6 Easy Gifts with Gourmet Food

Written by Merrie Schonbach


Thank you for reading this article, we will explore 6 low cost gifts sets you can make with gourmet food. The below gifts are designed to be hand delivered, if you plan on shipping them add additional packing materials to cushionrepparttar items.

1 - Tea Gift

Items Needed: Two small boxes of gourmet tea, a teaball, bow, gift tag and 1" decorative ribbon.

Stackrepparttar 111492 two boxes of tea and carefully taperepparttar 111493 teaball torepparttar 111494 top box using clear tape. Wraprepparttar 111495 ribbon four ways aroundrepparttar 111496 box ending atrepparttar 111497 top and tie or add a bright bow and gift tag.

2 - Coffee Gift

Items Needed: Large decorative coffee cup, small bag of gourmet coffee, 3 or 4 packs of flavored creamer that you do not have to keep cold, empty coffee can and a bow.

Filerepparttar 111498 edge ofrepparttar 111499 coffee can till smooth, placerepparttar 111500 coffee cup insiderepparttar 111501 coffee can, addrepparttar 111502 packets of creamer insiderepparttar 111503 coffee cup andrepparttar 111504 bag of gourmet coffee on top. Use white tissue paper around coffee cup to keep it from breaking. Put plastic lid back on coffee can, add a gift tag and bow torepparttar 111505 top.

3 - Salsa Gift

Items Needed: Large plastic snack bowl, individual serving size of chips and a bottle of gourmet salsa.

Place chip bags into bowl, wraprepparttar 111506 salsa bottle with tissue paper, tie offrepparttar 111507 top with curling or decorative ribbon, place in bowl. Place bowl in a large decorative gift bag or wrap with gift warp tie off top with ribbon, add a bow and gift tag.

4 - Pretzel Gift

Items Needed: Individual serving size bags of pretzels, a large empty pretzels bag, a bottle of pretzel dip.

Sugarless Peach Crisp

Written by Joyce Moseley Pierce


Sugarless Peach Crisp by Joyce Moseley Pierce - 452 words

From time to time I realize that I am out of control with refined sugar and decide it's time to give it up. My first experience with being sugarless was about 15 years ago. I worked with a woman who was considering what she might give up for Lent. I likedrepparttar idea of sacrificing something and even though I wasn't Catholic, I decided to give up sugar. I went as far as reading every label and eliminating anything with "sugar" or any of its other names onrepparttar 111491 label. I also gave up anything with artificial sweeteners - they're even more questionable thanrepparttar 111492 real thing! Six weeks later, I was amazed to find that I had lost 8 pounds.

I've tried giving it up several times overrepparttar 111493 years but have just never been successful. Until now. Two months intorepparttar 111494 program, I have lost about 6 pounds even though weight loss wasn't my purpose in giving it up. I wanted to see if I would have more energy if I could avoid those highs and lows caused by sugar. A great book onrepparttar 111495 subject is "Sugar Blues" by William F. Duffy. If you're really interested in trying this for yourself, it's a great book that I've read and referred to many times inrepparttar 111496 past 20 years.

This time I bought Juicy Juice (TM) or other sugarless drinks to help fillrepparttar 111497 void. Inrepparttar 111498 afternoon when I felt tired or deprived, I would fill a glass with a few ounces of juice and it was enough to raise my blood sugar and give me a more gentle "high." Before long, I realized I was going all day without even drinking repparttar 111499 juice. The sacrifice has definitely been worth it. At times when I'm tempted, I remember how sluggish I used to feel after a cookie or ice cream cone, and I don't miss that irritated feeling in my stomach at all.

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