If you’ve just arrived here from reading my post on Christmas Traditions, then welcome! One of my favorite Christmas traditions with my family is to watch Christmas movies together to get us in the Holiday spirit! One of my new favorites is The Flight Before Christmas — a brand new CGI Animated film arriving on the scene for this Holiday Season! The characters are adorable and irresistible! From the press release:
When Niko sneaks out beyond the safety of Home Valley to practice his flying, he unwittingly endangers the herd as the notoriously mean Black Wolf fol
lows him home. Before it’s too late, Niko must join
forces with his forest animal friends to save Santa and the reindeer from the Black Wolf and become a Christmas hero…just like his father! Featuring all-star voice talent including teen sensation Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew, Aquamarine) and funny-man Norm MacDonald (“The Norm Show,” “Saturday Night Live”), The Flight Before Christmas is a heartwarming yuletide tale filled with colorful endearing characters such as Julius the flying squirrel 
and Wilma the cheeky weasel.
You can buy The Flight Before Christmas
Win it! I have a copy of the Flight Before Christmas to give away to one lucky Chic Shopper Chick reader. To enter, follow the easy-peasy rules below!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is opening presents. =0)
Watching the kids open presents :)
My favorite tradition is making Santa goodies for working so hard.
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Watching my grandchildren open their Christmas presents at about 6am in the morning.
The weekend after Thanksgiving, we go out to chop our Christmas tree…the kids have so much fun. It takes HOURS to pick and decide on the perfect one!
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Niko must team up with the other forest animals to prevent any trouble that comes their way.
We love to drive around and look at the lights.
My favorite Christmas tradition was something that was done in my daddy’s family. We always ate fried oysters for breakfast on Christmas morning. Even when times were hard, we still had fried oysters, even if each person only had one to eat. We are still carrying on the tradition. If I miss buying them, and the stores are sold out, I don’t feel like my Christmas is complete until I can eat my fried oysters, even if it’s days later. My parents have both passed away, and it brings back wonderful memories on Christmas day to do something we did as a family when we were growing up.
my favorite tradition is opening one gift each on christmas eve.
right after thanksgiving we start putting up the christmas decorations..thats my favorite part :)
My favorite tradition is the entire family getting together on Christmas Eve – this includes my siblings, their spouses, children, etc. – our parents, family friends – it’s such a great time – great food, great people. I love it.
Our daughter gets three gifts on Christmas (amount spent depends on our financial situation that fall) because that is how many Jesus got.
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Watching Christmas movies, popcorn, and decorating!
Our favorite Christmas Eve tradition is to pile everyone into the family vehicle, and driving around to see the Christmas decorations! Thank you for this giveaway!
Our favorite Christmas Tradition is going to see a play together.
Waking up Christmas morning, opening gifts, then eating an egg casserole.
we go to the town hall christmas tree lightinging every year and see santa and sing christmas carols.
Decorating the tree is our tradition and we each take turns with the ornamnets!
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Just being with family and playing cards, eating, and watching football! thanks!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is the “Christmas Feast” we have on Christmas Eve, which consists of everyone’s favorite foods. We have everything from beef jerky and cheese-in-a-can to smoked oysters and caviar!
My favorite tradition is reading the story of Jesus’s birth from the bible.
My fave tradition growing up was getting to open one present on christmas eve.
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baking Christmas candy and then eating lots on xmas eve
Baking cookies!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is choosing our perfect Christmas tree at the tree farm. We always do this the day after Thanksgiving while everyone else is pushing and shoving through the Black Friday sales. We avoid the stress and spend a relaxing day in the country and bring home a beautiful tree!
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every year our family watches how the grinch stole christmas and have hot chocolate with lots of marshmellows. I will always treasure this time
Decorating the tree together and looking at all the beautiful lights. Also making cookies Christmas Eve night. Thank you!!
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The whole family getting together to enjoy Christmas dinner is my favorite tradition. Thanks for the giveaway!
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My favorite tradition is decorating the entire house and the Christmas tree with everyone helping!
My favorite tradition is my mom’s food and the family being together!
My favorite christmas tradition, is apple cider, I love when my mom makes that stuff, its so yummy. And all the parties. I love it.
My favorite tradition is gathering the family in the van and seeking out Christmas Lights and Decorations in neighborhoods, while singing Christmas Carols!
Making Gingerbread houses!
My favorite tradition is opening one gift each on Christmas eve. Everyone knows it will be new pjs and maybe a robe. Then we snack and watch Christmas movies. Thanks for the giveaway!
Going to my husband’s grandparents to eat and celebrate. Thanks for the chance to win.
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My favorite tradition is making gingerbread houses together on Christmas Eve!
every christmas eve i read the little match girl to my kids after decorating cookies
My favorite is Christmas cookies.
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My favorite tradition is trimming the Christmas tree. It’s time of excitement and wonder with my family.
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Opening gifts Crhsitmas morning-no matter how old they are there is still that look of excitement.
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We go caroling every year
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We like driving around looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights :)
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We always hide a glass ornament shaped like a pickle on the tree. The person able to spy the pickle gets the pickle present some extra present suitable for anyone who might find the hiding ornament. Over the years it’s become a fun tradition with the two girls now in college still vying for that one extra present.
My favorite tradition is making cookies to leave out for Santa, and carrots for Rudolph, and did you know that Santa loves a glass of gingerale instead of all that milk ;)
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my hubby and I would put on our santa outfits and drive around to watch christmas lights in the neighborhood at christmas eve. we come home and have christmas movies marathon til christmas day!
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One of my favorite things is making out the Christamas cards. I know, some find this tedious, but I enjoy spending time writing each a note and thinking about their familes while I do. I hope you have a Ho-Ho-Holiday! Thanks!!
Love the chorales and caroling–we visit local nursing and assisted living homes for caroling–the residents love it.
Our holiday tradition is to bring in a potted fir tree that was planted on our daughter’s birthday 11 years ago. We all decorate with various items that we have collected over the years. It is a lot of fun and very rewarding to see it grow every year.
My favorie traditionis getting together with the family. Thanks:)
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My favorite tradition is playing Bingo at home with my 8 granddaughters to see who will win the “extra” gifts Santa left under the tree that were mysteriously, left without name tags.
My favorite tradition has to be baking cookies together as a family (and then sampling them together as a family!).
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I love to take turns opening up the stocking presents,and watching my kids take delight in small little treasures.
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The day after Thanksgiving we listen to Christmas music in the car until Christmas Day. The kids love it so do we. Thanks
Our favorite tradition is opening one present on Christmas eve night, just to get a little taste! Then on Christmas morning we open all of the presents in our jammies!
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Getting together with family on Christmas Eve. Also, taking the kids to see Santa and ride the train at the mall!
Baking a Christmas cake for Baby Jesus
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My favorite tradition is singing Silent Night by candlelight at Midnight Mass. Every now and then I manage to get through it without bursting into tears.
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My favorite tradition is caroling with my family. I love it when we sing together!
decorating our tree
My favorite Christmas tradition is for my family to make carmel corn and deliver it to our friends and loved ones.
Making sugar cookies and fudge.
Our favorite family tradition is watching the Christmas shows (rudolph,frosty etc.) as a family all over again.
Even my older children and husband still love watching them.
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Popping corn and decorating the tree with our grandkids.
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My family Christmas tradition is going out to look at the Christmas light displays and taking family pictures. It’s always cold, but so pretty and loads of fun.
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Our favorite Christmas tradition is reading “Twas the Night Before Christmas” out loud on Christmas Eve. I am an adult and still love to hear my mother do “the reading”. Thanks for the giveaway! Enter me please.
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I’d have to say our Christmas Eve is my favorite tradition, we open one gift each and then eat a fun meal.
My family plays a Christmas game every year that involves gag presents.. its tons of fun :)
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Putting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
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my favorite christmas tradition is when my mother-in-law sits us all down and reads us the book “santa mouse” and then on christmas morning we have to find out “santa mouse” gift wrapped in blue paper, hiding in the christmas tree. this is a tradition that she has done with her family since my husband was a wee child.
Each year we buy a bunch of special snacks and snack while we decorate the Christmas Tree.
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We like to not go shopping the day after Thanksgiving and just sleep in, set up the christmas tree and decorations, make turkey corn chowder out of leftover turkey, and just relax. Great giveaway, thanks!
Making fudge with the family!
My favorite tradition is reading the Christmas story on Christmas eve before we open presents. My dad always read it to us as kids and we’ve continued doing it with our kids. I love it! :)
We always bake cookies together and watch holiday films as a family.
We open one present each on Christmas eve and then pick out a board game to play into the wee hrs
My favorite isn’t the presents. It’s the mistletoe.
Haven’t seen this dvd before. Look forward to watching with the grandchildren. Thank you for this great timely contest and prize!
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I love baking and decorating gingerbread men with my family!
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trimming the tree
We celebrate on Christmas eve, so Christmas morning is always pancakes and turkey gravey.
making cookies for santa with the kids
I love making chocolates
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We always decorate the tree the day after Thanksgiving.
On Christmas Eve we prepare lots of our favorite snacks,light a fire in the fireplace, sit cuddled up on the sofa and watch Christmas movies. Then we read the night before Chirstmas, hang our stockings up,leave cookies, milk,a carrot for Rudolph and go to bed.
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Favorite tradition- making a birthday cake for Jesus.
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Singing Christmas Carols!
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Spending time with family and baking cookies!
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Our favorite tradition is riding around and looking at the Christmas lights. Then we come home and have hot chocolate.
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my kids favorite Christmas tradition is to drive around and look at houses decorated with Christmas lights. It’s great because we spend that time as a whole family :)
As part of our decorating tradition, we make bird seed and peanut butter balls to hang outside in the trees for the birds.
I love watching my children open gifts on Christmas morning.
I love having Christmas Eve at my house w/ the family.
Our family Christmas Eve Chinese food dinner
candle light dinner after a day of lounging
I love everything about Christmas, the season starts with our outside decorations.
I love the day we decorate the tree. A new ornament is bought each year, so each ornament has many stories of the year it represents to tell. Much laughter and some tears are part of the process.
the whole family comes over and we bake all day
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Thank you for having this. I would love to win. My favorite Christmas tradition is to bake lots of cookies and goodies with my 3 children. Thank you!
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My favorite is our celebration of Christmas Eve.
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Putting out milk and cookies for Santa
Putting out milk and cookies for Santa and waiting for Christmas morning!
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Our family gathers Xmas Eve to celebrate than we all go to midnight church service tother
cookies for breakfast! Hey… it’s only 1 day… ;-)
I love my mother’s Christmas Eve party. Always a good time!
We started some new traditions last year and my favorite was decorating a Christmas tree for the birds (you know with bird seend and popcorn ornaments).
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Our favorite tradition is after we all go to my MIL’s for Christmas Eve my adult children, their wives and my grandchildren all come to my house and spend the night. Even though they only live a few streets away from us it is so wonderful to wake up Christmas morning and be able to share the excitement of the children and to have my wonderful children close to me.
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Going to Midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
Riding the kiddos around Christmas Eve while Santa brings in the presents at my Granparents’ house!
I like making cookies and decorating the tree
We make sugar cookies every year. The first ones made are perfect but by the end we just slop the frosting on…they all taste the same anyways!
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My favorite tradition is the kids opening their Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve and reading about the first Christmas from the Bible. We even make a birthday cake for Jesus!
We always put up the christmas tree the night of Thanksgiving!
we all put the tree up the day after thanksgiving together.
When I was younger my dad and I watched White Christmas every year. Now my kiddos watch it with me. Thanks for the giveaway.
My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around to see the light displays and then returning to hot cocoa or eggnog around the tree. Thanks for the contest
Celebrating Advent through to the 12 days of Christmas.
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We start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. Each day I pull out another piece of decor for our home. The kids are excited by every new item and fondly recall the items that have been with them since they were tiny. We also drive around looking at Christmas Lights. Another favorite thing is to search for our Christmas Tree with a thermos full of hot chocolate.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is putting up the tree — we put on Christmas music, have hot cocoa and talk about all the ornaments and the memories associated with them!
My favorite Christmas tradition is spending Nochebuena (Christmas Eve – I am Cuban) at my husbands grandmother’s house. She throws a big party every year and everyone gathers to eat, drink, and pretty much be merry. Santa always makes an appearance bearing gifts for the little ones. My other favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the house for Christmas. It always makes me so happy. Thank you.
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Everyone goes to my mother’s house with a prepared dish. We eat and open just one present before the kids go to bed. Thanks for the chance.
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Decorating the tree and spending Christmas morning together as a family.
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Our favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve, while we go look at lights, Santa makes a super-special extra early stop to leave off new pj’s or blankets or whatever and a movie while we’re out so we look spiffy in our Christmas pics.
Family, tree and eating.
Having our kids and grandkids(26 PEOPLE) over on Christmas Eve is our tradition.
Eating the cookies we left out for Santa after the kids go to bed… Thanks for the great contest!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is baking cookies while listening to christmas music! We also open one gift on christmas Eve!
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snuggling up on the couch, under blankets, watching movies is greattttt!
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Thats the one day when I have all my kids and grandchildren over to celebrate the holiday. There are 16 of us so its a little crowded but I just love it! Thank you!
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One of my favorite Christmas traditions is decorating our baby tree. We are a foster family and we have an ornament with the name of each child that has lived with us, every year we put all of their ornaments on our baby tree in the dining room and as we hang each ornament we reflect on their time with our family and say a prayer for them.
WE OPEN CHRISTMAS GIFTS ON CHRISTMAS EVE BECAUSE MY GRANDMA ALWAYS SAID CHRISTMAS WAS NOT ABOUT GIFT IT WAS ABOUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS. I AGREE AND LOVE THAT I GOT TO OPEN MY GIFTS A DAY BEFORE EVERYONE ELES
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My family get together and bakes homemade dog bones for our no-kill animal shelter’s Christmas Bazaar. We have a great time baking, decorating and cleaning. Then on the day of the bazaar we all volunteer to work. Its a great way to kick off the holiday season.
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We have a big feast and open one gift on Christmas Eve.
I like making my mom’s rolled Christmas cookies and letting the kids decorate them.
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Making cookies as a family, all together.
Before presents and breakfast on Christmas morning, my family sits together by the front window and we take turns reading the story of Christ’s birth from the Bible. My mom always made sure we read the story together before opening presents, so that we knew what we were really celebrating. As a kid, it was hard to sit still when I knew that PRESENTS came next . . . but now I look forward to our reading time the most.
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my favorite christmas tradition is making green christmas tree press cookies. it has been done in my family since i was little!
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Our favorite tradition is making and decorating Christmas cookies.
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birthday cake for Jesus is my favorite tradition
Our favorite tradition is putting together the Santa Jigsaw Puzzle every year.
Making Christmas cookies
Either decorating the tree, or opening the stockings.
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Definitely going out and chopping down our own Christmas tree. It always winds up being too big for our living room which is ok, but we just laugh because it looks so small out in the fields.
We switched to an artificial tree a few years ago (due to to allergies), but that hasn’t dampened my excitement of putting up and decorating the tree every year!
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We make cookies and sing christmas songs
My parents have always had an artificial tree, so when I got married I thought that’s what I would have too. The thing is, my husband’s family always cut down a real tree. As much as I like to have my way, I gave in and we went and cut down a Christmas tree for our first Christmas together and we have every year since. Never doing it before we were married, I didn’t realize how much fun it could be and it is now one of my favorite traditions.
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Putting up the tree together.
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To open one present each on Christmas eve, usually pyjamas for the kids and choccies for me!
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Our favorite Christmas tradition is to drive around on Christmas Eve and check out all the holiday displays people have at their homes and have a “contest” and giveaway “awards” for the best display, worst display, most colorful, most ligths and so forth. Then we go home, have some hot chocolate, track Santa on the NORAD site and watch “A Christmas Story”.
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One of our favorite traditions is to go driving around town looking at the houses and their Christmas lights and decorations! We do it almost every year since our kids were small!
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Putting up the Christmas Tree is my fav part of the holidays. It was a big deal growing up and my family grew trees and sold them.
My favorite tradition is going to Chicago to look at Marshall Field’s(now Macy’s) Christmas windows.
I love watching Christmas movies together.
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My favorite tradition is going to see the entries for the National Gingerbread House Competition! One day I hope to enter….but it’ll probably be when I no longer have toddlers and babies running around!!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is to get together with my family Christmas eve and play cards and have snacks.
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It’s silly but my favorite tradition is watching almost the entire 24 hours of A Christmas Story with my family. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid and it still makes me laugh every time.
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Every Christmas Eve, we gather the kids into the car and drive around town to look at all the Christmas light displays – all the while listening to Christmas songs on the radio.
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Being that our girls are small, we are just starting out on Christmas traditions…or starting new ones at least. =)
We love baking together, and creating Christmas cookies, then driving around seeing all of the Christmas lights together. =)
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We like to drink cider and sing songs while we put the tree up.
A tradition I long to have, but can’t get help on, is to have a manger in my living room instead of the tree. Then through the month of December when someone does something nice for someone else just because with no acknowledment they can put a piece of straw in the manger. We’ll see how soft the bed is for baby Jesus on Christmas morning.
I can’t get anyone to make a manger for me, though.
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My favourite tradition, is toasting almonds on Christmas Eve. I usually buy whole almonds, skin them (throw them into some boiling water, let them sit, into cold water and squeeze off the skin), half them and put them on a cookie sheet with about a tsp of melted butter. Put them in a low oven; your nose will tell you when they are toasted! Sprinkle with salt, mix with raisins and you have a great treat to snack on during the holidays!
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