Planning a New Year’s party?
Let Safeway help! Add some sugar & spice to your party with their dessert and cocktail pairings, all found at Safeway.com. Make Rosemary Pinenut Cookies to pair with Hot Ginger Pear Wine Cider. Or try the Upside Down Cake with Cranberry Balsamic Cocktail. Find even more recipes at the Safeway holiday website.
How much to serve?
Use Safeway’s Beverage Calculator (available on mobile) to help you determine the right amount of wine, liquor and beer to buy for your New Year’s event.
When you’re shopping at your local Safeway, you’ll find white, red and sparkling wines to fit any budget. Plus, you save 10% off when you purchase six or more bottles.

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Enter to win a Safeway Gift Card
Safeway hopes you’ll try their Sugar & Spice dessert and cocktail pairings this season, so they’re offering one lucky MoneywiseMoms reader a $50 Safeway Gift Card to enjoy:
To enter to win, just leave a comment below telling me what you’re doing to celebrate New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day.This giveaway is closed. Thanks for entering! Congrats to Marie (mijulin) for winning.
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We plan to celebrate the New Year with 4 year old twins and some neighborhood friends, so we will be watching a countdown from last year on YouTube at 8pm on New Years Eve and celebrating then.
Hubby and I will celebrate at a party at a friend’s house.
We’ll be watching TV with the kids.
I’m looking forward to a date night with my husband while my in-laws watch the kids!
We’ll be at Wintergreen with the kids watching fireworks on NYE!
We will bbq and stay home, watch movies and the Rose parade.
Absolutely nothing! I need to recover after all the Christmas activity!
Going to visit with some friends with kids – a party at home is best!
We have a party for us at home. It is a quiet evening at home for my husband and I
We’ll just be hanging out with the kids and having appetizers for dinner.
We are invited over to some friends’ house for a potluck, but 2 of our kids are going into the hospital this weekend, so we’ll probably all be there celebrating instead!
We’ll be visiting my in-laws in Wisconsin – quite a change from our usual San Diego weather!
Staying up with the kids watching Disney channel plus play a bit of Xbox Just Dance 4
We will be watching fireworks in San Diego
We plan to be with our good friends on New Year’s Eve!!
We’ll be heading to my best friend’s house to eat and hang out
Always celebrate New Years day with meditation and black eye peas!
We have a Bunco party and Taco bar for dinner with friends! I think this will be our 5th year doing it. Always a lot of fun!
We are visiting relatives on New Years Day.
we’ll be spending time with family at home.
I will be out dancing with my friends. No cover though, all free fun and loads of sparkles!
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We will be staying at home, a small, quiet evening, hopefully the kids will be sleeping then!!
For New Years Eve we are going to a friends house for dinner. She just had a baby and I’m about 4 weeks away, so it will be pretty low key and probably an early night!
Hanging with our neighbors and all the kids!
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we will attend a party and relax on new years day
Going to the town over , they are having a chili cook off and fire works
I am going to celebrate my daughters 10th birthday! She is my new years eve baby
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We are having friends over, dinner out, and back home to do fireworks. We’ve started a tradition of doing the year written with sparklers.
We will be spending time at home with our 4 year old daughter
We usually go out to a movie with the kids and come home and do the mentos in the 2 Liter bottle of soda explosion to celebrate!
We’re having a special night at home with paella and cava.
We’ll be at our friends house, with our twins, and FIVE other sets of twins, so 12 kids under 4, yep, lots of adult celebrating as well!
We will be ringing in the New Year with friends (adults and kiddies!) and some Wii Just Dance and Rock Band… should be some funny videos
My family spends New Year’s Eve with some good friends.
We’ll be spending lots of family time — me, hubby and the boys. It’s nice to have Daddy home!
My parents usually have a party every year, but this year they want just family. So we will have a game night. Even though they are only 5 minutes away, we will all sleep over. Seems silly not too with 3 kids in tow.
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I’ll be spending new years at home with my boyfriend.
On New Years Eve, me and hubby will be eating tamales, blackeyes and drinking champagne at midnight.
New Years Day will eat a nice dinner- Ham, Blackeye Peas, Yams, Dumplings and Dressing. I will prepare a nice cake for dessert. I could use the GC it would help out on my meal. Thanks for the opportunity.
I’m not really doing anything. Just staying home.
Right now my plan is to watch Duck Dynasty with a friend LOL
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We spend every New Years Eve with our best friends of 35 years working a jigsaw puzzle. Takes us ALL night,
Watching TV and Movies – drinking some Bailey’s maybe since I won’t be driving. FUN TIMES
I’m going over a friends house.
We are staying home and watching the ball drop!
My parents are coming for dinner. We are ordering pizza, playing games and eating dessert. My hubby and I will probably rent a movie.
Thanks!
Hopefully my 3 kids will have a playdate during the day on New Year’s Eve… and my hubby and I will hang out after 8pm (the kids’ bedtime) waiting until midnight… crazy fun, huh?!?
We will be watching the ball drop and eating yummy appetizers!
Hubby and I are grilling steaks and having a movie marathon!
We’ll start out at church with a potluck followed by a communion service and then a night of family fun games. Fireworks and a bonfire closer to midnight. The next day … Swedish tea ring for breakfast (or whenever we get up). Most likely a quiet day at home.
We’ll be attending a kid-friendly NYE party, where we’ll ring in the new year at 7:30
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We are going out to dinner and then spending a quiet evening at home.
Making pizza and snuggling on the couch with our 19 monthold tonight then watching football tomorrow!!
I’ll be at home with some friends
I’m celebrating with family!
My family always has a little reunion for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day!
I’m celebrating with lots of food, drinks and partying
Last night (Eve) I made appetizers for dinner for my kiddos and hubby – it was fun and they always like the little bites of food. For today (Day) we are going to our MIL’s for dinner.
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Going to a friend’s open house.
We spent the day with friends and family!!!!
I stayed home and took care of my 6 month old granddaughter. Today (new years day) I have been cleaning and organizing everything.
I celebrated with tons of food and friends and family
I went to a family reunion and we had tons of fun
I spent time with my family
My boyfriend came over for New Year’s Eve and I spent new years day with him and his family
We had fireworks and an awesome dinner
We had an outdoor party
We had movies and food
We ate out and then spent the rest of the day at home
My fiancee’s parents came over and my family hosted this huge dinner
We stayed in for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day- and loved every minute of lounging by the fire!
Thanks!
we didn’t do much new yrs eve, but watched football and had coy potoato soup all day new yrs day
cozy potato soup, ha!
We had fireworks and enjoyed a great night with the neighbors
We had a few friends over on NYE then spent the first with family.
We had a great time celebrating with family. Good food, good company and many photos of the newest generation of cousins enjoying their time together!
We just moved from California and we were so lucky to meet some mommies and kids in the area. So we r gonna have a Happy Noon Day with all the kids to play and mommies to chit chat…
We made your crockpot beef and broccoli recipe, paired it with champagne, and went to bed before the ball dropped. Old and lame? Maybe a little!
My husband and I had a nice quiet dinner at home
We do “appetizer night” on New Years even, but haven’t stayed up til midnight in years! Sad!
we always have a potluck on new years
Hung out with my friends
stocked up on safeway and costco foods andhad a party
I celebrated at home with my kids with apple cider and horns and watched the countdowns
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