Monday, October 30, 2006

Christmas Hampers for Special Diets

Finding a Christmas hamper for a vegetarian, vegan or someone with a gluten allergy can be a bit of a trial, especially if you want to minimise the number of Christmas hamper companies you're working with. You'd want to do this for two reasons; first to save yourself time and effort (always a good thing) and second, in order to get the best possible price if you are planning to order a large number of hampers (most good Christmas hamper companies will give you a discount for large orders).

So, your best bet is to find a Christmas hamper company that offers both 'regular' Christmas hampers and Christmas hampers for special dietary requirements.

Ripe Gifts is a small family-run company that offers a beautiful range of luxury Christmas hampers and gift baskets. They also cater for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and even kosher diets. Their gift baskets can be ordered securely directly from their website or, if you want baskets tailored to your requirements, you can give them a call and they'll create something especially for you and your budget. I can tell you from experience that they are extremely friendly and will go the extra mile to make sure you're happy.

From their ready-to-order 2006 Christmas hamper collection, I can especially recommend the following:

1) Christmas Cornucopia, £75
A truly stunning Christmas hamper that also happens to be suitable for vegetarians. It contains my all-time-favorite Christmas chocolates, Sloe Gin Christmas truffles.

2) Vegan Christmas Hamper,
£55
A very handsome hamper. Highlights include some very nice dairy-free mints and a truly outstanding cranberry & rosemary preserve.

3) Christmas Cornet, £47
Available as a regular or gluten-free Christmas hamper, this beautiful hamper will certainly stand out from the crowd.

The company also do special baskts for Diwali & Eid. And, if you have any Jewish friends or colleagues, you'll also be happy to know that they also have a kosher gift basket collection, perfect for the upcoming Chanukah holiday.

And, if you mention that you read about them in this blog, they might just send me a box of their sloe gin truffles, so please do!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One of our customers told us that they had found us through this website. You can imagine my delight and surprise when I found this review! We have worked hard this year to create some really unique hampers, and it's wonderful to find that this work has been appreciated by someone who clearly knows their hampers.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to review us, and for the customers you have sent our way. We are always thrilled to get positive feedback from our customers, let alone to receive a write-up like this! Since you have clearly ordered from us before, please do drop us a line and let us know who you are. Since you mentioned liking our Sloe Gin Truffles, we would be happy to send you some, plus a few extra surprises, with our compliments.

Wishing you and your readers a very Merry Christmas,

Eddy Harding
Ripe Gifts, UK