What better way to kick the 10th Annual Sim’s Life Christmas Gift Guide off than with a giveaway to win a fabulous Spice Pots Festive Food Survival Kit. If you are a fan of Indian cuisine, you are going to love this kit!
I’ve heard of Spice Pots before, but as I’m lazy and tend to order in curries as opposed to cooking them, I wasn’t fully aware of what they offer.
The Spice Pots mission is all about making cooking easier with their unique blends of spices and I am totally onboard with that! With less free time than ever before now that Liv is at secondary school, cooking large meals can feel like a chore. With delicious spice combinations and lots of yummy recipe inspiration, this Spice Pots feature couldn’t have come at a better time! Read on to find out more about the Festive Food Survival Kit and how you can win one!
Spice Pots Festive Food Survival Kit
The Festive Food Survival Kit (priced at £14.95 here) is a must have for those who always find themselves with plenty of leftovers at Christmas but want break for the norm with new dishes. Whilst it is always appreciated when someone else cooks your curry, cooking your own from scratch with a range of spices gives you the opportunity to tailor it to your own tastes and heat level. Who needs a takeaway, when you can have a mouthwatering fakeaway!
The kit contains 4 spice tins covering:
Korma – Mild but there is a hint of warmth from the chilli.
Bhuna – Medium in heat and very flavorsome.
Goan – (Hot!) Spicy and complex! If you want to try this but don’t like fiery food, I find adding a dash of double cream helps make the heat more palatable.
Mixed Sweet Spice – a mixed sweet spice for adding to cakes, bakes, puddings and anything else that needs a sweeter taste! This would be great mixed in with cinnamon puff pastry swirls for a lovely Christmas treat!
The 40g tins are seriously cute and contain 8 servings per pot. The kit averages out at making at least 8 family meals. With an 18 month shelf life from production date, the tins will last ages, so don’t worry about having to use them quickly! The flavour will still be there, even after the 18 months, it just will not be as strong.
All the spices are GM free, suitable for vegans, gluten free and do not contain nuts (further allergen information can be viewed here), though the Bhuna spice does contain mustard seeds.
The included booklet features 8 delicious recipe ideas to try with the spices. All recipes are Christmas inspired and range from Christmas Spiced Nuts, Mini Coronation Chicken Pies, right through to Lamb Bhuna. There really are some fabulous ideas, for new meals you may not have considered making before, in order to ensure no food wastage this Christmas!
Everything about Spice Pots is eco friendly, from the use of cardboard packaging and no plastic in sight, to the steel pots which can be recycled. Though the pots are dinky and adorable and with refills available on the site, the pots can be used time after time to brighten up your kitchen. The refills start from £2.95 each and even come in compostable bags with compostable labels to dispose of when no longer needed!
Whether you are looking for festive food inspiration for yourself, as a gift idea of if you just love making a good curry, there are plenty of gift sets, spices, recipes books and inspiration to check out over on the Spice Kits site.
How To Win Spice Pots Festive Food Surival Kit
For your chance to win a Festive Food Kit from Spice Pot, simply enter using the Gleam form below and do not forget to answer the question by leaving a blog
Spice Pots Festive Food Survival Kit
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Giveaway ends at midnight on Sunday 1st November 2020.
One winning entry we drawn at random by Gleam.
The winner will be notified within 72 hours of the giveaway ending.
The winner will receive 1 x Spice Pots Festive Food Survival Kit
The prize is non-refundable and no cash alternative will be offered.
191 comments
Sherry trifle mmmm my fave!
pigs in blankets,xmas puds and mince pies
Definitely mince pies and stollen cake 🙂
Sage and onion stuffing with my dinner , sherry trifle and marzipan
All the trimmings and a good nap
I love the brussell sprouts and roast parsnip with xmas dinner and then xmas pudding drowning in cream. The chocolate for breakfast is pretty good to.
Mince pies
mince pies and fresh pouring cream
Mince pies, 40 seconds in the microwave, top smashed open and double cream poured on
I love all the snacks like mozzarella bites
Christmas pudding and mince pies!
Christmas Pudding
I love Christmas Ham, I make one every year
Cheese boards!
Christmas pudding, with warm brandy cream!
I love to make Christmas cake, pudding, stollen, mince pies.
I love a prawn cocktail and black forest gateau x
I love turkey 🙂
I love mince pies, fun to make with my children and very tasty
christmas cake
figs/dates and Turkish Delight
Oh family classic recipe of cheese and mushroom roast! Yum
Christmas pudding with Brandy cream Mmmmmm
I love a cheeseboard at Christmas
Chocolate log homemade with the kids is my best
Love Christmas cake and Christmas pudding x
I love mince pies, preferably home-made with lovely puff pastry
Pigs in blankets
All of them! But I particularly love the big roast on Christmas Day.
Mince pies and cinnamon buns!
I love our traditional Boxing Day meal of Bubble and Squeak, Roast Beef and Horseradish Sauce!
I love a glut of fridge foods, cheese, chutney, sausage rolls etc
I love the full Christmas Dinner. Especially pigs in blankets.
Christmas pudding, with warm brandy cream
Chestnuts! Always chestnuts!
Mince pies! Can’t wait
Mince pies
Gingerbread men, I love making them and eating them
A nice big ham and stollen
It’s got to be a home made mince pie – just delicious
love all the christmas dinner
Roast turkey with all the trimmings.
I love pigs in blankets and also chocolate yule log!
Absolute favourites are mince pies with brandy butter!!
A cheeseboard with lovely chutneys and a cracker selection. I go a bit cheese mad at Christmas!
I like goose with all the trimmings, I dont mind cooking as long as someone else carves, I’ve tried myself but I cant get any meat of a goose, every knife angle seams to hit bone
Celebration Box and Baileys
Creating something different with the leftovers!
it has tobe pigs in blankets love them
Christmas dinner with every veg. possible and cheese selection with crackers,
you can’t beat a turkey roast dinner with all the trimmings, and yes that means sprouts too!
Sprouts and roast potatoes! my fave!
Turkey and stuffing
Bread sauce, hot or cold, preferably some of each !
I love Christmas cake, also pigs in blankets are the best
love Christmas Dinner with stuffing and gravy
Stollen.
Turkey with all the trimmings!
christmas lunch with all the trimmings
Homemade Mince pies and Christmas Cake x
The main event, Christmas Dinner! 🙂
Love all the food choices at Christmas and look forward to the family meal together
Turkey Curry on Boxing Day
Our homemade christmas cake yummy
Xmas dinner with all the veg especially sprouts lol thanks
Pigs in blankets!
It has to be mince pies x
Mince pies with mulled wine – unbeatable!
love christmas pudding
My favourite is Sherry Trifle
I love mince pies and mulled wine!
Turkey brussels and mince pies – the odd brandy too ( purely medicinal ! )
Honey roasted parsnips!
turkey and stuffing sandwiches; and Xmas Pudding with custard
Christmas dinner & Christmas Cake!
Can’t beat a Christmas dinner, and then leftover turkey sandwiches. Love all Christmassy food though, all the lovely desserts that come out, the nibbles and the cheeses! Yum!!
Mums homemade bread sauce, only ever with Christmas dinner. Mmmmmmm
my husband has to have his own cheeseboard every year
Brussels Sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta
i love to have our family tradition of cherry trifle!
I love Christmas stuffing it is simply th emote magical thing about Christmas
I love mince pies with a glass of port around the fire with family and friends.
I love warm mince pies and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate Yule log!
Turkey and Cranberry sandwiches!
I love my Christmas sandwich – turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. Also leibkuchen and stollen.
Turkey korma with garlic naan
I love stollen and mince pies
Pigs in blankets of of course! I also love all the cheese
Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes and chipolata sausages are a must for my dinner.
My mum’s Christmas Dinner! It’s the one time of the year she’ll cook sprouts as she hates them! Plus sausages in blankets. Nom
Pigs in blankets, Lebkuchen and Baileys are some of my favourites at Christmas
I do like home made soup. I enjoy main course usually traditional :- Turkey, potatoes, trimmings, cranberry sauce, sprouts (I do enjoy sprouts), trifle. Basically I just enjoy food :- Always have. Though smaller portions nowadays, and longer break between each course of a meal. I used to love Christmas cake. Now too rich for me. I would do without, or a very small piece just to be polite in company, and to those hosting.
Chocolate Yule log
Christmas tree shaped chocolate chip shortbread
I love anything cinnamon spiced or with marzipan at Christmas – mulled wine, Christmas Cake and stollen!
Pigs in blankets and sprouts! And all the cheese!
Pigs in blankets and roast potatoes, then cold turkey and homemade chutneys for supper
pigs in blankets and mince pies
I love mince pie, chocolates, parsnips and crispy roast potatoes.
I love roasted chestnuts at Christmas!
Love Yorkshire puddings and Pigs in blankets as well as stuffing!
I love all the chocolates we get in and the pigs in blankets on Christmas day. However, if I could I would have my favorite ever meal which is Toad in the hole on Christmas day
I love having the roast dinner over Christmas especially the parsnips & pigs in blankets. For desert I love mice pies & cream.
I love port and stilton, in fact most cheeses with port. Also sherry trifle as well although my mum makes it with Brandy!
German Christmas Stollen
Christmas dinner with all the family
I love Brandy snaps, filled with squirty cream and strawberries!
Cheese & biscuits – with way too much Port for Boxing Day comfort….
Chocolate log!
Full Turkey roast with pigs in blankets.
a cheeseboard after dinner
Warm Mince Pies!
I love the roast potatoes cooked in goose fat, and a glass of Baileys!
I love mince pies with cream. I love sprouts!
Mince Pies
I adore cheese wrapped in bacon. I can only ever seem to buy it at Christmas, so I always have to get my fill during the festive season.
iced mince pies
I love the traditional roast turkey Christmas dinner
Rum Balls! Yum yum.
Mince pies, and of course the Christmas roast!
I love a chocolate yule log!
I love Christmas Pudding. Not too much though…
The whole christmas dinner! Turkey, roast potatoes, veggies! The starters, loads of cheesee
pigs in blankets and homemade mince pies
Pigs in blankets, sage and onion stuffing and mince pies
Stollen, salmon, Christmas butter biscuits and chocolates
Pigs in blankets – yummy.
Pigs in blankets, nibbles, chocolate, chocolate log
pigs in blankets and cheese & biscuits
Other than Christmas dinner my favourite is making a gingerbread house with my children although I enjoy the process more than the eating!
Warm Mince Pies with Brandy Butter
Hello, I love bread sauce at Christmas. It is so nice!
Love the ‘day after’ meals – bubble and squeak, cold meats and pickles, turkey curry
I love stuffing and Yorkshire puddings!! They make Christmas for me!
pigs in blankets
Satsumas, they always remind me of Christmas
Mushroom and chestnut wellington and Christmas pudding (not at the same time…)
pigs in blankets
Christmas dinners! I must have about 15 in the run up to Christmas! I love them.
Definitely pigs in blankets for me!
Mince pies and pigs in blankets
I love Christmas dinner with all the trimmings – especially bread sauce and pigs in blankets which we never really have any other time.
my favourite is the pigs in blankets with the full Christmas dinner
Turkey Sandwiches with stuffing, Shortbread, Gingerbread Men
red cabbage hopefully homemade
Boxing Day dinner…..cold left over meats, mash & pickles.
My German family always send us Christmas biscuits, and until we get that care package it isn’t Christmas – which really confused my son when the box arrived after Christmas!!!
lamb and pork roast with all the trimmings..including cauliflower cheese and extra gravy
Christmas dinner and all the buffet food
Turkey with lashings of gravy!
Love goose fat roast potatoes and Christmas pudding
Pigs in blankets and brussel sprouts in cheese sauce
yule log
Mince pies with brandy butter.
Mince pies and Xmas pudding
Mince pies
pigs in blankets
Has to be Mince Pies. Now I know I like them I can’t keep away. For years I wouldn’t even try one because I thought they had mince meat (as in Beef mince) in them ♀️
Mince pies
Mince pies
I’m all about the desserts so Yule Log, gateaux & ice cream are some of my favourites.
Sherry Trifle is always a highlight for me.
I love Turkey and pickle sanwiches at Christmas
I like the Christmas ham and the chocolate log.
Cheese boards!
Cheese and home-baked bread.
Prawn cocktail and sprouts, not together though
We love homemade cinnamon buns on Christmas Eve and then the turkey with all the trimmings on Christmas Day 🙂
Pigs in blankets
Favourite Christmas food is pigs in blankets
I just love all the vegetable trimmings like roast potatoes, sprouts and purple cabbage yum.
The full Christmas dinner with all trimmings! Also got to love a cheeseboard
I love pigs in blankets and sausagemeat stuffing.
I love, love, love Christmas pudding
Mum’s spiced red cabbage! A once-a-year treat as it takes hours in the oven!
Roast Goose.
I love the turkey and stuffing
Mum’s homemade Xmas pudding
Pigs in blankets
I love having bubble and squeak with leftover meats on Boxing Day and always have to have Christmas pudding.
I love sprouts, pigs in blankets, roasties and bread sauce!
Sauerkraut polish sausage and potato salad
Obviously a full Christmas Turkey Dinner with all the Trimmings and I make a Mean Turkey Curry for Boxing Day
I make loads of appetisers like chorizo spiced Pastry Twists With Beer Cheese Dip & various Crosini
We bake loads of Mince pies with very short crust pastry and Boozy ones in Puff pastry
A chocolate Christmas log
Much as I love the Christmas Dinner, I love Boxing day Brunch more – all the vegetable leftovers from lunch – think potatoes, carrots, sprouts etc, roughly mashed together and then fried and served with fried eggs – yummy!
Terry’s chocolate orange, (though, to be fair, once in my hands, it’s all mine!), and add some mint Matchmaker chasers LOL (Yep, eat both together!)
Definitely mince pies and christmascake yum
The relaxed meal of Boxing Day fry up of Christmas Day left overs with plenty of Cranberry and Bread sauce. Mmmm delicious.
I absolutely love Turkey, lettuce and salad cream sandwiches, I love hot mince pies with thick cream and mulled wine Mmmmm
Pigs in Blankets