Del Monte wants you to “Add Some Garden” to your meals!

I have always been a strange person when it comes to vegetables. Even as a kid, I loved peas, green beans, and even the notorious kid’s most hated: Broccoli.

Del Monte, maker of fine canned goods such as fruits and vegetables, wants to help you add some garden to your meals! It is super simple to use Del Monte brand canned vegetables and fruit to make your meals special! I was sent an assortment of canned foods to use to add some garden to my meals here. I was sent** Del Monte’s corn, green beans, diced tomatoes, peaches and pears. I was able to come up with several recipes online and at home that used these simple ingredients along with the $25 Visa gift card I was given!

For Del Monte’s Diced Tomatoes, I used them in my spaghetti recipe. Although the recipe listed on here does not list exact amounts of ingredients, I will give you a hint on the diced tomatoes-I used 2 cans of Del Monte Diced Tomatoes in my recipe.

I loved how bright and fresh they look right out of the can.

I also love that Del Monte’s Diced Tomatoes come with a pop tab lid. I find this much more convenient than having to drag the old can opener out. Del Monte’s Diced Tomatoes made a perfect sauce even better! I could taste the difference and freshness in every bite! This must be because Del Monte fruits and vegetables are grown in the best growing regions of the United States, providing consumers with a consistently quality product and the majority are also picked at the peak of freshness and packaged the same day.

For the corn, I suggest making my Curried Corn and Potato Chowder. Del Monte’s corn would make a fine addition to this already awesome recipe and who doesn’t like a bowl of fresh, warm soup on a cold winter day?

Canned peaches and pears make amazing additions to any dessert. Try mixing Del Monte’s Peaches with a bit of sugar and water, boiling down and creating a piping hot topping for ice cream? Delicious!

I would also like to tell you about the “Add Some Garden” contest currently going on, on the Del Monte Facebook Page. From now until February 4th, you can submit your recipes and tips to win one of the awesome prizes available! You could win kitchen appliances and even $25- $500 Williams-Sonoma Gift Certificates!

The best part? You could even win the grand prize: A Culinary Travel Adventure worth $10,000!

To enter to win, submit your best tips, and consumers will be able to vote for their favorite tip during the second week of each phase. There are 5 phases in total and the five winning tips for each phase will then go head-to-head for a chance to win the Grand Prize!

Since I already missed a couple of the phases, I want to make sure to tell you about the remaining phases because it is not too late to have your chance to win! The winner for the Grand Prize will be announced February 15th, 2013!

The remaining two phases and their dates are:

Peaches (January 7- January 20)
Pears (January 21- February 3)

I would encourage you to make sure you enter and make sure you try out how easy it is to Add Some Garden to your recipes with Del Monte!

To get those creative cooking juices flowing, Del Monte would like to send one of Saved By Grace Blog’s readers the same pack I got filled with Del Monte favorites; Corn, Green Beans, Diced Tomatoes, Peaches and Pears plus a $25 Visa Gift Card! Just enter to win below! Giveaway runs from 12/18-1/10!

**The Del Monte product, information, and two gift packs have been provided by Del Monte

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