorite holiday tradition is when my grandfather reads the story of Jesus’s birth from the Gospels. All my cousins and aunts and uncles would gather around him to listen, and my grandma would always mouth the words alongside him. He passed away this year so we don’t get to carry on this tradition, but it will always be in my heart.

Celiz

I am in my late 20’s but still love Christmas morning! I just love sitting in my pjs with my family until noon!

Hallie

My favorite tradition is a new one for me…every year on Christmas morning my boyfriend’s mom comes over and we have eggs and sticky buns. And we do presents and hang out, watching movies etc. It’s lovely!

Megan

definitely baking lots of christmas cookies with my family!

Molly @thevegandorm

definitely decorating the tree!
i love amy’s soup!

Pearl

My favorite tradition is working on a jigsaw puzzle with my family around the holidays. It’s the only time that enough people are together that we can get one done!

Laura

My favorite holiday tradition is The Nutcracker ballet… I performed in The Nutcracker from about seventh grade through college and always get nostalgic when I hear the music.

Elizabeth

My favorite holiday tradition is my family’s christmas party. 😀

Liz

Putting out all of my Xmas decorations: a giant Santa, lights, Xmas plates and cheese spreaders. They just make me happy to look at them.

Katie

baking christmas cookies with my mom an putting up the tree! 🙂

Abbie

My favorite tradition is setting up the nativity with my family while we read the story from the Bible about baby Jesus.

Meghan

My favorite holiday tradition is that no matter how crazy things get around the holiday, my family always makes the effort to all get along, if only for Christmas day which we spend eating amazing home cooked food and opening presents.

Stephanie

My favorite tradition is making sugar cookies with my sister. I can’t wait to bake with her this year 🙂

Marie

Waking up early and running to firelplace to see if Santa ate all the cookies and dranks all the milk we left for him.. also seeing what goodies he left for us in our stockings! We’ve been doing this since I can remember.. and i’m 27 now 🙂

Gina

My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my mom, and the rest of my family. My mom has a big family, 7 brothers and sisters. My mom and her two sisters always get together on Christmas Eve day and starting making homemade tamales. Everyone gathers in the kitchen to help until the silbings start to good-naturedly elimate those with sub par tamale making skills. The kitchen is quickly filled with the warmth and smells of homemade cooking, and the laughter of my family.

CArolyn

My favorite holiday tradition is watching “A Christmas Story” on tv and baking and decorating sugar cookies with family, yum!

Audrey

My favorite tradition is going to pick out the Christmas tree with my family!

Diana @ frontyardfoodie

My favorite holiday tradition is watching Christmas movies with my husband all December. Everything is cozy and perfect

katherine

I love decorating the tree with my family!

Lara (Thinspired)

My favorite holiday tradition is simple, but it can’t be beat: decorating the tree!

Ashley

My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with my husband (and now our baby). Each decoration has meaning to us and it’s fun to recall as we light up the tree, and the living room!

Lily

My favorite tradition is going to a cathedral near my house for a choir performance of carols. That or going to see the Nutcracker, which is a tradition I only started last year!

Amanda @ Cakes and Ale

My sister and I always wore footy pajamas on Christmas Eve! I wish I could still do it, but I can’t find adult-sized pajama rompers with feet attached!

Abby

I go broke, but Amy’s is always in my kitchen as well, so fun giveaway!
As for traditions, I am the only grandkid out of 56 that knows how to make my grandma’s Polish Chrusciki and everyone expects them each year. Even though she can’t do it any more, I still roll, twist out, fry and sprinkle with powdered sugar hundreds each December to take on Christmas Eve.
A lot of work, but worth it just to see my grandma enjoy them (and everyone else, but mostly her).

Sarah @ The Foodie Diaries

Those are actually three Amy’s soups I’ve never tried! I’m a pretty faithful Amy’s Alphabet gal 😉

Jennie

I love baking for the holidays! Decorating a gingerbread house is my favorite though 🙂

crunchy granola gal

holiday tradition: skiing in vermont with my dad on christmas day. we’ve gone to VT for christmas every year for as long as i can remember — the only people out are the snow loving east coast jews like us 😀

Jennie

My favorite holiday tradition is actually going to church with my family. It means a lot that we’re all together celebrating the true reason for Christmas. And the anticipation – when the service is finished, we rush home for the fun! Every year!

Laura

holiday cookies!

Beth

My favorite holiday tradition is fondue on christmas eve and new this year… Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning!!!

Renee

baking cookies with my sister and watching the “Santa Clause”!

Haleigh

Baking sugar cookies with my mom

Ravan

my FAVORITE holiday tradition is watching the “christmas story” marathon in my jammies while enjoying hot cocoa and gingerbread cookies!!!! I also love the chocolate advent calendar tradition–i’ve loved these calendars since i was a little girl……..mmmmmmmm chocolate!!!

Christina MINDFUL LIVING

favorite holiday tradition? making homemade pizzas with the family on christmas eve!!!

Sandy

My boys and I decorate the tree together one evening and enjoy a dinner of their favorite appetizers while we decorate. It’s a special treat each year!

Megan

My Favorite holiday tradition is defiantly spending the night at my parent’s house and waking up there on Christmas morning to a tree full of presents and spending hours with my family to open all of those presents one by one!

Crystal

Making pierogies (I have no idea how to spell that) with my dad and brother. They’re so awful for you, but sooooo tasty.

Angela

Baking all kinds of yummy goodies for friends, family, and of course, me!

Darcie

My favorite tradition is our “Christmas pickle.” Every year Santa hides a pickle in the tree and the first one to find it wins! My brother and I still pretend to get really into it, it’s fun.

Tania @ Moment Anew

My fave tradition is our huge Christmas lunch. It is 8 courses and take over 4 hours to complete 🙂

Lenore

My favorite holiday tradition is relatively new: With all the food sensitivities in my family, it often takes a long time and some real creativity to figure out what on earth to eat on the Big Day. When we find the perfect dishes — and the process of getting there — that is my favorite holiday tradition.
To give you an idea of what we *can’t* eat: gluten, rice, dairy, eggs, peanuts, meat.
Always a challenge — but always delicious in the end!

Steph

Baking cookies is my favorite holiday tradition.

Meg @ Be Fit Be Full

On Christmas Eve my family still watches The Grinch, A Charlie Brown Christmas and Claymation Christmas. We’ve been doing that ever since I can remember and I’m 30 now and still look forward to it 🙂

Laura

My grandma who is 100% Italian very rarely showcases her skills in the kitchen for a crowd…BUT on Christmas eve she pulls out the stops making all kinds of fish, homemade mac and cheese, stuffed shells, 7 layer bars, icebox cake, etc etc… She must start a week in advance- i eat so much!

Lindsay

helping make but mostly eating latkas on hanukkah

Caroline

I used to prance around in my parents’ Christmas tree skirt and sit on the back of the couch pretending I was Laura Ingles Wilder while they decorated the tree (it was red and green plaid and had the wonderful circle cut going on). I haven’t been able to fit into the skirt since I was about five, but I still have very fond memories!

Margaret

My family makes the same cookies every year. Several of the recipes have been in the family for over a hundred years. I know that I can make them anytime of year but they never taste as special as they do at Christmas.

Megan

Cookie Sunday with my mom’s family. We all go over to my grandparents’ house the Sunday before Christmas and decorate and frost the gingerbread and sugar cut-out cookies my grandma makes. All of my mom’s 7 siblings bring 2-3 cookies/desserts of their own and you pick out whatever you want. The cookie decorating is followed by take-out pizza. A glorious way to start Christmas week!

Amanda

My favorite holiday tradition is making gingerbread houses!!

Amber

My favorite Christmas traditions are baking Christmas cookies w my mother-in-law and having another cookie bake w my good friends. Decorating the Christmas Tree and talking about all the ornaments w my husband is also my favorite! We bought a house this year too, so the new tradition is putting lights up outside right after Thanksgiving!

Justy2003

My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve with my family. For as long as I can remember, we only get to open one present on Christmas Eve and it’s always a new pair of PJs that we get to sleep in that night and open all of our presents in the next day. It’s definitely a tradition that I’ll be passing along when I have kids!

Kristen

My favorite tradition is sipping eggnog after decorating the tree.

Jenna

My favorite tradition is putting together holiday packages for my friends and family…lots of cookies and other goodies for them to enjoy (& a cheap alternative to buying gifts)!

Julie @savvyeats

My fave Christmas tradition is decorating the tree while watching White Christmas!

MMiller

I think mine would be having snack night and movies with the kids on Christmas eve! They both agreed to be home this year, even though they already have their own places!

DAISY

making kiffles with mom with the yule log on tv.

Kaitlin

My favorite holiday tradition… okay, I have two: decorating the tree and baking my famous Christmas cookies for everyone. 🙂

kristi (sweet cheeks)

fav tradition: putting decorations on the Christmas tree!

Valentina

Baking cookies…and then baking some more!

Annalisa

opening a christmas present on christmas eve 😉

junghwa

just being with family and watching holiday movies!

junghwa

being with family and watching holiday movies!

Caitlin

my favorite holiday tradition is watching “Its a Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve and then leaving cookies for santa and carrots for the reindeer on the kitchen table…still lol

Francesca

My favorite holiday tradition is putting our christmas tree up on thanksgiving night and baking cookies!

Kelly

I bake cookies with my mom and sister every year the day after Thanksgiving. We bake out 10 different cookies and our husbands go golfing!

Lauren

Watching a movie with my family with the fire going and eating Christmas cookies or this amazing Christmas mix with chex, cheerios, pretzels, m&ms, & peanuts all covered in white chocolate.

Claire

I really love it when it’s Christmas afternoon and my brother’s family( 4 daughters) and I head to Mom’s house.the girls are a mess opening up presents.My stepdad sneaks ham for a pre dinner snack(ok… so does my brother and I).My step family comes a little later for din din and a lot of laughter:-)

Kara

My favorite holiday traditions are eating gumbo the day after Thanksgiving and eating tamales on Christmas Eve! I guess I love any tradition that has to do with food!

Natalie

Cutting down the Christmas tree and having lunch with my family is definitely my favorite holiday tradition. Thanks for the giveaway 🙂

Katy @ These Beautiful Feet

My favorite holiday tradition is that every Christmas eve, my mom gets my sister and I Christmas pajamas. They aren’t themed, although they were when we were little. It’s just always something to look forward to and it’s one I want to pass down to my children whenever I become a mom. 🙂

Emily

I love watching Christmas Muppet movies!!!

Mary

Yum 🙂 I’ve been eyeing up Amy’s soups for the longest time– they look so delish! My favorite holiday tradition is a German one my family has been doing for years. My mom (of course, when we were little it was Santa!) hides a blown glass pickle ornament in our family Christmas tree on Christmas eve & Christmas morning, whoever found it first got an extra present! It was always so much fun, I can’t wait to do the same when I have kids!

Kathleen

My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree while listening to Christmas songs and drinking hot apple cider or tea…I seriously adore putting up my special ornaments that my parents have bought for me since I was young and cherishing the memories that go along with them 🙂

Nicole

Getting new christmas pjs and opening one gift on Christmas eve:)

beth

Since I’m from the East coast, but live out West I have started new traditions with friends when i can’t make it home for the holidays due to time constraints, money, etc. So I host a white elephant gift exchange and gourmet champagne brunch! Always a hilarious time!

Jodi

I love to go to the children’s Christmas program on Christmas Eve at our church, then come home and eat a nice meal and play games until way late.

Liesl

One holiday tradition that I just love is our family always does a fondue dinner together! It is yummy, complete with chocolate for dessert. It’s also relaxing and gives us all the chance to catch up with one another.

***andrea***

We decorate a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve with our three kids who are 5,4,2. It is so much fun!

Lizzy

i’ve never tried amy’s soups before so this would be so awesome to win! my favorite tradition of the holiday’s is watching “A Christmas Story” 24 hours on our local TV station!!! it never fails that each year i catch tid bits of the movie throughout the 24 hours that its on!

Jessica

My favorite Holiday tradition is reading the Christmas story before opening presents!

carolinebee

Definitely decorating the tree with my momma!! I just moved across the country (like someone else! 🙂 So I’m missing it this year 🙁 But maybe she’ll save a few for me to put up!

Kristi

My 3 daughters and I always have swiss cheese fondue, sparkling cider and homemade christmas cookies while we decorate our tree and watch the old claymation holiday shows!

Patty

Decorating the tree, starting a warm fire, cranking up the holiday tunes and sipping on hot cocoa…all at the sme time!

Emily

My favorite Holiday tradition is having tacos with my family Christmas Eve. We all make one part then enjoy them around the coffee table!

Courtney

My favorite holiday tradition is playing Dirty Santa with my entire family when we celebrate Christmas together.

KZ

I love making fruitcake with my mom. We spend hours chopping real dried fruit (no neon for us) and nuts and have to use a basin to stir the batter! Its a lot of fun and messy too 🙂

Ashley

Amy’s soups are the only ones I eat! My fav tradition is baking cookies (eating them of course) & building gingerbread houses

Anna Jones

My favorite tradition is getting together with my parents and brother on christmas eve to have dinner and exchange one gift which is always an ornament for the tree. I love the quality time I get with my family at that time!

jamie

opening one gift on christmas eve!

amanda

My favorite holiday tradition is watching A Christmas Story. A bonus was the fact I got it on Blu-ray last year.

Beth G

Things are all weird this year since I got married and don’t live near home anymore and it will be the first Christmas since my dad died. So all our traditions feel kind of up in the air. I used to love going to midnight mass with my dad & sister though

tess

We go to church on Christmas eve and then a nice supper and then back to grandma and grandpa’s house to hang stockings by the fireplace and hear “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

Brittany V

My favorite holiday tradition is reading The Polar Express and The Nativity Story with my mama on xmas eve by the fire 🙂

JJ

My favorite tradition is putting up the christmas tree ofcourse!

Lisa (bakebikeblog)

I love Christmas eve – watching the Christmas carols with my family 🙂 Oh and drinking eggnog of course 🙂

kf

My favorite holiday tradition is making and opening stockings for everyone on christmas morning!

woman&warrior

My favorite holiday tradition is a toss up: i love making tomato jam for our friends and family (and keeping my family away from pot of jam so there will be enough for everyone) and I love wrapping gifts with my dear friend. We bring Christmas wrap and use some of each others and catch on our lives. Its a great–we get things done and spend some time together.

katey

my fav. holiday tradition is brunch on christmas at my grandparents!!! they have EVERYTHING 🙂

Rachel

Secret Santa with my 8 closet girlfriends!

Sara

Baking yummy treats for my family and friends! 🙂

Amy

Making Christmukkah cookies!

Heather

My favorite holiday tradition has to be the Make-A-Gift my family started about 15 years ago. We all pick someone else’s name and have to make them a gift. It’s always so much fun to see how creative everyone gets and they really put thought into what the person receiving the gift would like. This year I’m making 3-4 different kinds of edible cookie doughs. Who doesn’t like to eat the dough before you bake the cookies… it’s my fav!

Holly

Making Christmas cookies with my mum 🙂

LP

driving to the middle of nowhere to go to a rural tree farm to pick out the perfect xmas tree and cutting it down ourselves!

Deirdre

Chinese restaurant on Christmas Eve, then begging Mom and Dad to open “just one” present before bed. We would get so excited when they handed us one, even though we always knew, just some fancy new matching flannel xmas jams so we look cute the next morning for pictures.

Mastering Public Health

I am possibly the biggest Amy’s Kitchen fan on earth… no joke. Without them I might starve. Love the holiday traditions of posing in front of the most decked-out holiday houses around and watching “Christmas Vacation” as much as possible, all the while knowing every word.

Alison

Thanks for hosting a giveaway! I love laying on the floor in front of the christmas tree in the dark while the christmas tree lights are on. It’s so pretty!

Dawn

Amy’s products are oh so wonderful and tasty! Thanks for this opportunity. :]

My favorite holiday tradition started last year, but I think it has since become an annual one. We do Christmas with both sides of my boyfriend’s family on Christmas Eve (night), then with the other side on Christmas Day. After the second get together, we take a trip somewhere together for a long weekend of relaxing, shopping, eating and love for each other. This way, we get to spend it with our family as well as get alone time for ourselves. This year we’re going to Portland, and I’m so looking forward to it. :]

Sarah

My favorite hoiday tradition is to make my green and red m&m cookies.

Gina G

eatting crab on Christmas year! =)

Jen

Baking cut-out sugar cookies in fun shapes 🙂

Eileen

Having big mugs of hot cocoa after playing in the snow with my daughter.

Courtney Keeney

My favorite tradition is going to my grandparents Christmas Eve and having a Crab and Sushi Feast!

Jessica @ Dairy Free Betty

I can’t remember if I posted BUT my favorite tradition is stockings!! I love them, I don’t even care what’s in them, they are just so fun (I think it was because I was allowed to open it before anyone woke up!!)

J

BAKING!!! NEED i SAY MORE?

Diane

My favorite holiday tradition is eating shrimp and calamari on Christmas Eve. And then heading over to the church to watch the little kids perform the Nativity Scene play. It’s great!

Ashley

My favorite holiday tradition is making date and pecan bites. You spread the batter on a sheet pan, and then as soon as it comes out of the oven you have to roll spoonfuls of it into balls while still hot. Those sugary dates burn like crazy,but the results are so worth it!

Lauren

putting up a REAL Christmas tree 😛

Liz

My favorite tradition is a once a year family christmas, where all of my family, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins….get together and hang out around the holidays. I rarely see them, so it’s always so much fun to catch up!

Mary (Food Fit & Fun)

baking cookies with my family!

Applesauce

When I go home for Christmas, we get together as a family and walk downtown to the live Nativity scene, complete with goats and sheep and even a donkey! Some one always burns there tongue on the hot chocolate…we have even started taking bets on who it’s gonna be!

Rachel

Favorite holiday tradition: baking & decorating holiday cookies with the family!

mm mm Amy’s soups! I just had the split pea soup earlier with lunch today!

Amanda

My family’s cheeseball – the first Christmas my parents were together, my mom flipped through her trusty Betty Crocker cookbook and found the recipe and made it, and it’s been a part of our Christmas every single year since.

Ashby

EVERY Christmas my parents come to decorate cookies with my class!

katie

my favorite holiday tradition is probably our christmas eve dinner, which consists of a variety of appetizers and no real main course. i love that it’s such a relaxed atmosphere, and usually just my immediate family. after dinner we go to mass, where is turns into a mini-reunion of sorts from my high school – it’s nice to see the same faces year after year there.

Carissa (Fit To Indulge)

Scratch that.. 700th!!

Taylor

every year for christmas dinner my mom makes beef tenderloin and crab legs…i wait all year for that dinner!!

Tracy

Oh yum Jenna I have been wanting to try your soup flavors but I can’t find them anywhere!!!!!! My fav tradition is Polar Express day in my kindergarten class. We all wear pajamas to school!!!!!

Katie R

My favorite holiday tradition is my family’s Christmas Eve routine.When I was growing up, we would go to church on Christmas Eve, and after returning home, every one would get to open 1 gift from under the tree (always PJs for the kids and a family movie for all). Then we’d watch a movie together before falling asleep with ‘visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads’.

Nicole

baking and eating with my family!

megan

baking gingerbread cookies with my mom!

Leah

My favorite holiday tradition is my family Christmas Eve gift exchange. We do it every year, and it doesnt feel like Christmas until then. Its with my moms side of the family, she has 3 sisters and 2 brothers, all of which have at least 2 kids and of course husbands and wives. Its big and loud and everyone brings something yummy! I love it!

Augusta_John

Every Christmas we always make bags of fruit and candy. I didn’t get the concept when i was younger (a bag of fruit couldn’t compare to an official Ghostbuster’s ghost trap). My father told me that was the base of what they got every Christmas, sometimes more but never less growing up in rural North Carolina.

Ilene

I love putting up theChristmas tree!

Jennie

My tradition consists mostly of things in my head that I wish I had time to do like bake cookie for all of my friends. However, all I manage to do each year is barely get a tree decorated, race to get all of the presents wrapped, and forget some key ingredient at the grocery store which forces me to find a “substitution” in the pantry…luckily, that part usually works out quite well!

vegfiguresk8er

going out for a walk at night and looking at the Christmas lights on other peoples houses 🙂

Trisha

I love the trip to my Grandma’s house Christmas morning and the anticipation every year of “Will is be a white Christmas?”

maggie b

baking pecan pie!

SV Beek

Making christmas cookies with my bff and trying not to eat every last one of them!

Coley

Everyone is probably going to think I am crazy, but its studying for finals with friends in my favorite cafe by the fireplace with christmas music, snow outside and a peppermint latte!! Did that all day today… I just love being a student!!

Megan

My favorite family tradition is baking Christmas cookies and then giving them as gifts to our neighbors 🙂

laci

One of my favorite christmas traditions: on a crisp saturday afternoon, turning on christmas music and baking cookies for friends with my mother! 🙂

Julie @ Wearing Mascara

Such a great giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is driving the 8-10 hours to St. Louis to visit family (depending on where I live!).

Meghan

Mine is baking cookies with girlfriends from middle and high school — this year makes #9!

Danielle

I love making latkes with my family!

Stephanie

super excited about this giveaway…thank you! my favorite tradition is going to see a movie on christmas eve and then coming home to open just one present!

Amanda

Decorating the tree 🙂

Jessica

Yum, I love Amy’s!! One of my favorite holiday traditions is making fudge to give as gifts. My grandmother started the tradition and I continue it today.

Kristen

Oh, and listening to the Muppet’s Christmas CD!

Emily G

Oh my favorite holiday tradition has to be coming home from school to be with the family AND making latkas with my mom!

Megan @ Healthy Hoggin

My favorite tradition is baking cookies for my friends and family! 🙂

Meagan

I love Christmas Eve mass “Silent Night”… Its so beautiful!!
Soup is my favorite food in the world!!!

Elizabeth

DH & I exchange PJs on Christmas Eve. It’s my favorite!

JL

Baking and decorating spritz cookies:)

Steph

My favorite holiday tradition is cutting down a gigantic Christmas tree with my family in the Santa Cruz Mountains. So fun!

Chaley

Decorating the tree with my boys. Thanks for the giveaway!

Kyleigh

watching national lampoon’s Christmas vacation!!!

Jennifer Voisinet

Our family’s favorite tradition is that the kids drink Welch’s sparkling grape juice. We only get it on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve so that it is special. We put it in fancy glasses, and the kids can’t wait every year to drink it!

Molly

As a family we always sit around the christmas tree with yummy food, tell stories and reflect over the past year, sing carols (dogs howling in the background :)) and read the Christmas story from the bible. I love family time!!!

Light Delight with TouTou

Holiday tradition is having a big table for dinner and watching all the fireworks 😀

susanj72

Going to pick out a tree with my sister, my niece, dad & stepmom. It really is just a trip to the home depot but we do it every year.

Kayla

Favorite holiday tradition?! Celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve (= sleeping in on Christmas day!)

Patricia

My favorite tradition is singing Christmas carols on Christmas eve.

hemp jogger

my dad STILL reads us ‘the night before christmas’ after my siblings and i exchange our gifts on christmas eve. we’re all over 18, but its still so fun! then we hang our stockings. the perfect family night : )

Katie

my favorite thing to do around Christmas is to drive around and look at all of the Christmas lights and decorations. it is so fun to see when people get so into it!

Sarah

going to church christmas eve then coming home to have tea/hot chocolate by the fire 🙂

theresa

my favorite christmas tradition is to make dinner (and dessert) with my mom and sister the day of and catch up on life since we’re all in different states 🙂 it’s going to be a white christmas this year too! 14 inches of the white stuff tomorrow. yay wisconsin!

Sarah

When the kids were all at home, we would start the Christmas season by going to the tree lighting downtown in our little town of 1500. The town band would play and people would stand and sing carols on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Our tree would be chosen from a tree farm and we would all go and cut it down together, usually throwing snowballs as we went. One memorable year the tree slid of the top of the van as we drove it home! After Dad got the lights on the tree (which was not the fun part), The kids would take the angel topper out and give her a kiss and then one child would put her on top with Dad’s help. The the ornaments would be spread out on the table and we would all decorate the tree together with old fashions for the adults and cider or hot chocolate for the kids. The kids always had favorite ornaments to place and Christmas music would play all through the process. The final decoration was always the popcorn that had been strung years before and saved carefully. Fun times.

Kara

My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas breakfast. We wake up early and do presents. But then we have a long, leisurely “breakfast” complete with homemade waffles, scones, muffins and fruits. Everyone contributes something that they love and there is so much baking love in that kitchen!

Kelsey

gahhh! i love amy’s soups. the alphabet and minestrone are my favs. 😀
my favorite tradition is opening one present on christmas eve with my sister!

lz

Jenna, thank you for hosting this giveaway! Amy’s soups are so warm and comforting, and they have a particularly delicate balance of flavors that combine so well!
My favorite holiday tradition is going on road trips with my family–we really get to relax during the long drives and take in the scenery.

Jessica Joy

My fav holiday tradition is watching the old Bing Crosby movie White Christmas after decorating the Christmas tree! MMM makes me happy!

Ann-Margaret

As a professed daddy’s girl, I must admit my daddy owns much of my heart. That being said, one of my favorite holiday traditions is Christmas morning brunch prepared by Chef Dad.

Rachel

Watching It’s A Wonderful Life after Christmas Eve Service!

Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca)

My favourite holiday tradition is picking a day each year with my hubby when we watch Christmas movies all day, and eat junk, and get in to the Christmas mood.

s

whoa there are a lot of comments on here. my favorite thing to do is bake during the holidays 🙂

Jordan

Watching Elf with my husband and stepson while we decorate the tree!

Erika

My favorite holiday tradition is when my dad and I get up before everyone else in the house and go run the neighborhoods looking at all the christmas lights. It is peaceful and quiet and refreshing. It is nice getting a workout bright an early, but even better is that it is an hour’s worth of great father daughter time and we can spend the rest of the day enjoying the time with the family.

eatmovelove

I’m starting a new one this year as I am away from former friends and family again and trying to find my way in life. That is to be thankful to the Lord for giving me what I have and not to covet what my ‘neighbor’ has. We are all unique individuals and should be thankful everyday for the riches we do have. Namaste Jenna.

Jill

ahh buying presents and then wrapping them while listening to Christmas music and sipping on some hot chocolate!

Nicole

My fav holiday tradition is on christmas morning, going to my grandmas for her famous home made cinnamon buns, the yummiest thing in the world!

Elise

My family and I drink eggnog and watch “Christmas Vacation” (the Chevy Chase movie) while decorating our tree. I miss it so much now that I’ve moved away.

Esther

Shopping for my loved ones! 🙂

Erin

ooh, I love Amy’s soup! it’s currently snowing like crazy here in MN so I’m craving yummy soup!

My favorite holiday tradition is watching Charlie Brown Christmas over and over…I always put it on while I’m wrapping gifts and decorating!

Carly

My family and I have a tradition of making an amazing gourmet dinner (Prime Rib) with lots of wine!!! We normally have neighbors over and we go talk about what we are Thankful for in our lives 🙂

lindsey

my favorite holiday is decorating the christmas tree while listening to christmas music!

EL

Christmas morning we always make German pancakes for breakfast. It takes a while to make enough for everyone, but it is worth it.

Julie

My favorite holiday tradition is…eating. When food is involved, everything else seems to fall into place.

Nicole

Watching the kids open one gift on Christmas evening. My sister’s and I did it when we were younger so its great to watch the tradition continue to the next group.

Laura

being with my family on christmas eve and christmas! can’t forget the delicious christmas brunch!

Kelly B

My favorite tradition is making my mother’s homemade apple cake. She passed away almost 2 years ago, but this tradition keeps her alive in my heart. Love them baked apples!

Kristine

My favorite holiday tradition is making russian tea cakes!!! Delicious 🙂

Valerie

My favorite holiday tradition is going to Candy Cane Lane. It’s a few blocks of houses here in a suburb of Milwaukee where all the homes are elaborately decorated for the holidays. Traffic moves very slowly through the blocks, but it’s great because it supports cancer research. There is a Santa in the middle accepting donations and giving out candy canes!

Lauren

Hello! I just came across your blog and love the feel of it.
I want to add you to my blog roll and look forward to following your entries.
I just started my own blog at diaryofanutritionist.com and! just wrote a little blurb about almond butter. I see that you have a lovely picture of almond butter… please feel free to comment your favorite almond butter recipe. I’d love that.

oh. and favorite tradition… cooking and inviting guests and family to share in my new recipes and wine… oh! and the best part… the funny recaps of the year.