Coffee lovers crate

Polly

I spotted this in a magazine lately and thought it would make a great gift for my sister. Its a coffee bush (for the windowsill) and a bag of Cafedirect's fresh ground fairtrade coffee in a wooden crate. Its £40 from www.thegluttonousgardener.co.uk for anyone else who's interested. Where possible, I like to buy 'charity' type gifts but am wondering if I could buy something similar cheaper elsewhere and give the difference directly to a charity of my choice. Would love to hear some ideas :rudolf:

lightisfading

*cough* £40?!
remember there's also £8 delivery on top. £48 for a bag of coffee and a small plant seems a little excessive!

you might want to try popping over to the Christmas/Other Celebrations board, there's several threads on there about making your own hampers, which lots of people (inc myself) have done to great effect

As for the contents, poundland have 'grow your own plant' kits in at the moment which don't look tacky, I think they have a coffee one. You can get fairtrade coffee all over, supermarkets, lidl, co-op, etc so you could get several different types. Add some coffee chocolate, or flavours to add to the coffee etc.

Polly

Thanks! Didn't know about the £8 delivery and definitely would have choked on that one!! Will take a look