Food gift packaging, simple and innovative ways to make your mark.

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More Food Gift Ideas

• Food Gift Tags
• Spiked Chocolate Truffles
  

• Beer Bread  Mix

• Easy Homemade Kaluha

Home made food gifts taste even better when wrapped with the same creativity used to make the gift.  Packaging is easily available from local sources.  Keeping the wrapping simple allows for innovative ways to make your mark.

• Jars, cruets, and bottles are easily found at local stores.  You can find the budget priced at   Walmart, Ace Hardware, Ocean State Job Lot or collect them at tag sales throughout the year.  Keep jars and bottles you find unique after you use the contents for this purpose as well.
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• Scrap material and children's drawings can be cut to cove the tops of jars.  Secure them with rubberbands.  Looking for a little more decoration, tie a tag on with yarn or ribbon.
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• Metal tins are an attractive solution to food gift packaging. As with jars you may find them at Walmart, etc.
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• Line tins with food safe colored tissue paper. Any sticky or moist items should be wrapped in plastic first.
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• Gift bags can be found just about anywhere, Dollar Stores offer inexpensive variations.  Decorating the bags will add to your gift's wow factor.  Paper lunch bags are perfect for smaller items and can be decorated just as easily.
  • Gluing on buttons will add a simple, three dimensional flare.
  • Tying on bows (doing this before putting your gifts in the bag the ribbon will stay on better).
  • Stamping designs on bags easily add decoration.
  • Pasting cut out shapes from wrapping paper is decorative and quick.
  • if putting fragile items in a gift bag, line the inside with a box, fill the box with springfill, paper shred or crumpled paper, wrape each item individually and place them carefully within the box, the added fill will help keep the items protected.
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• Over-sized mugs and decorative plates make great containers for food gifts.
  • For mugs Add home made cocoa and soup mix or your famous biscotti and a bag of coffee or tea.
  • Decorative plates beautifully display cakes and cookies.
  • Keep the contents in the mug or plate by wrapping it up in cellophane or a small basket bag, secured with a bow. 
  • Tag sales, bargin bins and second hand stores are ideal places to find mugs on a budget. 
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• Baskets are classic packaging for food gifts.  Decorate them with spray paint  or just line them with a pretty linen napkins.
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• Pringles cans make fun food tubes. Wash them out thoroughly. Wrapping paper is the easiest way to cover the outside of the can. Use glue to keep the paper on the can.   Fill with spiced nuts and candies or your favorite cookies inside.  A Bow tied with fabric ribbon around the circumference of the tube will give a professional look and hide the fact that it once house stacked chips.
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• Use hand made tags to identify your gifts.  Homemade labels are another option to add recipes and directions.
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• Gift wrapping with newspaper and maps are simply elegant.  other variations of this idea are;
  • Wallpaper.
  • Photocopies of favorite quotes of dictionary entries.
  • Old calendar pages are particularly suited for anniversaries and birthdays.

• Wooden spoons, whisks or a set of measuring spoons tied to the outside of your package is an easily elegant way to finish the look of the gift.

• If you have time to shop around for gift basket supplies, ebay.com is a great resource.

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