Creating the Perfect Valentine's Dinner

Cooking a meal at home can be a much more romantic and more meaningful way of showing how much you care for your partner. With some help from Grand Champion Meats, your home cooked meal can be just as indulgent and delectable as a meal you would get at a fancy restaurant. In addition to creating a personal and private meal at home, you get to avoid an overcrowded and bustling restaurant. Let us help you create the perfect dinner for Valentine’s Day.

Create a Romantic Atmosphere

Every romantic and memorable dinner needs to have a little ambiance. To set the mood, fill the room with romantic lighting. Set the dimmer, string twinkling lights on the banister, set candles at the dinner table, or set the fireplace to a low roar. Another way to set a relaxing tone for the evening is to engage in a small wine tasting or indulge in a new cocktail before dinner. If you are feeling especially ambitious, create a cheese board to go with pre-dinner cocktails.

And, of course, what is a classic Valentine’s Dinner without some romantic music. Create a playlist of classic love songs or travel down memory lane with your favorite songs to set the atmosphere.

Making a Delicious and Delectable Menu

Preparing a meal at home doesn’t have to be an arduous, all-day affair. Grand Champion Meats offers an array of high-quality fresh-cut meats to help enhance any recipe including a selection of top-notch cuts of steak ranging from ribeye, porterhouse, chuck eye, T-bone, New York strip, and sirloin. It is possible to cook the perfect steak indoors without firing up the grill.

Grand Champion Meats also offers delicious seafood selections including lobster tails, scallops, shrimp, and fish fillets that can enhance Surf-and-Turf recipes or that can stand alone as a seafood dish.

Try our “For My Valentine Surf n Turf”!

Once dinner is gone, finish the night with some dessert and post-dinner drinks in front of the fire. Have a second part of the evening planned with a movie marathon. If you are feeling ambitious, bundle up and walk off your indulgent dinner in the moonlit snow.

To see the entire selection of available products, visit the Grand Champion Meats selection list. However you chose to celebrate your Valentine’s Day evening, be sure to relax and celebrate with your loved one!

Super Bowl Appetizers

The Super Bowl - it may as well be an official American Holiday! It’s debatably the biggest appetizer day of the year and, let’s be honest, you don’t want to end up with the worst appetizer at the party.

Finding something to bring can be tough, but we are here to help you out. Meat and cheese trays are always a great go-to when it comes to appetizers. A meat tray from Grand Champion Meats is filled with our assortment of award-winning meats and the finest cheeses arranged on a platter. We have small and large sizes depending on how many people you are serving.

Find a new beef or chicken dip recipe you’d like to try out? We have beef and chicken packages that work great when making your new top-secret recipe. If you need some ideas, Check out our Pinterest board for recipes like Bacon Cheeseburger Queso, Double meat dip, Reuben dip, and bacon-wrapped potato bites - when all else fails, wrap it in quality bacon.  

Really want to impress your friends and family? Cook up a Turkey or Ham for the big game ahead of time. Cut it into thin slices and serve with fresh bread, cheese, and an assortment of great sauces for the perfect halftime sandwich. We have tons of fresh choices such as boneless ham, smoked turkey, and fresh turkey. Just give Grand Champion Meats a call to reserve yours.

These are just a few options from Grand Champion Meats. Check out our website for more delicious holiday options, gift boxes, gift cards and more. Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page for tons of deals and specials.

The Benefits of Eating Meat

Beef. Chicken. Salmon. Turkey. Yep, there are tons of great-tasting and nutritious meats to add to the dinner plate.

Now, we all know that good health involves a balanced diet - including protein. And, meat is definitely the best way to get that protein!

That’s not to say all meats are created equal. When prepared improperly, undercooked, or overly processed, some meats can be unhealthy. But, when you do it right, eating meat adds a great deal to your overall health.

With that said, here are some great reasons to make meat part of your daily diet

It’s nutritious. Meat is loaded with things your body needs, including vitamins D, B1, B2, B6, B12 and niacin, as well as minerals iron, zinc, selenium and more. Many of these essential nutrients just can’t be retained from a diet of fruits, veggies and carbs. For a more in depth look into what vitamins, minerals and proteins can be found in each type of meat, refer to this chart.

It’s the ultimate protein factory. As previously mentioned, the amino acids known as Protein serve as major building blocks for our muscles and other bodily tissues. Most athletes and coaches agree that with a more active lifestyle, you’re definitely going to need to fortify your body with ample amounts of protein.

It’s delicious. Let’s get serious here. Can you imagine breakfast without sausage or bacon? A football game without a burger or brat? A fancy dinner without steak or salmon? In our opinion, meat makes the meal!

It’s not deserving of a bad rap. It is true that vegans and vegetarians tend to have better health than most, but that fact is born of lots of reasons  - many having nothing to do with their lack of meat consumption. For one, vegetarians tend to be more health conscious overall. Most of the food they buy is unprocessed and organic, and many of them are more likely to exercise regularly. They’re also less likely to smoke or invite harmful chemicals into their bodies. Carnivores - take a note. It’s been proven that people who eat meat and also live a healthy lifestyle are just as healthy as people who don’t.

At Grand Champion Meats, you will find the freshest cuts of beef and pork, as well as a wide variety of sausages, smoked products, chicken and seafood. We work hard to provide you with the best quality meat that will not only be healthy for you and your family, but taste just as good!

Bring on the Ribs

Each month at Grand Champion Meats, we have a monthly special, and for the month of March, it’s time to bib up because Ribfest is here!

All month long, Grand Champion Meats has ribs on sale! Some are fully cooked (heat and eat) and some raw, but all are on SALE:

So what is Ribfest? It’s one type of food festival that generally has multiple food vendors selling beef or pork ribs. There are plenty of food festivals that take place around the United States throughout the year, but there’s nothing quite like eating a variety of ribs. Reader’s Digest featured the top ten summer food festivals in the United States, and one rib festival made the list. The Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off takes place in Sparks, Nevada, August 31st-September 5th and attracts half a million rib-lovers. Over the course of the festival, roughly 100 tons of ribs are served! Crazy, we know, but that’s only one startling statistic. Another amazing highlight of this specific festival is the rib-eating tournament that takes place in which participants have 12 minutes to eat as many pounds of ribs as they can - the record is 9.8 pounds!

Although they may not be as crazy as The Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off, there are a number of Ribfests that take place in Minnesota each year as well including the Twins Cities Ribfest that will take place this June. As much as we would like it to be June to enjoy some delicious ribs, we can help you get your tastebuds ready for the upcoming rib festivals with our Ribfest March specials!

Stop in to try one or all of the options listed above, and keep your bib on all March long!