DIY gift baskets

A trip to visit 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 will come to the rescue, which you can quickly assemble with your own hands.

It is not difficult to assemble a basket of groceries, the main thing is to decide what will be in it - meat, sausage or cheese products. Maybe it will be a sweet, tea or fruit basket. When the choice is made, you need to arrange everything beautifully and, in 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 necessarily be a gift for a celebration, but just a sign of attention, a surprise.

So that the basket does not look like a chaotic set, it is best to fill it with a certain type of food.

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

• The topic can be very diverse, it all depends on the preferences of the person to whom the visit is planned. Even the most original and unexpected ideas should not be dismissed. For example, it can be seafood, where shrimp with mussels, crabs with squid will do well. Jars of red caviar would be a good addition.

• The basket with fish delicacies, which can accommodate different types of smoked and salted fish, is no worse. A few cans of good beer will be very helpful.

• If a gift for a woman, then the ideal solution would be to put sweets in the basket. It can be cake, pastries, chocolate, candy. Fruit and candy basket will look very attractive if you add bright orange oranges, ruddy apples, fragrant bananas, yellow lemons to the candies in beautiful boxes and wrappers

• A sweet basket can also be filled with beautiful jars of honey, jams, and preserves. This 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, even if it is familiar, even if it is exotic. Pineapples, pomegranates, mangoes, figs, grapefruits, melons, grapes - all this and much more will be a great addition to any festive table.

• A basket of nuts and dried fruits will be just as good. It can be filled by placing walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, dried apricots, dates in different packages. A couple of jars of honey of different types will be a good addition to this option.

• For a coffee connoisseur, you can pack a gift consisting of several types of coffee, you can supplement it with chocolate or sweets.

• The tea basket is perfect for those who love this drink. You can combine several varieties of black, green, fruit tea. Honey or jam would be a good addition.

• 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 healthy.

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

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

• And if the hostess has culinary skills, it can be a basket with all kinds of homemade sweets - 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 delight a set of a different plan. There may be pizza, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, popcorn and chips, other goodies that are considered harmful, but which are sometimes so difficult to deny yourself.

It is not necessary to adhere to a strict theme when choosing the design of a grocery gift, but you shouldn't put everything there, so that you can see 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; pickled cucumbers 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 be very cool too.

For this, you can use ribbons, artificial flowers. You can completely wrap the handle of the basket with satin ribbon, securing it with glue. At the base of the handle or at the top, you can attach a satin bow or some fake flowers. You can decorate the basket itself with ribbons.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 arrange a gift set is to wrap the basket in transparent packaging, also securing a ribbon or bow at the top. In the basket itself, in either case, you can put a beautiful postcard with wishes, or maybe some addition to the topic. If the basket contains fruits and berries, you can supplement it with a juicer. When forming a basket for a coffee lover, a Turk and a coffee grinder will organically look there, and for a tea lover - an original teapot and sugar bowl.

How to make and arrange a gift basket, see below.