Sometimes it is very difficult to choose an interesting and useful gift, especially if a person already has everything and it is difficult to surprise him with an original thing. Food in this case is a win-win option, as delicacies in any case will become part of the festive table. It remains to correctly select the grocery set and make it original.
What products can be used?
Delicious gifts can be collected from completely different products:
- cheese;
- fishes;
- smoked meats;
- vegetables;
- sweets;
- home baking;
- fruit
- nuts.
In a gift box you can present vegetable kit - with an eye on a healthy diet or weight loss, if it is known that the hero of the occasion has special addictions to the correct lifestyle.
Cheese set usually consists of several types of cheese - the benefit is that the assortment is great. It often adds meat delicacies, such as jerky, olives and so on.
Looks smart set of macaroon. These colorful pastries are often presented complete with flowers.
Sets for men
A gastronomic set for a man suggests the use of satisfying foods. This is exactly what men require from food.
This may be a sausage, “diluted” with cheese. The set can be supplemented with sauce, and at the same time you can attach a beautiful chopping board to the gift, which can be used to cut the components of the presented presentation.
If a man is a connoisseur of cheeses with a piquant taste, it's a good idea to present him a bouquet of wine and cheese. Given that one perfectly complements the other, the gift will be very exquisite.
It is better for a beer lover to present a box with hunting sausages or cheese in the form of a pigtail.
A refined gift will be caviar in a gift box. Typically, a set includes several types of caviar. This is a real male present. It can be safely supplemented with fish and noodles made by hand, as well as elite alcohol. The better you know the person for whom the food package is intended, the more accurate the content of the gift.
An unusual option will be set of sauces. Such kits are created to order. Anyone who decided to make an interesting present can order specific options for sauces and a festive decoration of a certain type. As a rule, the choice is made in favor of sauces for meat dishes. But there are also those that are designed for fruits and vegetables.
On sale you can find sauces from oranges with various additives, currant with port, cranberry with greens and so on. All this will prove to be very interesting for the recipient of the gift, especially if he has not tried anything that is part of the gift set.
A representative of the stronger sex can collect and a set that includes nuts and dried fruits, very useful for male strength and health. Such a kit may include, for example, a combination of pistachios with almonds, dried apples, prunes and dried apricots.
What to give to women?
When it comes to delicious gifts for women, they come to mind first "Sweet ideas."
There are ready-made honey sets on sale, which will be appreciated by any lady who subtly senses shades of tastes. The kits include jars of different types of honey. You can create such a present yourself by including, for example, honey in dark and light varieties. The set may include field, meadow, taiga product of "bee production". The present can be supplemented with tea and coffee in beautiful packaging.
Gift Boxes Look Impressive cupcake sets. Such pastries can be with caramel, chocolate, berries or jam. A beautiful box with goodies inside, tied with a ribbon, will delight any girl.
Gift set can be assembled from marshmallows and sweets or marmalade. Complemented by a postcard, it will serve as a wonderful memorable surprise.
Traditional is set of chocolates. These are quite a few on sale. To complete the kit, it can also be supplemented with tea or coffee.
A lover of oriental sweets will delight a gift in the form of a box with the appropriate contents, supplemented with nuts and a jar of jam.
It should be borne in mind that among women there are those who do not like sweets or cannot afford the luxury of consuming such food for the sake of maintaining health or a beautiful figure. In this case food set with sausage in a special box It will be a very original solution for the holiday.
Edible Souvenir Options
Some products may serve souvenirs depending on their place of origin. It is no coincidence that when returning from Thailand, many give coconut oil to their friends and relatives. On the one hand, this is a reminder of impressions brought "from across the sea", and on the other, a quite practical product that can also be used for frying.
The same cheese or wine can be served with a hint of France or Italy, and sweets with lotus seeds - in Vietnam.
Even butter or spices can be presented as an edible souvenir.
Such "reminders of events" can be done with your own hands. As a sign of the holiday, it’s enough to bake cookies and give it one form or another using a special mold.
The design of cookies depends on the occasion. If you plan to present it as a New Year's souvenir, it may look like a Christmas tree or a snowflake. By Valentine's Day, it’s logical to arrange sweets in the form of hearts. Gingerbread men will serve as interesting souvenirs for almost any holiday.
It remains only to beautifully pack such a gift in paper, a nice box or a chest, and a wonderful, warm souvenir is ready.
Small sweets packed in a jar presented as a "vessel of happiness" will also become a wonderful reminder of the holiday. It is important to choose the capacity of the original form and guess with the taste of sweets.
A transparent plastic container with nuts or dried fruits, tied with an elegant ribbon, is also a kind of souvenir, if presented accordingly.
Candy packed in a tin can can surprise the hero of the occasion. It can be, for example, Belgian chocolate. Such gifts can now be ordered on the occasion of the holiday.
Supplement to edible gifts will be small practical trifles. It can be a pendant in the form of a bar of chocolate, or a keychain in the form of a piece of cheese or a jar of sauce. The idea depends on the character, inclinations, sense of humor of the recipient of the gift.
Design Features
The originality of an edible gift is often dictated by how beautifully it is decorated. A common form for a grocery set is a bouquet. You can order it to specialists or make it yourself.
Even a novice will easily create a simple composition. A meat bouquet can be arranged in the form of a bunch of skewers with strung pieces of such a product. As a wrapper, bacon is suitable for such beauty.
From bacon you can make a bouquet that really looks like a flower. Small rolls resembling pink buds are created from thin slices of bacon, fixed with toothpicks, and then baked. Chopsticks for Chinese food are used as stalks. Any suitable greenery depicts leaves on them, and "buds" are pricked from above.
Any man (and not only) will be delighted with such a gift.
Fruits and berries can also be laid out in the form of a bouquet in a box. On paper, acting as a conditional wrapper, a composition of products is formed. You can, for example, put incised pomegranate in the center with its bright seeds, and make “petals” of Victoria and other berries around. Decorate the packaging with ribbon and give.
A very interesting bouquet is obtained from dried fish. To do this, the kit is packaged in ordinary newspaper or special paper with newspaper print and bandaged with ribbon in the area of the fish tails assembled together. There is no doubt that the gift will be met with the approval of a lover of this kind of snack.
It is convenient to pack sausages in a bouquet. Such a composition can be supplemented with bunches of salad with small tomatoes embedded in them. Bakery products having an elongated shape will also be in place.
A bouquet of sweets looks beautiful. This can also be done without resorting to the help of a specialist. Buds are twisted from paper, like tulips, sweets are inserted inside, stems are made from improvised materials and wrapped in a gift wrapper. For a woman celebrating March 8 or her birthday, little will be more attractive than such a bouquet.
Original compositions of products can be made in the basket. Such a nice container is suitable even for a meat set, at least for a fruit one. How beautiful its contents look depends on the abilities of the designer. For a delicious gift will be to attach a greeting card.
After the contents are eaten, the basket can continue to be used.
If jars with edible contents act as a presentation, they are placed in beautiful boxes, similar to those used for creams. In this form, gifts look very dignified.
Even a regular box with wrapping paper laid in it serves as an excellent setting for a meat or cheese set.
By the way, the packaging itself can also be edible.. From cheese that has the shape of a rope, you can tie a bowl or basket into which baked pies at home will remain, for example, with liver or cabbage.Both the contents and the container will be eaten, but the gift itself will not be forgotten.
If only a bar of chocolate acts as an edible gift, and it will be able to adequately “present” to the person presented. For this, a hard cover is made of cardboard, on the inside of which a pocket is provided. Sweet tile is inserted into it. On the other half of the cover there is a pocket for a postcard.
The effectiveness of the gift depends not only on the quality of the chocolate, but also on the originality of the external design of the cover. You can use the decoupage technique for this, decorate the front with volumetric flowers from or foamiran, make an applique and so on.
It is logical to arrange a sweet gift from cakes or cookies for a girl in a deep box in the shape of a heart. You can put sweets in one half and flowers in the other. This combination will please the hero of the occasion.
For the formation of any product set, it is important to choose high-quality, expensive products and pay serious attention to the appearance of the presentation.
If a delicious gift is made with a soul, it will certainly be appreciated.
On how to properly pack a gift, see below.