So remember when my book came out and one of the giveaways was a cast iron skillet and fifteen pounds of bacon?
Well. I was actually supposed to give away two cast iron skillets. But I forgot all about that second one because the week before the book released I was very busy watching Mississippi State baseball while I tried to ignore All The Nerves. I really was scared out of my ever-livin’ mind, and baseball was my most favorite coping mechanism in my time of publication need.
I will pause for a moment so that you can marvel at my lack of mental strength and maturity.
So for the last three months, that second skillet has been under the watchful eye of my friend Maria at Tyndale. And earlier this week I got a couple of very funny emails from Tyndale friends that essentially said I AM TIRED OF MOVING THAT SKILLET OUT OF THE WAY WHEN I WANT TO SIT DOWN IN MARIA’S OFFICE. PLEASE GIVE IT AWAY.
Which is what I’m about to do.
But – but! – there’s even better news. Because this past weekend I got to hang out with sweet Misty from Petit Jean Meats, so after the Tyndale folks emailed me about the skillet, I emailed Misty and said, “Hey. You want to give away some more bacon?” And then she wrote me back and said, “Yep. Sure do.”
(That might not have been the exact conversation.)
(But you get the idea.)
And that is why today I am so happy to give away a 12-inch cast iron skillet along with fifteen pounds of Petit Jean Meats bacon.
These two things belong together. It’s the Southern way. And I can tell you without hesitation that Petit Jean’s black pepper bacon is the best I have ever had.
That is high praise considering that I am no stranger to the bacon.
SO. If you’d like to enter to win a a 12-inch Lodge cast iron skillet, FIFTEEN POUNDS-O-BACON, and a copy of my book because, well, WHY NOT, just leave a comment on this post. If you’d like a second entry, just go like the Petit Jean Meats Facebook page and then come back here and leave an additional comment (you can just say “PJM Facebook” or something like that in your second entry).
I’ll close comments on this post Friday night, and I’ll select a winner using random.org.
Happy Wednesday, y’all!
This giveaway is now closed.
I loved your book! Would love some bacon and a skillet too! Seriously though, excellent book!
Mmmmmm…. Delicious!!
I’m loving your book! I’m going to give it as Christmas gifts this year :)
From one Birmingham girl to another, You KNOW I need that skillet (the bacon is a plus!)
It would be the perfect trifecta: your book, a whoppin’ cast iron skillet big enough to fry a ton of bacon!
I’m from Arkansas, so I obviously eat bacon…. and I was born with an iron-skillet in my mouth. Pick me!
Would love to eat bacon while reading your book!!😄
I just love your blog! Thanks for all the smiles and laughs! I would love the chance to win the book, bacon and skillet. I will make a BLT sandwich, read your book, and feel very lucky indeed!
What an awesome giveaway! I love cast iron – reminds me of my Nanny so much; I grew up with her cooking so many delicious things in those cast iron skillets!
“Bacon, bacon, bacon!” Reminds me of dog snack commercial.
Mmmm…..bacon.
Love your blog and would love to win some bacon!
I love your blog. I love bacon. I love cast iron cookware. Enough said!
What a great give away combo!
I wouldn’t mind the skillet or bacon, but I really would love to win your book!!
Not sure what I would be most excited to win…the book, the bacon or the skillet!!
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My family loves bacon! I think my daughter in college loves it the most, so I’d have to give her the gift. However, since I’d have to drive 3 hours to deliver it, we’d just have to try out the pan while cooking some bacon while I was there!!! Yum:)
Mmmmmm. . .. bacon
Mmmmmm, Bacon.
My mouth is watering!
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These are a few of my favorite things!!!!
I would LOVE to win some bacon, a cast iron skillet, & most of all another copy of your book!!
We try to eat Paleo so we LOVE some bacon! Not to mention, we will be moving to Mississippi in 2 weeks from California so those gifts would be a sweet ‘welcome to the South’.
I have a fifteen year old son and his favorite food is bacon. He would be in bacon heaven if we won. The cast iron skillet would probably have to go to my mom. She still can’t let go of the time in 1992 when I was helping her with her garage sale and I sold her cast iron skillet for 25 cents!
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Would love to win this awesome prize pack! Pick me!
Pick me! Love cast iron, reading, and bacon!
Reading your book now, which has sure put me in the mood for bacon! That would certainly be a great skillet to fry it in!
Thanks for the great giveaway! I would LOVE the skillet, bacon and your book!
Cheers!
I wanted to win this so badly the first time around.. Fingers crossed!
I think there is nothing more essential than a cast iron skillet and nothing could be better in it than bacon!
I’d LOVE a cast iron skillet!!! yes please!
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I would love to win the skillet and the bacon, but really would like another copy of your book. After driving to B’ham for the book signing and buying books for my aunts, cousins and 4 best friends, I realized I forgot to buy one for my SISTER!!! And since you so kindly signed them, I cannot pull the old switcheroo! I am so crazy!
We love bacon here… and I don’t have a cast iron skillet and I feel like I need one! :)
Would love to win both of these.
Yes please! And thank you very much!
I love bacon!!!! So excited for this giveaway!
I have three boys who can put a hurtin’ on some bacon. 15# would make them very happy for, um, a couple of days, at least! :-)
Yummy! We love bacon around here! And, I’ve been wanting a cast iron skillet! ( I know, GASP, that I do not already have one!)
I am reading the book for the second time, gleaning godly wisdom from a youngster such as Sophie! Just read this blog and…Please include me in the contest!
Love your blog. Love bacon. Would love to win!
I’d love some bacon and a new cast iron skillet! Loved, loved, loved your book! Can’t wait for my mama to read it, too.
Mmmm…Bacon!
Considering how much I love you. and bacon. and your book. and cast iron. Well, this would be a win-win-win-win. :)
Nothing wrong with a few pounds of bacon! Right? :)
Everything is better with bacon!! What a fun and tasty giveaway.
The first thing that came to mind is the commercial for beggin strips where the dog comes running saying, ” Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon……..”
I ma’am am the dog!
Oh, yes please! My husband grew up on a hog farm and says, “A meal isn’t a meal unless there is a little pork on your plate.” And if he had his way, it would be in the form of bacon. ha!
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Yes please!!
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Heck yea!
PJM Bacon:)
Oh I would love to win this! I loved your book:)
Thank you for the opportunity! It’s bacon season!!!
Liked the PJM page.
Bacon, bacon, bacon!
What could be better than boo mama and bacon!? I also need a larger skillet. Winning this would make me and my hubby happy, happy, happy!
PJM Facebook! BACON!
I sure would like some bacon and a skillet, who wouldn’t?
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Christmas is about a 100 days from now – thinking of giving bacon out this year!
I would LOVE some bacon and a new skillet! And a copy of your book is just the “icing on the cake”!
If I win, I need some cleaning tips for the skillet. I’ve ruined two because of something I did wrong. My children & husband would be thrilled with the bacon!
Woo Pig Souie! What a fun giveaway, thank you!
Me likey bacon! The skillet would be nice too – not to mention the book!
I’d love all three!! :)
I liked the FB page!
Sign me up!
A trifecta of awesomeness! Count me in!
Dearie me, I hope I win. I need a new skillet and also I need some bacon.
I just finished your book yesterday. LOVE !!!
Just about to put it away and then found the recipes !
You don’t know how happy you made me.
I would love to win the skillet and the bacon.
But if I don’t, I still have your wonderful recipes.
PJM Facebook. (I can’t believe I’m doing all this for bacon. Maybe I should just make lunch.)
I love your blog and I love bacon!!
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Love cast iron and bacon!!
Thank you for this opportunity.
I can’t think of 2 better things to win!!!
Loved your bacon and there is nothing better than the smell of bacon frying!!
Bacon, skillet and a book…oh my!
oooh…my mama would be so happy if I sent off the winnings to Michigan {I don’t eat meat-i know, i know}!
You inspire me to write Boo Mama. Thank you.
I’d love to win some bacon and a skillet to cook said bacon in along with your book to enjoy while I devour the bacon.
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I have recently found your blog again after several years of real-life craziness in which I stopped reading blogs (I know! What a ridiculous thing to do!) and I was so excited to see that you had written a book. Since I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, and I currently do not have a cast iron skillet (I had one, but we moved, and…I don’t know. The moving truck ate it, or something) AND I love bacon with every fiber of my being, I just had to enter this. Whether I win or not, though, I do so love your blog and I promise not to go away again. :o)
Yes, please.
I SAID please! (That’s how my kids respond when I refuse their polite requests. As though the “please” makes it irrefutable.)
I would love all these things.
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I would love to win!! Also, looking forward to hearing/seeing you next week at dotMOM!
Loved your book!!!
I would put ’em to good use!
Yummy give-a-way….would so love to win this…
Pick me! Pick me! I set my old cast iron skillet on fire – accidentally – a few weeks back. Need one!
I am pretty sure it is a crime against humanity that I do not, nor have ever owned a cast iron skillet. This must be rectified immediately.
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I’d love to win! Can’t have too many cast iron skillets – and bacon? Whoo Hoo!
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I would love to win!
THUMP (me hitting the floor)
Did someone say bacon?!