Sending food as a Christmas gift

Honeybaked Hams will send an entire dinner and their ham is soooo good.

Swiss Colony??

QVC has lots of stuff. Cookies, caramel apples, muffins, I think.

Take a look at Williams Sonoma.

Slightly different price points: Wine Country Gift Baskets Olive & Cocoa

OP - to send cookies - go to a great bakery in your town. Buy delicious cookies. Pack them in tissue then wads of bubble wrap and send. It's the personal touch that communicates. It will be fresher and cheaper.

^^^ Comma between Baskets and Olive

I've ordered from Olive & Cocoa--very nice stuff, good presentation.

I've gotten Wine Country baskets. Don't.

I tried to gently suggest a gift in my name to charity might be a better bet. As it is, I drop them off at the nursing home down the street...

How about Mrs. Fields?

You can order from them online, although no idea where your price point is. NYC's Zabars and Balducci's have fabulous baskets and gifts, but they'll cost a bit more than some Pepperidge Farms Mint Milanos. Likewise Neiman-Marcus and Bloomingdales have great selections.

No idea what state you or they are in, either, but if weed is legal, a little something "special" along with the snacks and cookies will make certainly add to their holiday cheer!

If they're not very mobile and have difficulty getting out, what about a meal service like Freshly? Some will allow you to schedule as few as 2 meals a week.

Thanks everyone. Willing to spend a bit for something nice.

These are all lovely suggestions and I'm looking at them now.

I'd recommend sending a really nice assortment of chocolates from See's. Williams Sonoma offers a huge variety of high variety of high quality foods including peanut brittle and peppermint bark that comes in a personalized box.

Have something sent from Fortnam & Masons or Harrods in the UK. They will ship.

Swiss Chalet Fine Foods. Love their preserves. Order early in the week and it's there the next day!

Omaha steaks?

You pooh-pooh Hickory Farms, but send Harry and David?

Nueske Bacon. It's like goddamned crack.

Neiman Marcus has wonderful food gifts. And if you go to Costco they have gift baskets already made up and wrapped that you can send.

Sees candy is fabulous!! Good call, R14!!! Nuts.com has great snacks too!! NOT JUST NUTS! You might look at Vermont Country Store, or go to your local wine/cheese shop for a gift basket.. I think there's a website that has old-school candies they might enjoy---but I can't recall the name!

Cheryl's Cookies

Sander’s has awesome hot fudge! Their other stuff is good too.

Fruit of the month always sounds good to me.

This thread is making me hungry!!

r22, I just got a nice gift box from Cheryl's cookies and besides the name Cheryl grossing me out because of DL, the cookies are not good. They taste full of chemicals, too sweet and too soft. I tried two (sugar and chocolate chip) and put the box in the office kitchen.

The last few times I've received Harry & David, the fruit was rotten.

The best cookies I've had in a very long time come from a little bakery in the Berkshires, Klara's Gourmet. I'm sending some to my mom & dad right now that I am thinking about it!

Vermont Country Store has a pretty good selection of old-school candies, r21

Where do they live? Local stores can make up a parcel and deliver it. Are you sure they wouldn't want a lovely prepared meal with desserts?

Fortnum and Mason hamper

Shatila bakery in Dearborn Michigan. Their desserts are amazing.

Russ & Daughters in NYC.

Seconding Omaha Steaks. My sister gets some for our elderly parents every year, and they love it.

We care about asses and dicks not ears.

^How did that happen?

The employees who manage Omaha’s mailing list are pretty damn aggressive though.

Collin Street Bakery

Food: Janie's Cakes. They do little cakes too. Old people hate wasting stuff. janiescakes.com

Non-food: Sparkleball Kit. sparkleball.com

go to walmart and send them a dry bakery good.

I was also going to suggest nuts.com -- they do customizable gift tins that are really delicious, though last year they weren't all that fancy. Still, we buy from them regularly, and they have some old-fashioned items like these enormous cream drops that I hadn't seen since I was a kid in the 1970s, so if you're looking for something that's retro that they might appreciate, it's worth a shot. I think they're just as good as Vermont Country Store in that regard.

Have you considered Lesbian gifts?

Can anyone else vouch for Honey Baked Ham? I've always worried they would be too cloyingly sweet and ultra processed.

The little bit of honey sweet is just on the outside, r41. The rest is just juicy ham. It's a good ratio.

Thanks R42!

r41, here's a link to Hone Baked Ham nutritional information. Most of their food is dangerously high in sodium, which is unhealthy for anyone.

R44 Well, that is sort of the case with hams in general. The classic and quite expensive Virginia hams are so salty you can only have a couple of slices, but so delicious!

Yeah, hams in general are high in sodium.

Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor. Outstanding breads, meats, cheeses, and gourmet specialty foods. Bonus: really nice people and easy to deal with.

Honey Baked Hans were over in the 80s. Omaha Steaks are for white trash.

R26 Are the Klara's cookies hard or soft?

Don't send nuts, they tend to give the elderly the toots.

I agree on the See's candies. They're authentic, they've been around forever, and they have a certain nostalgic charm that would suit the giftees.

Collin Street Bakery, Aunt Sally’s Pralines, Haydel’s Bakery - all good.

Go to Dean & Deluca and order the "Ultimate Gift Set." Everything in it is top notch...and it's so affordable.

Williams Sonoma's Peppermint Bark and Williams Sonoma's Hot Chocolate....both great and come in fancy tins.

There are "____ of the month" clubs for, literally, everything. Google it and you'll be able to find something that they'll love and then they get a little gift every month all year.

(Just to prove to myself that there was liberally one for everything, I just googled 'condom of the month' and, yep, there it is!)

Kringles from O & H Bakery in Racine, Wisconsin

R19 Neuske is awesome! Every once in a while I’ll buy myself some bacon. They have many other items ar their online store as well they are great. I sent a gift basket from them to a family friend and they really enjoyed it.

Nuts "creme" drops:

Sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali, whey (milk), salt, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), egg whites, invertase, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors. Packaged in the same facility as peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, and milk products.

SOME of you seem to love shovelling PURE GARBAGE down your gullets.

Three days ago, I received a shipment of a box a Lagomarcino’s Chocolates in Moline, IL from my ex.

Despite me trying to eat ONE truffle a day, nearly the whole box of truffles is gone. Devoured. Fattie.