Would you be happy to receive a Christmas cookie box as a gift?

[PeachRings]

I’m planning on making Christmas cookie boxes for friends and family this year in place of plastic tat as gifts. I’m planning for them to include:

• homemade digestives (chocolate)
• chocolate salami (like a rocky road in a log)
• snickerdoodles
• lemon biscotti (nut free)
• triple chocolate peppermint cookies
• vanilla bean shortbread
• chocolate cookies
• stained glass window biscuits

would you be happy to receive these?

Homemade food is still processed

Just with more dubious hygiene

Personal preference isn’t it - personally I wouldn’t want this, but I’d politely thank you profusely and tell you they were delicious even if they didn’t get eaten, which they likely wouldn’t.
There’s already so much food consumed with the celebratory meals and subsequent leftovers that biscuits or extra sweet treats are of no interest to me.
There’s a whole spectrum between homemade cookies and plastic tat!

Absolutely!

Could you use a new friend??

You don't have to eat it all on the same day!!

Why would you chuck it?

if you don't eat biscuits why wouldn't you give it to someone that does?

I've never wanted to be friends with a Mumsnetter so much 😭 absolutely yes to this.

OP, your idea of a Christmas gift for your friends and family sounds lovely. And what a lot of work! I think you've chosen a nice variety and that most people would be really thrilled to receive a gift like this.
Personally, I wouldn't, I would be so touched by the thought and I would be very aware of the amount of time / effort / skill/money that goes into creating a gift like this but I really don't like sweets... However, I could always share them with friends and family when they come over, and that's what I would do. So it wouldn't be a waste, I'd probably try half of each one of the different flavors just so I can say that I tried them but I wouldn't enjoy them myself, that having been said, I love baking for other people when I know that they enjoy it.

Yeah, talk about making a binary choice.
"Eat it all myself.
Or
Chuck it."
There is no other choice.
😜

🤣🤣🤣

You haven't? What's wrong with you? We are lovely, yes argumentative, unreasonable, funny, articulate, love a drink . We care about our gardens, pets, children, gender-critical rights, but so much more! I've only occasionally met mumsnetters in real life, but we laughed, a lot.

Hang around on MN long enough & you'll get one!

I can no longer buy things at school fairs or home made from markets anymore reading about other people's hygiene (or lack of!!)

but all of my friends/family are fine.

Its not joyless, some of us genuinely prefer savoury to sweet. We were asked by OP what WE thought. I shared honestly. Now if she had been discussing home-made houmous, crackers and a cheese board trust me my hand would have been up first!

Yes please. I'm so tired of hunting around, trying to think of appropriate gifts. A cookie box would be heaven 😍

I'd love it 😊😋
My address is.... 😀

I'll PM my address to you, just to save you from yourself you understand!!

in all seriousness I don't understand why you posted? You know your friends/family enjoy your baking, why ask randoms on the internet??

Why not give them to someone else who can eat them??

I wouldn’t like it as a gift for me. I do baking myself and have a lot of things at Christmas plus I don’t like most of your listed items.
I wouldn’t mind you bringing them with you so we could have a cup of tea but I wouldn’t consider it as a personal Christmas present.
I would be ok without a present. I agree with PPs that there is happy medium between homemade biscuits and plastic tat, at least in my case there are plenty options.

If it’s because you were short of money I would be fine with just a card and it could be homemade.

I would say thank you very much then bin it….I eat my mums baking and my DDs …..no one else’s

It's a lot of biscuits to receive in one go if actually prefer to receive biscuits every month for the year instead of so many at once.

Honestly, if you don’t want to get me plastic tat, I’d rather you just buy me a really nice box of biscuits, rather than homemade.

I'd accept it with a smile, then either give it away or bin it. I don't like home made gifts. Especially food ones.

It’s a lovely idea and most people would be absolutely delighted. But Mumsnet is not a good place to ask this. I haven’t read the thread, but here’s my bingo card.
I only eat 1 biscuit a year-they’ll go to waste.
Home made? If you can’t afford a proper present don’t give anything.Fortnum and Masons sell delicious tins of biscuits.
I only eat food made in a sterile lab-anything else is too dangerous-they’d go straight in the bin.
It’s a bit show-offy, isn’t it? Not everyone has the time or the skill to do something like this.
Are you suggesting I’m fat?

Don’t people have freezers? They won’t go to waste if stored there.

Sounds nice but I’d include something not terribly sweet like spice or ginger. I’d cut the chocolate offerings as chocolate is plentiful at holidays.

TBH I wouldn't really as we aren't really a biscuit household and I am sure most would end up in the bin. But if you know you are giving to people with sweet tooths then go for it