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<p class="p1">Happy Halloween. In no time, holiday shopping and entertaining will begin.  As much as people enjoy eating and serving slow-simmered, downhome goodness, few can find time to do it the way grandma did, especially during the hectic holiday season. Leonard’s Market Place heat-and-eat meals makes it possible to keep tradition and leave the hassle behind.

<p class="p2">After perfecting the secret of serving consistently delicious Southern, Cajun, Creole, Soul and New Orleans style food for over 30 years, the Leonard Fuselier family — owners of Leonard’s Food Quarters Restaurant — opened Leonard’s Marketplace next to the restaurant. 

<p class="p2">Leonard’s Marketplace offers heat-and-eat meals based on Fuselier family recipes, special discount pricing on meats, grocery items and specialty foods. Foods can be shipped to places where people have never even seen crawfish, much less eaten Leonard’s crawfish etouffee. Leonard’s Marketplace also offers the Leonard’s Cajun Gourmet Gift Basket. For the holidays, Leonard’s Marketplace offers special gift wrapping and pricing on holiday gift packages. 

<p class="p2">Visit Leonard’s Marketplace to choose from favorites such as boudin, original boudin balls, jalapeno cheese boudin balls, red beans and rice with smoked sausage, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and sausage gumbo, smothered chicken and rice, shrimp etouffee and rice, crawfish etoufee and rice, cornbread and seafood dressing. 

<p class="p2"> “Leonard’s Marketplace meals are authentic, the kind of food we grew up on and crave, but seldom have time to prepare because of today’s busy schedules,” said Jamie Fusilier. “Meals can be heated in the oven or microwave.” 

<p class="p2">Leonard’s favorites are sure to make Thanksgiving meal preparation, gift giving and holiday entertaining easier, not to mention more delicious.  

<p class="p4"><strong>Satisfy food cravings with family-friendly pricing</strong>

<p class="p2">Don’t procrastinate. Prepare for holiday get-togethers and gift-giving now. (1) Stock up on heat-and-eat meals. (2) Order Cajun Gourmet Gift Baskets, especially for the people on your list who can’t find great Cajun food where they live and (3) check out Leonard’s Marketplace special meat package pricing, stuffed chickens and pork chops, tamales and smoked meats. 

<p class="p2">Leonard’s Marketplace accepts EBT cards. For more information about what Leonard’s Marketplace has available, call 337-602-6160 or go to <a href="http://www.leonardsfoodquarters.com" target="_blank"><strong>www.leonardsfoodquarters.com</strong>.</a><p>Stop by today and meet Leonard Fuselier, seated, and his sons Troy, left and Marlon</p>Special to the American Press

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