Edible gifts for Christmas

Neighbors give food they prepared for Noche Buena to each other. One of the recipes they prepared, plus salads, leche plan and others. So each one can taste something different from she prepared. It's so nice to look at the table full of different food from the preparation of each neighbor. For friends and relatives however I give mugs or handkies or bags.

No, but my sister used to make a tea cake for people. She would come to town, and start cooking, making this tea cake for mom's neighbors and a few other friends - generally speaking she ended up making 6 or 10 of them depending on who was getting them. I made "spa kits" for people one year. I poured soaps, scented bath salts, made candles, painted ceramic containers and put a few soaps, some bath salts, a candle, a few chocolate candies and a few bags of tea in a container and then wrapped it up prettily. Now, for a few friends, we did make chocolate dipped pretzel sticks. That was a pretty rough Christmas actually, because it took about 6 sessions to get everything made. 2 visits to the ceramic place to paint. 2 sessions of soap and 1 of soap and candles and then it was the putting the gifts together session - and I'm not counting the previous polymer clay sessions to cover the candle holders and cook them because we didn't know we were doing that at the time - and I made a little jewelry box with the clay for my niece. In the end we made... 4 for our friend J to give family, 3 for V to give people/family and 4 for me, then there were the 5 little ones for my co-workers that were just dishes and a couple of soaps. J, V and I all worked on them. I still have what's left if I want to do it again... maybe some day...

there is this great website that gives you recipes for a number of food mixes that you put in a jar, like bean soup mix; cookie mix etc but not sure of the name.

That's a nice gift. I like the personal touch with that. My family loves food..But I just do not know how to cook. Sometimes I think about buying those cookie sets or big things of popcorn for people..But I usually stick to whatever they have on their list; it's easier that way.

My kids and I did that one year. We moved to Louisiana and the family lived in Oklahoma. We made each family a basket filled with Louisiana cuisine! It was really fun to share a little piece of the culture we soon came to love!

I have given several edible christmas gifts for my friends and relatives. Some are store bought while some I made myself. One of the popular edible gists you could give in my area is the fruit cake. It is a cake made of preserved fruits, nuts and rum. The colors of the preserved fruits express the different christmas colors while the rum makes it festive. Another edible gift I gave was food for the gods. Its like a bar of rich cake. I bought a ready made food for the gods and wrapped them individually on a foil then wrapped it again on a colorful plastic wrapper. Its a big hit for my friends. I have received a hot choco mix as christmas present before. it was repacked in a bag and it was paired with gingerbread cookie. This was like 7 years ago. But nowadays since i moved to a different location these kinds of gifts are not that popular here. I have given a set or a gift basket of edible grocery items for my aunts. Its like a basket full of goodies such as pasta/noodle, tomato sauce, cheese, herbs and spices. Its like giving them all the ingredients they might need for a particular recipe. Then they would usually invite us if she's preparing or cooking the recipe already. Oh Christmas is so near! I'm so excited.

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Such a thoughtful gift to have but I don't know what to give this Christmas since we are saving some money to use for next year but I think edible goods are still okay to gift to people you love. Kids particularly would enjoy a chocolate bar or something sweet rather than toys to play. But anyway, I would also like the idea of creating sweet jams and gift wrapping it for people that is really close to me. Before I used to give bath and toilet items such as soaps with towels and towelettes. I also buy table mats for mom and colorful table runners. But this year, hhmm I am still thinking what to do and what to buy because I'm on a shoestring budget.

I make a lot of edible christmas gifts each year. it is something that I enjoy doing for others. these gifts are often more appreciated than ones I have bought.

I make gift baskets which consist of breads (ginger bread and cinnamon raisin), cookies (usually two different kinds),two kinds of fudge and also my special dirty snowballs (melted chocolate candies with powdered sugar). This year I am going to try to make grape jelly. I like making gift baskets for my husband's family.

That's very sweet of you making your own edible gifts for Christmas, that's even nice to receive that buying ready made stuff and food in the market. Anyway, i have ones bought a basket full of food to be given to our stay out helper before. Now i think we can't buy it because we really have financial crisis this year. I don't even know what to make edible gifts to give out to others this Christmas..

My sisters used to give us leche plan and fruit salad. I guess that was her specialty. Some family friends also give baskets of can goods and fruits as well as cake. I think it nice to give food on Christmas as a gift. Who knows this will be their only nuche buena on Christmas eve.

What's important is that we give gifts because we want to and not just because we need to. It is really difficult to earn money these days because of the economic problems all over the world, but the fact that we still want to give gifts to our loved ones makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas.

We usually give relatives fruit cake for Christmas. They give us cake or baked macaroni. It's nice to receive food this holiday than receiving re-gifted items. LOL. Sorry for complaining. Other relatives just give me things they don't like. It's like I am a garbage disposal machine. Just because my family is poor, that doesn't mean we are suppose to be treated like garbage. Oh well, I'll just donate it to the church. ;)

Part of the gifts I give for Christmas include "Chinese" fried walnuts, which are sweet/salty and really good. Other than that, it varies, but sometimes I put in home made candy or nuts, mostly in stockings and combination gifts.