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Food/Holiday Gift Ideas

faerywings

faerywings

The Loopy-O
CHEERY O
I had *grand* ideas. So grand. I was going to make a ton of food gifts for my parents and my ILs, the people who I adore but need *nothing.*
Flash forward to today, you know-- only 9 days before Christmas and I got nothin'
What are some easy and most important fast food gifts that I can make? I was thinking about making little banana bread loaves but aside from that, I'm stuck.
Last year I made my parents low-sodium food seasonings and my IILs got seasoned salts.
The year before, I made cheese straws and DH made homemade vodka sauce.
Cruuuuuuud, I keep forgetting about my brother and SIL too.

Hit me with any ideas, suggestions, and recipes you have!

Thank you!
 
What about dinner casseroles? Ones that go in the freezer until they want to bake them? Lasagna springs to mind. Or snacks, like a basket full of crackers, cheese, pretzels, sausage and chocolate. Or a popcorn variety with candies they love for a movie at home night. Trying to think what wont take a ton of time yet still fun. coffee mugs and variety of hot cocoa mixes. Make big batch of hot cocoa mix (recipes online) and place in a canister like mason jar with ribbons around them. Okay, that's my max ideas at the moment. Good luck!!
 
I'm with Tracy on the hot cocoa mix in jars. I used to make a lot of those. (You can use brownies/cookie mix too) and tie a pretty bow around the top, right under the lid. You could even fill them with candy - whatever they like.
 
Yep jar mixes with a scrappy recipe tag & some ribbon because unless U have an orchard & are in to canning or lemon curd, apple butter or jam making, non perishable is hard. The strata layered jars of dry ingredients also look a bit like art so even if they just leave it on a shelf for a while, it'll look cool.
 
My go to for a quick food gift is snowball cookies in a small tin. They are also called Russian Tea Cakes. The recipe is in the Betty Crocker cookbook. Beat1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup of room temperature butter. Add a dash of vanilla and salt. Then add 2 1/4 cups flour. Bake at 400 for 8 - 10 minutes. Take out, roll immediately in powdered sugar, then roll again when cool. You can also add 1/4 - 1/2 finely chopped walnuts, but we leave them out. When our daughter was little she had nut allergies, so we've eliminated them.
 
mimes1 said:
My go to for a quick food gift is snowball cookies in a small tin. They are also called Russian Tea Cakes. The recipe is in the Betty Crocker cookbook. Beat1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup of room temperature butter. Add a dash of vanilla and salt. Then add 2 1/4 cups flour. Bake at 400 for 8 - 10 minutes. Take out, roll immediately in powdered sugar, then roll again when cool. You can also add 1/4 - 1/2 finely chopped walnuts, but we leave them out. When our daughter was little she had nut allergies, so we've eliminated them.
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This is one of the cookies Caitlyn and I made this weekend (we always called them Walnut Balls, super original and creative LOL)
Everyone in the fam automatically gets a huge tray of cookies and dog treats.
But I love the idea of the mason jar mixes. My parents enjoy soups and since they can't have anything with sodium in it, maybe I can make one of the layered bean soup mixes.
 
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