Too many food gifts for Christmas!

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Did anyone else get more food gifts than they want or plan to consume??

Bread, candy, snacks… I need to find a way to dispose of almost all of it. The local rectory is not an option but the fire house might be. Additionally, I can probably send dh to work with some of it.

I need to find a way to discourage such gifts next year. 😛
 
Is there a local food pantry or Project Hospitality in your area to which you can donate?
 
We certainly got too much chocolate and we received a nice luxury hamper yesterday which we won’t use. I’m going to give it to our lovely neighbours downstairs today.

I used to eat a lot of confectionary but stopped doing that about two years ago. However, my family seem to have overlooked this! 😃
 
I did receive a fair amount of “junk food,” though not as much as I have previous years. It will all slowly get eaten. No reason to give anything away. 🤷 For gifts the only food I gave was caramel popcorn, tiny chocolate graham biscuits, as well as some booze if that counts as food. 😛 I was only given one bottle of wine (so far).
 
KCT said:
Did anyone else get more food gifts than they want or plan to consume??

Bread, candy, snacks… I need to find a way to dispose of almost all of it. The local rectory is not an option but the fire house might be. Additionally, I can probably send dh to work with some of it.

I need to find a way to discourage such gifts next year. 😛
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Freeze them and use them for desserts throughout the year. 🙂
 
jmcrae said:
Freeze them and use them for desserts throughout the year. 🙂
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I have all of next year’s Christmas candy sitting in my deep freeze. 😉

You could also freeze to re-gift, too.

My in-laws gave us some food they received as presents that they don’t eat for health reasons. We’re taking most of it to the New Year’s party we go to every year.
 
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I have all of next year’s Christmas candy sitting in my deep freeze. 😉

You could also freeze to re-gift, too.

My in-laws gave us some food they received as presents that they don’t eat for health reasons. We’re taking most of it to the New Year’s party we go to every year.
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:confused: How do you freeze candy? Chocolate goes white and disgusting when frozen and I’m not sure what else you could be referring to.
 
I found a creative way to regift one item.

Our son and DIL just moved, so we recreated the ‘move in’ scene from It’s A Wonderful Life. We gave them bread, salt, and wine!

“Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor, and wine that joy and prosperity may reign forever.”
 
I only got one food gift. It was a nice little basket of an assortment of chocolates and tea, and I thought it was very nice.:)🙂
 
jmcrae said:
Freeze them and use them for desserts throughout the year. 🙂
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I’m going to have to keep that in mind. This is the first year in a long time that we didn’t receive an exorbitant amount of food. We’ve never given it away because the food pantry affiliated with our parish doesn’t take open food and except for the 2-3 things we get each year that we actually want in the house (as in, not sweets), everything is open. I think everyone got the hint after last year, though, when we all took home enough coolies and sweets to give diabetes to a small village.
 
KCT said:
Did anyone else get more food gifts than they want or plan to consume??
…I need to find a way to discourage such gifts next year. 😛
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Not us! We love food as gifts! Consumable gifts are my favorite, as I don’t need to figure out where to store it in the playroom.

Whatever you do, please don’t go so far as to discourage the general practice of giving food as gifts. I am of the firm belief that the proper response to a gift is, “Thank you.” If you don’t want or like a particular gift, the giver does not need know this.

Now go enjoy your fruitcakes. In addition to serving as an emergency food supply in the event of a serious famine, they can serve as doorstops or book ends. 😃
 
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I am of the firm belief that the proper response to a gift is, “Thank you.” If you don’t want or like a particular gift, the giver does not need 😃
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🙂 That’s how I was raised.

But I also hate the thought of wasting food. If I can’t give it away, I have to throw it away. (part of the issue is that I don’t like the taste of what I received, and part of the issue is that I don’t want or need to eat that much candy)

Additionally, I’m thrifty, and the thought of letting people continue to spend money on something that could get tossed bothers me.
 
I agree, thank the giver and then let it be.

Now we freeze what we can’t eat immediately, and the cookie, candy and other stuff hubby will take into work and leave it in the break room and it will be all gone before lunch. This year we had so much, I gave son a bunch of chocolates to take to his work. For me it was the thought behind it all that counts. And non of it goes to waste.
 
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