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Pot Pie Creations

November 28, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

Pot Pie is an ultimate comfort food, perfect for cold nights. Creamy sauce, chunks of chicken or beef, tender veggies, and flaky crust – what’s not to love? And even better, there’s a variety of ways to create a pot pie that is tailormade for you and your family. Try any one or all three of Libby’s favorite pot pie creations below this fall.

Light and Fluffy
Tell everyone you’re having pie for dinner and watch their eyes light up. This lightened up Chicken Pot Pie recipe makes dinner prep easy peasy by using Libby’s® Mixed Vegetables and Sweet Peas Pouches for a delicious and comforting meal.

Savory Pie

For a simple family friendly dinner, try this Beef Pot Pie using Libby’s® Mixed Vegetables and prepared pie crusts for an easy and delicious meal every time. Just mix all the ingredients together, pour atop the first pie crust, place the second crust over the filling, and bake for 35 minutes until the pie is bubbling with a golden-brown crust.

Personalized Delight

Treat everyone to their very own individual Ham and Green Bean Pot Pies using Libby’s® Cut Green Beans and Whole Kernel Sweet Corn. If you’re looking to prepare a special meal for the family these little personalized pies are sure to become a household favorite.

Revamp Thanksgiving Leftovers

November 21, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving is the ultimate food holiday! Everyone can enjoy their favorite comfort foods, and we all know there will be leftovers. Instead of the usual reheated Thanksgiving plate or the go-to turkey sandwich, revamp your Thanksgiving leftovers with these good-as-new dish ideas.

Mash Up

It’s the day after and you have leftover mashed potatoes, green beans, and carrots. Put a creative spin on Haylie Duff’s Lentil Shepherd’s Pie to create a new dish your family will enjoy with those delicious leftovers.

Sweet and Savory

These Green Bean Casserole Tartlets are sure to be a crowd pleaser. Bake up a delicious grab-and-go dish that everyone will love after a long day of holiday shopping using your leftover green bean casserole.

Deja Vu

It may feel like Thanksgiving all over again with this quick and simple Corn and Potato Casserole with Gruyere. Wow your taste buds by adding a little gruyere cheese, chives, and seasonings to your leftover mashed potatoes and corn for a delicious good-as-new post-holiday dish.

Thanksgiving Food Safety Tips

November 15, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

By Dylan Bailey, MS

Tis’ the season to give thanks for many things in our life – including family, friends and our health. We’re also thankful for the sweet and savory foods we’ve come to love this time of year, which give us that warm, fuzzy, and comforting feeling. You know what we’re talking about.

Before we can even dig in, we need to think about how our favorite Thanksgiving food is prepared. It may seem pretty obvious, but the way foods were sourced, made and served at the first Thanksgiving in 1621, is totally different from what we might experience at the table today. In the spirit of the holidays, we are appreciative of one of these distinct mealtime differences that separates us from the pilgrims: the knowledge and use of proper food safety practices.

At Libby’s®, we want you and your guests to experience food to its fullest and most importantly, safest potential. One in six Americans will get a foodborne illness this year, and we want to be on the front lines with you to help ensure a safe, healthy and delicious holiday. To do this, we’ve curated tips that you can use in your everyday life, no matter if you’re cooking for 20 people or just bringing the pumpkin pie, sourced from expert organizations like the Centers for Disease Control, United States Department of Agriculture and the Partnership for Food Safety Education. Join us in being food safe this Thanksgiving!

Let’s start with the following four food safety tips:

Handling and preparing food properly are critical to prevent a food-related illness from impacting you, your family and friends this holiday season. Use these four food safety tips when purchasing, handling, storing, preparing and serving foods.

1. Clean: Wash hands and surfaces often.
Wash your hands with soap and clean running water, and rub them together for at least 20 seconds. Do this before, during and after preparing food and before eating. Wash your utensils, cutting boards, and countertops with hot, soapy water between each food preparation step.

2. Separate: Avoid cross-contamination
Keep raw meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs (including their juices) away from ready-to-eat foods and eating surfaces. This includes when grocery shopping. Use separate cutting boards and plates for raw meat, poultry, and seafood. Keep raw meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs separate from all other foods in the fridge. Eating turkey? Use these tips to ensuring a delicious and safe bird makes it to the table.

3. Cook: Cook foods to the proper temperature
Food is safely cooked when the internal temperature gets high enough to kill germs that can make you sick. The only way to tell if food is safely cooked is to use a food thermometer. You can’t tell if food is safely cooked by checking its color and texture. See here for a helpful list of proper holiday food temperatures.

4. Chill: Refrigerate promptly
Keep your refrigerator below 40°F. Refrigerate perishable food within 2 hours (If outdoor temperature is above 90°F, refrigerate within 1 hour). Thaw frozen food safely in the refrigerator, in cold water, or in the microwave. Never thaw foods on the counter, because bacteria multiply quickly in the parts of the food that reach room temperature.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/keep-food-safe.html

Let’s talk about leftovers:

Place food into shallow containers and immediately put in the refrigerator or freezer for rapid cooling.
Throw away all perishable foods, such as meat, poultry, eggs and casseroles, left at room temperature longer than two hours; one hour in air temperatures above 90°F.
Reheat leftovers to an internal temperature of 165°F.
Eat cooked leftovers within 4 days.
Most importantly, when in doubt, throw it out!

What about canned foods?

Canned foods offer convenient access to nutrient-dense foods, including fruits and vegetables, all year long and are safe indefinitely as long as they are not exposed to freezing temperatures, or temperatures above 90°F.
If the cans look ok, they are safe to use. Discard cans that are dented, rusted, or swollen.
High-acid canned food (tomatoes, fruits) will keep their best quality for 12 to 18 months; low-acid canned food (meats, vegetables) for 2 to 5 years.

We hope this refresher on food safety will ensure a healthy and delicious Thanksgiving for you and your loved ones. Apply your newfound knowledge when preparing these seasonal side dishes using Libby’s® Canned Vegetables listed below!

Gluten-Free Corn and Zucchini Pie

Crock Pot Sweet Corn Spoon Bread

Bacon Corn Sourdough Stuffing

For more recipe ideas, check out Libby’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for delicious holiday dishes.

Sidesgiving Bracket Challenge

November 2, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and what would the holiday season be without family traditions? From Green Bean Casserole to Old Fashioned Skillet Corn Bread, everyone has a favorite Thanksgiving side. That got us wondering: is there one Thanksgiving side everyone loves more than the others?

To find out, we turned to you to share your can-did opinions on the best side. Family classics faced off in our official Sidesgiving bracket. The rivalry heated up faster than a deep-fried turkey, and you used your votes to decide which dish won the coveted title by voting in our Sidesgiving Bracket challenge on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

It was a tough choice, but stuffing gobble, gobble, gobbled up the competition and was ultimately crowned the winner! Bring the Sidesgiving champion to your table with this delicious Bacon Corn Sourdough Stuffing from Nutmeg Nanny.

Libby’s® Helps Consumers Give Thanks with Sixth Annual “Cansgiving” Sweepstakes

November 1, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

Fruits and vegetables brand awards winning families with prizes to maximize their Thanksgiving feasts and provides donations to Meals on Wheels America

Marion, N.Y. (November 1, 2018) – For the sixth consecutive year, Libby’s® Fruits & Vegetables is launching its annual “Cansgiving” sweepstakes encouraging fans to submit photos illustrating what they are most thankful for this holiday season. Whether customers are thankful for time spent with friends and family, long-standing holiday traditions or making new memories, the iconic fruits and vegetables company invites all fans to share their images of what inspires their gratitude this Thanksgiving season.

Fans can enter the Cansgiving sweepstakes by submitting their photo depicting what they are most thankful on www.GetBacktoTheTable.com/Cansgiving, or by sharing their picture on the Libby’s Facebook page or their personal Twitter pages using the hashtags #Cansgiving and #sweepstakes. Libby’s will award ten participants, chosen at random, with a $500 gift card for use toward their family’s holiday feast, plus an assortment of Libby’s fruits and vegetable products to help them prepare for the meal. The sweepstakes opens at noon EST on Nov. 1, 2018, and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2018. Official rules are available at www.GetBacktoTheTable.com/Cansgiving.

In honor of the season that’s all about giving back, Libby’s is proud to support Meals on Wheels America, a national organization dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. The organization will receive a monetary donation of $5,000, $500 made in the name of each winner of the Cansgiving sweepstakes, as well as Libby’s fruits and vegetable products, to help advance their mission of supporting homebound seniors this Thanksgiving holiday.

“Some of life’s most special moments take place during the holidays and around the dinner table,” said Bruce Wolcott, Vice President of Marketing for Seneca Foods. “Our annual sweepstakes gives us the opportunity to help Libby’s customers create a memorable Thanksgiving with family and friends. We are also grateful for the opportunity to pay it forward by matching each Cansgiving sweepstakes prize with a donation to Meals on Wheels America to help support the incredible work they are doing to ensure that America’s homebound seniors receive the nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks they need.”

For more Thanksgiving inspiration, fans can tune into a Facebook Live session with Haylie Duff on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. EST. Duff will discuss her holiday traditions and what she’s thankful for this year. She’ll also share one of her favorite Thanksgiving side dishes. During the Facebook Live session, Duff and Libby’s will also select two participants to be awarded with Thanksgiving-themed cooking prizes. Consumers may follow along by viewing Duff’s Real Girl’s Kitchen Facebook page.

All season long, Libby’s will be sharing Thanksgiving-themed recipes and entertaining tips on its website (www.getbacktothetable.com) and its social media platforms. Additional seasonal recipes – from crowd-pleasing appetizers to comforting side dishes to festive desserts can be found in Libby’s Digital Recipe Box.

About Libby’s^® Fruits & Vegetables

Libby’s^®, the nation’s second largest brand of canned vegetables, has been a staple on American dinner tables since the 1880s. With 117 product varieties, Libby’s offers among the industry’s most complete lines of canned fruit and vegetables, including Libby’s^® Naturals, which contain no added sugar or salt. Since 1983, Libby’s^® Fruits & Vegetables have been produced and distributed by Marion, N.Y. based Seneca Foods Corporation, an independent, publicly traded, fully integrated food processing company. For more information on Libby’s^® and Seneca Foods visit www.senecafoods.com. For information on Libby’s mission, visit www.getbacktothetable.com, like Libby’s on Facebook, or follow @LibbysTable on Twitter or Pinterest.

About Meals on Wheels America

Meals on Wheels America is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This network serves virtually every community in America and, along with more than two million staff and volunteers, delivers the nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks that enable America’s seniors to live nourished lives with independence and dignity. By providing funding, leadership, education, research and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time. For more information, or to find a Meals on Wheels provider near you, visit www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org.

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Halloween Party Recipes

October 25, 2018 by libbysvegdev Leave a Comment

Halloween is almost here, and soon children will gorge on bags full of sugary candy.

This year, Libby’s® has a few recipe ideas to help save the family from falling into a sugar daze. Keep everyone fueled and entertained this Halloween by using Libby’s® Canned Vegetables to create playful and savory snacks for your upcoming Halloween party or family dinner after a fun, fright night out.

And, don’t forget the Halloween-inspired recipe name cards to help bring your ghoulish menu to life!

Spooky Peas

For a twist on your traditional Halloween mix, try this simple Sweet and Smoky Peas dish using Libby’s® Sweet Peas. Kids love snacking, and this is a great grab and go option for busy trick-or-treaters heading out the door.

Sweet and Smoky Peas

Monster Bites

These Black Bean and Bacon Veggie Bites with Libby’s® Mixed Vegetables are fun to eat and kids will love each crunchy, savory bite.

Black Bean and Bacon Veggie Bites

Frankenstein Sliders

Sneak in Libby’s® Sweet Peas and Diced Carrots into these Frankenstein Turkey Bolognese with Peas and Carrots sliders. These will be such a hit you won’t have to worry about winning the veggie war.

Turkey Bolognese Sliders

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