The Holidays are quickly approaching and I love everything about it! Since having our son, my husband and I have enjoyed starting a few special traditions for our family which includes new Christmas pajamas, enjoying breakfast with Santa and driving around neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights.
One other tradition we have has to do with food! I love baking cookies and coming up with delicious recipes for the holiday season, but one other must for any holiday gathering are snacks from Hickory Farms! I remember growing up and visiting the mall with my Mom to pick up items from Hickory Farms during the Christmas season and enjoying the delicious food at holiday get togethers!
For more than 60 years, Hickory Farms gifts have been a classic holiday tradition that brings family and friends together. Many Americans have a distinct memory of Hickory Farms at their holiday gatherings; Hickory Farms is very proud to be a part of those nostalgic moments and continues to focus on and celebrate its long heritage of tradition and authentic holiday memories.
We were sent the Taste of the Trade Tool Bag, which was filled with a selection of summer sausage, cheese, almonds and crackers to enjoy! This would be the perfect gift for the man in your life that you can’t just decide what to get! A tool bag full of meat and cheese – I know my husband was so excited!
We decided to enjoy our snacks while we decorated our tree – this may just become a new holiday tradition for our family!
You’ll find a wide selection of gift baskets that include the meat and cheese everyone loves, but also wine, cookies and fruit baskets! You can buy these baskets from HickoryFarms.com or in one of their 700 holiday stores and kiosks across North America, as well as in select retailers.
Win It!
One lucky winner will win the Tastes of the Trade Tool Bag, which includes:
-2 Signature Beef Summer Sausage 10 oz.
-Farmhouse Cheddar 10 oz.
-Jalapeño Cheddar Blend 10 oz.
-Holiday Spiced Almonds 4 oz.
-Golden Toasted Crackers 4.4 oz.
-Olive Oil & Rosemary Crackers 4.4 oz.
Enter the Rafflecopter form below! Giveaway will end on 12/11/2012.
Disclosure: Compensation and products for review were provided by Hickory Farms via MomTrends. I received a free sample of the product for the purpose of this review and to facilitate a giveaway. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions of Hickory Farms.
our new favorite holiday tradition is our elf on the shelf!
we usually go to the mall kiosk and get a summer sausage and cheese from Hickory Farms, we haven’t gone this year yet though!
My favorite tradition is getting a new pair of pajamas on Christmas Eve.
My grandparents always used to have Hickory Farms around the holidays.
going to see the Christmas lights at the lights festival each year
I remember looking at their catalogues, but I have not tried their products before.
We decorate the christmas tree every year then eat cookies and watch home alone. We have been doing this for over 20 years.
Baking cookies!
Favorite Holiday tradition is every year we open “table gifts” at dinner time. They are usually silly, but lots of fun!
Hickory Farm memories: my grandpa would always buy hickory farms meat and cheese at Christmas, so I remember him sitting there chowing down!
Our favorite holiday tradition is looking at the lights downtown Salt Lake City temple square.
We let the kids open a present on Christmas Eve. They love opening one early!
I have no hickory farms memories but would love to make some this year!
favorite tradition is putting up a beautiful D56 north pole village – looks so pretty when all lit up
my dad used to always get hickory farm gifts from clients so we had these to snack on during the holidays
baking cookies on christmas eve.
Decorating the Christmas tree and putting up decorations!
My Dad has always been a Hickory Farms gifter 🙂 Someone is always going to get a box for Christmas from him!
decorating the tree together and the kids are allowed to open one present on christmas eve
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Hickory farm’s summer sausage has always been a special treat (not only for christmas)
We love traditions with the kids! Picking out a tree, horse drawn sleigh ride, decorating cookies for santa, decorating, etc.!
I don’t have any Hickory Farms memories.. other than seeing a kiosk at the mall!
we trim the tree together debbie jackson
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my husband introduced me to hickory farms,,,,,,,,,it is always a hit as agift for him debbie jackson
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I like to watch holiday movies.
I’ve never tried Hickory Farms.
making cookies as a family
we use to have christmas packages/baskets at my grandma’s house when I was young
We bake cookies together on Christmas Eve for Santa.
singing Christmas carols and visiting with family
I like the bag of mint drop candies
My favourite holiday tradition is going out cutting down our tree then decorating it
We always purchase their Jalepeno cheese ball, I have 3 in my fridge right now
Every year we leave Santa milk and cookies and throw nuts outdoors for his reindeer
Way back years ago, my parents use to buy their sausage and cheese for the holiday. We looked forward to that
my favorite tradition is the x-mas eve dinner!
Every year we make Christamas tamales
My favorite X-mas Tradition is going to the Parade of Lights.
My favorite memory of Hickory Farms was going to the mall with my parents to pick out sausage & cheese & getting to taste the samples. Yum!
One of my traditions is to check out all of the holiday decorations at the Disney resorts each year!
Baking holiday cookies my with my daughter is my favorite holiday tradition.
My favorite memory is not being able to wait to open up these gift sets as a kid. My mom would always open them up right away and we’d start snacking!
We decorate our Christmas Three together.
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Every Christmas we would all enjoy a log of summer sausage, cheese, and crackers.
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summer sausage on christmas day is a tradition in my fam!
i love summer sausage and cheese – fond christmas memories
i love baking cookies with my grandma.. my family has hickory farms on new years
Hands down it is putting up the decorations and seeing all of the houses lit up!
My grandmother and step-grandfather always had Hickory Farms out during the holidays. I don’t think I’ve had it in years.
riding around looking at the lights
i dont have any hickory farms memories but would like to start some!
I appreciate my family & friends most this holiday season
On the Sunday before Christmas the women and older children of the family get together to make holiday cookies and candies. We then divide them up onto trays and pass them out to loved ones, co-workers, and friends. That’s my favorite holiday tradition. Thanks.
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Baking Christmas cookies for friends is my favorite holiday tradition!
Our favorite Christmas tradition is visiting Santa Claus, IN!
Since before I can remember there has been a Hickory Farms tray at our family’s Christmas dinner!!!
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies while watching holiday movies on t.v.
My parents use to go to the hickory farms store in the mall when I was a kid. My sister and I use to try all the free samples.
My favorite is when my family and I decorate the tree…my kids get so excited and so do I.
Thanks so much and Happy Holidays 🙂
I remember that my Dad would get a package from someone he worked with each year and that our family would all enjoy it together.
My favorite tradition of ours is driving around to look at Christmas lights.
Watching White Christmas 🙂 And my mother and I started a new one to bake goodies each year so i’m excited about that!
Every year, we go to Nature In Lights- a drive-through lights display!
I don’t have any Hickory Farms memories.
We had a Hickory Farms in our local mall and it smelled so good as you walked in!
Thank you,
Our favorite tradition is to go to the museum for the Trees around the World displays!
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Love this one.
I make my kids Christmas pjs every year for christmas I love this
I dont have memories of hickory farms other than just loving it.
I love just spending time with my family and being together! Thanks!
I remember getting baskets of Hickory Farms goodies for the holidays from my dad’s clients! Thanks!
One of my Christmas traditions is going with my friend and his family to have their annual Christmas Eve dinner at a local Italian restaurant.
There’s usually a Hickory Farms basket/item at our Christmas dinner.
We always get a real tree. My husband always goes on a quest for the perfect one!
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter like I did with my mom and grandmother
Our tradtition is homemade cinnamon rolls, fruit salad and mimosas for xmas morning breakfast!
My cousins would send us hickory farms at the holidays and we would enjoy for snacks with wine and friends who come by
My parents host a huge pig picking for both sides of the family..it is great!!!
My Dad loves their cheeses…especially the sharp cheddar…he gets some at Christmas and cuts it up for all of us to have with crackers
My favorite memory of Christmas is making chocolate chip cookies after we got home from Christmas Eve lat mass. This way “there would be a fresh” batch for Santa. My siblings and I now have grown and have married and we brought this tradition to our own families.
When I first started dating my husband I bought his parent’s a gift from Hickory Farms. I know my future father in law loved it.
My kids say it’s cinnamon rolls and bacon for breakfast on Christmas morning! Also a chocolate cake I make that they say is only for Christmastime!
The youngest person in our family hands out the presents.
I remember my aunt would sent us a package of Hickory farms every year when I was a kid.
favorite tradition would be getting together with family – no memories with hickory farms – but maybe this year?! 🙂
Mistletoe…under the right circumstance!
Yes.
My favorite is spending time with the family and baking cookies
Baking Christmas cookies with my daughters
Going to the Hickory Farms store and getting the sausage.
christmas crafts and baking with the kids!
hickory farms memory: my first christmas with my husband! he is crazy about hickory farms and has to have SOMETHING from them under the tree or in his stocking, my MIL was able to fill me in on that 🙂
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Our tradition involves riding the Polar Express
I remember my Mom order it for us for Christmas and for some relatives too.
We take a family picture in front of the tree each year and hang it on the wall. I love to see the change from year to year. Thanks and happy holidays!
I remember my parents receiving hickory farms baskets when we were children. My sister’s and I loved to snack on them. Thanks and happy holidays!
I like waking up early in the morning to open presents
Between my sister and mom, we all like deciding what we are all going to cook for each of the holidays.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree 🙂
The only memories about Hickory Farms is my grandfather always had a few gift baskets he had received from his friends during the holiday and I would stop by and we would snack together 🙂
One of my favorite traditions is the night we go get our tree. We go out to dinner, pick out our tree, we get starbucks, and walk through the walkway of lights – a local attraction. Then we come home and trim the tree.
My Aunt Judy used to always have Hickory Farms around the holidays.
My favorite tradition is drinking egg nog.
I’ve never had Hickory Farms before, so no memories.
We decorate the outside of our house with lights.
I’ve never had Hickory Farms products. I would love to try Hickory Farms.
I haven’t tried Hickory Farms yet (so no memories) but I love watching Christmas movies with my family! That’s a major tradition!
What a cute bag of goodies!
Fav holiday track. . Jingle bell rock
I all make three kinds of candy, checmix, , three kinds of cookies, chips and dips and punch and we have a little family party, and eat and laugh a LOT, GOD BLESS
We bake and decorate cookies
Our favorite family tradition is all wearing the same PJ’s on Christmas morning to open gifts. The pics are so cute!
Going to church on Christmas eve.
I alsways buy my mom the beef sausage for Christmas.
chinese on christmas eve
summer sausge from hickory farms for new years eve
Going to church on Christmas Eve is my favorite tradition
I remember shopping at Hickory Farms at our local Mall for Christmas gifts when growing up.
my favorite holiday tradition is spending time together with family
i have no specific hickory farms memories
We like to drive around the neighborhood to look at all the holiday decorations!
Stinging Chinese firecrackers on the Christmas tree for a midnight bang.
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My memory is their Beef Summer Sausage served with cubes of Cheddar and washed down with cold beer.
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I like getting the family together
I remember parties with all the fun foods
I love to decorate the tree.
I remember my uncle sending Hickory Farm cheese every year and my mom getting so excited.
My favorite tradition is loading the kids in the car, popping in the Mitch Miller CD and going to look at Christmas lights.
Our favorite tradtion is going to the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
We would always buy my dad a Hickory Farms gift set. He loved them! And he didnt like to share either!
My sis and I have a new tradition – each year we see a Christmas play.
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baking cookies with mom:)
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my dad loves to receive hickory farms for a gift:) Those are the memories I have:)
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One year I got my parents this neat Hickory Farms basket for Christmas.
It was gone in a couple of days!
I love making cookies and other treats with the kids.
I do have Hickory Farm memories. We often got their sausage and had it with crackers and cheese.
Baking Christmas cookies with my grandchildren.
As a matter of fact I do! After my husband & I split up I got Hickory Farms every year for Christmas from the kids for about 10 years!
Our favorite tradition is hot apple cider, tree decorating, and then adventuring.
And how could I forget wanting all the cheese but leaving all the crackers. Bad manners maybe?
Our family tradition is to have Christmas Eve at my Grandmother’s house.
Christmas cookie party:-)
decorating the tree together
Decorating the tree and eating xmas food!
Putting up the tree and lights every year! 🙂
Oh yes! We usually have their summer sausage every year 🙂
Our big family dinner.
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hi guys i love this gave a way and i do bake cup cakes for christmas with my bf for the family and make some pie’s also 🙂
Just spending time with family and having fun.
My Hickory Farms memory is we have a tradition of buying my aunt a Hickory Farms sausage every year and she loves it.
Driving around looking at Christmas lights is my favorite tradition!
My Hickory Farms memories are easy… we serve their summer sausage at our family celebrations every year! It’s one of my favorite appetizers!
We take the kids out on Christmas eve to look at decorations
My favorite tradition is going to see the Christmas lights at LaSalette in MA. (The Shrine has more than 300, 000 lights!) We get there before dark so we get to see the kids’ jaws drop when the lights come on.
Putting up and decorating the Christmas tree on Christmas eve.
I remember having the summer sausage on Christmas eve.
I remember one of my uncles who lived across the country would always send my grandparents a large Hickory Farms gift basket and a giant box of wafer cookies….and my grandparents always shared when we came over!
My favorite is making cookies with my sister
Big family dinners.
I remember getting catalogs for them.
My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree
I remember getting Hickory Farms from my grandmother when I was younger
My husband and I will break out the wine or beer and good snacks after our son goes to bed and wrap all the presents while Christmas Vacation plays on the tv.
My grandparents on my dad’s side always had hickory farms summer sausage and cheese as an appetizer on Christmas Eve. My dad would sneak my brother and I some because it was only supposed to be for the adults.
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Homemade sausage biscuits for breakfast on Christmas morning.
Hickory Farms cheese balls were a huge hit at my first wedding 🙂
I love decorating the tree together.
My memories of Hickory Farms are of getting a tower every year from an out of state uncle.
We always make fancy Christmas cookies in december
cutting down the Christmas tree.
My mom always puts a tray of Hickory Farms meats and cheeses out on Christmas Eve.
DECORATING THE TREE AND DRINKING EGG NOG 🙂
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I HAVE NEVER TRIED HICKORY FARMS PRODUCTS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO 🙂
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My fav tradition is going to the Van Wyck Homestead Museum and taking photos with Santa on the Sleigh outside and buying gifts at their annual craft fair.
I really don’t have any Hickory Farms Memories unfortunately, but I am hoping to make some starting with this giveaway. Thanks.
Baking cookies
favorite tradition is eating pumpkin pie..we only eat twice a year..t-day and Christmas
no we never had hickory farm products before, my family isn’t a appetizer or hors d’oeuvre type.
Christmas Eve at my Grandma’s
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no Hickory farm memories..yet
watching sound of music in pjs
My favorite Christmas tradition is gift giving. Findng the right gift for someone that is somethng they want, need or is surprised with. Some thing that says you are loved and cared about. And money is incidental.
have a big dinner on xmas eve and exchange gifts
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When I was a kid I used to go to mall with folks and we would buy a lot of stuff there for gifts
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sledding on chrisrmas morning
We go to my mom’s for Christmas Eve and every year someone gets a Hickory Farms Summer Sausage.
I haven’t tried Hickory Farms yet, but would love for me & hubby to this Christmas.
I love all coming together to bake cookies with family during the holidays!
I remember my parents giving these as gifts when I was younger, seems like everyone was always happy to get them!
Favorite holiday tradition is the family stringing popcorn to decorate the Christmas tree.
i have never tried hickory farms
we sing together and pray together before midnight mass
My favorite holiday tradition is baking snickerdoodle cookies with my mom while listening to Brenda Lee sing Christmas jingles.
Yes, we have Hickory Farm memories. In fact, we buy Hickory Farm summer sausage every December. Every Christmas Eve we host a party with relatives and close friends. We always put out a spread of summer sausage with cheese, crackers, sandwiches, chips, and sweet delights. We indulge in summer sausage not only on Christmas Eve, but put out a similar spread for New Years Eve. Hickory Farm’s summer sausage is our holiday tradition and treat.
On Christmas morning, we put a lit candle in a cupcake and place it in front of the manger and then sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
My Hickory Farm memories as a child were liking all the different shapes of cheeses.
my fave holiday tradition is baing cookies
We would always love the Beef Stick and bringthis when visting family & frields for the Holidays.
looking at Christmas lights
Decorating the house and Christmas Tree!
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Christmas Eve candlelight service
I remember getting a gift basket from my first boss – I may still have the cutting board that came with it.
Opening present Christmas Eve with my husband.
Besides spending time at my sister’s house…the advent calendar.
I remember my dad used to get Hickory Farms gifts at one of the places he worked when I was a kid. We use to share the summer sausage.
My favorite holiday tradition is making Chex mix with my daughter. We do this every year for gifts.
When growing up my father brought home Hickory Farms sausage and cheeses home every holiday. I remember the smile on his face when he sliced off a piece.
We like to drive arouns and look at Christmas lights.
My favorite Hickory Farms memory is taking the box of treats to eat at the beach on New Years day one year as a picnic.
We get new pj’s on xmas eve and we watch christmas movies with yummy snacks
Making Jams and Jellies for presents
No Hickery Farms Memories.
Our tradition is to eat snowball cookies while opening gifts christmas morning
Going to the movies and eating Chinese food on Christmas.
No Hickory Farms memories…yet!
Going to look at lights on Christmas Eve.
My girls always get a set for their dad- and then eat it on him. 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is mimosas on Christmas Day while opening presents
Going to my Aunt & Uncles when I was little they always had Hickory Farms platter on the snack table and I would always steal all the cheese!
Trimming the Tree
Ours is decorating the whole house
I always bought their cheese balls
We open our gifts early on Christ,as Eve day. Then, in the evening, we always host the party for my husband;s side of the family.
The family always bakes cookies together!
I ordered the jumbo cashew nuts, and our family LOVED them.
Dad likes Hickory Farms and would often give as a gift!
watching christmas story all day christmas day
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We always drink eggnog by the fireplace on Christmas Eve.
My office always gets at least one Hickory Farm’s basket during the holidays.
We always have a snack buffet on Christmas Eve to enjoy all the treats we’ve made (and cheese and crackers!)
Thanks!
My sister-in-law gave my family a Hickory Farms basket on her 1st Christmas with us – a very long time ago when they had just started dating – she was so young!
We listen to A Charlie Brown Christmas while we trim the tree together 🙂
Baking all sorts of holiday goodies.
Yes I can remember a few times over the years sending Hickory Farm Gifts to family members to enjoy.
Having the family over to open presents
A new tradition that we started a couple years ago is Elf on the Shelf. I think I get more excited then my kids do when it’s time to get him out! 😉
Every year we got my parents something from Hickory Farms. It’s nice because they turn around and end up sharing it with us.
Family nerf gun fight lol! Last gift open in our home is our family set of nerf guns and we play throughout the house and than settle down for breakfast and checking out all the new stuffs and watching Christmas movies all day 🙂
My favorite tradition is when my mom gives all of us a new ornament each year for Christmas!
We use to have Hickory farms summer sausage every year for Christmas, I also worked their during the holidays when I was in High School
Fave tradition: new PJs Christmas eve!
we love baking goodie baskets for family and friends
We drive around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve
My parents always got something from Hickory Farms for Christmas, I remember eating the cheese first.
Going to the Christmas Parade and seeing Santa Claus
My favorite tradition is looking at Christmas lights. Also, I LOVeD going to Hickory Farms when I was a kid. Samples everywhere! 😉
all of the kids in our family get together to decorate my mom’s tree
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we get a hickory farms gift box for new years and enjoy while we watch the ball drop
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Going to the local Christmas parades is our tradition.
I remember getting pickles in the mall Hickory Farms in our area when I was small.
Baking cookies!
I always remembered buying some hickory farms for xmas
Getting the family all together for latkes and fun!
Once we got the absolute biggest gift set in that year’s Hickory Farms Catalog from my Dad’s boss…wow!! We thought it was the best gift ever…LOL
My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with family and friends.
I remember almost everybody were giving Hickory Farm gifts or buying Hickory Farm products for Christmas.
I love to bake cookies!
We used to buy the minty meltaways every year as a kid.
baking cookies to give to neighbors
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve. We received new jammies every year and usually a book or a small toy to keep us occupied because we always got sent to bed early on Christmas Eve. And then we would all snuggle on the couch while my mum read How The Grinch Stole Christmas. And now I do it with my twins (they’ll be 2 just a few weeks after Christmas).
We would get a Hickory Farms assortment for my husbands boss at Christmas.
My favorite holiday tradition is every year we ride around our local area looking at Christmas lights and decorations and listen to Christmas music.
Gathering at our house on Christmas Eve to celebrate with my adult children & their families.
Every year we enjoy hickory farms products at our family get together on New Years.
Baking and decorating cookies.
I love me some yummy Hickoy Farms summer sausage with crackers! We would always have this on Christmas Eve.
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree!
I remember my grandmother buying our family a big box of goodies each year!
I love decorating the tree with the kids and reminiscing about each of their ornaments
I can remember every year at the mall the hickory farms would have a place setup and we would get free samples and my mom would always buy me a bag of their holiday mints
My favorite tradition is the family getting together to decorate sugar cookies.
I remember always being excited when the holidays got close because the Hickory Farms kiosks would shop up in the mall.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together and watch Holiday movies with my family
Decorating my tree
my favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with the kids, we have lots of fun and make loads of messes
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i love baking our large variety of special homemade Christmas cookies!
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i remember using their meats and cheeses on my mom’s cheese/meat platter-yummy!
our favoite tradition is decorating the house
no memories, i have never tried it but they say it good
Getting together with family on Christmas Eve.
My dad used to go get the cheese and sausage.
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree for my December birthday!
My memory of Hickory Farms is that my Mom used to work there! I loved sampling the melt-away mints!!
When I was a kid the Hickory Farms store in the mall sold thick slices of their summer sausage for under a dollar. We’d always get those to snack on. So good!