Food Hamper, suggestions Please

Maisie

The plastic boxes are cheap and ideal. Wrap in Christmas paper .

Can use the box afterwards too.

Lidl has loads of nice cardboard boxes that their mince pies, sweets etc come in. they're already decorated around the sides.

SuiDreams

I saw some wicker ones in my local pound shop last week they had some oval ones and small square ones with Handles.

sooz

pound shops too. also some nice ones lined with cotton.

Penny-Pincher!!

Posh Butter,Tinned Ham,Fancy Jams/Pickles/Chutneys etc or HM,Gammon Joint,Tinned Soup,Olive Oil,Nice Biccies,HM Cakes,Tinned Salmon, Mince pies, etc.

Can I just point out that we dont have a lot of money (spend about £35 a week for the 3 of us) and we live very healthily

I would probably add items that are nice and they wouldnt normally be able to buy like treats.

PP
xxx

Sofa_Sogood

SuiDreams wrote:

I've tried suggesting that Cooking from scratch would be healthier and cheaper for them, but I think they get a lot of stuff from where they work.

Might be an idea to pop in a recipe book for cheap but nutricious meals? For the times when they don't get stuff from work?

I'd suggest copying the recipes from Old Stylers, but I'd have a job copying it all and then making it presentable. I'm sure some techie minded OS might know

Sofa_Sogood

Just opened a mailshot from Harrods.

£5,000 for their best hamper :eek:

I'll start doing the lottery

squeaky

Lotta_Littlies wrote:

Do you know where we can find any cheap but nice baskets? Failing that she'll just have to decorate a box, but the problem here is it's not long before someone else grabs one to make a car/a house/a puppet theatre out of it!

Thanks,

Lotta

You'll have seen the ideas already offered to find baskets, but there other ideas about sourcing hampers AND filling them in the "Home Made Gifts" collection that we have.

You can find them by using our "Indexed Collections" sticky at the top of the forum listing, or you can follow the clue in my signature any time you see it or...

..you can use the Indexed Collections link in the Blue Bar at the top of every page in Old Style which looks something like this:-

SuiDreams

Its just one person and I think they have less than £10 per week to spend on food and household goods. I have suggested freshly cooked food but she told me she can't afford meat and vegetables.

squeaky

Then tell her she's wrong, and if she needs help sign her up here, point her at Old Style and if need be point her at my email address (on my avatar - picture) and I/WE will all help. I know how to live on sod all a week, I've done it - six quid a week...

..I know I posted rather more than that in the Grocery thread earlier but that was for everything and I DO, these days, have more to spend than in those bad old days.

Many of us have been there, some of us still are, and ALL of us will be happy to help. You know that.

tiff

^ ^ I'll second that