Grill Mates Review and Giveaway!

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One of the tell-tale signs of spring and summer is the smell of neighborhood barbecues. We love to barbecue in warmer weather and now that the kids are older, they are craving more than just your average hot dogs and hamburgers. McCormick offers a line of Grill Mates products to help you cook up some seriously delicious meats in an incredibly affordable way.

Varieties of Grill Mates include:

• Slow & Low Tennessee Smokehouse BBQ Rub: Inspired by the taste of authentic regional barbecue, this rub offers a smoke-infused blend of garlic, onion, brown sugar, and spices ideal for seasoning a whole chicken and other cuts of chicken, pork, or beef.  ARV- $1.35 per package
• Smokin' Sweet Tea Marinade: This marinade offers the sweet indulgent taste of southern sweet tea with a smoky twist. Best with chicken breast, pork chops, and steak. ARV - $1.35 per package
• Backyard Brick Oven Seasoning Blend: This robust blend combines garlic, red pepper, oregano, and basil to bring the enticing flavor and aroma of the neighborhood pizza shop to the grill. Great for chicken  seafood pork, and grilled pizza and breads.  ARV - $2.57 per bottle
• Worcestershire Pub Burger Seasoning Blend: Take the number one grilled food - the burger - to the next level with the bold blend of Worcestershire, black pepper, and garlic. ARV - $2.57 per bottle
• Montreal Steak Grill Mates Steak Sauce: A blend of all-natural spices and herbs including coarsely ground black pepper, red pepper, dill, and coriander boosts the flavor of steak and burgers. ARV -$3.69 per bottle
• Smoky Montreal Steak Grill Mates Steak Sauce: With that "just off the grill" smokiness you crave, this all-natural sauce adds another layer of flavor to classic Montreal taste. ARV - $3.69 per bottle

Review: We had the opportunity to try the Slow & Low Tennessee BBQ Rub.  We have never slow-cooked on the grill before so this was a new experience.  The directions called for applying the rub to chicken at least 2 hours prior to grilling and then slow-cooking on an unlit side of the grill so the other lit side slowly grilled it.  The rub gave the chicken a really great and unique flavor. The blend was like nothing I have ever had before and my son, especially, loved the taste. Although you could not taste the brown sugar, I suspect that it was the magic ingredient that kept the spice from being overwhelming. The rub was easy to use and it definitely took the chicken from being plain to extremely flavorful. I would recommend using thick cuts of chicken because the slow cooking does dry it out some and thinner pieces ended up a bit dry but the thicker pieces were delicious.  It is definitely a rub we will purchase again - my son insists on it!

My husband and son love to make steaks on the grill and we were all really excited to try the two different steak sauces.  The Montreal Steak Sauce was a very high quality version of the steak sauce taste you are probably used to. It really enhanced the flavor of the meat. My favorite, though, was the Smoky Montreal Steak Sauce which tasted like a blend of steak sauce and barbecue sauce. It quickly became my favorite steak sauce of all time and I would love to use it as a marinade next time we grill.  

The three products we tasted were so delicious I can't wait to try the rest. Grill Mates are a really affordable way to get restaurant quality foods right in our backyard and I highly recommend you give them a try! 

Buy it here: You can find Grill Mates in the condiment spice aisle of your local supermarket. 

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*I was provided with the above mentioned products in order to facilitate this post. All opinions expressed are my own.