Good ideas for a food/drink hamper for grandparents??

[Holidayshopping]

I’d thought of

Wine
After eights
Shortbread biscuits
Marmalade/honey
Nice nuts
Cheese and biscuits
Posh chocolates

Also-I need a basket (any cheap recommendations?!) and how to wrap it-I’d rather not used loads of Cellophane if I can avoid it.

When my Grandma/Great Aunt were alive we always used to get them boxes of fruit jellies and violent creams. And Brandy Snaps!

What about a boots box (maybe diechman?) and wrap it with wrapping paper. What about tin of ham from marks and a tin of salmon. Add a crossword puzzle and a small pot of face cream.

Some Aldi stores might have some of these left: www.aldi.co.uk/kirkton-house-christmas-hamper-kit/p/086569242900200

A nice fabric bag to put it in would be more useful than a basket.

A miniature of their favourite tipple.
A small Christmas cake.
Fancy tea and/or coffee.

OhTheTastyNuts
violent creams
Best typo ever!

I’m a grandparent and don’t think I’m ready for the ‘old folks christmas box’! What are their individual likes and interests?

Depends what kind of stuff they like. My grandparents would have loved really good olive oil (the stuff you buy in an Italian deli), really good cheese, salami, loose leaf tea/coffee beans from somewhere like Betty’s, medjool dates, local honey, homemade jam/marmalade....
Baskets: if you can get hold of a lidded one there’s no need for cellophane

The M&S Food near me are doing lovely hamper baskets that you fill yourself. Not sure how much they are but thought what a lovely idea.

What about putting if all in a re useable shopping bag that is also part of the present?
www.thegoodbagsco.com/shop/grandma-is-good/

chocolate covered nuts

Hot chocolate/cocoa/tea/coffee (depending what they like)

My Dad is nearly 80 and my DDs have started doing this for him. He loves nice things like cheese biscuits, some stilton, pate, jar of nice chutney, a nice bottle of wine, nuts, good quality loose tea, and some decent crisps. It's all things he can't normally afford to buy himself, and one does him a little hamper full of toiletries that he gets a year out of!!

They use small cardboard boxes wrapped in brown paper with some decorations on. Craft paper is really cheap on Amazon.

Thank you all!

I really love the idea of the reusable shopping bag-though worry all the stuff will clonk around inside falling over like a bag of shopping (as it is!) and won’t be so present like?

If you cut out a square/rectangle/oval (whatever shape works best) you can use that as a base inside the bag. Depending on the type of bag, you might be able to fold the top over a couple of times. Then put the tall things like wine to the back and graduate to the smaller stuff at the front. You want it to hold itself up more or less. You could add a bit of card around the inside edge to give it some shape if necessary. Some shredded brown paper or coloured tissue paper will pad it out.
Bonus points if you swop out the cardboard for something that’s part of the gift (a special interest magazine, maybe?) and add a few small hidden things inside the shredded paper that can’t be seen straight away. Tie a ribbon round the middle and maybe a couple of baubles and it will be lovely.

QD have hamper baskets for £5 and include the wrapping and tissue paper. Really nice size as well.

We used to do this for my gran, bath Oliver's were a favourite, plus very posh chica which she would ration to one a day

A couple of jars of good pasta sauce (I like Sacla but you could get Carluccio or maybe you have a local Italian deli), crackers for cheese, olive tapenade, lumpfish roe (caviar for the non-rich - Lidl have it in atm). These are things I would like but you probably know if they like chutneys, sweet things etc.

Not a grandparent but an older neighbour. I have a small hamper that I bought from Hobbycraft. Contents will be a jar of Tiptree marmalade, two bottles of Bath brewery ale, a tin of shortbread and a packet of Nairn’s cheese oatcakes. I am lining the hamper with shredded paper and will tie a big tinsel bow on it.

Iceland sell empty hampers with cellophane and ribbon, £5.

Oh, also meant to say, we have used the basket for him before. He gave it back to us, so we can use it again.

Get yourself to Lidl or aldi and just raid the Christmas aisles - so much lovely stuff!