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Boxed candied fruit/fruit jellies - gift for great aunt?

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HopefulAnxiety · 28/10/2015 19:49

My great aunt is 90 and her favourite sweets are fruit jellies, like York Fruits. Lakeland have some nicer ones but they're surprisingly hard to find boxed - even Waitrose are just doing bags. I was wondering if a step up would be a box of nice candied fruit. Lakeland used to do this but I can't find anything.

Any thoughts? I'd like to spend around the £15 mark in total, so perhaps a box of each.

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SaltySeaBird · 28/10/2015 19:55

Hmm my FIL likes the fruit jellies but not the candied fruit.

I thought I saw some in the National Trust shop but it may have been bagged too.

HopefulAnxiety · 28/10/2015 20:07

York Fruits and the Lakeland ones are the only boxed fruit jellies I've seen - I just think that for a present I'd want them to be boxed. Will call up my grandma and ask if she'd like the candied fruit.

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CurlsLDN · 28/10/2015 20:10

I'm sure our waitrose has the boxes of York ones

HopefulAnxiety · 28/10/2015 20:31

Update - after trawling Amazon I found that Churchill's Confectionary makes some lovely gift tins of fruit jellies. I think this is what I will go for.

Curls I meant Waitrose doing own brand ones in bags, rather than York Fruits.

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SaltySeaBird · 28/10/2015 20:36

www.confiserieflorian.co.uk/box-of-assorted-fruit-jellies.html

These sound nice and ship to the UK

SaltySeaBird · 28/10/2015 20:39

Seen the Amazon ones - they look better - going to order some too!

SaltySeaBird · 28/10/2015 20:41

Oh the Amazon one is just a tin with two bags of jellies inside ...

HopefulAnxiety · 28/10/2015 23:45

Do you mean the Churchill's ones?

Treasure Island Sweets have the New Berry Fruits, hmm...

And yes I saw the Florian ones, they do sound nice and might be worth considering. In fact the whole site sounds nice Grin

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2legit2knit · 28/10/2015 23:49

Lidl have ones exactly like the florin ones around Xmas time.

HopefulAnxiety · 30/10/2015 19:19

Lidl is a right trek from here (and no Aldi at all!) but I will have a look, thanks.

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y0rkier0se · 02/11/2015 17:18

Thorntons are doing jellies in boxes this year

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