Merry Christmas Recipes.com Aims to Become the Largest Library of Christmas Recipes Online
Merry Christmas Recipes.com has launched today to become the world’s most comprehensive resource for Christmas recipes online. The site collects, catalogues and presents recipes submitted by Christmas fans all over the world via the world’s largest online Christmas community found at the Merry Forums of My Merry Christmas.com. The site has published their first cookbook of world-wide recipes, titled “The Sweet Treats of Christmas” as a fund raising effort for Santa’s Sleigh.
“This is a massive and exciting project,” said Jeff Westover, CEO of Merry Network LLC, parent company of Merry Christmas Recipes.com and publisher of more than thirty other websites dedicated to Christmas. “Food is an essential element of both the sacred and secular celebration of Christmas. Merry Christmas Recipes works to catalogue those submissions we receive from our network of sites to make them easier to access.”
Merry Christmas Recipes.com is presented in partnership with SayerFoods.com, owned and managed by Chef Matt Thomson. “Christmas isn’t just a day it is an entire season of festive eating,” said Thomson. “From desserts to entrees the creativity we’re seeing in these submissions is inspiring. From the mulled wines of Germany to the spicey staples of South America, there are no real limits to Christmas feasting. To bring that all together in a single resource will make it entirely unique.”
Merry Christmas Recipes.com spearheads an effort by the Christmas community online to raise funds for Santa’s Sleigh.org, a charitable effort designed to meet the needs of just one family at Christmas.
“The Sweet Treats of Christmas is a community effort,” Matt Thomson explains. “The recipes were submitted from community members from the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia and other points on the globe under the theme of Christmas desserts. We’re sure nothing like this has been tried before and we’re excited to see the results.”
More than 300 recipes are in the collection, now available to pre-order between now and when the volume ships in mid-November. The recipes are bound in a padded 3-ring binder custom printed and designed by Merry Christmas Recipes.com.
Holiday Health, Fitness & Nutrition Launches at MMC
My Merry Christmas.com, the Internet’s longest ongoing celebration of Christmas, announced today that it has launched a new discussion area in it’s popular Merry Forums dedicated to Holiday Health, Fitness and Nutrition.
“Food as a part of Christmas is often glamorize with things like cookies or visions of sugar plums,” noted Jeff Westover, founder of My Merry Christmas. “But we have long had a contingent of folks who want to explore healthier alternatives in diet and exercise during the holiday season. We think it is high time we give them the space they need to talk about it. More and more people are dedicating themselves to healthier living and we think that should include Christmas-time.”
The new section of My Merry Christmas will focus on holiday-emphasized recipes, ideas, eating plans, exercise routines and weight loss journals. The area will also showcase new content generated at My Merry Christmas dedicated to Christmas foods, to be launched later this year.
“We still offer information, history, recipes and shared resources for traditional Christmas fare,” Westover noted. “We are expanding our offering to include alternative festive foods and healthy living for those who can’t partake in traditional offerings.”
The new section can be accessed at this link.
Nestle Says Pumpkin Shortage is Over
Last year, a series of heavy rains dented the pumpkin harvest and many pumpkin-pie plans for after Thanksgiving. Nestle, which sells the vast majority of the canned pumpkin category, said that won’t be a problem this year.
“We’re in much better shape than this time last year,” said spokeswoman Roz O’Hearn. “We’re more than one-third of the way through harvest, and not experiencing the heavy, drenching rains that were in that part of Illinois [last year].”
Nestle grows and cans pumpkins in Morton, Ill. O’Hearn said Nestle planted extra pumpkins this year, in case of another rainy season.
The company began supplying canned pumpkin to local grocery stores about a week ago. However, the 2009 shortage has consumers spooked. O’Hearn said consumers’ pumpkin concerns have inquires to Nestle’s Web site and consumer hot line up five-fold.
