Today a friend sent me this link to a website that gives recipes and printable labels for those attractive food gifts in a jar. I was interested in the soups, breads, and drinks, but they had plenty of sweets as well.
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I have done a few soups in the past years. For the ones that need canned items added to the soup, I usually make a nice little basket that includes the canned items and then I put the entire recipe on a card in case the person wants to make the soup again.
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I've done some gifts in a pie plate for gifts before.
you get a nice looking glass pie dish, add a can of pie filling, a recipe and a dish towel and wrap in colored plastic wrap (like an easter basket)
great for teacher gifts.
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I have a book from current that has those other recipies.I even know where its at in the kitchen.have another with all the sweet stuff in it.I been busy in the yard lately with the great weather and all.i'll grab it and move it by computer so can toss some out to ya.as usual not here long& gotta clean my potting mix off porch or hubby will plant me in the yard permenately.& out of the sink in kitchen.I washed a load of pots.HAha
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OOOOoooo! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I was just fretting over what I was going to do for people for Christmas. I'm soooo broke this year! You just rescued me!
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one year for teacher gifts I'd been buying potatoe salad in these little buckets with a handle (metal handle) on them and I spray painted those in that 14 kt gold paint and stuffed with a really nice christmas grass and filled with candy (mini candy bars) for christmas and tied ballons on them. Looked really nice. You can get that gas for ballons at wal mart now in a small tank (it's over the party goods stuff.)
I got alot of my stuff cheap, I worked for American Greetings and would pick stuff up at the warehouse sale.
But just use what you got, if packaged right anything will make a nice gift.
bbbbbbbbb I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited-
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If you know some one that has a baby...have them save the baby food jars and you can put the Christmas Tea mix (the one that has the red hots in it)and ten cove the lid with holiday material (or tissue paper)it contains just enough mix for about 2-3 cups of hot tea and is CHEAP! Also, in your "soup" baskets you can go to the dollar store and get some really cute ladels or pckgs of wooden spoons to include. The dollar store and Wal-Mart usually has some nice Christmas towels & pot holders that are 2 for $1.00...I grab them up and Stapel a towel and a pot holder to a Christmas card and give one to all the ladies at church..it is a nice way to be able to include everyone with out spending a fortune....a buck a person isn't to shabby. I have also done the towels/pot holders and a few dollar store utinsels in a white paper "lunch" bag that I decorate. That is the fun part of the holidays is "doing" for others.
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My favorite recipes for gift giving on a limited budget were from The Art of Cooking with Spirits by Elise Landauer Meyer which is packed away somewhere.
The first is a recipe for Sherry Jelly and is so easy to make I even made some for myself. It is delicious on biscuits with some butter!
The other was for Cranberry Preserves cooked in wine and flavored with Kirsch or Cointreau. I liked the Kirsch best but both were good. Never liked cranberry sauce until I had this!
Both were very popular gifts for several years. ABE has the book for $4.00, but I'll search for mine when I have some time after Thanksgiving if someone would like it.
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From: South Carolina | Registered: Nov 2004
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I'd love to have the recipes/instructions for the Sherry Jelly and the Cranberry Preserves, if you have a chance to find your book and post them. They sound terrific!
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Bill made it for me today and I think it is WONDERFUL!
I chose the Digiatalis Purpurea as symbolic for the healing of my very sick heart. It will keep reminding me that "Where there is life, there is hope!" Plus, the flowers are so beautiful, aren't they?
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Celebrating 10 years of helping your gardens grow!
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