Dinner host gift suggestions

[Thisismynewname123]

What do you take as a gift when you're going to someone for dinner? I'm so bored of always taking a bottle of wine, broken up with the occasional flowers or boxes of biscuits or chocolates

Flowers and a bottle of fizz (and hope they open it ).

Thanks, but that's what I always take, and I think I need to be a bit more imaginative!

An orchid

We had friends round for dinner a while ago and she brought me round new coasters, a little plaque thing that was a wee quirky message about gin and one of those declared wine glasses. They brought a cook boom for DP as they know he loves cooking and a wee selection of spices and things in a nice wee box for him.

Was different from the usual flowers and wine and was a lovely wee touch I thought!

So many typos sorry....

• had a message about gin
• decorated wine glass

Nice candle
Potted plant

Rather than a load of wee bits and pieces like decorated glasses (straight to charity shop), I'd actually prefer fresh flowers and fizz. Classics for a reason. Stick with it. No one really wants crap like spice boxes, heading for landfill in 2 years, probably unopened.

Recent offerings:

Cook books; naice hand cream, soap or candle; selection of different salts or spices in funky test tubes; bath smellies; really nice picture frame; posh body cream or body scrub; planted arrangement rather than flowers; set of coasters; set of botanicals for gin making.

I'd be a bit if I was hosting a dinner party and someone gave me a cook book. I'd think they were dropping a not so subtle hint

Fancy chutney and crackers for cheese always go down well. Friends have also bought us posh cupcakes which were much appreciated.

Solar lights for the garden.

I would always bring a consumable as many people dont want more stuff to clutter up their house. Something to be shared on the night like chocolates, wine or petit fours. Flowers also fine.

Okay but I really like getting flowers and fizz

If not flowers and fizz( which I love getting) something else comestible , it’ll just get Kondo d.

That favourite MN gift .
Adopt a goat in their name, give them pleasure for years.

I'd be happy with flowers, fizz or chocolates.
If someone turned up with hand soap set I'd feel a bit uncomfortable. (Are they saying our hand soap is naff or worried we don't use soap etc etc)

Can you tell I'm a huge over thinker!

I would always bring a consumable as many people dont want more stuff to clutter up their house.

THIS. If you really want something different, make your own marmalade or chutney and take a jar of that.

Anything consumable is good I think, I once got given a lovely selection of chutneys which I loved. I also have a friend who makes his own curry pastes from his mum's family recipe which was amazing. I think anything local and a bit unique is also nice (e.g. we have a really nice local company that produces amazing honey). I don't like getting actual "stuff" I have to find a permanent place for.

If someone bought a cookbook for me I'd be insulted.

Anything from Laudree....

I prefer a nice bottle of fizz to anything else but then I’m quite minimal in my home

I want fizz, wine Or chocolate

No plants, coasters or other clutter.....

I adore flowers and love getting them.

Doesn’t really matter if you’re bored
30 years of doing dinner parties here. A really nice bottle that my husband and I can enjoy when you’ve all gone home, please.