Food basket as a gift: how to collect it and donate in an original way?

Whether it is appropriate to give products, whether it is insulting to the person to whom the gift is intended - these questions cannot be answered unambiguously. After all, if, for example, the parent class committee decides to give the teacher a grocery basket, then this is a bad option. But if you decide to please your relatives and friends with delicacies, this can be a really good gift.

Donation of money is a bad form, but despite such a harsh sentence, envelopes and cards with bills remain the leader among the gifts, and something is unlikely to threaten this trend. You need to understand that the rules are there to break them. And if it is customary in your environment to give money, if there is any agreement on the appropriateness of such gifts, even if there is a conditional amount - this is normal.

With products almost all the same. Someone will be offended by a stick of sausage (even the most expensive), handed on the occasion of the holiday, and someone will be happy for a tasty gift. Question of relevance. When the same parents buy a package of products (caviar, red fish, sausage, chocolate, alcohol) to the teacher, it may offend him. It looks from the outside as if the parents hint at low teacher salaries, and the food package has some kind of indulgent, humiliating character.

But if you decide, for example, on March 8, to congratulate the grandmothers with a basket of products, this may please them. Often, grandmothers (and other age-related relatives) when asked what to give, just wave them off - they say, we don’t need anything. But products will not be overkill.

It remains only the final touch, while very important: correctly present a delicious gift. Gastronomic basket with all its appearance should increase appetite. If you give it to a woman, she will pay attention to aesthetics first. And men love convincing externally gifts. The basket itself (if you chose such a package) should be durable, whole, convenient. Her pen can be tied with a ribbon, or you can attach a postcard with good wishes to the pen.

The fun begins - collecting the basket. The first thing that comes to mind is sweets. Without them, of course, can not do, but let's go through all the main points.

Proceed primarily from the tastes and preferences of the person whom they decided to congratulate. Many strive to buy a modern dessert, but it can leave a person indifferent, who already has tastes, and he is philosophical about all the fashion squeaks. Therefore, if you know that your loved one loves candy with truffle filling, look for just such.

If you have a national basket, and not a mononabore (for example, only from tea or only from cheeses), it is impossible to imagine the full composition without drinks. Tea is available in the kitchen of almost every family. If you don’t have clear preferences, buy a selection of teas. It is often packed in beautiful boxes.

But if it is only tea, then take it expensive, leafy, by weight. Choose neutral flavors: classic black or selected green. You can attach a jar of honey to the tea basket, it literally begs in a pair.

Here a lot depends on your finances. There are budget, but very tasty options.

For example, people are often willing to give up expensive Mediterranean cheeses in favor of the Belarusian product). Again, the cheese itself is produced in the form of attractive, appetizing heads, sausages, flagella.

Usually, smoked meat and jerky come here. Keep track of shelf life. If you are not sure of the tastes of the person to whom you make the basket, you can replace the meat part with the sausage one. This is a more neutral option.

Do not take too peppered, spicy sausages - stop at something universal. This may be products that resemble grandmothers country sausages. With sausage guessing is easier than with meat.

If you have vegetables from your garden in your food basket, that's fine. Such a contribution will be appreciated by a loved one. But if there is no such possibility, carefully work in the vegetable department.

With fruit, you also need to try - ripe, boasting glossy barrel apples, traditional oranges, tangerines (in winter) are appropriate. If you want something more exotic, take pomelo and mango, they rarely disappoint those who have not tried them before. Looks great in the gift basket grapes. Do not forget to grab a kiwi: in terms of valuable vitamin C, it is ahead of even a lemon. By the way, the lemon in the fruit basket is also not at all superfluous.

The berry part is especially good in the season when the berries are local, fresh, beautiful. But if it's winter and the berries are bad, you do not need to take expensive strawberries (perhaps not very tasty). It is better to experiment with dried fruits: they are many times more useful in the winter. Yes, and look nice, if you pack them in small plastic bags and tie a ribbon. Here - a couple of small packets with nuts. But peanuts should not be taken, despite the cheapness: it has less benefit than other nuts, in addition, it is a very allergenic product.

In this part of the basket is a place that does not always clearly fall under one category or another. For example, red caviar - what kind of food congratulatory set without it? Or canned tuna - a popular base for salads, too, deserves a place in a festive basket.

“Edible” baskets make to your taste. Perhaps grandmother or mom is really better to take a team, where there is a little of everything. But if, for example, you bring someone a gift from a trip (to colleagues, for example), you can bring a small mono basket: cheese, tea, a basket of coffee.

Most often, grocery baskets are played up thematically. For example, chocolate is made with satin ribbons of chocolate in tone, and coffee is complemented with coffee treats - cookies, sweets, and jam. If you make a basket in the Italian style (pasta, sauces, olive oil), you can “throw” a small art album with beautiful reproductions of Venetians into it. Or would it be appropriate in this basket biography of Leonardo da Vinci. Or maybe Sophia Loren or Bernardo Bertolucci.

Fish basket with delicious seafood can be a surprise. For example, a friendly comic invitation to fishing - a certificate is not an infinite amount of fishing with a friend.

Making depends on your imagination, as well as on the intimacy of the relationship with the person to whom you present a gift. Also important is the holiday, about which such "offerings". If you decided to present a grocery basket for the New Year, then there are a lot of options - from flirtatious looking spruce twigs, powdered with artificial snow, to small souvenirs, Christmas tree decorations, as if accidentally caught among the grocery splendor.

The basket, which is given on March 8, and I want to add a sprig of mimosa. And on your birthday, you can tie a bunch of multi-colored balloons to the basket handle. Do not forget to sign a postcard. By the way, in a basket with seafood, you can put a beautiful bottle with a cork, inside of which there will be a small note. These are words of congratulations that can be styled as the message of a cheerful pirate.

I would like not just to give a gift from hand to hand, but to make it creatively. If the basket is decorated beautifully, then extra words are not required. But if you feel that something needs to be said, be concise and eloquent.

Examples of accompanying speech:

• On such a festive day, I would like to wish you a delicate, excellent taste for life! Appreciate what we call the trifles of life - enjoy the coffee aroma, fresh baking on Saturday morning, a fun joke and an exquisite compliment. And in order to train the “muscles of taste”, we give you this “edible” basket!
• How to please the gourmet? Probably good products from which he can create a culinary masterpiece. Without further ado, I want to give you this basket - try, enjoy, write new recipes and invite us to visit!
• We know firsthand about your culinary talents. And so that you honed your style, we decided to help you a little: please accept this “tasty” basket. Let her help you reach a new level of culinary skill.
• Only a person who does not know what kind of work is behind him, and who does not know what a person can inspire on time and properly served dinner, does not appreciate a tasty lunch. Our gift is just a small compliment to your culinary talents, which we would like to appreciate in the future!

Speaking figuratively, you can “pepper the main course” with ornate compliments, and the gift will be accepted with pleasure. If everything is decorated aesthetically, if the products are not taken on the principle of “cheapest”, if you really wanted to please your loved one and please him, the grocery basket will not be a passing gift.

On how to make a gift basket, see the following video: