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Do you have a favorite mail order food item?

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Mom & Dad have started to become PITAs around gift receiving. Dad is in hospice care, and basically returned the 50th anniversary moon landing book to me a week after I gave it to him last summer (fearing he wouldn't live until Christmas). He looked at it and was "done". Mom has way too many cat figurines as it is since it is always my fall back position, and has plenty of nightgowns, sweaters and tops. Her birthday is Jan. 15th, so I already have a cat pin I found in an antique mall for that occasion. Dad's birthday is Dec. 27th, so we have a big ball of gouda ready if he is still with us (friends always send us two big balls of cheese about this time of year).

My deceased brother used to send Harry & David pears and they liked that, so that's the way I'm leaning for one gift. Any thing you've particularly liked giving and/or receiving? Room temperature stuff would probably be best since Mom keeps their refrigerator and freezer packed to over flowing because she is afraid my sister will be gone pet sitting once again, fears Dad will be too sick to order groceries online, and doesn't want to put us out by having us drive 30 minutes to bring her stuff or take her shopping. BIG SIGH. Best thing we could give her would be a lesson on ordering groceries online, but she throws up her hands and says "I don't know how" and as long as Dad is alive he is very protective of HIS computer, in spite of not knowing what the back space key did or remembering any passwords the last time he went to print his Schwab weekly numbers and my sister had to help him.
 

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I give my brother and SIL Vermont maple syrup and other maple products. Sometimes chocolates from there.

I love them both as well for myself.
 

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Maple Syrup from Nova Scotia.

BTW, the absolute worst food gift of all time: Fruit Cake.
They should be used only as door stops, boat anchors, or workout weights.
 
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My wife likes to shop at Wine Country Gift Baskets. She usually picks either something with chocolate goodies or a nuts and dried fruit gift box.

If you have an AmEx credit card, sometimes there are AmEx offers to save a few bucks.
 

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I use to like Omaha Steaks. Especially the Rib Eye package. I occasionally bought these for employees at Christmas to go along with their bonus and I always bought a couple of packages for me. yum yum.

Bill
 

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Maple Syrup from Nova Scotia.

BTW, the absolute worst food gift of all time: Fruit Cake.
The should be used only as door stops, boat anchors, or workout weights.

Every year I say I wish I just had one slice of a really good fruitcake. LOL!
 

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Vermont maple syrup

Maple syrup from Morse Farm in Montpelier, VT. My family shopped there for generations. When I visited my parents in Montpelier, I always dropped by. One time a jug of syrup was confiscated from my carry-on bag at the Burlington airport. It never occurred to me syrup would be a contraband liquid!
 

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Maple syrup from Morse Farm in Montpelier, VT. My family shopped there for generations. When I visited my parents in Montpelier, I always dropped by. One time a jug of syrup was confiscated from my carry-on bag at the Burlington airport. It never occurred to me syrup would be a contraband liquid!

Yes. Been there also. Going to Smuggs every year we always got our syrup from Burgess because we could get Fancy in gallon size glass jugs.

We would pick up one for us and 2 for a friend of ours that lives in Manhattan.

The past few years they have not tapped early for the Fancy.:(

Because of our move, this was the first year we did not buy any. We didn’t want to risk breakage or lug them along with everything else.
 

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I am that PITA when it comes to gifts. I do all the cooking at home and the kids have sent me spice blends that are really good.
 

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Maple Syrup from Nova Scotia.

BTW, the absolute worst food gift of all time: Fruit Cake.
They should be used only as door stops, boat anchors, or workout weights.

Good reminder! -- Mom has never met a fruitcake she didn't like! We all can stomach a Collins Street cake slice or two. By "we all" I mean everyone but Dad. He sticks to the prune, lemon poppy seed and date nut bread I make and share at this time of the year.
 

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. See’s Candy.

That says without going! We've all demolished the 1/2 pound boxes I buy everyone with the $5 November coupon, will repeat with the December coupon. Dad gets a full box of Bordeaux. And we all groan watching him pop whole candies in his mouth. I don't care how many times you've had a particular candy, correct form is to bite into it and then look inside, that's part of the pleasure of assorted chocolates! Besides, there is truly at least two bites (I get three) per candy so popping a whole one in your mouth is taking too big a bite!
 

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Plenty of lovely stuff at Trader Joe's

Don't we know it! And this year that's where our Thanksgiving dinner is coming from -- corn pudding, scalloped potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cranberry orange sauce, and turkey breast. Add in Hawaiian Bakery rolls, microwave peas and a Marie Calendar's French apple pie. We are lucky to have a mini independent Marie Callendar's near us; they closed a dozen or more of the large restaurant's, including the one near Dad's house.
 
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