DIY gift baskets

A visit to friends, relatives or colleagues will not be taken by surprise if you know how to quickly come up with and buy an original useful and tasty gift. Gift baskets that can be quickly assembled with your own hands will come to the rescue.

It is not difficult to assemble a basket of products; the main thing is to decide what will be in it - meat, sausage products or cheese. Maybe it will be a sweet, tea or fruit basket. When the choice is made, you need to pack everything beautifully and, at the end, arrange the basket by wrapping it in transparent packaging and decorating it with a bow. All this will look beautiful and appetizing.

With the help of various products, you can collect a gift with your own hands and present it in a basket to a man or woman, elderly relatives and a young couple, children. This may not be a gift for the celebration, but just a sign of attention, a surprise.

To basket did not look chaotic set, it is best to fill it with a certain type of product.

• If you intend to give a present to a man, you can fill the basket with meat delicacies, adding a bottle of good cognac and a couple of lemons. The basket may be sausage. Various types of smoked and uncooked smoked sausages can be supplemented with cheese products. The design of the basket with sausage can be supplemented with fresh herbs and vegetables.

• Subjects can be very diverse, it all depends on the preferences of the person whose visit is planned. Even the most original and unexpected ideas should not be swept away. For example, it can be seafood, where shrimps with mussels, crabs with squids will coexist well. Jars with red caviar are a good addition.

• No worse and a basket of fish delicacies, which can accommodate different types of smoked and salted fish. Very handy will be a few cans of good beer.

• If a gift is for a woman, then the ideal solution would be to put sweets in a basket. It can be a cake, cakes, chocolate, sweets. A fruit and candy basket will look very attractive if bright orange oranges, rosy apples, aromatic bananas, yellow lemons are added to sweets in beautiful boxes and wrappers

• A sweet basket can also be filled with beautiful jars of honey, jams, preserves. Such a vitamin cocktail will be a great addition to tea.

• A basket consisting only of fruits will delight everyone without exception. It is both tasty and healthy. Yes, and any fruit looks very beautiful together, albeit familiar, albeit exotic. Pineapples, pomegranates, mangoes, figs, grapefruits, melon, grapes - all this and much more will be a great addition to any holiday table.

• No worse will be a basket with nuts and dried fruits. It can be filled by placing walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, dried apricots, dates in different packages. A pair of jars of honey of different varieties will be a good addition to this option.

• For coffee lovers, you can pack a gift consisting of several types of coffee, you can add it with chocolate or sweets

• A tea basket is suitable for those who love this drink. You can combine several varieties of black, green, fruit tea. A good addition would be honey or jam.

• You can even make an interesting basket from your own blanks by placing jars of mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes, canned salads, and vegetable caviar there. All this is very tasty and extremely useful.

• Continuing the theme of the garden, you can please friends and organic vegetables. It all depends on what is currently ripening in the beds. Any fresh vegetables look appetizing and attractive, whether it be radishes with lettuce and herbs or tomatoes with cucumbers, eggplant with zucchini or carrots with beets.

• Berry baskets are a wonderful option. Strawberries, raspberries, cherries, cherries, blackberries will decorate any feast.

• And if the hostess has culinary abilities, it can be a basket with all kinds of sweets of their own making - cookies, donuts, buns, buns, cakes.

• For those who cannot imagine life without spices, a basket with all kinds of spices in beautiful jars and bags, as well as herbs, will be a good present.

• Youth and adolescents will be pleased with a different set of plans. There may be pizza, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, popcorn and chips, other goodies considered harmful, but which are sometimes so hard to deny.

It’s not necessary to adhere to strict themes when choosing the design of a grocery gift, but it’s not worth putting everything in there, so that it can be seen that everything is thought out to the smallest detail. For example, in addition to meat delicacies, you can send a couple of jars of olives and olives, pickles are also a good option. For tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs and radishes, a bottle of good olive oil will be useful. For tea - honey and jam, for coffee - sweets and chocolate. Well, if you put all this together, it will also be very cool.

To do this, you can use ribbons, artificial flowers. You can completely wrap the basket handle with a satin ribbon, securing it with glue. A satin bow or several artificial flowers can be fixed at the base of the handle or at the top. You can decorate the ribbons and the basket itself.The chaos should not reign in the basket, but everything is arranged in a certain order so that it can be seen that it is framed with love and a desire to bring joy.

A simpler option to make a gift set is to wrap the basket in transparent packaging, also attaching ribbons or a bow at the top. In the basket itself, in either case, you can put a beautiful postcard with wishes, or maybe some kind of addition to the topic. If the basket has fruits and berries, you can supplement it with a juicer. When forming a basket for a coffee lover, there will organically look a turk and a coffee grinder, and for a tea fan - an original teapot and sugar bowl.

See below for how to make and arrange a gift basket.