Happily Healthy Purim Baskets
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Go Italian: In a pretty bag place pasta, tomato sauce, olives, pasta fork, and biscotti.
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Purim Bowl: In a salad bowl, place bag of spinach or lettuce, croutons, salad dressing and wooden servers.
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Smart Coffee and Chocolate! We know coffee and chocolate make your smarter: fill a large mug with a bag of coffee and fine chocolate to start the day.
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Go Bananas! Banana bread, banana chips and a banana smoothie.
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Bread and Spreads: Homemade bread and with spreads, such as cream cheese and creamy pepper jelly spread, featured in our New Year’s blog.
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Garden Cornucopia: Basket of fresh fruit and veggies.
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You’re the Apple of our eye!: Apple, applesauce, apple muffins, apple juice, place in red bag for an added effect.
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Smoothies: Add ingredients for one fabulous moothie, with a mini box of almond or rice milk.
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Afternoon at Folly Beach: Put snacks and mini-juices in a beach tote. For a good friend, add a book!
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We’re nuts about you! Bag of almonds or cashews, nut snack bars, peanut butter or almond spread, cashews, etc., nut and raisin mix.
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Purim Pickle: Jars of pickles, pickled tomatoes, pickled vegetables with crackers
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Purim Bits – A bag filled with small healthy treats: mini carrots and celery, apple and nectarine, rice cakes, mini-juice or sparkling water.
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Shabbat: Challah, home made humus, bottle of wine or grape juice.
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Havdalah: Wine or grape juice, sweet quick bread with raisins and nuts, sprigs of thyme, rosemary and mint for the spices, besamim.
Tip: Add grape juice or wine and some hamantaschen to each basket or bag!