 Say Thanksgiving Drowned Out by Christmas Marketing Noise Allrecipes.com Community Leads Movement to Protect Thanksgiving; Home Cooks Pledge to Savor Day of Food, Family and Thankfulness
SEATTLE, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Is Thanksgiving as we know it an endangered species? With Halloween's ghosts barely banished, each year retailers push the Christmas season upon consumers earlier and earlier – and all at the expense of the Thanksgiving holiday. But the Allrecipes.com community is out to turn that around. Inspired by community member Doug Matthews' November 2010 blog post lamenting the commercialization of the holiday season, Allrecipes, a Reader's Digest Association (RDA) company and the world's #1 digital food brand, today announced its "Respect the Bird!" campaign: a grassroots movement to savor the true meaning of Thanksgiving and tune out the distractions of Black Friday that have intruded upon Thanksgiving week.."
How America Will Celebrate Thanksgiving
So how do Americans plan to Respect the Bird this year? In addition to polling members about their attitudes toward holiday marketing, Allrecipes also discovered the following Thanksgiving trends in its annual survey:
- Thanksgiving dinner is the most celebrated holiday meal with 71% of Americans planning to prepare the traditional meal this year.
- What Americans love most about Thanksgiving is spending time with friends and family (74%), closely followed by eating delicious food (55%) and giving thanks for what they have (53%).
- More than 83% of cooks will get Thanksgiving recipes from food websites, such as Allrecipes.com.
- The majority (69%) plan to spend the same amount of money on Thanksgiving dinner this year as they did in 2010. Cooks looking to save money on holiday food costs plan to do so by purchasing items that are on sale (68%) and preparing dishes from scratch (65%).
- When it comes to choosing recipes for holiday meals, home cooks like dishes with ingredients they can use again (53%) and recipes they've tried before and turned out well (58%).
- As for the food, the majority (88%) will roast their turkey in the oven. The most popular side dishes include classics like mashed potatoes (83%), cranberry sauce (81%) and stuffing (92%), with the majority (64%) cooking the stuffing outside the bird.
Allrecipes.com: Ultimate Resource for Thanksgiving
Home cooks looking for Thanksgiving help can turn to Allrecipes.com's Recipe Buzz where thousands of community members help answer each other's questions every day. During Thanksgiving week Allrecipes has enlisted the help of its most active community members, a group of 100 Allrecipes Allstars who will help monitor the Recipe Buzz and answer the community's burning (or how not to)Thanksgiving questions.
Allrecipes Thanksgiving pages () feature everything needed for a fantastic Thanksgiving meal including top-rated recipes, how-to videos, ready-to-go menus, helpful articles and helpful recipe scaling tools for large family feasts. As the #1 food website for 30 consecutive months, and the top Thanksgiving destination for the past 3 years, Allrecipes is America's go-to resource for all things Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving planning on the go, Allrecipes Dinner Spinner app for Droid, iPhone and Windows Phones is the #1 free food app with nearly 10 million downloads, and the Allrecipes.com Your Kitchen Inspiration app is the top free recipe app for the iPad. Both apps will feature top-rated Thanksgiving recipes during November. Allrecipes also stocks a robust library of eCookbooks, including the popular 100 Best Thanksgiving Recipes for $3.99 on Nook, Kindle or iPad. Allrecipes users' with supporting memberships can use the Menu Planner tool to plan their entire Thanksgiving meal from appetizers to main dishes to desserts and get a full shopping list that is scalable for the number of people attending the feast.
About Allrecipes
Allrecipes, the world's largest digital food brand, receives 700, 9 apps, and 13 eBooks serving cooks in 23 countries and 11 languages. Allrecipes is part of Lifestyle Communities @ RDA, a division of The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. For additional information regarding Allrecipes, please visit.
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