It is hard to believe that Christmas is almost here (or whatever you celebrate). It seems like last week it was summer, and now we have 10 inches of snow here in Chicago. For my family, the holiday season is all about celebration. This year, General Mills is celebrating the keepers of holiday traditions and encouraging everyone to share their own #HolidayTraditions. Did you know that for the last 150 years, General Mills and its family of brands have served the world by making food people love? Every family has something that they do every year.
Our Traditions
- I work Santa's Workshop with all my friends who are parents. We've done this for 8 years now!
- We shop and donate toys to kids who aren't as blessed as we are.
- I make cute fruit trays to bring places.
- We travel every holiday season. It tends to snow. LOL
- Decorating the tree. My kids are old enough now that we really let them go to town and help set up and decorate the tree. They actually do a pretty good job.
- Decorating cookies with the kids. I love that General Mills makes it so easy with their products, saving me a lot of time! Thank you, Pillsbury and Betty Crocker, for such yummy Christmas cookies!
- If we have snow, we build a snowman.
- We also decorate outside our home. After we do that, we drive around to look at everybody else's decorations!
- I go out with my friends and paint a holiday canvas!
- On Christmas Day, we stay in our PJs and play games all day as a family. It is the ultimate family game day for us. Our holiday season is so busy that it is nice to just spend the day together without having to go anywhere.
Holiday Traditions Giveaway
Who is the keeper of your holiday traditions? Celebrate them this holiday season by sharing the #HolidayTraditions they have helped inspire by posting a comment below telling me your favorite holiday tradition. You can win a Betty Crocker Big Red Cookbook and a $25 Visa gift card! Want extra entries? Here's what you can do:
- Follow General Mills on Twitter (comment with your twitter name)
- Follow General Mills on Instagram (comment with your Instagram name)
- Post a Holiday Picture onGeneral Mills #HolidayTraditions page (comment that you did this)
- Post on Twitter a Holiday Tradition picture and use the hashtag #HolidayTraditions and tag @GeneralMills (leave a comment with URL of tweet)
- Post on Instagram a Holiday Tradition picture and use the hashtag #HolidayTraditionsand tag @GeneralMills (leave a comment with URL of Instagram)
This giveaway ends on 12/25 at 11:59 pm CST.
We love to bake together during the holidays and then share the creations with friends and family!
My family always fly to the main island to celebrate Christmas with the whole clan. At 12 mn we all pray as a family and then exchange gifts. It’s always fun to receive the gifts as we are a big family. We have trash bags to put our gifts in (not that we’re throwing them!).
We have a few places that we go to look at lights every year. One of them is a local house with dancing lights.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with family. #HolidayTraditions
Glad you put some of that snow to use building a snowman. Love the fruit christmas tree. I believe we are ready except for the holiday baking.
We always go check out the nearby lights in one of the parks. They are always so fun and pretty to look at. My girls are older now and aren’t a huge fan of this tradition, but I still take them every year!
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We always go to a movie together as a family during the Christmas season. We call it our Christmas movie. We always have cinnamon rolls and mocha punch on Christmas morning and grill steaks for Christmas lunch. We have so many holiday traditions and I love every one of them.
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My favorite holiday tradition is our family Christmas party and the games we play because there is such a relaxed feeling and such laughter! Following on Twitter from @shirleywood97, shared a pic at the General Mills Holiday Traditions page and tweeted this pic from a family party just for fun https://twitter.com/shirleywood97/status/808657446868807680
Merry Christmas season to you!
Our family tradition is opening gifts Christmas morning, except for one that we do the night before. In the weeks coming up to Christmas we buy toys for the kids.
My favorite holiday tradition is loading all the kids in the car and heading to the tree farm to pick out our tree together!
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My favorite tradition is to bake Christmas cookies
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We seem to always have things that get added into our traditions every year!! My favorite tradition is always time with family, and of course the amazing food!
This is a great giveaway! I love the Big Red Cookbook. Actually, one of our holiday family traditions is making a new side and dessert dish out of the cookbook we have every year.
So many great holiday traditions. We always adopt a kid from the local middle school and shop for them. We just did that today.
We go see Santa come in on a helicopter at a local farm and drive thru the light show there
Our favorite holiday tradition is driving around the neighborhoods nearby and looking at all the beautiful lights and scenes.
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Our Holiday tradition is watching Christmas Carol Christmas Eve and opening one present each and getting together with the family on Christmas Day
Our favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies together on Christmas Eve while listening to Christmas music.
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This is an awesome giveaway to get everyone in the spirit! Giving back is one of the best traditions to have, I always volunteer this time of year.
My husband and I are always trying to build new holiday traditions. We are starting our family so we’re trying to think of what works and what doesn’t work for us.
We love baking cookies together, putting the decorations on the tree while we listen to classic holiday music and our newest tradition is making a gingerbread house, my kids love it!
My mother started our tradition of decorating gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. #HolidayTraditions
My favorite holiday tradition is all the families are here for a few days.
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These are all great family traditions. My favorite holiday tradition is going to grandma’s house to decorate for her with all the grandchildren. Thanks for sharing your tradition and the giveaway.
Since we have a toddler, we started a holiday tradition of letting her open a homemade advent calendar with us every day, as long as she has been good that day. We’ve also started making handprint ornaments every year. I love having them around as a permanent reminder of how big she’s grown!
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We have a lot of traditions we do every year. My favorites are getting together with family on Christmas Eve and taking the kids out to look for Christmas lights.
You have some really lovely traditions indeed our family ones are simple and mostly involve being together in one place if we can and cooking, reminiscing about old times etc
My favorite holiday tradition we all do together is decorate the Christmas tree and than afterwards we have not cocoa and cookies.
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my grandfather started keeping the traditions and my dad keeps them now
I LOVE making chocolate covered pretzels with my mom! Following, @MmMmspa347
we love to see the christmas ships come in!
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We just enjoy spending the day together as family, as our schedules don’t usually allow too much time for us all in one place. We decorate a tree, exchange gifts, have brunch, and spend some time playing games together. Following General Mills on Twitter @tessaa99
Each year we buy the kids a Christmas ornament that represent something from the year, or something they w into that year. We started when they were babies with their 1st Christmas ornament and have kept it going.
My favorite holiday tradition is looking in our stockings on Christmas morning! It’s the first thing we do!
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My favorite holiday tradition is having Christmas eve dinner at my grandparents’ house.
I enjoy decorating gingerbread houses with the help of my kids.
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We exchange gifts and have a nice dinner on Christmas eve.
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We like to take a home cooked meal to a family in need on Christmas Eve.
My fave holiday tradition is playing board games with my parents after we have opened presents and eaten breakfast on Christmas morning.
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On Christmas Eve, we bake and decorate sugar cookies with the whole family. We do it in new pajamas. #HolidayTraditions
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We play Christmas bingo with cool prizes for everyone
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My favorite tradition is baking cookies and decorating them as a family!
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My favorite holiday tradition is going to my parents on Christmas Eve to swap presents and eat a delicious meal!
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My favorite holiday tradition is the youngest family member that can read – reads the Bible verses of Jesus Birth each year. The children are always happy when they can read well enough to be the one who can does this tradition.
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My favorite holiday tradition is going to look at Christmas lights then coming home, drinking hot cocoa and watching Elf.
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My favorite tradition is baking cookies with my family and then decorating them and giving them out to neighbors.
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The weekend before Christmas we have a big family Christmas Party with my brother and sisters, our kids and their kids. It’s a huge party with lots of food, fun and drinks.
One of our Christmas traditions is our family decorates the tree together and I take a picture of my little girl putting the star on.
I keep he holiday traditions. I organize all of the holidays with my friends.
My favorite holiday tradition is watching and reading holiday stuff before the holiday is over!!!^_^
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Christmas Eve we drive around the city and look at the decorations in front of other peoples houses.
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Everyone brings a extra gift and we play the white elephant game with the whole family.
Our family tradition is everyone gets to open one present on Christmas Eve before we go to midnight Mass. I still enjoy this as much as I did when I was a kid.
My favorite tradition is trimming the tree
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My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my family on Christmas Eve.
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My holiday tradition is baking with my daughters!
I love making sugar cookies. With colored sugar.
My favorite tradition is pulling Christmas crackers on Christmas Day.
Our tradition is putting up the tree with the family after Thanksgiving and baking cookies #HolidayTraditions
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Our tradition is wearing our new matching Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve and reading The Night Before Christmas together as a family.
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We like to do an advent calendar with fun activities.
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Every year we pick a few angels off the salvation army giving tree! it is so rewarding knowing you helped children and adults.
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My favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating gingerbread men and women cookies with my grandsons.
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One of our favorite traditions is building and decorating gingerbread houses.
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My favorite #HolidayTraditions for our family is our families cookie bake! We do it every year the Sunday before Christmas…and we have so much fun! Everyone goes to my sisters house…and we all bring cookies to make! Everyone goes home with a cake pan full of different kinds of cookies! The kids have so much fun playing and decorating cookies….and everyone has to wear a santa hat!
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My favorite holiday tradition is having various types of seafood on Christmas Eve. Tonight we are having shrimp, clams and lobster for our dinner.
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My favorite holiday tradition is watching favorite Christmas movies and drinking hot chocolate.
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My favorite family tradition is baking with the kids.
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I enjoy making a bunch of Christmas cookies to share with everyone – especially triple ginger cookies, white choc cranberry, and good ol’ chocolate chip 🙂
One of myffavorite traditions is setting everything up on Christmas Eve with my husband.
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My family tradition is to anonymously put presents at peoples doors and ding dong ditch. We usually hit 3 a year.
My favorite holiday tradition is to bake gingerbread cookies from scratch together into different shapes ! smells amazing and tastes delicious !
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My mom has always had cookie parties.
For tradition we all go to my grandpas house and have Christmas dinner
My favorite tradition is baking with my sons. They love to help me cook and especially love eating what we make!
My favorite tradition is baking sweet treat on Christmas Eve, to share with family and friends.
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My favorite holiday tradition is when the family gets together for my sister’s big holiday meal. It’s wonderful to have everybody together.
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I love our Christmas Eve! My hubby always makes chicken stir fry, then we watch Christmas specials or movies or the past couple years it’s been Doctor Who. Then the kids open ONE gift…and it’s always holiday pj’s!
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My favorite holiday tradition is having the family together for a wonderful Christmas dinner.
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I watch Christmas specials with my granddaughters.
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Our favorite holiday tradition is having a special holiday meal as a family.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating a gingerbread house!
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All my children and grandchildren come here on Christmas morning and we do brunch and open gifts. There is 19 of us when we are all together and still growing!
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Our favorite #HolidayTraditions are decorating the tree and baking with the kids.
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All the family gets together for a ham dinner and to open stocking stuffers on Christmas Eve. Some go to church, some do not. Then Christmas day we gather to open gifts and have a turkey dinner.
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My favorite tradition is watching A christmas Story with my grandparents
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We have had a wonderful Christmas together, the whole family opened gifts and had a great family meal today.
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I am the keeper of our holiday traditions. I lost my parents when I was younger and lived with my gram. We lost her about 3 years ago. I’m a single mom to my daughter and keep traditions going with her. Christmas jammies, tree/lights go up Thanksgiving weekend, one present on Christmas Eve and we have the Elf!
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Church and family dinner.
We have family reunions during holidays! What a great giveaway.