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Foodie Lover’s Gift Guide + Giveaway with Melissa’s Produce

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Foodie Lover’s Gift Guide + Giveaway

By Erin

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Foodie lovers I have a fun giveaway for you (and it includes WINE)! Happy Holidays fellow foodies! Are you still looking for something for your favorite foodie for the holidays? Melissa’s Produce has you covered with some great ideas that would fit any foodie’s tastes, like the Royal Treatment Wine Basket, which makes a great gift for any occasion.

Foodie the Royal Treatment Gift Basket from Melissa's Produce

Fill the hearts of your loved ones with a gift fit for a King or Queen! Filled with a fresh assortment of apples, pears, dried cranberries, pumpkin seed Clean Snax, salami, crackers, cheeses, roasted salted nuts, shell nuts and nutcracker, all complement the flavors of a 750 ml bottle of The Hilt 2015 Pinot Noir.

Be sure to enter the giveaway below for a chance to win this AMAZING basket of deliciousness from Melissa’s Produce! This would make an awesome gift for your favorite foodie or a nice treat for yourself to celebrate the holiday season with. Melissa’s has some of the most beautiful gifts to give and receive!

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Note: How to enter for a chance to win!
 Open to US Residents in the 48 contiguous states. +21 years of age and older where wine can be shipped as the signature of an adult 21 years of age or older is required at delivery. No purchase necessary. Must enter for a chance to win. Melissa’s Produce will be mailing out the gift basket to the winner. Ends 12/23 at 12AM PST. For all contest rules please see the Sweepstakes tab on my blog. Good-Luck everyone!! Enter through the Rafflecopter above! 

Sending Wine as a Gift: You may purchase wine as a gift as long as you and the intended recipient are both 21 years of age or older. The signature of an adult 21 years of age or older is required at delivery.   Wine also cannot be delivered to AL, CO, GA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MS, NY, OH, OK, SD, TX, UT, VT. 

MORE GIFT IDEAS

Pinkglow Pineapple

The Pinkglow Pineapple will enhance your dishes and has a delicious unique taste with hints of candy pineapple.

Pinkglow Pineapple Rose Gift Basket

What could go better with a pinkglow pineapple than a nice bottle of rose? This Pinkglow Pineapple Rose Gift Basket includes a pink pineapple, Chocolate Bridge Mix of nuts, caramels and dried fruit, and an award-winning 2019 Rose of Pinot Noir by Sonoma-Cutrer. You’d be ringing in the new year in style with this gift basket!

Garcia de la Cruz Olive Oil

Garcia de la Cruze Olive Oils are organic extra virgin olive oils that are bursting with delicious rich flavor that will add flair to any recipe and enhance your cooking and dining experience.

Cooking Through Cancer

Cooking Through Cancer: 50 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Treatment and Recovery is a cancer fighter and cancer caregiver’s best friend for combating the symptoms caused by treatment and for enhancing the recovery process. Written by Richard Lombardi, The Cancer Fighting Chef and a cancer survivor himself, it is packed with nutrient-rich recipes—some from Richard’s own award-winning restaurant—and is conveniently organized by tabs for delicious food during treatment and recovery. 

Clean Eating Kitchen: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Cookbook

Clean Eating Kitchen: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Cookbook delivers the benefits of the Mediterranean diet with fewer carbs, satisfying a mostly plant- and seafood-based regimen that is higher in protein and good fats. This book includes the healthiest, most crave-worthy ingredients and flavors of the Mediterranean diet that are sure to induce wanderlust

Hatch Pepper Cookbook

Melissa’s Hatch Pepper Cookbook is perfect to help you savor and enjoy Hatch Pepper season all year long! Every foodie needs this book! So many delicious recipes using Hatch Peppers!

Katie Chin’s Global Family Cookbook

Katie Chin’s Global Family Cookbook will show you how easy it is to prepare new and exciting meals from many cultures. Discover comfort food from around the world, and add some international flair to your dinner table.

The Instant Pot® Kosher Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Nourish Body & Soul

The Instant Pot® Kosher Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Nourish Body and Soul, includes timeless Jewish favorites tailored to this modern appliance: stuffed cabbage, Israeli cooked salads, corned beef, brisket, cholent, Yemenite and Persian beef and lamb stews, chicken soup, beet soup, kasha varnishkes, tzimmis, even apple cake. There are weeknight meals as well as recipes for Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, and Passover, along with kosher versions of international classics such as lasagna, sesame noodles, arroz con pollo, Asian noodle soups, and risotto—all expertly and deliciously adapted to the Instant Pot®.

Even More Holiday Foodie Gift Ideas

Happy Holidays!!

Giving Hope Basket– Mother’s Day Giveaway with Melissa’s Produce!

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Giving Hope Basket from Melissa’s Produce

By Erin

*Thanks to Melissa’s Produce for sponsoring this giveaway*

Giving Hope Basket from Melissa's Produce

Giving Hope this Mother’s Day! Send a beautiful gift basket this Mother’s Day and donate to a wonderful cause. One Hope Wines will donate ½ of their profits to aid in pet adoption. Inside the wonderful Giving Hope Basket is a selection of Exotic and Tropical fruit accompanied by a 750 ml bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.

It’s a win-win. Send a beautiful gift basket and donate to a wonderful cause. One Hope Wines will donate ½ of their profits to aid in pet adoption. Inside this wonderful basket is a selection of Exotic and Tropical fruit accompanied by a 750 ml bottle of Sparkling Wine.

Fruit based on availability, this stunning assortment arranged in a woven basket with cellophane wrapping and colorful ribbon may include:

Asian Pears, Blood Oranges, Feijoas, Kiwis, Kumquats, Persimmons, Pomegranates, Sapotes, Tamarillos, Lychees, Passion Fruit, Specialty Bananas, Strawberry Papayas, Cherimoyas, Baby Pineapples, Pepino Melons, Mangoes, Starfruit, or Coconuts.

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Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket & Sweetheart Salad

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Sweetheart Salad & Giveaway!

By Erin

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Have you gotten your Valentine a little something sweet yet or maybe splurge a little and treat yourself to a much deserved gift to yourself? Take a look at this sweet Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket from Melissa’s Produce! Pink Different this Valentine’s Day with the Pinkglow Sparkling Rosé Gift Basket! Filled with a Pinkglow Pineapple 💕 Sparkling Rosé 💕 Chocolates 💕 and lots of love! 💕

Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket from Melissa's Produce!

Since we cannot actually travel to a tropical paradise right now, experience a taste of a remote tropical paradise on Valentine’s Day with your loved one by gifting a beautifully wrapped basketful of goodies.

This unique and rare sweet treat, the Pinkglow pineapple by Del Monte is the perfect way to pretend it’s not winter. Melissa’s pairs this crownless* pink-hued majestic wonder with Chocolate Bridge Mix of nuts, caramels, and dried fruit and an award-winning 2019 Rosé of Pinot Noir by Sonoma-Cutrer.

Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket

The Pinkglow Pineapple has a delicious and unique taste, with notes of candy pineapple aromatics, which pairs perfectly with this Rosé from Russian River Valley. In the glass, the wine reveals a gorgeous, peony blush color and opens up to aromas of wild strawberry and pink grapefruit. On the palate, you will find the crisp flavor of watermelon, a hint of powdered sugar and just a slight glimmer of hibiscus tea.

Carefully crafted sugar-free milk and dark chocolate almonds and caramels, double dipped macadamias, and milk chocolate cashews balance out this basket of indulgence.

*Fresh Del Monte Produce is currently planting all Pinkglow™ pineapple crowns in an effort to increase the volume of Pinkglow™ pink pineapple crops and reduce waste.

Hawaii prohibits the shipment of any pineapple into their state.

Sweetheart Salad

If you’re wondering of something delicious you can make with your Pinkglow Pineapple to impress your sweetie, then try this Sweetheart Salad! It is a wonderful salad that is full of amazing flavors. Served on a bed of baby arugula, it’s a healthy meal or also makes for a perfect small starter salad!

Sweetheart Salad

Ingredients

You can use any combination of these ingredients that you like or add others, but the flavors of these all together is AMAZING if you are able to get them all at your local market!

  • 1 quarter of a Pinkglow Pineapple cut into cubes
  • 1 Australian Mango
  • 1 box Melissa’s Produce Peeled and Steamed Baby Beets– cut into slices
  • 1 box Melissa’s Produce Golden Beets–cut into slices
  • 1-2 Blood Oranges, segmented
  • 1/4 Small Red Onion, sliced thinly
  • 5 Tbsp Goat Cheese
  • green onion
  • 1 Bunch of Baby Arugula, or Spring Greens
  • blackberries
  • Orange or raspberry Vinaigrette

It’s a salad, so it isn’t rocket science. 😉 Just plate the baby arugula or other greens, then add the beets and other fruits to the greens, then top with the onions and goat cheese and add your favorite kind of vinaigrette or even thousand island dressing to it and it’s ready to enjoy with your sweetheart!

Are you ready for a chance to win a Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket for your Valentine (or for yourself) now? 😉 You can go here to purchase one, (Be sure to use code VDAY2021 for 15% off through 2/15/21 if you do), but also for fun, make sure to enter for a chance to win one! I will be giving away one of them to one lucky reader thanks to Melissa’s Produce! Enter below in the rafflecopter! Good-luck and Happy Valentine’s Day! <3

Pinkglow Pineapple Rosé Gift Basket Giveaway from Melissa's Produce.
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*Ends 2/22/21 at 12AM PST. Must live in 48 US States (The following states do not permit alcohol shipped into their states: Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Rhode Island, and Deleware. Adult signature age 21 and over is required at time of delivery.) and be +21 to enter. Prize to be fullfilled by Melissa’s Produce. Go to the sweepstakes tab on the blog for all giveaway rules.*

Happy Valentine’s Day! <3

Need More Ideas?

Pinkglow Pineapple Hibiscus Mimosas 

For My Love Gift Basket

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