Publix Italian Days $25 Gift Card Giveaway

~The giveaway is now CLOSED. Congrats to winner Jessie!~~

Do you love Italian food? Would you like to try some home-cooked Italian meals that are easy on your wallet? If you live close to a Publix store, then you are in luck! From 2/17 through 3/2, Publix will be holding a huge Italian Days savings event, during which you may visit your local Publix to take advantage of the great savings on General Mills brands including Progresso, Green Giant, Pillsbury, Muir Glen and Totino’s. You will receive $5 off your purchase of 20 participating products.

While visiting Italian Days at Publix, you can also enter the Publix Italian Days Sweepstakes, sponsored by General Mills, for a chance to win one of four grand prizes of $10,000 worth of free groceries or one of 200 $100 Publix gift cards!

You have until 3/14 to enter the sweepstakes via one of three ways: phone, mail or online at ClickCallMail.com, a convenient one-stop website, where you may download $8 in coupon savings on some of your favorite General Mills brands as well as tasty Italian recipes.

Here’s how it works:
1. Click – Stay up to date with the latest General Mills promotions happening at Publix by visiting ClickCallMail.com. Once you’re registered and logged in, you can participate in any current promotions.

2. Call – If you’d prefer to enter the sweepstakes and participate in other promotions via phone, you may call the General Mills/Publix hotline at 1.800.627.6059, indicate that you want to enter the Publix Italian Days Sweepstakes and provide your complete contact information.

3. Mail – If you prefer to participate via mail-in entry, print and mail your complete contact information to P.O. Box 43425 Atlanta, GA 30336 and be sure to write “Publix Italian Days Sweepstakes” on the outside of the envelope.

Please note that the sweepstakes is only open to residents in select states (AL, FL, GA, SC & TN)

The Giveaway

As an invitation to Italian Days at Publix, MyBlogSpark has generously offered to give one of my lucky readers a $25 Publix Gift Card! The winner will be able to use the card to shop during the savings event.

Required Entry: Leave a comment telling me which special Italian meal you would like to prepare during the Publix Italian Days event. (Please leave a valid email address in your comment or make sure one is visible in your blogger profile).

 Extra Entries (optional): please make sure you do the required entry first! Please leave a separate comment for each extra entry, i.e. 1 comment=1 entry.

• Follow my blog publicly via Google Friends Connect (1 extra entry)
• Subscribe to my feed via email and leave your email address (1 extra entry)
• Follow Me on Twitter AND tweet the following message (1 extra entry per day) Yes! You may tweet once daily to increase your chances:

RT @luckytoddler #myblogspark #giveaway! #Win a $25 Publix Gift Card! Italian Days 2/17-3/2 http://bit.ly/pidgc #contest #sweepstakes

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• Join Contest Idooble and leave your FB name (1 extra entry)  New signups only. You could win a share of $25,000 in prizes! You must be my FB friend for your entry to count.
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• Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post. Then leave the link in your comment (1 extra entry for mentioning this giveaway on your blog; 3 extra entries for a separate blog post).

Giveaway ends at 11:59 pm Central Time on 2/24/11
Open to US Residents Only

Winner will be chosen using random.org and will have 72 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.

Thanks for entering and good luck!

Disclosure: General Mills provided me with a gift card, event information and an additional gift card to give away through MyBlogSpark.