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Who you gonna call? Holiday help lines for turkey questions
HOLIDAY HELP LINES

Many big food companies have hotlines staffed with experienced Home Economists for instant, personalized help during the holidays. Print out this list and tape it inside your pantry door for quick reference.

* Butterball Turkey Talk-Line: 1-800-BUTTERBALL The Turkey Talk-Line from the folks at Butterball is a great place for answers to turkey questions. The line is open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 6 PM CST from now until December 21. And the best part of all: it's open Thanksgiving day, starting at 6 AM CST!! TDD line: 1-800-TDD-3848. Bilingual help is available.

* Honeysuckle White Help Line:1-800-810-6325 This line offers pre-recorded answers to lots of your turkey preparation questions. Online help and leftover recipes.

* Perdue Farms: 1-800-473-7383 Find out about roasting, carving, stuffing, gravy and turkey leftovers.

* USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline: 1-888-674-6854 If you have questions about food safety, including storage, handling and preparation of the Thanksgiving turkey, call the USDA hotline weekdays from 9 AM to 3 PM CST. TDD line: 1-800-256-7072 Online help for most frequently asked questions.

* Reynolds Turkey Line: 1-800-745-4000 This hotline is open 24 hours a day. Call to get the best tips about cooking using Reynolds products.

* Fleischmann's Yeast Baker's Help Line:1-800-777-4959 This helpline, for all your questions about breads and rolls, is open Monday - Friday from 9 AM - 7 PM, all year long.

* Land O'Lakes Holiday Bake Line: 1-800-782-9606 Any and all baking questions are answered from 8 AM to 7 PM CST at Land O'Lakes from now until Christmas Eve.

* Hershey's Consumer Hot Line: 1-800-468-1714 Let the folks at Hersheys walk you through every chocolate question you've ever had. Ask for recipes too! This line is open Monday - Friday from 9 AM to 4 PM EST, all year round.

* Betty Crocker Hotline:1-888-ASK-BETTY or 1-888-275-2388, This phone line is open Monday - Friday from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM CST, year round. Get information on everything from baking perfect cookies to delicious gravy.

* Libby Consumer Hot Line: 1-800-854-0374 Stressed about your pumpkin pie? Get tips and advice, plus recipes using canned pumpkin. The line is open Monday - Friday from 8 AM - 8 PM EST, all year round.

* Ocean Spray Consumer Helpline:1-800-662-3263 Learn everything you ever wanted to know about cranberries, including ideas for using leftover canned cranberry sauce. The hotline is open Monday - Friday from 9 AM - 4 PM EST, all year round. And it's open on Thanksgiving!
part of its national More To Share?hunger-fighting program, Cargill Meat Solutions, producer of Honeysuckle White?and Shady Brook Farms?turkey products, announced today that it will donate approximately 110,000 pounds of turkey to help feed the hungry during the holidays. The donations are made in cooperation with Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms turkey's valued grocery partners to benefit food banks, soup kitchens and other hunger-fighting charities.




Across America, charitable organizations in 27 cities will benefit from the More To Share program by receiving donated Honeysuckle White or Shady Brook Farms turkeys this year. Nationwide, the donated turkeys will help feed hundreds of thousands of people in need this holiday season. Communities and the agencies receiving donations this year are included in the attached file to the right, along with the More To Share grocery partners.


"It is important and meaningful to us as a company to assist charities in feeding those in need who otherwise may not have turkey at Thanksgiving," said Amy Walenta of the Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms More To Share program. "Hunger is an ongoing problem, and charities need not only food items, but money and volunteers as well. Our donation is a starting point, and we challenge other businesses and individuals across the nation to join us in helping to fight hunger however they can."


Since the More To Share program began 12 years ago, Cargill Meat Solutions and its parent company Cargill, Incorporated have donated approximately 1.2 million pounds of Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms turkey to charities across the country.

Lots of Tri Staters will be heading to the grocery store this weekend to pick up their thanksgiving turkeys...and fixins for the big dinner.

So where will you find the best deals? We checked the circulars and found some good news. Everyone is running a deal on turkeys right now, so you really can't go wrong.

Where the Deals Are

Kroger has Riverside turkeys for just 57 cents a pound, with an additional $10 purchase.

Meijer is offering 9 dollars off a Butterball or Honeysuckle Turkey, with a $10 purchase. That brings your purchase price down to about 60 cents a pound.

But Remke had the lowest price we found: 49 cents a pound for Honeysuckle.

Biggs shoppers, meantime, can get a free turkey, if you've collected Biggs Bucks in recent weeks.

What are Biggs Bucks? You should have received them at the register the past few weeks...hope you didn't just throw them away!. You get 2 Biggs Bucks for every $50 purchase. With 20 or 25, you get a free turkey at Biggs.

Bottom line: good turkey deals everywhere this weekend. So Don't Waste Your Money. I'm John Matarese.